Aug 18, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
Damon gives his outlook for the rest of the AFC! He talks about why the Browns season isn’t promising, the Texans could have a bounce back season, and why the competition is stiff in the AFC West…
Damon SmithHost
Like I put my, my grid in, and it, you know, it, it produced, uh, eight, eight pages of outlooks.

What? You know, 18-game season, so they play 17 games, so it's supposed to be 4 and 13.

Uh, but yeah, I, I got them losing, uh, you know, the majority of the games this year.

Just because, I mean, yeah, M- m- like Miles Garrett didn't, didn't bring us a championship.

Uh, but it's just by and large, y- while Miles didn't, uh, win us a, a, a huge amount of games consistently, he kept us in a lot of games, and he gave us opportunities in a lot of games to win them, um, if our offense, you know, would have actually seized the, the opportunity and won them.

He, he gave our, our, our defense or our offense a shot a lot of times just because of how much of a game wrecker, uh, that he was.

Yes, Jarrett, I like Jarrett Verse, but I just, I don't think that Jarrett Verse will be able to produce like Miles produced, where it's just like almost every time, if he breaks loose, if you don't double him, i- if you don't have like just chip him and beat him up, he's just going to just get 15,000 sacks.

Like I don't think Verse has that same, uh, is at that same level yet, uh, just because he's also a young player.

The, the major upside with Verse is that he does-- he, he can create pressure and, and he is a good player, but he's also young, so he has even more maturing, uh, to, to, uh, to do and, and to grow into a perennial, you know, all-star.

Uh, and I believe he can get there, but, um, he- I don't think he's gonna come in automatically doing the same things that Miles could do, um, in the game, you know, on the, on our defense.

I think the main thing with, with my Browns D is that we just gotta stay healthy, especially our linebackers.

I think our linebackers, uh, get more nicked up than, um, you know, than our cornerbacks.

Like I put my, my grid in, and it, you know, it, it produced, uh, eight, eight pages of outlooks.

What? You know, 18-game season, so they play 17 games, so it's supposed to be 4 and 13.

Uh, but yeah, I, I got them losing, uh, you know, the majority of the games this year.

Just because, I mean, yeah, M- m- like Miles Garrett didn't, didn't bring us a championship.

Uh, but it's just by and large, y- while Miles didn't, uh, win us a, a, a huge amount of games consistently, he kept us in a lot of games, and he gave us opportunities in a lot of games to win them, um, if our offense, you know, would have actually seized the, the opportunity and won them.

He, he gave our, our, our defense or our offense a shot a lot of times just because of how much of a game wrecker, uh, that he was.

Yes, Jarrett, I like Jarrett Verse, but I just, I don't think that Jarrett Verse will be able to produce like Miles produced, where it's just like almost every time, if he breaks loose, if you don't double him, i- if you don't have like just chip him and beat him up, he's just going to just get 15,000 sacks.

Like I don't think Verse has that same, uh, is at that same level yet, uh, just because he's also a young player.

The, the major upside with Verse is that he does-- he, he can create pressure and, and he is a good player, but he's also young, so he has even more maturing, uh, to, to, uh, to do and, and to grow into a perennial, you know, all-star.

Uh, and I believe he can get there, but, um, he- I don't think he's gonna come in automatically doing the same things that Miles could do, um, in the game, you know, on the, on our defense.

I think the main thing with, with my Browns D is that we just gotta stay healthy, especially our linebackers.

I think our linebackers, uh, get more nicked up than, um, you know, than our cornerbacks.
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