Todd Monken Names Deshaun Watson Starter Over Shedeur Sanders | Ep 1224

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Don't blame me for us being 10 minutes late. You gotta blame the Cleveland Browns and Todd Monken and Andy Berry and Jimmy Haslam. You gotta blame Jimmy Haslam for this. That's the reason I'm 10 minutes late today. We had to blow up the entire show. I got a mono written about Deshaun Watson and how awful he was at that press conference and how that press conference probably cost him his job. And then all of a sudden, what, 45 minutes ago, an hour ago, the Cleveland Browns announce, or it leaks, Ian Rappaport, Adam Shefford, Deshaun Watson's going to still be the starting quarterback in Cleveland. And I'm sitting here like, holy cow, what do I say now? What do I say now? And I'm going with, I think this makes sense. I can't believe it. Off the top of my head, I think this makes sense. And it makes sense partially because I'm a really bad gambler. And I can spot other really get bad gamblers. And Jimmy Haslam is a really bad gambler.
He is all in, all in and he's lost.
I analogize it to me going out to Las Vegas and saying, all right, man, I got this much money I'm going to lose. And then I lose it very quickly. And then I say, well, I got this much to lose. And then I lose that really quickly.
And then I say, well, hold on, man, if I go deeper, man, I'm gonna get into trouble here. Well, well, you know what? Let me take out a marker or two. Hey, yeah, the casino and I'll pay them back in 30 days. If you haven't ever been a gambler, if you haven't walked a casino floor, if you never like said, you know what? It doesn't matter at this point. I've lost money, I've embarrassed myself, I don't care anymore. I might as well screw it and I'll lose it all. And that's what the Cleveland Browns are doing here in Jimmy Haslam. Not that they have a better option. Shedeur Sanders is not a better option. But Jimmy Haslam just like, hey man, I made this bet on Deshaun Watson three, four years ago. It's made a fool out of me.
I can't get this money back. The salary cap hit is too strong and too much. You know what? I might as well make a fool of myself. I don't care if my fan base hates me. I don't care if they hate my quarterback. I don't care if they're going to boo us at every home game. I'm going to take the first two games of this season, which are on the road down in Florida, at Jacksonville, at Tampa. You know what I would do if I was Jimmy Haslam? I would just move the rest of the Cleveland Browns training camp, whatever's left of it, down to Florida, and not come back to the Cleveland area until week three of the season. Just avoid all the noise. We're just going to do everything down here in Florida. We're going to open with Jacksonville. We're going to play Tampa Bay next, and we're going to hope and pray that Deshaun Watson balls out or plays well enough that either I can keep him here as my starting quarterback for one year, or some team is going to look and say, hmm, maybe there is some tread left on Deshaun Watson's tires, and I'll offer Jimmy Haslam a little something, a little bailout plan, not much, but a little something to justify all the trouble he's gone through for the last three or four years with Deshaun Watson.
That's the only thing I can think of. As a bad gambler, that's what I would do, and Jimmy Haslam is doing what I would do. They're not a Super Bowl team. Shedeur Sanders is never going to be a great NFL quarterback. Shedeur, everybody's talking about Deshaun Watson's post-game interview, which was bad. And the guy's putting earrings in, and he's sitting there talking about my wife, and my mother, or all of my support, and you know, you know what this is about. I mean, he's taking shots. It was bad. But I saw something that I thought was even worse. And that was Shedeur Sanders had like a five, seven minute sideline interview. Like a seven minute sideline interview during that same preseason game.