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Browns QB Wishlist & Shedeur Sanders Hype

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Ken Carman and Daryl Ruiter discuss Shohei Ohtani's pursuit of a cycle during the World Baseball Classic. They also analyze a Cleveland Browns fan poll regarding the team's quarterback future, comparing the popularity of Shedeur Sanders and Deshaun Watson. Additionally, they explore the franchise's strategy for avoiding competitive purgatory in the upcoming seasons. 01:06 - Shohei Ohtani WBC Performance 03:44 - Browns Quarterback Wishlist Poll 08:26 - Cleveland Browns Future Strategy

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waiting for it. And he had to extend a little bit of line drive. Had he got it over his glove. It would have been in the corner and it would have been a chance at a triple. He needs a triple for the cycle. Yes. Things though, they Jeff told us it's 15 before seven. It's like a 15 run limit. Okay. Um, but they've got to, of course, in the bottom of the inning. Taipei had bases loaded in the second and Japan, or in the third, Japan pulled a picture. It's 13-nothing. Got out of the jam. And they pulled a picture so that they wouldn't give up, you know, two runs. Oh, and they had a mound visit. Forget pulling the picture. They had a mound visit with two runners on, they mound visited it. And then he let another guy on it and they pulled the picture. Take this stuff seriously, man. I mean, they got a band out there playing. You got like, you got like the Saturday nightlife band that's out there playing. It's great stuff. Yeah. They got the thunder sticks going. There's actually Smith. The G Smith and the saxophone is out there. It's, it's, it's big time stuff.

So we will keep an eye because he is, it's only the bottom of the fourth, uh, Shoey is a triple away from the cycle in the world baseball classic. We are paying attention to it because him trying to hit for the cycles, the only reason I would still have this game on right now because it's 13-nothing. No, I think they're missing his jack L.E. And let me know if they take him out. Let me know if they take him out of the game because if they take him out of the game, then I'm going to turn it to something. He's just D.H. In any way. Uh, Team USA does play tonight. I believe eight o'clock Eastern in their first game, two one six four seven four to below ninety two. Also, I did, we can, you remember, you can watch us on YouTube live for absolutely free where Derek is watching on YouTube live from Maryland. So he has us on his TV while he gets ready for work and he says, tell Darryl, that's a cool hoodie and ask him if he can unblock me. Darryl, that's on you. That's on you. I think that's more, it's, it's on Darryl to, to find it in his heart. It's on Derek to look in and say, why did he have to block you, Darryl or Derek? Why did he, why did Darryl have to block you? Uh, put a username there so I know what username to look up because if you just tell me

Derek in Maryland, I have no idea, you know, I'll show you what, well, first of all, I want to know what he said, bad. I mean, I don't want you to. I'm like, so Keith sent us this. This is, this is pretty well. This is from betonline.ag and they send a lot of different things and, and, and there's a lot of different polls that they have out there and they have a Browns and a Steelers fan base top five QB wish list. And we'll talk about the Steelers. Maybe some other time during this show, however, I, I need some copium in the poll that they did. This is unbelievable. Okay. Those aren't, this is a mix of social media, uh, tweets, acts, things like that. And this is the day from the day after the Super Bowl on, all right. It's a pie chart. And it shows who the, who Browns fans, the cravings, who Browns fans would want to start the season for the Cleveland Browns, were they, were they sober when this poll was taken? This is unbelievable. So I, but I think, I think that people are thinking this way, see, I don't think that this is about sobriety because I'm usually sober when I say these things, 26% should or sanders.

Hold on. I'm not leading the cult. They're all relaxed. Hold on a second. But that's not a surprise. Fair enough. 26% say should or sanders, 22% to Sean Watson. And there's your surprise. Number one, I got a, I got a sneakins suspicion behind that. But let me, let me, let me continue real quick. Number 18%, number three, it's Kyler Murray. You want Kyler Murray? I'm on board. Oh, glorious. Okay. I didn't realize you want to Kyler Murray. Number four, 14% say Dylan Gabriel, it's over on Malik Willis. Malik Willis is only at 12, 8% say others. So there might be an Aaron Rodgers in there, Anthony Richardson or Joe Flacco for a third time. Steve the Berg. I don't know. One, can we answer the Dylan Gabriel question real quick? Should we be talking more about Dylan Gabriel at all? Am I being disrespected like, I just feel that everybody's like, hey, it ain't gonna work out here.

If we can get a six or a seventh round pick, fine, if not, I don't know what they're, what we're going to do. I just don't think he's part of the future with this football team. He shouldn't be. He shouldn't be. Okay. I just feel we know where Darrell stands on Dylan Gabriel, so I forgot who I was asking here. Um, it is interesting. Um, the messaging coming from the organization right now, it's like, they almost feel bad for forgetting that Dylan Gabriel is still on the roster because it's like, everyone wants to talk about Shadoor, obviously, the Dishon things hanging out there because this is the final year they have to pay him $46 million a year. And then it's like, oh, yeah. And you know what, we, you know, we still believe in Dylan too. Like we, you know, Dylan's here and he's, you know, developing, I think I can count like three sentences about Dylan Gabriel with all the press conferences that happen since they made the house. But that's the point I'm trying to make is that they're, it's, he's in a side. Well, this says they pull, it's 57,000 tweets about the Browns, right?

They compiled 57,000 tweets, it said the odds, however, don't necessarily represent fan basis desires. And I don't know if the, the tweets were, I'd rather have Dylan Gabriel as a starting quarterback than Dishon Watson or I'd rather have Dylan Gabriel as a starting quarterback than Malik Willis or I'd rather have Dylan Gabriel. Maybe that's the way that he got up there. Maybe that's the way Dishon got up there almost as a punchline to see that's why someone else. So right now, if I can just do my math real quick, my mats, 48% are either with Shadoor Sanders or Dishon awards. So yeah, almost half the fan base. Listen, this is social media. 10% of the country is on social media still. I think 8% of that are bots for the love of God. So I understand that this is a, a small, small percentage of, of the people listening. Okay. And I don't think that 22% here for Dishon were at the game the last time Dishon played for the Browns. There you go.

This is why I ask it, though, because my thing is is, it'll own, or it, excuse me, Darryl, Lyma has always been saying, Darryl, that he's been accusing me of being afraid than he backs off. But a lot of people accuse me of being afraid. And my whole thing is, you guys have made this bed. You guys can lay in it. I don't need to pull the nose up on this thing. You guys messed it up. I didn't want to trade for Dishon Watson. Me neither. I didn't want to take Dylan Gabriel and then turn right around to, I did like Shadoor Sanders. I'm on the record for that clearly. I didn't want to take Dylan Gabriel and then take Shadoor Sanders in the fifth round. They took Dylan Gabriel on Friday night. I went, well, that's it. I didn't get rid of the quarterback papers because we just have Dylan Gabriel now. I didn't do any of that. I didn't have a four quarterback competition. None of that is my fault. I wouldn't have done any of that. So my thought is, I got to, I got to put together a plan. I think that it's going to make this team better. And it may include these two guys, but I'm not trying to do anything crazy. I wonder when you got 48% of what they have here in this, in this chart, that are Shadoor

Sanders and Dishon Watson. I wonder if more people agree with me than what I may think. Like, hey, you know what? You guys made this mess. We didn't. You're paying $46 million to this guy. I do not want to restructure this contract. That's another conversation I want to ask you later on. If, if Shadoor Sanders plays great, great. If he doesn't, it's understandable. If the Sean Watson plays great, I'd be pretty surprised. If he doesn't, it's clearly understandable. I just don't want to be caught in purgatory. I know you like Kyler Murray. Fine. There's some things to like about him. I just don't want to be caught in 7, 8 win mode. And then all of a sudden, all right, hey, we got a good offensive lineman. We got, we got some good offensive lineman. We got this good defense that's now young again. We might have some good other place. Harold Fanon Jr., this and the other. Now we have to trade a bunch of picks so we can get our quarterback. Right. I don't want to tank, but I also kind of just want to let this sleeping dog lie and go into 2026 and go, hey, you know what, the reins are yours. Go right on a headshed door and it doesn't work.

It doesn't work. I know they're doing their due diligence. I think a lot of that is just crap. I think a lot of that is just smoke. You would know different Darryl, you're the insider. But I think maybe a lot more people agree with me. And it's just like, hey, let's just stick with what we got and position ourselves maybe for, if we win some games fine, if not, let's position ourselves for 2027. That's not fun to talk about, but I think that's the truth. They're in a tough spot coming off 8 wins over two years. They still don't have a quarterback that is still an ongoing Odyssey. They want to win more than they did the last two years. They felt they could have won seven, eight games last year, which I don't know that would have done them any good. Just like winning those final two games didn't do them any good, but I'll take, I'm all about winning. I'm not about tanking. And, you know, there have been years and you know this were, yeah, they were tanking and the way they did it was by fielding a team that was incapable of winning games.

And a coaching staff incapable of helping the team win said games. So they're in a tough spot this year. There is going to be hard for them to get an extra 2027 first round pick, not a lot of teams. So one apart with them right now. Get more out of every mile when you share the ride to work with carpooling. You'll have time to relax, save money and pick up new friends. Your connections can help you find carpool partners who live and work near you. Even if you're commuting just a few days a week, it's a free service, carpooling, every dollar saved, every friend made, register for free carpool partner ride matching at commuter connections dot org or call 800 745 ride. That's commuter connections dot org. It's Charles Barkley here with Wayfair. Let me tell you, game day is serious business at my house. If I'm grilling, chilling and watching hoops, my outdoor setup better be ready to play. That's where Wayfair wins. From patio seating and umbrellas to grills and grill accessories, Wayfair's got it all and it shows up fast.

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media. It's not the most accurate. And over to you guys, two, one, six, four, seven, four to below 92. A lot of me is just, hey, let's not do crazy, that's not do crazy things. If we're going to go for the gusto, go for the actual gusto, go make a run at making the playoffs. If not, then I think we're wasting time with any of these other quarterbacks that we talk about who are not currently on the Browns roster. So that's why I'm about should or that's why I'm about even to Sean Watson going into this season. I'd rather it be should or, but you know where I stand when it comes to an open competition in the former MVP candidate, maybe looking better against air than should or Sanders. However, would you just rather the Browns just play it as it is, position themselves for 2027 or league Willis, color Murray. Are you interested in having any patients whatsoever? And I want to ask Darryl, if he can change my mind about Kyla Murray, two, one, six, four, seven, four to below 92. We'll get to you guys and eight o'clock, Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe. How would Dan label the calves in his Boston? The team to beat again in the East can crime and Darryl in for tone on the family.

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