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21:31Shannon Sharpe:have to answer at the quarterback position after trying 35 times over the years. You know, I listen, man, I can go on and on about this, but go ahead. You got it. I think the thing is, the biggest thing an athlete can have is the ability to believe that he belongs, he or she belongs. I was a seventh round draft pick. Shadon was a five. There was 12 rounds. When I was a seventh, there were seven rounds. He's a fifth. Yeah. But there is not one point in time that I didn't feel I belonged on that field. Because I saw a lot of these guys at the bowl games. I saw these guys at Combine, and I read about them.

22:07Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. And I remember calling my brother at the East West Shrindgrass. I said, these dudes are not better than me. They're not better than me. I don't care what they say. Yeah. I remember going to the Combine. Man, I, you know, what you think you read? I said, probably post six, post seven. I say, but they're not better than me. They might be faster than me, but they're not better than me. I belong in the NFL. And when I went to Denver, all those guys that went before me, I'm like, ain't no way. I remember asking myself, how in the hell did you get drafted before me? Yeah. I said, but don't worry about it.

22:45Shannon Sharpe:Don't worry about it. I said, it won't be long. It won't be. It was like the cat. when a girl said, boy, the cat got his tail caught in the washing machine. You know what he said, Ocho? He said, it won't be long now. He said, she didn't know what he was talking about. His tail wouldn't be long anymore or it wouldn't be long before it all be over. Yes, sir. Yeah, man. And when we put the pads on, Ocho? Yeah. I'll never forget, because, you know, the rookies, we went to camp before the vet. So we would go like a couple of days before the vet. So we would already be practicing. Right. In Denver, before we headed up to Greeley.

23:19Shannon Sharpe:Right. I saw them. They were nervous, Ocho, like a long-tailed dog with a porch full of rocking chairs. You know, if somebody leaning back is going to be able to say, Ocho, you know what I'm talking about now. I saw them. They were nervous. I said, oh, yeah. That's all I need to see. Just a little fear. Just a little fear in a man's eyes. Because that's my greatest ability. Yes. Another man's fear. Yeah. I like it. I like it. And listen, I know we've been talking about Shadour. but listen, remember what I told you about the Panthers, right? Yes. Remember what I told you about the Panthers? If there's a dark – hey, Chad, stay with me real quick.

23:57If there's a dark horse team that I believe in this year that is going to creep up and maybe make it run into the playoffs, I said it would be the Panthers. They didn't look bad. Bryce Young didn't look bad. Jalen Coker went crazy tonight. T-Mac, the rookie from Arizona, looked good tonight. I know Xavier Lekin got thrown out, getting into a little tussle. Listen, I love the passion. It's just preseason. That's fixable. That's fixable. But again, look how the Panthers look early in the game. For those, I know everybody tuned in to watch the door. But I'm telling you right now, and I said it first, someone that's not much of a Panther fan, didn't play for the organization, they owe me nothing.

24:37I'm telling you, the dark horse team for this season, the Carolina Panthers, Bryce Young, and their receiving core. I'm telling you.

24:47Shannon Sharpe:Watch. Ocho, I ain't never been that hot in a preseason game. No? The tussle? Hell no! They were going at it. They were going at it. I don't really got no tussle in practice. Bro, because I'll tell you what Dan Reed's going to say, you fighting, that means we ain't working hard enough. Mike Shanahan said the same thing. I ain't working hard enough. Bro, it ain't like it is now, bro. Them two-hour, two-and-a-half-hour practice, man, please, with pads and you had on pads. Oh, let me take that back, Ocho. You have on, they call it, see, what they call shells with shoulder pads and shorts. It's not shells like they call it now.

25:26Shannon Sharpe:Basically, you got those little fitted styrofoam stuff on. That was not shells when I got in the 90s. Shells with shoulder pads and shorts. Shorts, yeah. Yeah. And, you know, we hit. We hit back then. Nine on seven was live. Live, yep. Team was a solid third up. There wasn't no touch the guy on his two-hand touch. Oh, no. You put shoulders on him. You put pads on him. You better come to balance and be ready. I remember Dennis Smith. We call him Kahuna. And Atwater. Man, they come down in that box. Boy, we had thumpers back then. Oh, yeah. Man, please. Atwater ain't played well. Atwater coming down here now.

26:14Shannon Sharpe:And Atwater wasn't the thumper like Dennis Smith. Kahuna was the thumper. Number 49? Whoa, whoa, whoa. More than Atwater? Yes, Lord. Ocho, I saw that joke. Hey, at 205, 210, I saw him sit lineman. Sit lineman on the ass. They pulling. He ain't never go low. Right. Up high? He put that shoulder in their chest and sit him down. At 210? At 210. Go back. If y 'all can find it, go back and check the tape. He hit Roosevelt Potts. They both ran. Potts come through the hole. He hit him. He was out cold? Marion Butts. Hey, if you a Charger fan, you know who. Because back then, Ocho, they had a big old big running back.

27:04Shannon Sharpe:They had big Marion Butts. They had Rod Bernstein. They have a big Joe Caravello, big Joe Cox. I mean, the tight ends were like 300 pounds. Offensive line, mammoth offensive line. Yeah. Kahuna run through them. Go back and look at that play with Dennis Smith. He hit Marion Buss and he hit Roosevelt Potts. Yeah. And you know who else was a thumper too? Remember Donovan Darius? Yeah. Yeah, I played against DD at Jacksonville. but that was back in the 90s you had chuck cecil you had mark mark carrier from chicago yeah boy back then it wasn't nothing defenseless about that they said you got him in the shoulder pass what the hell you thought was gonna happen you come across the middle oh yeah you're gonna get that work what you're gonna get that work uh rodney harrison oh rod coming with all four Every time.

28:01Shannon Sharpe:Hey, I say, bro, hey, hey, hey, Sharp, just stay on my knees. I say, hey, gotcha. But boy, we tried, boy, we definitely tried to hit each other in the mouth. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Hey, that's a hard playing joker. When you're moving like I do, you don't always get a lot of lead time. Trips come together fast for production shoots, brand appearances, or filming, and I've got to be ready to go. That's where Amazon Prime can make the difference. When something comes up, you can get what you need, like carry-on chargers, noise-canceling headphones, so you're ready to show up for it. With same-day delivery, those essentials can show up in time to still make it happen, so you can focus on the opportunity.

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30:55Shannon Sharpe:Shadour said all the right things last night as he has expected at the great preseason debut. Let's take a listen to what Shadour had to say. I mean, God's patient with us. It's humans. We messed up at times, but I don't feel like he threw us away as individuals. So it's different things and different life lessons, you know, you got to go through. And I haven't went through this situation, you know, that I'm in ever. So it's really just a test, you know? I feel like from God or whoever it's from, it's just a test. But anyway, I'm just thankful that I was able to see the day of light and get out there and be able to play.

31:36So, you know, they didn't have to let me play. So anything and everything, you know, is good for me. So then, you know, the kids looking up, the kids definitely inspire me, of course, more. it's a lot of people incarcerated that definitely talk to their friends to talk to me to tell me my friend my friend from jail was you know watching you play and watching everything that's going on so it's just like the the world the world you know I say it's so small and everybody sees everything and I'm thankful to be able to inspire people through everything because a lady just told me now when I'm having a bad day I just think about Shador and I'm saying I'm gonna act like Shador you know so like that's so cool you know to me that that i'm some form of inspiration

32:26jador the only thing i'm gonna disagree with you they had to let you play because everybody else was hurt because you ain't had no choice they if they didn't let you play they brought they

32:35Shannon Sharpe:brought a guy in they brought in us huntley because flacco wasn't gonna play and the other two couldn't play. So, but you did your thing. All you could control is what you could control. What you could control was how you played. How you handled the situation that you've been placed in. He did it. He did it very well. He did it. And he handled it well. He said all the right things. He did all the right things. And that's control what you can control. What you can't control, don't worry about it. Mm-hmm. Control what you can control. He went through a storm, something he never, if you'd have told him a year ago, he would be in this situation, where he's at right now, he wouldn't have believed it.

33:25Shannon Sharpe:His dad wouldn't have believed it. Nobody, you or I wouldn't have believed it. No, absolutely not. Based on baseball. But you're here.

33:35Shannon Sharpe:Now, forget how I got here. How are you going to get out of here? Yeah. Because a lot of times, you know, we spent a lot of time on your man. How we got into the situation. You're in the situation now. How are you going to get out of it? Yeah. And I think he's done a great job. Look, you know, I'm sure he talks to his dad. Even though his dad is not there, he still talks to his dad daily. Dad gives him great advice. He doesn't put any more on us that we can handle. Absolutely not. and sometimes the situation they put you in, they're not advantageous for you. It's not the best situation for you because you got people in the situation you win that don't even believe in you.

34:20And that's when it hurt worse. Most of the time, if you hear someone, oh, I'm a part of your organization and you say, well, hell, I ain't want you though. That's meant to break you. That's meant to break you. You can't break what you didn't feel. You can't break what you ain't creating. Come on now. But everybody's not built like that mentally. You right. True. In this era? True. In this era of sensitivity and, oh, he said this about me. No, everybody's not built for that. That's meant to break you. And if they break you mentally, it affects what you do in between the lines on the green grass.

35:03But that's neither here nor there. He played well. The small sample size we got to see at Brother Sanders. 12 look good. You look good.

35:13Shannon Sharpe:You're right, Ocho. You're right. Everybody, I mean, sometimes when things are not going your way and you feel it down, man, it's hard to stay positive. And I think the best thing for him is that he has a dad that's really positive. He sees the positivity in everything, even when it's all negativity. He'll find something positive. He'll find something good to say.

35:45Shannon Sharpe:That knows.

35:50Shannon Sharpe:That's what he want.

35:56Make him bark. Make him bark. Make him bark.

36:00Shannon Sharpe:No, no. We don't want that. I tried to deter him from barking. And the thing is, I put Titus up, Titus asleep. So I ain't got to worry about Titus coming here and him growling and going crazy. Hey, that's a good combination, boy.

36:20Shannon Sharpe:And then I took the bones up because him and Teddy. Fighting over the bones? He wanted all the bones. He didn't want Teddy to have none. So he had three. I gave each one a bone. So he had his and he bargained at Teddy's. So once I gave him Teddy's, it was all good. So I just took all three of them. Because he had two at first. Teddy just had one. But he wasn't satisfied with that. He wanted all three. So I said, no, we're not going to do that. You got a little thug. We're going to take the bones up one night. You got a little thug on your hands over there, man.

36:54Shannon Sharpe:You want to go stay with Ocho? Hey, yeah. Come on over here, Thanos. I'm going to take you down to the city, boy. They got a dog park downtown. He said, I can go to the dog park. He said, you know, I got, you know, I had a little minor procedure about a month ago. Wait, what happened? He had surgery already? We all good. What's wrong with him? We got him fixed up. Oh, why you, man? He said, look. He said, he heard about them child support payments. He said, he ain't want none of that. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Get out there and have a little fun, man. Yo, new girl. Yeah, we ain't having no fun. But Shadun looked good.

37:38Shannon Sharpe:He looked good. He looked really good last night. He spoke really good after the game. And the thing now is to build. Excuse me. Is to build on what he did last night. He also spoke about gifting teammates some new cleats. Check this out, Ojo. Yeah, I'm just excited for all of them. I gifted a lot of receivers, the prime DT96s. You know, a couple of them had them on. So I just gifted a couple of them. Like the main receivers going into this game, you know, I gifted them some cleats. Some wore them, some didn't. But I was like, okay, this is just my little appreciation gift to them. Because they don't be having a lot in stock.

38:17So I couldn't do everybody. I wish I could. But, yeah, it's great. Hey, the ones he wore in the game were dope. Yeah, that was the one you talked about. They had the orange lining, like for the Browns color scheme, colorway. Yeah, they was nice. They were nice. I think also as a receiver, well, for me, I wouldn't want to cleat that heavy. No, the Deontay, I mean, they're heavy based on the way they're made. I want a lightest shoe as possible. So, I mean, they look good.

38:51Shannon Sharpe:Time could have been out there in Thames and run 4-3. Absolutely. absolutely but it all depends I was a you know I wore TD bottle so I wore wide receiver cleats and take the ankles so you was good yeah because I'm a hard planner me even though I'm a hard planner it's funny Reebok obviously was Reebok back then I had Reebok take all the lining out of my shoe I don't want any support. I want my shoe to be just like a track shoe. Just like a track shoe. I need to feel the floor. I need to feel the floor when I stop, when I go, when I try to cut and transition. I don't want anything restricting my ankles when it's time for my lateral movement and movements.

39:45So all I had was a shell, some shoelaces, and cleats at the bottom. That's it. That's it.

39:52Shannon Sharpe:But you always wore a mold at the bottom. You wore a tempo bob. Yeah, you didn't wear seven studs. No, I didn't have a choice but to wear seven studs. When we played in Heinz Field, I think they let the field be messed up like that on purpose. Yeah, the business be soggy. Oh, my goodness. It's like, I don't know. I don't know. That was an advantage for them. The advantage for them. But, yeah, that's the only time I wore seven studs is when we played in Heinz Field. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. there's a video that's been making his way around courtesy of Bucky it's him confronting Browns reporter Tony Grossi for not having anything positive to say Ocho let's take a look at this video

40:39Shannon Sharpe:I'll be hoping you got something positive to say Bucky you don't want to say negative to say Bucky and I'm like I ain't doing nothing to you I ain't seen nothing positive

41:05Hey, that's dope, Monk. I like it. I like it because most of the time those interactions like that, that's not how they go when it comes to players. Most of the time when it comes to a beat reporter that's been established for that long as a Cleveland beat reporter, you know, when it comes to saying something negative, most of the time, the player challenges him in that manner because you've never said anything positive. And I can just imagine, I haven't read any of the article, and I can just imagine if the rest of the world has been somewhat negative towards Shador, I can imagine what the person that's in-house that sees him every day writes.

41:40So the fact that they were able to do it with a smile, with class, with grace, and understanding, well, goddamn, do you have anything nice to say? Because everything I've seen so far has been negative. I did nothing to you. But obviously, the dude had the job to do. You understand how to get the views. You have to understand negativity. Negativity, it would create traction, clickbait. How can I get people to read what I'm writing? When you talk negative about the biggest thing going on right now in Cleveland, outside of LeBron James when he was there, right now it's Shador Sanders.

42:17Shannon Sharpe:Robert Littell Black Sports Online Grossy has been like this for 30 years Baker couldn't handle it I guess he's saying Baker could not have handled it Shadour disarmed him in 60 seconds and changed his energy that's a gift not all people have for negative people hey listen they're smiling in your face they're smiling in your face obviously at that point and in that moment with Shadour greeting him the way he did with class, with grace. But God damn, are you going to say anything? I'm just waiting on you to say something nice. Something. Yeah. So the guy has no, I mean, what can you say? Especially after that performance.

43:03What can you say? And I know people are going to say, oh, it's the preseason. Oh, it's a small sample size. Let's see what he does in the regular season. I mean, it's still, this is all we have to go off. So we're talking about what we saw in that specific case in that moment. I'm curious to what he wrote today because I'm sure he has something to say today.

43:23Shannon Sharpe:I think it's different for a quarterback because, you know, the eyes are all on you. But I really never had no problem. I was seven-round draft pick. I wasn't supposed to be ish anyway. So anything that I gave him 20 catches, that was good. But as I got, you know, I never had a problem with Mark Kisler. Never had a problem with Woody Page. I never had a problem with who else? Jim Armstrong. He was a columnist when I was there. He was with the Indy Star. Now, I forget his name. Shefter and I got to Denver at the same time. Adam Shefter was a reporter in Denver. Yeah. Well, Shefty been at this thing for a minute, boy.

44:10Oh, yeah. Who's the guy for the Indy Star?

44:17Shannon Sharpe:Nah, he's the columnist. He's the big guy.

44:23Huh?

44:24Shannon Sharpe:No, no, no, no, no, no.

44:29Shannon Sharpe:Who's the big?

44:33Shannon Sharpe:but he was in Denver when I was there the first half

44:40I hate when I can't

44:46no

44:49Shannon Sharpe:come on Denver help me I know y 'all in the chat no

45:03Hey, somebody in the chat say, Teddy look, I mean, Thanos look like a skunk. His colorway.

45:12Teddy. I mean Thanos. He ain't talking.

45:18I want to learn how to whistle like this. Stop calling my name. Huh? You know how to whistle like this, Unk? No. That shit be loud as hell. I want to learn how to do that. probably too late now. Well, damn, I can't, it's too, I got, it's a certain age, age, age, why you try to whistle like that now? I just, I just never, I just, I don't know. I'm going to a NASCAR event soon and I want to be able to make sure I can whistle like that at the NASCAR event. I'm going to, they'll take, oh, yeah. Yeah. I remember I told Bubba, I told Bubba I was coming. So I'm actually coming. We got everything aligned.

45:59So I'm going down there. I got my flannel, my cutoff sleeves, I got my jorts. I'm serious, I got my jorts. I'm ready. The only problem is I don't drink, as long as they got hot dogs and I'm having my Coke with no ice, two hot dogs, nice little date with my lady friend. I know she probably watching. Rob Markman - Man, what's that guy? I can't think of his name, man. Hey, chat, I got a poem. Y 'all want to hear it or you want to save it for later? We're going to save it for later. I'll think about it. Yeah.

46:40Shannon Sharpe:Kevin Stefanski was asked, what should Doors' big game does for the depth chart for the Browns? His response was, yeah, we're really just focused on developing our players. We're in evaluation mode. I'm pleased where the guys are, but I'm not diving into no quarterback competition. You got to, you got to keep it safe. You don't have a choice, but to keep it safe. You have a choice, but to keep it safe. There's not much you can say. He's not in a position to really say anything. You can't make any evaluations based off what you saw tonight. Listen, brother Stefanski, he doesn't even have the power to be able to give the green light on what he wants to do.

47:19He doesn't have the power to give the green light on what he wants to do. It's going to come down to those upstairs. But I think it's going to come to a point where certain individuals are going to play so well, they're not going to have a choice. They're not going to have a choice. But I know one thing. I can tell you this. A blind man can see that. Joe Flacco will be the starter for the foreseeable future until things aren't going well offensively for the Cleveland Browns. and I'm assuming as I said long ago that should do would be number two and he's been able to show that I hope hopefully Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel can get healthy so they should showcase themselves in the preseason games and what they can what they can and can't do and um that's it I'm hoping it's a good healthy quarterback battle once they get back healthy

48:16Shannon Sharpe:so you think it's going to be his job you think he's going to be the number two yeah I said that yeah I said that

48:31Shannon Sharpe:man this job Ocho you ever want to think of something and you can't think of it I get mad nah I just be wanting to go to bed. I don't even want to talk. You can't think of the guy's last name? Yeah, man. It's driving me crazy.

48:55Shannon Sharpe:Whatever. Hey, listen. I'm going to have to call Mike Cliffs tomorrow. Man, what's that dude's name? It's going to come to you. Ugh. Thanos, you know his name? he says, look, I'm not even a year old. I won't even be a year old until December. So clearly I don't know what you're talking about. When you're moving like I do, you don't always get a lot of lead time. Trips come together fast for production shoots, brand appearances, or filming, and I've got to be ready to go. That's where Amazon Prime can make the difference. When something comes up, you can get what you need, like carry-on chargers, noise-canceling headphones, so you're ready to show up for it.

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51:42Shannon Sharpe:Followed by two-time MVP Michael Beasley and the defending champion Miami 305 facing Nancy Lieberman's Dallas Power. Three games of the most physical, competitive, and nonstop three-on-three action. Watch live Saturday on CBS at 12 p.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific, and catch replays Monday on BET. Presented by iHeart. NFL Insider says Shadur Sanders still stands behind Dylan Gabriel for the Browns coaches. Gabriel is ahead of Sanders in the eye of the coaching staff, but rarely in training camp has that position matched what we've seen on the field. The quarterback situation remains the story of camp, and Shadur Sanders is settling in to lead three scoring drives in the most extended action of the summer.

52:23Shannon Sharpe:won't make the team's consistent stance that Sanders is fourth in a line any less perplexing. No reasonable person thinks Sanders will be fully ready to lead a team and consistently attack a complicated defense three weeks from now. He's shown enough talent and growth, however, to make anyone believe he should be on the team and have a chance to develop into a starting quality player. Sanders is talented. his throat out of the end zone to wide receiver Greg Labardon in the preseason opener, and his floater down the sideline to receiver Luke Floria, later approved. Until we see Sanders get practice reps with the number one offense, we can't believe the Browns view him as having much of a shot to be the number two when the season begins.

53:10Shannon Sharpe:I agree with what they're saying. But that's my point is, okay, you're saying, have we seen enough? Have you seen enough of Dillon? What have you seen from Dillon Gabriel to make you think he can be number two? Did you hear? Did you? Who wrote that? The Browns Athletic Insider. The Browns Athletic Insider. Right? Yep. So you see Shadour do what he does. Three quarters of football. Three, I think. Maybe he played well into the fourth quarter, right? Yeah, I think so. So in a live game, you saw him play the way he played and still questioned if he can do the same thing when he has the actual starters at his disposal.

54:01I'm confused.

54:05Shannon Sharpe:My thing is, he says, no reasonable person thinks Sanders will be fully ready to lead a team and consistently attack a complicated NFL defense three weeks from now. What about Dylan Gabriel? Has he shown you enough to make them believe that three weeks from now, he can lead this team against a complicated defense? I digress even further. Has Kenny Pickett ever shown you that he can lead a team against a complicated defense?

54:39Shannon Sharpe:because all i know is that what i keep hearing is what you're telling me what he can't do like my coach just saying college but hey we'll put it find something that he can do so you keep telling me what should do or can't do well your job as a coach is to put players in position and find something that they can do wait a minute but where's the can coming from when we just saw him do it i know it's a small sample size it's three quarters of football but everything you said he can't do, he just did. Matter of fact, he just did what we already saw him do at Jackson State. He just did what we saw him do at Colorado.

55:12We just did, even though it's a small semicide. Uncle, I played the game for a very long time. I played the game for a very long time. I'm a receiver. I know what it's supposed to look like. I know what it looks like when there's a quarterback that's playing in a game and he's confident. He's polished. His pocket presence, his mannerisms. I know what it should look like. We've seen Kenny Pickett with the Steelers. If he was the answer for Cleveland, he would have been the answer in Pittsburgh. What's the question you're asking?

55:47Shannon Sharpe:Because if Kenny Pickett is the answer, I need to know the question. Did he play for the University of Pittsburgh? Yes.

55:58I don't know what more. I don't know what more. Listen, when you fill out your resume, right? When you fill out your resume and you go on for that job interview, you want to put your best foot forward. You want to keep a lasting impression. Correct. Well, the lasting impression is what we saw Friday night from the person they claim is the fourth string quarterback. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, what do we do? We build from that on Saturday.

56:29Shannon Sharpe:Well, you build from that, no. You build from that starting in practice by giving him more reps, more quality reps. You don't leave him in the position that he was in where he's getting a handful of reps with the threes and fours. You give him some opportunities with the ones, with the twos. I'm not saying he has to take five, six reps with the ones, but I'm saying you sprinkle. Maybe you give him one or two reps. Maybe you give him three or four reps with the twos. I do agree with this. Until we see Sanders get practice reps with the number one offense, we can't believe the Browns view him as having much of a shot to be number two when the season begin.

56:59Shannon Sharpe:true I do I do agree with that statement you're not going from four to two if you four training cap then all of a sudden the season start you're number two yeah they're going to need to see you with the ones and twos to feel comfortable because they got to make a decision and when you make that decision you release somebody ain't no guarantee that you're going to be able to bring them back and put them on your practice squad somebody might sign them and put them on the active roster so that's the case Ocho do I stay on your practice squad for say 25 30 ,000 or do I go somewhere and get an opportunity to get a real roster spot and make almost a million dollars a year so that's the question that you have that's a decision that you make when you release these guys because I'm sure there are some guys you know I would love to have him to have another year learning our system and when we come back next year having a uh the OTAs the training camp the season of working scout team stuff when we come back for OTA's Ocho he should be good to go he should be fully developing good to go so I don't want people thinking I'm that we beat Ocho and I beating up on Zach Jackson I agree with what he's saying but my thing I'm more talking about the Browns as a as an organization as a coaching staff are you are you are because the fans are saying you want us to believe you or our lying eyes.

58:23Shannon Sharpe:I know what my eyes, I saw. I know what I saw. I hear what you saying. But I see better than I hear. Come on now. Y 'all keep telling us Dylan Gabriel, Dylan Gabriel, but we have yet to see him. Now, everything that I see is that, now, he's, you know, she's not better than Shadour. For most of the articles that I've been reading, and hey, people can write whatever they want to write, so I don't want to put too much emphasis, but I haven't seen, I haven't read a whole lot that where they say that Dylan Gabriel is better, has been played, has played better or playing better than Shadour. What did I tell you?

58:57What did I tell you not too long ago? Yeah. How camp look. Yeah. I'm not saying no names again this time. Cause I don't want to get nobody in no trouble. What did I tell you? Yeah. And then exactly what that individual said, who's in there every day that plays on the other side of the ball and has to see it. Exactly what he said way back then. We saw it show up. The fact that he's not getting first team reps with the ones or the twos and still went out there and looked the way he did. What does that tell you?

59:28Shannon Sharpe:He getting marginal reps to begin with. Damn the one of the twos, Ocho. He barely getting reps at all. And then strip. Okay. I'll say no more. Again. Say no more. So you're not doing him justice in practice, but still showed up in the game and looked apart and looked like that. What does that say? But we're going to see Saturday. And I hope Dylan Gabriel gets his opportunity because I would love to see what he does and what he gives that offense and that coach and staff that believes in him. I'm hoping he gets a fair shot. I'm hoping he does. I'm hoping he does. I would love to see it. I would love to see it.

1:00:08I know he's a competitor. He was great at Oregon. He was really good. so I'm all for it

1:00:17Shannon Sharpe:yeah it's let the guy like

1:00:25Shannon Sharpe:it's like when you're in that situation the guy flashes normally when guys flashes in camp Ojo you and I both played the NFL for a long time we both played at a high level every team that I've been on when a guy flashes in practice a guy flashes in the game he gets to move up and he gets meaningful reps, more meaningful reps, meaning he's no longer on the third or fourth. They'll sneak some reps in with the twos. Maybe they'll give him one or two shots with the ones. That's normally how it works. They're not so set in their ways that it's like, oh, we just see this guy as – it's kind of like TD.

1:01:04Shannon Sharpe:I'll give you a prime example. TD was a guy. TD was a six-round draft pick. TD was probably like the fifth or the sixth running back. But every day he made that play on kickoff, and every day you saw TD get a little better. He gave him a little bit more reps. And so all of a sudden he'd go from six to five, from five to four, four to two.

1:01:28Shannon Sharpe:After the first game of the season, TD won. Normally that's how it plays out. Guys show you in the game. because when guys flash in practice, Ocho, you're thinking to yourself, I wonder if he'd do that in the game. Hell, coach, put his ass in the game. Let's see what he could do. Right. That's normally how it happened. Wade Phillips, our defensive coordinator, that's how I got in the game. He said, Dan, put his ass in the game. Let's see if they can cover him because we can't. Dan's like, okay. they put my ass in the game yeah well should do or i think should do or showed you something that he deserving i'm not saying he needs to you need to implement him as the starter the number one oh i didn't we didn't say that that's not what we're saying but i think he's shown you enough friday just says you know what we might need to give him some more quality reps with guys that's going to be playing on sunday and let's see him facing the number one defense Miles Garrett, those guys over there.

1:02:37Shannon Sharpe:But let's give him Jerry Judy. Let's give him in Joku. Let's see if he can replicate some of that, what he did on Friday, with the ones today. Yeah. That's all we're saying. And can I say one more thing? Go ahead. One thing. If you can do what he did without getting the practice reps in a game, without the number ones around them things only get easier when you have the ones at your disposal that are better at the position Cedric Tillman and Joku Jerry Ju it only becomes easier it doesn't get more difficult now once you're playing against a team that's skiing for you and disguises and and does all the all the stuff you know with a game planning for you okay that's different then you just have to process a little bit faster yes but it takes it's vanilla they line up and they just go that's exactly how it is but ocho you get better at something by doing said thing yes exactly what you just said you get better at something by doing said thing but he wasn't doing said thing because he right and still looked the way he did i agree i agree they don't They don't view it that way.

1:04:00They, that organization, they don't view it that way. How? I don't know. I don't know. But I'm guessing in the in the in the direction in which they're going, I'm hoping they're right. They haven't been right in the 35 quarterback that they tried previously. or maybe I'm wrong no I just think

1:04:25Shannon Sharpe:I do believe that he's earned the right

1:04:31Shannon Sharpe:to get quality reps with the ones and twos I'm not saying that you implement him that now he's QB1 I'm not saying he's QB2 maybe but I think he's earned that opportunity I know one thing. I know one thing. They better put a statue of Andrew Barry outside that goddamn stadium.

1:05:02Tell you that. Listen, I can already foresee how it's going to go. I already know how it's going to go. I can already see it. They're going to continue to play, continue to play, continue to play, put everybody in front of them, continue to play. And then when this opportunity presents itself like it did because of injury, he looked a certain way. You can't deny it. No. You can't deny it. No matter what you try to do, you can't deny it. You can't.

1:05:35Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, in Cleveland doing this, sometimes a man can make his destiny on the very road he took to avoid it. sometimes you might they might even have their quarterback even though they tried to avoid giving him the opportunity come on now

1:05:53Shannon Sharpe:come on now on the very road you took to avoid it you found your destiny

1:06:03Shannon Sharpe:I just I'm not saying I'm general manager. I'm not saying I'm a player personnel director. I just know that when guys flash

1:06:19Shannon Sharpe:go back to Tom Brady, they kept four quarterbacks that year. Coach Belichick said that he saw something in Tom that said if he got more of an opportunity, he might be okay. He didn't know he was going to be this. Hell, if he knew he was going to be that, Somebody would have taken him in the first pick in the draft. Right. But he flashed enough. Guys, you know, late round picks. Okay. Like, he's showing something. Sometimes you just need time. Sometimes you need more opportunity. You know, looking at Trey Lance. Trey Lance, like, he needed time. Time, which the 49ers didn't have. 49ers are on the clock.

1:07:05Shannon Sharpe:They got to win now with the roster that they have. They're not in rebuild. Well, the Cleveland, I mean, you just gave a guy$140 million. He's under the assumption. Now, he played it both ways. You know, I want out. Y 'all not winning. Got the money. Hey. But what are y 'all doing? Are y 'all in rebuild or you're trying to win? Because y 'all see who's in y 'all division. Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow. Now, Lamar Jackson is 27, 28. He got another five to 10 years in Baltimore. Joe Burrow might be a year younger than Lamar. He's got another five to 10 years in Cincinnati. Well, while y 'all playing musical chairs with quarterbacks, they've identified their guy, and he's going to be there for almost a decade.

1:07:59Shannon Sharpe:Mm-hmm.

1:08:03Shannon Sharpe:you're not beating a team that has an established quarterback playing musical chairs with quarterbacks no uh-uh not at all not at all listen I mean it's it's it's exciting it's exciting and even as a as a Bengal fan as a Bengal player at heart it's it's enjoyable to be talking about the Brown. It's enjoyable. It's exciting. It's exciting for Brown fans. I mean, when's the last time you had a player of this magnitude who's a rookie that has you guys in the national spotlight like this? Right. At all times. Basically, yeah, you got to go back to Johnny football. Oh, hey, boy, Johnny was special, boy.

1:08:55Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. And out of Texas A &M, Johnny was special, boy. Yeah. You were special. So it's – we'll see. It'll be interesting to see when they go out to practice today. I mean, excuse me, today. Tomorrow, what comes back? What type of reps did Shadour get? Did he get reps with the ones? Did he get a rep or two with the ones? Did he get anything with the twos? Or was he back relegated to being the fourth quarterback and getting one rep with the fours or no reps? or just getting side work.

1:09:32Shannon Sharpe:That's going to be the tale. That's going to tell us, Ocho. Yeah. Because what they talking and what's actually happening, we'll find out. Yeah. We'll find out. And we'll see what they do, how they play this thing out on Saturday when they play the game.

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