Wednesday: Browns Turn to Gabriel

Rookie Dillon Gabriel to start for the Browns at QB.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Well, visit with Dan Weiss uh, the new voice of
the Spurs, and we'll talk about the Spurs and training
camp getting open and the first preseason game next week
against the team from China.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Uh, and we'll look forward to that visit with him
and say the name, come do it, what's the I
know it's Uh Guang Joan Gwang Joe Lune Long.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Gwang Joe Long.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Lions. Yeah, there you go, the Lions. The Lions have
the ball. We're gonna go. We're gonna see if Dan's
gonna go.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Johnny Most Johnny Most was the long time in a
Celtics announcer and they were playing a team from Czechoslovakia
or Romania or someplace, and he didn't want to pronounce
their names because he didn't care.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
And so he was.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Like, I'll give it to the guy with the beard over,
the guy that's ball, the guy with that's that's left handed,
Uh left, He's now got it.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
He's gonna shoot a jumper. That was the way he
called the game.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Sounds like Dave South.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Maybe McNeil has the ball, throws it, scores touchdown.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Aggie's all right, let's talk about the quarterbacking situation with
Cleveland because Dylan Gabriel is going to start this week
for Cleveland their fifth round draft pick or their third
round pick, not their fifth round pick. Shaduur Sanders. Chadure
is still on the bench and still is the third
team quarterback. So I guess if something happens with Gabriel

(01:29):
that he can't play, Flaco gets to go back. I
don't know why you draft shaduor Sanders and just stash him.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Uh if you and.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't know why you drafted him after you already
drafted Dylan Gabriel. I kind of don't think it's fair
to either player. Somebody's going to put Shadour on the roster,
and if he was a non draft pick and you
just throw him on the roster as the third guy
and say, hey, we're going to develop you for a
couple of years and see what happens, and you're a
practice squad guy because we don't think you're that good

(02:00):
to begin with.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
We want to see what.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
You got and we're gonna go You're gonna play some
preseason games. That would be fine, But drafting Schadu or
Sanders with the fifth pick, and some say it was
the owner who wanted to get it done. To me,
let's let's you know that I don't really know if
Dylan Gabriel can do it or not. And I know
Joe Flacco is only there because he's a veteran and
he's not gonna mess things up. But when the season began,

(02:24):
you had to start Joe Flacco to give Cleveland fans
the illusion that they had a chance to be a
playoff team. And now the illusion is gone. There's really
no chance for them to be a playoff team. So
let's play the young guys and see what they got.
It wouldn't surprise me that Gabriel plays this game and
two or three weeks down the road they play Shader,
because you got to get them in a real game
to see what they can really do.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
But it is.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
It is a circus right now because going into next year,
you need to settle on a quarterback, and if it
is Sanders or it is Gabriel, and it's certainly not
gonna be Flacco, then you may have to go out
and draft another quarterback. And now you've wasted two player
two picks with players that you could have developed. Those
are the things I look at when if you want

(03:07):
to be critical of general managers and owners is who
are you drafting and why are you drafting them? You
didn't need both Gabriel and Sanders to get through you
this year. If something happened to both quarterbacks, you could
have gotten somebody off the waiver wire and just made
it happen and finish out the season.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
But I think that over the course.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Of the next you know, twelve weeks or so, both
Sanders and Gabriel have to play so that they get
an evaluation of what they have going into next season.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, I mean, I agree with you, but then don't
agree with you as far as with Shador Sanders because
he's a fifth round talent. He's he got drafted in
the fifth round.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
You have to but I thought he was going to
be the first pick in the draft.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well that was according to before he as the kids say,
crashed out hard mel kiper on Live National TV, which
was just an embarrassment to watch. He's a fifth round talent.
That not just the Cleveland Browns thought that. The other
twenty nine teams in the NFL thought as well. They

(04:12):
didn't want the headache, they didn't want to deal with Dion.
They didn't want to deal with the drama. So you know, yeah,
in OTA's it looked good. But if you can't crack
even the backup quarterback position right now, Andy as Ashador Sanders,
I'm sorry, you don't deserve to be implemented into the

(04:35):
season unless God forbid, Dylan Gabriel gets hurt and then
they say, hey, Joe, we know you're forty thousand years old,
the season sucks, we're gonna put him in. Maybe they'll
put in Bailey Zappi, but I don't know if you
have to see what he what he has.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
I think if Bailey Zappi was gonna stick as a
backup quarterback, and I think Bailey Zappi on the right
team could be a good backup quarterback. I don't think
Bailey Zappie's a starter. I don't know if Shedeur Sanders
is either. But Cleveland on their roster next year needs
to only have two quarterbacks and may be a practice
squad guy. So Gabriel or Sanders, one of them's got
to go. If not, both of them have to go.

(05:13):
And so my guess is is that they're going to
experiment with them over the next several weeks because they're
not winning, and they're fans, so they're not winning, and
you're going to Cleveland games to watch the other team play. Yeah,
you may be a Browns fan, but I'm sorry. They're
They're gonna win three games or four and call it
a call it a season. But you've got to develop
a plant. The plan starts at quarterback, and you have

(05:33):
to know your coaches have to know do I have
somebody I can develop or not.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
They do have a practice squad quarterback Andy, it's shrudeur.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, and they also have and they have Zappi too.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
So you've got three guys that are not starters and
you need to find out can one of them be
an adequate backup or can one of them elevate themselves
to becoming an adequate starter so we know who to
draft and when to draft them.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
In twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Six, we have an update real quick, by the way,
an update the New York Yankees. In the top or
bottom of the first inning, a two run shot by
somebody called Ben Rice. There you go.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Ben Rice has been the hottest player that they have
so far in the last few weeks. Imagine not playing
him in the first game. Analytics all right, let's talk
to Dan Whis's next. It's the Andy Everage show.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
On the ticket