
Is there any logical reason to make Taylen Green the backup on Sunday?
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Afternoon Drive on The Fan — Is there any logical reason to make Taylen Green the backup on Sunday?. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
I think he did create a drama that frankly I wouldn't have created right now. Like coming out with it this way and creating this further competition for this number two spot, it's not needed right now for this football team. To me the other message on this is Halen Green appears to have advanced himself past Shadour Sanders and Todd Monkins' book for definitely the long term because why else would Todd Monkins say that? But I would also say this, why would you put that out there? Why would you put that out there when you could at least put up a facade that Shadour might have some value? When you come out and say that, that's an indictment on Shadour Sanders. John Fanta NBC sports very own talking about the tailing green potentially as a backup for the Jacksonville game. Nonsense that we've discussed. The one thing that I disagree I understand how John got there and understand how a majority of people have gotten there. But there's been kind of this undercurrent of the tailing green push by
some Browns fans ago. Well, you know, the Browns, you know, this regime did draft tailing green. They didn't draft Shadour Sanders. So it makes sense that they would cater things towards tailing. I think you're all massively overthinking it. I don't think tailing green being up for Sunday if that's what happens and actually has anything to do with Shadour. You're also just really not accounting for the guy that actually drafted them in Andrew Barry. Yeah. Like I'm Andrew Barry. And it's funny. You know, Munkin and that interview with Ken and Anthony today did talk about and putting together not only who would be active on game day, but putting everything around this was like, well, I got to talk to AB about that. They do have a sympathical relationship when it comes to a lot of the decisions. And I don't know who pulls the string at the end of the day, but it definitely doesn't seem like it's just solely Munkin. So it is an interest. So to me, I think the story is very interesting. So I don't want to like diminish it or minimize it anyway. How is this how is this indicative of Shadour Sanders as John was trying to say? I don't know. Like that missed me completely. I almost wanted to be like, did
did John misunderstand the question? Did I phrase it poorly? Did he think the tailing green was announced as the number two? No, but I do think people are putting together this scout team wraps being split between tail and inshador. And now this to mean that tailing green somehow, and I think it was about 10 snaps in the in camp. I'll just leapfrog Shadour Sanders. So I was able to with that one game against New England was able to go ahead and leapfrog and entire off season of work. I just thought it was pretty obvious. If he comes the number two quarterback, it's because they feel like they can do some work with him in ways that is just unique. He's a unicorn of sorts in the football field. And that's all that would be while I wholeheartedly disagree that that's the right call because you have to have a backup that can actually throw the football because to Sean Watson gets injured a lot. But I thought it was this solely about that nothing, nothing more than nothing less. I thought I was interested. I was obvious. I listen, if you watch tailing green against New England and thought to yourself, that isn't NFL athlete. I think you get I get came away with the right mentality. He threw
like four passes. I really highly encourage everyone to go go back and watch a little Arkansas football. Yeah. Like Dustin Cook, one of our sales guy, big browns fan argues with me incessantly about tailing green. But he's he's an athlete and he's six foot six and he's 230 pounds is like if he was any good as a passer, he would have been in the number four pick and he NFL draft. You know, he would have been Cam Newton. He would have been the number one pick in the draft. Yeah, it's insane. So I just I get it. I'm not saying don't be excited about tailing because I think this year you could really have as a red zone target as a if you want to line them up a little bit of fullback a little bit at tight end three, right? Like there's a lot of ways wildcat quarterback. There's a lot of things you can do that I think can have an impact in a small role. Anything more than that and you're setting yourself up for massive failure and I don't think I don't think an athlete of that level who could be an interesting player in the NFL with time. I don't think
that's how you set that kid up for success. No, you'd be setting them up for failure. No question about it. I just thought it was wild, but this is some mild reflection of Shador. And if it as if it would be a real like oh, couldn't even be a backup quarterback on this team. What are you guys smoking? Yeah, what's happening? Like it's obvious why this would be happening if it does happen, which I don't believe is true anyway. I just don't I don't think munkins an idiot and it's an idiotic move to make tailing green the backup quarterback and only carry two quarterbacks. Yeah, I think the Browns, if they're going to have all three guys up and make sense that oh, sorry, if they're going to have all three guys in a game plan, it's it's going to be because they have three guys active that just makes sense to me, but big picture like I don't know. I just think I think Todd Munkin used this as a little bit of gamesmanship. I think he understands that people have tailing green playmaking in his head. And I still think like I think a lot of people since Shedore was declared the loser of the quarterback battle have started to do some mental gymnastics that quite frankly don't make sense. Here's what I think to still be the truth. Same as
it was four weeks ago, Shedore Sanders will start the most quarter most games of quarterback for the Browns this year. And I don't think it's going to be particularly close. Yes. Should I should we have fought some of the people and been like, oh, so who do you think's going to start more games now? Shedore tailing green. And then maybe given them like had them give us like choice odds, is that what Shedore done? I mean, Berger Betts for everybody. That is true. Take it with take all the Berger Betts in the world on that one. Two.
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