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18:40Joe Johnson:you have to also understand too Uncle Joe you got Tee LaSnee was up there playing bump and run all them times when he was playing under what's the defensive coordinator name in Kansas City

18:55Shannon Sharpe:oh you talking about for Kansas City

18:57Joe Johnson:yeah yeah yeah Yeah.

18:59Shannon Sharpe:Oh, man. That thing is in my mind. Golly. It is in my mind, too.

19:05Shannon Sharpe:I can't think of it. We're going to make your point, though, Joe.

19:08Joe Johnson:Okay, anyway, most of the time, Snead was allowed to be aggressive, Uncle Joe. You know, when he was with his Kansas City Chiefs the first time, he's allowed to be aggressive at the line because he always had help behind him. Yeah. Remember, they ran that two-shell, Uncle. Yeah. Almost like a man-to-man, a 55 look, you know? Spagnola. Oh, Spags, yeah. Yeah, spout trippants. I forget that. Spags. And so, Jerry Sneed looked a certain way, especially when it came to playing top receivers and being able to stop him because he was allowed to be aggressive initially, you know, at the line of scrimmage because you got that safety behind you.

19:45Joe Johnson:Now you go to Tennessee, okay. They're playing single high. Hey, we're playing single high, and you got him in man-to-man, and now you're getting exposed because now you're running the defense. you use them a little different way than what what you expected yeah what's what's the what's the general consensus what made you fall in love with it it's like the same thing you can't get

20:07Shannon Sharpe:mad at the lady you fall in love with a lady and she wear that skimpy stuff she wearing lace she wearing them but she wearing hey you know what i'm saying yeah she ran rim shorts what you mean sharp rim shorts the room my ass out yeah okay you fall in love with that yeah then all of a sudden you She don't want to do that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. I know what I like. Do that. They got LeJarrius Sneed, and what they got, what they liked about him, they didn't play that same type of defense. The same thing with Larry Brown. Larry Brown, they ran quarters coverage in Dallas, and that defense was vaunted.

20:46Shannon Sharpe:He goes to the Raiders. If you go play for the Raiders and you can't play man coverage, you might as well just go ahead and just pack your bag up and head on up out of town. They are a man coverage team. So when you fall in love with somebody, if you get somebody in free agency, what did you like about him? Well, you better run the same type of offense or give him the same opportunities on the offensive side that he got where he was that made you fall in love with him. Defensively, you can't get a coverage corner and then ask him to play man to man. No, bro. You get in the zone corner. You got a zone corner.

21:24Shannon Sharpe:You got to play him in zone. If you want a man covered, you got to go get somebody that can play coverage. Man, he plays a lot of single high safety, Ocho. He plays a lot of press. You go get a zone corner and then try to make him play press and then wonder why he's getting his eyes beat out.

21:39Joe Johnson:And you know what, too, Uncle Joe? He's really good. He's really good at it in that scheme when he was playing with Spags, and I think he can do it. I think he's capable of doing it, but just doing it at a high rate in the high volume of just being out there singled up by yourself, then having to deal with some of the injuries that were nagging him when he was in Tennessee, that also might have affected him. Yes. Him being back home, he's comfortable. You know, Spag knows how to use him. He's familiar with the system, you know, schematically. So I think they're going to be good. They're going to be good despite the pieces that have left.

22:12Joe Johnson:I think that defense is going to be back to maybe top five in the NFL.

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24:45Shannon Sharpe:football and not always having to come up with gadgets, Ocho. We got to come up with a shovel pass. We got to misdirection you one way and just try to hit you in the flat the other way. Now we can turn around and hand the ball off to K-9 and he can pick up a first down on a third and short or a fourth and short. Whereas before we had to get creative to try to create plays. Patrick Mahomes has never had a 1 ,000-yard rusher. He was on the team when Hunt was the running back, but he wasn't the starter. So since he's been the starter, he's never had a thousand yard rusher. He's going to have one now.

25:21Shannon Sharpe:And I agree with you guys. Now their ability to run the football and to play action off of that. It's hard to play action on Joe when you can't run the football. Like why are we stepping up? You can't run the ball. Yeah. But Kansas City was impressive tonight. I was very disappointed in my Broncos. Everything that you guys are saying in the chat is deserved because they were awful. They were Bronco country. I'm disappointed.

25:48Joe Johnson:Hey, Joe, you letting Unc slide?

25:51Shannon Sharpe:Yo day coming too, Ocho. I don't know what you're laughing about.

25:54Joe Johnson:Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who day coming? Yo day. No, it ain't coming no time soon, I can tell you that. Now, listen, when it comes to me, Uncle Joe, no disrespect. Listen, you can't make fun of the Dolphins because we understand the Dolphins is a rebuilding stage. The teams that are losing like Joe's Cowboys and your Bucos are supposed to be two teams that are supposed to be vying for a spot, not only in the playoffs, but making a Super Bowl run based off of... I thought you said it was one game, Ocho.

26:22Shannon Sharpe:It is in one week, man.

26:23Joe Johnson:You act like we out of it after one week. Damn. Hey, Joe, calm down, Turbo. Nah, nah, nah. I know it's only one week, but the way you was talking, like y 'all were going to Super Bowl 200.

26:36Shannon Sharpe:Look, hey, you better watch what you say too now because them Bengals mess around and go on the street and you come on here crying. He know they're capable of doing that. Yeah.

26:47Joe Johnson:Wait, excuse me. And then he come on here crying. One thing about the Bengals, right? Most of the time, Unc, what's our problem at the beginning of the season? We start off what? In the hole. Y 'all started off last year. Won your first game last year. And then what happened? I tell you. You know what? I tell you one thing and I'm standing on business. You hear me, Uncle Joe? I'm going. I'm in New York right now, right? Right. So I'm going to work today. I work tomorrow and I'm going straight from here. I'm going straight to Houston. I'm going to get them boys prepared. I'm going to get the city of Houston prepared for that Cincinnati invasion and what's going to happen to them.

27:21Joe Johnson:We. Joe, we finna win that, boy. I'm telling you. So this upcoming weekend when y 'all play Houston, y 'all finna win that? Yeah, we going to win it. Joe, matter of fact, not only are we going to win it, we going to win it decisively, Joe. You hear me?

27:37Shannon Sharpe:I don't know. Houston coming out for L.

27:39Joe Johnson:You know how you study for a test and you can't wait to go back to school because you know you studied for the test and you can't take it?

27:45Shannon Sharpe:Yeah.

27:46Joe Johnson:That's how confident I am in the Bengals beating the Texans. And that's no disrespect to the Texans fans. It's disrespect. Anytime somebody say no disrespect, disrespectful ish coming out of their mouth. No, I didn't say anything disrespectful. You did. You hear me? Stay with me. You're talking about your team going to beat them. That's disrespectful. No, it ain't. It's just me giving my honest opinion on what's going to happen. That's a fact.

28:06Shannon Sharpe:Hey, I don't know about that one, Ocho. Houston coming off that L, bro. They need one. Yeah, they ain't been to go 2-0. I don't know.

28:12Joe Johnson:Have you not seen the Cincinnati Bengals defense? Oh, man. Did you not see them last week? Y 'all look good at home, Ocho. This a road test for y 'all. This a good test for y 'all on the road. Hey, you do realize there's no such thing as in the weight gain for us? Wherever we go, we make it off.

28:26Shannon Sharpe:Oh, man, come on, Ocho. Come on. Come on.

28:29Joe Johnson:What y 'all talking about?

28:31Shannon Sharpe:He want to be a team that they should get behind so bad. He know he a regional team. Hey, I'm just telling you. He want to make it seem like they know the name. Or the Alabama, Ohio State of Texas team that travel. Ain't nobody the damn Bengals ain't traveling.

28:49Joe Johnson:You know what? I don't want to be braggadocious. That's a new word for me, Joe. Yeah, you be a bad braggadocious. Braggadocious. But I'm going to sit back. I'm going to let things play out because I'm not on the field. No, you're not. I can't control the outcome, but I know what's going to happen. Now you can't control the outcome. You hear it, Joe?

29:05Shannon Sharpe:I don't mean that is no disrespect. I'm the most disrespectful ish, but you know what I'm saying? I can't control the outcome. I can't tell the way you were just talking a minute ago. Now he want a backpedal. Now he backpedaling. Now he on his bicycle. Now he needs some help.

29:24Joe Johnson:Hey, listen, we've been on here long enough. We've been on here long enough together as one to understand 98 % of the time when I say something's gonna happen you do realize i've been right 98 of the time right man you gotta chill

29:36Shannon Sharpe:bro you made a few made a few ones right damn i'm just telling you i'm just telling you joe

29:41Joe Johnson:but y 'all don't want to listen huh y 'all want to keep your little nephew i know i'm no i'm like your little nephew and you don't really respect my opinion huh man what you look like about my

29:53Shannon Sharpe:homeboy coming off that injury how did he look for nine months to the day acl lcl uh make that's major, major surgery. A lot of times guys take a full year and they still don't look like what he looked like tonight. What did you think about how Mahomes played and how did he look?

30:08Joe Johnson:Honestly, Uncle Joe, I think Mahomes looked good. He might not have been 100%, but even Mahomes not at 100 % is better than most in the NFL that's playing the quarterback position. Just to be honest with you. There's some throws I know he would like back. He looks a little different, especially in his wide stance in his base when he's throwing the ball. I saw I see maybe two balls get batted down as opposed to him not being anticipating and throwing to the lane knowing their hands are going to be coming up outside they look good look at him running the ball I was nervous when he took off with the ball he did it multiple times

30:45Shannon Sharpe:I think the thing that caught the Broncos off guard because I don't think they anticipated him running as much as he did as early as he did and if you notice him later in his career as he's gotten older he's run more Yeah. He's running more now than he ever did early in his career. He'll take off running. They'll have design runs for him. So give him credit for taking his rehab extremely serious, getting himself prepared to go, because I think the opening day was always his goal day. Right. It wasn't a question of whether or not he's going to come back. He didn't want to miss any time. He wanted to be there for the start of the season.

31:27Shannon Sharpe:and watch this thing go all the way through. And here he is. And he looked good tonight, especially running the football. His legs are not quite where they need to be as far as him throwing the football. But the thing is, he throws the ball off of different platforms. He throws the ball off balance. So he's going to have some balls that dive on him. He's going to have some balls. That one he overshot. I don't know what he saw. I don't know if Thornton was supposed to pull up. The one he overshot and threw the pick on.

31:54Joe Johnson:Yeah, yeah. Remember you talked about the Worthy. That was Worthy. Yeah, I meant to say Worthy. Worthy, number one. Yeah, Worthy went to the post, and he thought he was finna run that dig. Right. And the safety was dead to right, because if he did throw the post, oh, that's six.

32:09Shannon Sharpe:Yeah.

32:10Joe Johnson:Safety sitting there flat-footed with Worthy going full speed.

32:15Shannon Sharpe:Screaming by him.

32:16Joe Johnson:Screaming.

32:17Shannon Sharpe:And he's flat-footed chilling. Yeah. But if you think about it, guys, this is something we haven't seen from the Chiefs in a while. They ain't take no shots over the top. What have you ever known an Andy Reid team? When you got Worthy, a guy that ran 4-2-1, and you got Thornton that ran 4-2-6, you got two guys that could burn out. And they didn't take not one shot. Hey, think about it though. Maybe they ain't take no shots. Hell, they ain't have to. The run game was so explosive. Think about it. I ain't gonna lie. To start the game, I thought they were gonna boot my homes out early, but, man, it was a heavy dose of the run game early.

32:57Shannon Sharpe:And then once that opened up, you know, Mahomes got into a nice little rhythm. He ain't the quickest or the fastest, but he is real deceptive. And to what he's trying to get, he got them little swift moves in the pocket. Hey, man, he looked good out there. The only thing I worry about, you know, adrenaline can get you going through this first game. Because, you know, this is anticipation. He's been anticipating on this. But as the season goes, and we're talking about we get to about week five or six. I wonder how's that body going to be holding up and how he's going to be feeling. Yeah. Stats.

33:29Shannon Sharpe:Mahomes tonight was 15 to 27, 184 yards, two touchdowns. Two touchdowns passing. He rushed for a touchdown. So, he accounted for three other touchdowns. Travis Kelsey now has the second most receiving yards by a tight end, passing Jason Whitten. He has 13 ,000 73. Witten, he passed Witten who had 13 ,046 but Gonzo sits atop the mountain with 15 ,127. So he needs about 2 ,000 yards to catch to catch Gonzo. 14 ,000, I don't know. I mean, if he plays a couple more years probably need at least three to catch him. I don't know if he has that kind of time. He'd probably look here to start a family here in the very near future.

34:20Shannon Sharpe:I give him a year. I say within a year, they'll start a family.

34:25Joe Johnson:You know what? And the funny thing about it too, Om, you think about that record and him only being, what, 2000, 2000, short, knowing Andy Reid, knowing what Travis Kelsey has meant, not just to the Chiefs, but what he's meant to the NFL in general. The NFL in general will give him the opportunity to reach and break that record. They will allow him to do that. Now, for certain people, they reserve the right for that to happen. and they'll make sure it happens.

34:53Shannon Sharpe:I don't know if he wants to stick around that length of time, though, Ocho. What'd you say? I don't know if he wants to stick around for that length of time. Yeah, you're right. Because now he's got a wife. You're single, you stick around for stuff like that. Or you got a wife that you – he got a new wife. Yeah. And, you know, he's like, well, damn. They're going to put about 10, 15 pounds on a man to man. Keep it real. You know he's going to gain about 10, 15 once he gets married. You know how it go. He took some weight off him. He took some weight off because he know that traveling around and going all over the place, look, he says, I need to be stationary.

35:32Shannon Sharpe:I need to focus a little bit more. Hey, babe, I got to get back. I got to get back to being trapped. Yeah. And he looked pretty good last year. Look, he's not going to be what he was five years ago. Nobody expected him to. You should know, even the Chiefs fans, and I know you love it, but you can't expect him to be what he was five years ago. Hey, but you know the older you get, Uncle Ocho, the more discipline you got to have on what it is you eat, how you eat, when you eat. You know, to stay at that elite level where Trav is, you know, if you want to really break God's own record, yeah, for the next two to three years, boy, he going to have to be on a strict, strict diet.

36:10Joe Johnson:You know how it go. And you know what, too, Uncle Joe, now think about it. You talk about him getting married, talk about him being a new wife, also want to start a family. You have to think about Taylor Swift and the type of structured environment she's been around.

36:24Shannon Sharpe:Yes, yeah.

36:25Joe Johnson:When it takes for her to be at the top of her game and probably having a better understanding on what is really in reach for Travis Kelsey and maybe also supporting him and wanting him. Listen, baby, you want to play another two? We could wait another two years to start that family. Huh? Because I know how much this means to you. and I don't want to come in on the back end of your career and tell you what you don't need to do and what you need to be doing. You need to finish this off because we got the rest of our lives together. Hey, hey, hey, hold on. The NFL is only so short. You ain't going to get that again.

37:00Shannon Sharpe:No, he got to go and put one in her, Ocho.

37:04Joe Johnson:Damn, damn, Joe. Yeah, yeah, shit.

37:06Shannon Sharpe:Hey, he got to go and get him a little wham-wham out of there. You hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm with you. Because at some point in time, she's probably going to take this year off from touring. Yeah. Probably take this year off. She's probably writing songs down, probably not going to record anything. Yeah. Hey, it's as good a time as any. Yeah. And I don't know the length of deal that he signed, but we'll see how that turns. We'll see how that goes. According to Adam Schefter, the Broncos attempted to call 47-year-old Drew Brees out of retirement after Bo Nix injury following their overtime.

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40:12Shannon Sharpe:A playoff win versus the Bills, January 17th of 2016. Brees had interest, worked out, but backed out due to risk discomfort. Whatever. The question is for me, would I have preferred Drew Brees over Jerry Stidham in the AFC Championship game? Absolutely.

40:30Joe Johnson:Yep.

40:31Shannon Sharpe:Absolutely. I'd have preferred Drew Carey

40:34Joe Johnson:over Jerry Stidham in the AFC Championship game. Hey, you got to think about it too, Uncle Joe. You have a defense like that, right? You have a defense like what you guys had. And you're bringing a Drew Brees that hadn't played. And you had a Phillip Rivers comeback. They kicked the tires on him, and he looked good his first two games. What you think Drew Brees is going to look like coming in there with them Broncos?

41:00Shannon Sharpe:For one game. Well, it had been for two games. But see, that's the Ocho. What did he say? He had risk discomfort. You see what happens when all of a sudden you start throwing the ball for an extended period of time, day after day? Hey, y 'all might go out there and sling that thing. Look good for one day. Boy, that next day I wake up, boy, my shoulder on fire.

41:19Joe Johnson:Hey, everything hurts.

41:20Shannon Sharpe:My elbow on fire. Everything hurts. Hey, especially if you hadn't been throwing or if you hadn't been really working out. You just been on the couch. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's certain opportunities. some guys probably, he probably wasn't necessarily really thinking he was going to ever get a chance again to play. But for him to take that workout on, it lets me know that he was really thinking about it. And like you say, man, you age. Boy, if you ain't been doing something, ain't no way you can go out there and think you're going to play no football now. And because the thing is, is that that repetition is that you throw in the ball.

41:55Shannon Sharpe:I mean, we see quarterbacks that's young and they get, you know, get thrown shoulder. Where they throw so much, their shoulder is sore. Their elbow is sore. Now, just think about you dropping back and pushing off. Dropping back, pushing off. All that torque emotion. Man, what they should have did is he should have said, yeah, I'll do it. And then came out there and played that one game. Because he could have got through that game before he realized, like, damn, I'm sore. But the game, damn, they're over. But to go through that for a week?

42:27Joe Johnson:Yeah.

42:30Shannon Sharpe:He'd have been the wall out before the game got there. Exactly, exactly. You see what he said, he worked out. It was interesting, but backed out because of discomfort. See, he just went ahead and played the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, hey, hey, he knew his body better than anybody else. Yeah, yeah. You know what, you definitely don't want to get out there and do no stinker at that time. Boy, they were gonna talk about you too, you know what I mean? and then all I did was set my Hall of Fame thing because I'm already going. I know I'm going on the first ballot. All that's going to do is push it back five years.

43:07Shannon Sharpe:Right. No. I don't know if that's having the value of having a solid backup to having a Drew Locke or to having a Carson Wentz where I only need to win one or two games. Just imagine if they'd had a guy like a Carson Wentz for one game.

43:33Joe Johnson:Yeah, it would have been nice. Hey, what do you think of if they had Carson Wentz tonight? Shh.

43:46Shannon Sharpe:Hey, boy, Bo Diggs out there playing like Bo Diddley.

43:52Joe Johnson:That's your quarterback, man. That's him. That's my quarterback.

43:56Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, it is. My quarterback.

43:57Joe Johnson:And you got to support a man through the good and the bad now.

44:00Shannon Sharpe:Well, it was damn sure bad tonight. Yeah, yeah. That thing was bad. Hey, Bronco country. I know, man, look here. I can just imagine what they talking about in Bronco country. But it's the tackling. I'm like, bro, come on. I get it. I get it. They don't really tackle like they used to, Ocho. Nobody plays in the preseason. And maybe that's why we saw the highest. I think it's going to get worse. Guess what? But next year this time, we're going to be talking about the same thing. Teams scoring 59, 30, 40-plus points. Oh, yeah. Because why? Because ain't nobody practicing tackling. Ain't nobody practicing.

44:36Shannon Sharpe:Ain't nobody playing the preseason. And they don't tackle because the guys that's tackling, they backups.

44:43Shannon Sharpe:That's who you play. You play your backups. You don't play your starters. Yeah. And then you get out there and ask them to say, okay, look here. I know you've been out of the garage, but now I need you to get out there and go 100 miles of 9-1-16. hey you know what's next bro so you're gonna you're gonna blow something you're gonna blow a

44:59Joe Johnson:head gasket you're gonna blow a tire some got to give yeah something got to give but hey the good thing is the broncos another good thing they got sean payton a sean payton coach team is not gonna look like this consistently right not back to back weeks no well wait wait it depends

45:17Shannon Sharpe:who y 'all play next on don't start me the line don't you if they play like this they get beat yeah yeah depending on who you're playing boy it can get worse oh oh are they are they are they in jacksonville or they in denver when they came to denver last year and beat that breaks off us so yeah yeah now so you tell them i need to put trevor lawrence in i need to start him this week

45:44Joe Johnson:hey joe listen don't start him joe don't start him hey hey joe what's up hey you gotta you gotta to play, you playing Unc this week? Oh, I got you this week? I don't know. Ocho, I got you week three, I know. You got me week three? Yeah. Yeah, you definitely gonna lose that, Joe.

46:02Shannon Sharpe:All I know is I'm starting Dane Henry week three for sure. Damn! That's what I know, Ocho. Hell, if Scat Pack got 81, I know Dane Henry can get 50, 60 yards more than that. Come on, you gotta chill. Don't be disrespectful tonight.

46:19Joe Johnson:He might get 200, right? Nah.

46:22Shannon Sharpe:And Lamar? Boy, Lord have mercy. I sure... Huh?

46:28Joe Johnson:Oh, it's me and you. Oh, this week right here? Yes. Hey. Oh, yeah. I'm going to tell you what I'm going to get. I got you, Ocho. Hey, hold on. I'm going to give you a little secret, right? Yeah. Hey, they finna give Uno about 13 targets.

46:44Shannon Sharpe:They can give 14. Stingley Lass is going to lock that down.

46:48Joe Johnson:Hold on. I'm going to time out. I respect Stingley. I respect Lassiter. I always get them, boy, the highest appraisers, huh? Like I'm Kirk Franklin. But one thing about it, a uno that had two catches for 12 yards is going to feast. I don't care if we're Jesus and the 12 disciples out there. Somebody better get that word.

47:06Shannon Sharpe:Hey, they pissed off. They let Josh Allen go down the field and get a game-winning drive for about 100 yards out. Ooh, they pissed to the highest level of pissedivity. Yeah. I can't wait Ocho they gonna force feed that boy Oh absolutely

47:24Joe Johnson:Hey Joe you should have seen his body language I would have seen it through the TV But you know you got that C on your chest Joe Yeah

47:37Joe Johnson:You gotta keep your mouth closed boy

47:39Shannon Sharpe:Hey that don't mean nothing You can tell by body language in any sport You know what I'm saying when somebody playing They ain't getting the ball Hey hold on Think about it. What happened when John Moran came back and Memphis was playing, he was just running to the corner. He was just sitting over there. He wasn't even trying. Man, the Broncos got a tough-ass schedule. Who y 'all got? Got Jacksonville. Then we got the Rams at home. Ooh. At San Fran. Damn. At the Chargers. At Seattle. I mean, Seattle at home. Y 'all started out 0-6. We got Carolina. Oh, we got the Guppies. We ain't going on since we got the guffies.

48:22Joe Johnson:Hey, don't be surprised now. You know, the Dolphins gonna have a few games that everybody gonna mark them to lose.

48:27Shannon Sharpe:Yeah.

48:27Joe Johnson:That's a lot of people that win. That's just - And y 'all will. That's the way football works for some reason.

48:33Shannon Sharpe:Oh, they got Seattle on Thursday night. Who? After they play the Chargers. Oh yeah, boy.

48:40Joe Johnson:Why they giving y 'all all these primetime games? Y 'all just be losing.

48:45Shannon Sharpe:Whatever. Oh, got the Rams on Sunday night. Hey, hey, old Joe. Boy, you feeling real good, boy. I ain't going to lie. Ever since yesterday, I ain't going to lie. You been real upbeat.

48:56Joe Johnson:I ain't going to lie now. Hey, Joe, you got to think about it. When am I ever downbeat? I ain't never been on the downbeat. My head always high, regardless of circumstance. I don't care how it come out. I'm going to always be up and high. You know, my head high. Because if my head down, I can't see where I'm going, Joe.

49:13Shannon Sharpe:Oh, okay. Okay. Chin up, chest out. Uh-huh.

49:16Joe Johnson:Hey, got to be.

49:16Shannon Sharpe:This day coming though, Joe. I already know. It's coming real soon. Watch how you start crying on here. It won't be this week. We gonna be all right. We gonna be all right. Don't worry about me.

49:28Joe Johnson:Don't worry about Ocho. Hey, Joe, I was on here booing one. I already know.

49:33Shannon Sharpe:I seen you, boy. I seen you.

49:35Joe Johnson:Hey, I would hurt, boy. Hey, you know, Joe, you be invested in something, Joe. Yeah, yeah.

49:39Shannon Sharpe:I wouldn't hurt though, Joe. Oh yeah, I know you like to see his misery. Yeah, I would hurt, boy. Can't think of a better person to hurt. He done jumped on here talking all that trash about me. We going to beat your Broncos. We going to beat your Broncos. Wait till we get your Broncos. I said, Ocho, y 'all don't got Joe. We don't need Joe. We got Uno. Okay.

50:05Joe Johnson:It's all good. It's all good. It's a new year, though. Why y 'all be bringing up old stuff, man, like Joe say?

50:14Shannon Sharpe:I had to bring it up. The Browns head coach, Todd Munkin, has confirmed Deshaun Watson will start week two. Here's what Munkin would ask if the players are behind Deshaun as the starting quarterback. Let's take a listen to what he had to say. We'd have to ask every one of those guys. You said 100%. And really, to be honest, I mean, they don't have a choice. I mean, this isn't a debate.

50:40And I don't ask the players what every series, what play I'm going to call. what play we're going to call defense like their jobs to play our jobs to put the best player on the field we think gives us a chance to win and i love our guys but the moment we get into that in terms of who this guy should be playing what we're doing this what we ought to be calling we've lost we've lost sight of the target which is to own it and fix it and try like hell to get better and that's irrespective of what goes out there but there's decisions that are made at every position quarterback just happens to be one of those but ultimately i don't blame people for having opinions, but ultimately it's for all of us to support who we put on the field that gives us the best chance to win.

51:21Deep down, Joe, I'm going to go to you first.

51:24Shannon Sharpe:Deep down, do you believe, Monken believes, that Deshaun gives them the best chance to win? No, I do not. Okay, Ocho, I do not believe that. I think he has been the puppet. I wouldn't, you know, when I thought about Todd Monken taking the job, I'm like, man, why would he take this job considering the fact that this quarterback spew that's been going on for the past couple years, it just didn't make sense to me. So, no, I think, you know, he's been instructed by, you know, the higher-ups, who to play, when to play. And I kind of think, you know, this may be his last game, this game on the road, because, man, them fans for the Browns, Ocho, they've been in the uproar, bro.

52:08Shannon Sharpe:I don't know if y 'all been paying attention, but they ticked out. yeah it says Sunday marked Deshaun Watson's 20th start since joining the Browns in March of 2022 50 quarterbacks have started at least 15 games since then Watson is ranked 49th in QBR 41st in completion percentage 49th in yards per drop back and 46th in off target rate hmm hey man I'm gonna be honest with y 'all the young man dealing with a lot bro And when I watch him play Arcan Ocho, I just don't see the pizazz that he used to play with. You know what I mean? Like, you know, when you see a cat, you're like, man, he got it. He got it.

52:51Shannon Sharpe:I don't know what the hell it is, but he got it. And Deshaun had it at once upon a time. And it seems like now it's like he's struggling to kind of, you know, get back going. It's like he's thinking too much almost more than just going out there reading, reacting. You know what I mean? Everything is kind of methodical. That's what it seems like to me when I watch him play. because when I watched him play in the past, how he was so dominant and elusive back there, making plays with his legs, his arms. I don't see that no more, fellas. Nope. I don't. I really don't.

53:21Joe Johnson:Listen, I've fought for Deshaun, obviously, on the show with a lot of people, especially in the chat, you know, during our time, before the season started, while the season started, really not disagreeing. I mean, really disagreeing with me, you know, telling me, oh, you don't know what you're talking about. Oh, you hating, blah, blah, blah. I understand the business. I understand the business side of things. It's not that I like Shadour or I don't like Shadour or I don't like Deshaun or I like Deshaun. I just understand the way the business works. And now I told you I understood the way it would play out.

53:54Joe Johnson:And I guarantee you, Joe, just like Joe said, piggybacking off what I've already been saying all along, Deshaun has three games. He has three games to get this team going in the right direction. Those first two, if you come out the gate, you start 0-2, that third game, that first game at home, you won't be the starter. They're going to make a change. Now, the one thing that can save you, and your coach Todd Munkin will give you some grace, if you go out there and you win this game this week against Tampa Bay, that's going to save your lifeline. That's your lifeline.

54:24Shannon Sharpe:Yeah.

54:24Joe Johnson:If you start 0-2, I'm telling you now, I said it first, a change we made at the quarterback position for their first home game so they don't have to deal with booze the entirety of the game.

54:36Shannon Sharpe:If that's the case, you might as well go in and start him not in.

54:38Joe Johnson:Hey.

54:39Shannon Sharpe:But I thought he said he can't worry about who somebody like and this and all that other stuff. The fact that the matter is, don't you, I think it's going to go longer. I think they're going to give him at least four games. Nah. I think it depends on this game. I ain't going to lie to you. I think it depends on this game number two. If they can win this game, then, yeah, he'll probably get extended. Meaning, like, he'll get an extension as far as, like, more games. but they get they get they doze blew out in this game here against the buccaneers boy please

55:08Joe Johnson:hey and you know what todd munkin he's the puppet uncle joe man come on they ask him questions and he's not the one in control of whether he plays or not right but he's the face ocho he got to answer the questions now bingo yeah bingo joe you got to understand the game you got to understand all they did was hey they just winding him up wind him up in the back you know let him go and do the talking. That's it.

55:34Shannon Sharpe:What you know is that there's only 32 of these jobs. Normally what I try to do, Ojo, is get in a situation, Joe, is that they got at least a quarterback. They at least got the foundation. I can build all the other pieces. Give me the engine, and then I can build a car around it.

55:53Joe Johnson:Come on now.

55:55Shannon Sharpe:Okay. To take this job, knowing, look at all the guys that they've had from Stefanski to Hugh Jack to Freddie K, to all the guys that they've had, and Greg, that's gotten fired.

56:13Joe Johnson:Yes.

56:16Shannon Sharpe:No quarterback. Knowing that Jimmy and Dee Haslam is, they're not very good football people. And you take this job. You take this job because you know there's only 32 of them. I'm one of 32. Yeah. I got no chance of winning. No. I got no chance because I got to play because I don't have control over the roster. I don't have control in free agency. I don't have control over the draft. I'm just a coach. Yeah. They don't tell me what plays to call, but you don't really give me a whole lot of choice what to call considering what I have on that side of the football and who's pulling the trigger.

56:55Joe Johnson:Yeah. And the funny thing about it too, Uncle Joe and those in the chat, when you get offered jobs like this to be a head coach in the NFL, you take it. Because the opportunity is not going to come along. Matter of fact, the opportunity to coach a very good team is not going to come along because they're not getting rid of those coaches. So there's no reason to. So when jobs like this come along, you come in, you try to do the best you can, putting together a team that can compete. Sometimes, you know, you win, sometimes you don't. Now coming to a Browns or a Jets organization, it's really, really bad.

57:27is really bad.

57:29Joe Johnson:And if ownership isn't going to give you a two to three year lease, you'll be able to help you build a team around that foundational piece, which you got to find first, which is the quarterback position. It's tough. I mean,

57:43Shannon Sharpe:it's like playing Russian roulette, man. Here's their schedule. They play Tampa on the road at Tampa. Then they come home to Carolina and Pittsburgh. Then they're on the road at the Jets. They're at home. at Baltimore. Then they're on the road for three straight games. Tennessee, Pittsburgh, New Orleans. Then they're home for three straight games. Houston, Vegas, Cincinnati, Atlanta. Four games, my bad. Then they're on the road. New York, Baltimore. At home, Indy. On the road at Cincinnati. Look at that schedule. They got a chill schedule, boy. Yeah. Ain't no easy wins in there for them. Nah. They might be going for the number one pick, Ocho.

58:35Joe Johnson:Nah, that's gonna be the Dolphins. And I'm telling you, it's gonna be - Well, they don't play each other. While you bull jibing, it don't look like Tennessee

58:45Shannon Sharpe:ain't gonna be too hot either, Ocho. Man.

58:48Joe Johnson:Well, hold on now. This is what we can't do now. Now, I know Tennessee look bad. I know the Broncos look bad. I know the Cowboys look bad. But what I don't want y 'all to do, chat, this goes for y 'all too. Uncle Joe, y 'all too, now. Let's not overreact. Let's not overreact. Let's let it play out a little bit. Joe, y 'all got a chance to bounce back coming up this week, now. You hear me? Who we got this week? What's going to happen to get some commanders? Oh, commanders. They got the commanders at home. Oh, yeah. Hey, Joe, you want to go to Jerry's World and watch the game?

59:22Shannon Sharpe:No, no, no.

59:25Joe Johnson:What kind of fan are you? Well, you don't want to go support your team.

59:28Shannon Sharpe:No, I'm not. I just want to make sure, you know, because their quarterback look like Dejon Ludd the other night. Come on, you got to chill. You got to chill. You got to chill for real. No, you got to chill. I got to chill. You got to chill. Mine didn't look much better. Mine was his homeboy shooting the key. We had to beat the camcorder. he ain't not what about the one who would draw the plays on the football though man

1:00:02Shannon Sharpe:they need to be shaming themselves but my thing is Ocho he says okay he couldn't decide yesterday until he watched the film he watched the film today and said you know what is what he thought Deshaun's gonna start and say you can't put the blame on the quarterback. If that's the case, why would you ever change the quarterback then if you ain't going to put the blame on him? Because what you tell your team is that we believe that the quarterback, if we change the quarterback position, we can change the results. Yeah.

1:00:35Joe Johnson:And you know what? It's the funny thing, what I don't like about coaches, and I talked about this, I think it was last year when I said I would love for coaches, owners, and GMs, just come out and be honest sometimes. instead of being good luck with that yeah it's not going to happen you know so what i do and that's why i'm here no uncle joe chat that's why i'm here i'm here to tell you what they really want to say but they can't say it based on the position that they're in the head coach has to be pc he has to answer a certain way like a politician would so that's why i'm here to break things down and i know what's going to happen i know how it's going to play out and i'm just hoping for the sake you know i like deshaun watson you know uncle joe chat i like i like deshaun who am i not to like him i know he you know he had his problems in the past hell so have i you know who am i to be throwing rocks huh and hide my hand when i'm not oh joe what we do here

1:01:33Shannon Sharpe:we don't judge anybody come on now yeah we don't do that talk about his feet on the field football On the football field, he hasn't been good. Yes, sir. That's what he's already, you know, whatever happened off the field has happened. We purely talking about Deshaun Watson on the football field. Chat, y 'all know. Y 'all watch the same games we've watched. Y 'all seen Deshaun go out there every time that we've watched him. He hasn't been good. Yeah. Ain't no other way around it. We can't sugarcoat it. He hasn't been good. that's what this is about we're not judging this man for anything that has happened outside of the football world he's going to have to give it a chance between him and his God but when it comes to the football we three of the disciples

1:02:28Joe Johnson:I'll tell you one thing I'm glad you said that it's between him and his God and you know one thing about God he turned water into wine you know he's the weight maker you hear me he's the everlasting and he can make a weight and one thing about that man upstairs that can make a weight he sure can take Deshaun Watson and change him around and make him look like something we've never seen before

1:02:56Shannon Sharpe:well I tell you what a lot of people will believe in God if he get Deshaun Watson playing like he did when he was in Houston there is a God and he can do that because man y 'all watching we've watched it Mocho we've been on this this is going on our fourth season yeah well we in our fourth season Ash when do we start September what I forget what I I know but September to what

1:03:34Shannon Sharpe:we started that Sunday He tore his Achilles that Monday night.

1:03:38Joe Johnson:Damn.

1:03:41Shannon Sharpe:September the 10th was our fourth anniversary when we started the show. So we've been watching the shot ever since. It hasn't been good. You know, them injuries, man, I caught up with him, Mark and Ocho, because I see the hesitation in him when he does play. You know, like, because he used to have that get up and get on up out of there. You hear me? You hear what I'm talking about? Ocho, he used to have that get on up out of there. And now it's like he's taking guesses himself, and that's what kind of gets him in a lot of trouble.

1:04:14Joe Johnson:Hey, them boys. Hey, Joe. Man, them boys around him, man, they got to play to the highest of their ability, man. Because he's not in a position no more where he can raise their level of play. So they got to raise their level of play to make sure he on point. To raise him. Yeah, Yeah, man. That's tough, boy. Hey, I need Fanny, Fanny, Fanny gotta come up. Judy, you gotta show up and act like you at Alabama, boy. Anything touch your hands, man. You got the, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Huh? I'm trying to get out of there, man. Hey, Concepcion. What's the other one name? Is it Boston?

1:04:55Shannon Sharpe:Boston, Boston, yeah.

1:04:56Joe Johnson:Come on, man. Y 'all got, y 'all boy gotta play out y 'all mind for this boy, man. He fightin' for his life.

1:05:03Shannon Sharpe:He is, bro. For his career, for sure.

1:05:05Joe Johnson:Yeah.

1:05:06Shannon Sharpe:Yeah.

1:05:07Joe Johnson:Yeah. I mean, that's his life. I know it's a scope of opportunity, but, man, you know, come on now. If you're on the back end, you want that back end to end well, man. Yeah.

1:05:17Shannon Sharpe:It's just hard for me to see, Ocho, that if things don't go right for him this season, I ain't saying he ain't going to get another opportunity, but to go right into a different situation to where he can start right away. No, that's – I don't see that happening, bro. No. I think his starting days unless it's going to be really hard for him to get a backup job. You think so?

1:05:42Shannon Sharpe:Given the current situation, yes. Because they don't want to have to deal with the riffraff and all that. Yeah. Nope. I get it. I get it.

1:05:54Damn.

1:05:55Shannon Sharpe:A lot of teams Ocho, you know this. A lot of teams listen to their fan base.

1:05:59Joe Johnson:Yes, sir. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Big time.

1:06:04Shannon Sharpe:Big time. And then fan bases. If you can play fan base aside fans be damned. Have you seen something? You seen the reason for a team to bring him in? All things being equal. No, not as we're having this discussion. Now hey, he go out there and light Tampa up for 400 yards. finishes out this season on a promising note he throws for 3 ,000 yards 3 ,500 yards okay but outside of that it's just hard based on because like I said he got there in 22 he didn't even play in 21 last time he played was 20

1:06:54Joe Johnson:that's crazy when you think about it we in 26 we in 26 on Joe

1:07:01Shannon Sharpe:We're at 26. Hold on. Go back here. 50 quarterbacks have started at least 15 games. I think Deshaun got like 19 games under his belt.

1:07:17Shannon Sharpe:In six seasons. Damn. That's two games over. That's two games over. An NFL season.

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