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Sarah Spain
This is an iHeart podcast. Get fired up, y'.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
All.
Sarah Spain
Season two of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people, an incomparable soccer icon Megan Rapinoe, to the show and we had a blast. Take a listen.
Megan Rapinoe
Sue and I were like riding the lime bikes the other day and we're.
Sarah Spain
Like, wee people ride bikes because it's fun. We got more incredible guests like Megan in store, plus news of the day and more. So make sure you listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Brought to you by Novartis, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports Network.
Jake Hofer
I'm Jake Hofer and this is Back 40, a limited series show on Wire to Hunt, part of Meat Eaters Podcast Network. Each episode I'll be asking eight whitetail hunting pros a focused, thought provoking question about hunting and land management. How do I hunt the best part of the farm with less than ideal access?
Unknown
Should you? That's what the real question is. Stand without good access is not a good stand.
Jake Hofer
Listen to Back 40 on iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hello, it's your favorite sports funk here. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button to join the fastest growing community on YouTube. Remember, Nightcap doesn't happen without you, so please subscribe or you're gonna make Ooh. The biggest news of the day. Ocho, the Browns have released their death. Okay, Doe Flacco, I told you. QB 1. Kenny Pickett 2. Dylan Gabriel 3. Shador Sanders 5. Excuse me, 4. But they did bring in because two of the four quarterbacks are injured, hamstring Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel. And a few hours ago, this is what Adam Schefter tweeted. The Browns are signing Tyler Snoop Huntley, who spent part of last season with Cleveland. With Kenny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel nursing hamstring injuries and Shadour Sanders having a sore shoulder, the Browns need another arm. Enter Huntley. Yes, sir.
Unknown
Talk to me.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
What are the Browns?
Unknown
I don't know what they're doing. We don't know what they've done the last 35.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Do they know? Are we sure they know what they're doing?
Unknown
Have they known what they're doing since that franchise has been established, have they figured it out yet? Because the last good quarterback, no disrespect to the quarterbacks that have played for the Cleveland Browns, the last one that has been of. Of. Of decency, has been Bernie Kozar, from my mistaken.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah, that's in mid-80s, though.
Unknown
Mid who? There you go. There you go. That's no disrespect to any of the quarterbacks that have played there, but it is what it is. We talk about consistency. Have we had one for a decade that we've been able to lean on and build around?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
No, you had a couple of years. You got a couple of years of Baker. But outside of that, no.
Unknown
No disrespect. Come on now. Come on now. So how do we.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
And that's the problem that you have.
Unknown
How are we supposed to trust this organization when it comes to choosing quarterbacks at a position when they haven't figured it out all these years? All of a sudden, now they got all the. Excuse me. Now they got all the sense. They're supposed to have all the sense. Now the depth chart to me, I'm gonna let you go. The depth chart to me doesn't mean anything. We know Jack Joe Flacco would do when the lights come on. Kenny Pickett had his opportunity when he. When he was drafted to the Steelers, so we've seen the sample side of that already. I mean no disrespect to him. He's not the answer. Dylan Gabriel has success at Oregon when the lights come on. But it's a different ball game in the NFL with them grown men that got mouths to feed. Everyone should get an ample chance to win their starting position. We already know who quarterback one is going to be. We know who that gonna be. The depth chart doesn't mean anything. What they trying to do is they trying to break Young Bull. They trying to break him, huh? That's all it is. From the draft process to getting drafted in the fifth round to the. The owner coming out and saying what he said last week to now, man, come on with that Bull, man. Huh?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I don't see how Kenny Pickett still remains number two. He hadn't practiced since the 26th of July, if I'm not mistaken. So he's been dealing with a hamstring injury. But when you go out and sign somebody in free agency, I, I mean, I, I guess that does tell you they do think highly of him because they signed him. Dylan Gabriel, he's dealing with a hamstring. I guess the worst thing that happened is that we could have found out because had both of those guys been injured. We head into the first preseason game and only Flacco and Shadora is healthy. Now it remains to see, to be seen how much Joe Flacco Is going to play. If he plays. I'm thinking maybe a series. Ocho, that's tops. Let's. Let's be generous and say a series. Now, that was going to be Shador opportunity to basically take us home. We saw Trey Lance. Trey Lance started the game and played what, deep into the fourth quarter? Hell, he might have finished the game. With that being said, the worst thing that could possibly happen, happened for the Browns is that the two quarterbacks that you probably is counting on, they both got hurt, most definitely, and they got hurt early. Now we'll see how soon it remains to be seen. I think I said last night they played Thursday. They play Thursday or Friday. Is it Friday? Okay, they play Friday. They play Friday.
Unknown
Three more days. I'm excited.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Is Shador gonna play?
Unknown
Yes. He doesn't have a choice. This is part of his resume.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
But if it showed it. But. But what if he had. I mean. I mean, clearly they don't feel that confident because if they thought Shador was going to be able to go, would they have brought a fifth quarterback in?
Unknown
Yeah, they had to bring. They had to bring somebody else in because Kenny Pickett's probably not going to play, especially with a hamstring injury. The game is.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I don't think either one. I don't think two and three is gonna play.
Unknown
So definitely. Definitely he gonna play. Listen, the eye in the sky doesn't lie, and they need Shador to put what he can on tape. They need him. What are we going to get? What did we draft? All the work we put in. Obviously, going against offense and defense in practice. That don't mean nothing.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Well, you don't expect to get. Ocho, how long you expect the 500 call to last? Think about where they drafted him now. Now, clearly, they ain't put a whole lot of resources behind it.
Unknown
No.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
So they're not. Let's. Let's. You know what, Ocho? You. We. You know what we do here on Nightcap?
Unknown
We talk to me now.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Chat. You know, when you go by what we used to call when I was growing up, we call it secondhand. When you go buy something secondhand and you spend $500 or you spend $1,000 and as is no warranty, you're not expecting. Okay, hopefully get me from point A to point B. They drafted Shador in the fifth round. They're not expecting much of Shador. They didn't. Because if they thought that much of him, they'd have drafted him higher. If they thought that much of him, they would have given him A fair opportunity, but that's not what they've done. And I'm not. Look, that's their organization. They run it how they see fit. But I don't know people in Cleveland. I don't know how you would still have trust in this organization considering how many quarterbacks. And every quarterback they say, oh, he's franchise, he's franchise. You said that with Derek Anderson and you said that after, before him. And you said that after him Baker got injured and you moved on from him. Now Baker didn't have the weapons that he has in Tampa. I don't think Baker's like, oh my God, wish I could have stayed in Cleveland. The weather's a lot nicer in Tampa and there's no state income tax and he had a great support system around him. With all that being said, I don't think. I don't think it's much to like boy. Maybe they bet against him.
Unknown
Who? Listen, it happens all the time.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I don't want if Shadur. How does that make me look? If Shador looks well O Joe, wait.
Unknown
He gonna excuse me. The adversity and the obstacles that young bullies had to over endure in general, he's been. He's been prepped for this. He's been prepped for this. Oh, they're against me. Since he got drafted, when he dropped in the fifth round, he already knew what time it was. When your opportunity gets there, when you get your opportunity, you have no choice but to shine. You have no choice. They're betting against him not to do well, right?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
But if you want me to win the race, Ocho, you got to put me on a fairbread like everybody else. You can't give me a Clydesdale. If you say go win this race. If he. Let me ask you this. When he is in the game, is he gonna get the first team offensive line? Cuz that's what. When they want to. When they want to give you a serious look. Oo you and I both played this game for a long period of time. When they want to give guy, when they want to give a receiver a serious look, they let him run with the ones. They don't continually see what he can do with the twos and threes. They give him a fair opportunity with the ones. The number one quarterback, the number one offensive line and the other one receivers on the opposite side of him. Quarterbacks, when they are running backs, when they really want to see what you can do, they let you run with the 1, the number 1o line. And normally when they Pull the offensive line out. Guess who else coming out? The quarterback. Because the quarterback, the starting quarterback, is not going to be in there with the twos and threes. The starting running back is not going to be in there with the twos and threes. So I'm going to be very interesting to see. It is the first preseason game, and given the way the preseason is done now, starters don't normally play. They don't normally play, and they don't play much. So Shador is going to have to make. Shador is going to have to make wine with the water that he. The well water that he's been using.
Unknown
He's going to be all right.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
He's not been given purified water. He's not been given bottled water. So he's going to have to make do with what he has.
Unknown
The good thing, though, the cars that he's dealt on Friday night, when he enters that game, regardless of what's surrounding him, he's going to make something happen. When he does make something happen, when he's able to make something out of nothing. And this is no disrespect to the Twos and the Threes and the Fours that are trying to make that team. Everybody out there buying for a job for sure.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
But you and I both know there are only about five jobs up the grab. They know. They know with it. They know within 40 guys, 41 guys, who's gonna be on that rock.
Unknown
Yeah. Oh, listen, they. They don't know. They don't know yet because what they're planning on and what they're trying to do, whatever it may be, when he gets his opportunity, all they got to do is knock the door down. I don't care what you put around me, I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna get the job done. So imagine if. If I can. If I can get out there and cut up on Friday with threes and fours and twos at my helm, what you think will happen when I got the ones which ain't gonna happen when I got. When I got Judy, huh? And Joku and the rest of the boys at my disposal as my weaponry. If I can do this with my threes and fours and twos out here in a preseason game, all he's done all his life is win, huh? That's all he's done. So now you put me in this situation. A little obstacle, a little adversity. All right? I got this. I've been here before. I got this.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah, I. I agree with yo Cho. I mean, he's never had a situation like this. You don't know what you can overcome until you're faced with it.
Unknown
God dog it, man with my pen. Oh, that's a good one. Let me write that down.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Because strength is fast.
Unknown
Now I gotta write that down. I'm gonna put that in my notes. Hold on.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Because Ocho hair's a thing. See, strength is not what you possess. Strength is overcoming something that you didn't think you could see. A lot of people think, well, I can lift this or I can do that. That is not strength. Strength is overcoming something you didn't think you could. He's never been in this situation before. He's been the best, and now he's going to have to that strength that his father has instilled him. His father is very biblical. His father is very into the church, is into the word. All those words that his father has been preaching to him for a lifetime. It will be put to the test. See, like when the devil told judge, yeah, of course, God, he's gonna serve you. You give him everything. Look at the family, look at the livestock that you have. Look at what you blessed him with. Why would he not serve you? Remove the hedge and he'll curse his very maker. Shador has had abundance of everything. He had a dad that had resources to get him that opportunity to go learn and study under Tom Brady, to get him throwing coaches and to put him in the best situations.
Unknown
Now.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You can recall, you can call on that, the recall what Tom said this and this guy said that and do this, do that. But at the end of the day, when you fall on your knees now, because, see, that's what faith is, is believing. Even though you can't see it. You see, man says, show me and I'll trust you. God says, trust me and I'll show you. You see the difference between the two?
Unknown
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sarah Spain
Get fired up, y'.
Megan Rapinoe
All.
Sarah Spain
Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people and an incomparable soccer icon, Megan Rapinoe to the show.
Unknown
And.
Sarah Spain
And we had a blast. We talked about her recent 40th birthday celebrations. Co hosting a podcast with her fiance, Sue, Bird watching former teammates retire and more. Never a dull moment with Pino. Take a listen. What do you miss the most about being a pro athlete?
Megan Rapinoe
The final. The final. And the locker room. I really, really like you. Just. You can't replicate. You can't get back. Showing up to the locker room every morning just. Just to talk.
Sarah Spain
We've got more incredible guests like the legendary Candace Parker and college superstar AZ Foote. I mean, seriously, y', all, the guest list is absolutely stacked for season two and you know we're always gonna keep you up to speed on all the news and happenings around the women's sports world as well. So make sure you listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of.
Jake Hofer
Iheart Women's Sports, I'm Jake Hofer and this is Back 40, a limited series show on Wire to Hunt, part of Meat Eaters Podcast Network. Each episode I'll be asking eight whitetail hunting pros a focused, thought provoking question about hunting and land management. How do I hunt the best part of the farm with less than ideal access?
Unknown
Should you? That's what the real question is. Stand without good access is not a good stand.
Jake Hofer
Listen to Back 40 on iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Shador is going to have to rely on his faith because at this time, that's all he has. And I'm not so sure that he's not the only one that has it because I'm not so sure the people in that building have faith in him.
Unknown
But you can't listen the people in the building, you ain't got to worry about that. You don't have to worry about that in the. At the end of the day, if they don't want you. If they don't want you. Let me, let me put on film. Let me. Yes, you got. This is what you got to do. At the end of the day, regardless of what they do, regardless of where I am on the depth chart, I have a job to do and I'm going to do it to the best of my ability. Regardless of what you put out there on the field with me on Friday. At the end of the day, it's still football. We've all been playing football since Cream.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Arrives to the top man.
Unknown
You just took the word right out my mouth.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I've been in Shador. See, I was Shador Sanders before Shador Sanders just had a different position. I know what it's like. I went to a team that just went to the Super Bowl. Although they got drubbed, they brought every receiver back. Mark Jackson, Vance Johnson, Ricky Natiel, Michael Young. They only keeping five receivers and four of the guys that went to the super bowl are bad.
Unknown
Back. You're gonna be all right.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
So we got. They bring in Four or five other receivers. Shannon Sharp's a seventh is a seventh rounder. I know that. But I'm a. I'm supposed to be a camp body. But what you expect out of me and what I expect out of me are two different things. I don't let you set my agenda. I don't let you set my expectation. I. I see you. That's. And that's how Shador has to think. I know what y'. All. I know what y' all playing. I know. Hey, in life, when. When Ray told Claude, he said, I know you're thinking something. You got something up your sleeve. I know you got something brewing. I ain't got nothing, Ray. I got a ass cutting for your brewing. Shador just needs to be Shador. He doesn't have to be any. He doesn't have to be anything else other than that. And. And that's good enough. His best is good enough. He doesn't have to be extraordinary. This is now the NFL. It is the league. You remember that movie, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? There are a lot of extraordinary gentlemen in this league.
Unknown
A lot of them.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
But that ain't what he has to beat out.
Unknown
And that's no disrespect to them. Let's just. Let's be realistic.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
They take it how they want to. I'm just saying. Joe Flacco is in year 18, and he's way past his prime. Kenny Pickett. Hey, we'll see. He's hurt. Can't make the club in the tub. Dylan Gabriel, he's hurt.
Unknown
I'm telling you what's going to happen. Hey, one thing about it. One thing about the football guys, you hear me? One thing about the football gods. When they know. When they know. Especially if it's funny business going on, the way they moving cream always right at the top, huh? That's it. I don't care what you put around me. I'm gonna make it work. I'm gonna make it to do. Listen, when you go. When you go to the casino and they dig you them goddamn cards, you can't control what you dealt.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Gotta play the hand you dealt.
Unknown
Gotta play the hand you dealt with. You got to play it to the best of your ability. That's it. That's all you got to do. Go out there with just straight, straight confidence. This is my team. You got to walk it. You got to play like it. You got to walk in that stadium like you own it. You got to walk. You got to. Oh, I see the game y' all playing. Okay? Bet. Let me show you something.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah. And it's not easy because I don't want people to think that. Oh, he. You never. Yes. Yes. There were nights that I would go to bed, and I'm asking myself, am I good enough? I mean, I only got three plays, and I ain't catch a pass. So if I'm a receiver, how am I getting judged?
Unknown
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
By everything else to do as a quarterback. He don't get no reps. How is he getting judged? Okay, I. I caught one. I. I called it. I called it. And it's like, man, is it. Man, I had this great career at Glenville. I had a great career at Savannah State. And now I'm here in my mind. I'm think. What person doesn't think that he's better than some of the people that he's going against? It wasn't like I was. I wasn't going against hall of Fame receivers. It wasn't Jerry. I wasn't. It wasn't Jerry Rice and my brother and Chris Carter and all those guys out there. That was how I was going to have to try to win time from. But look, it gave me confidence that John Elway told me I could play in this league. He thought I had the ability to play. It helped me a lot when Mark Jackson would legitimately tell me what I needed to do. But, yeah, I'm fighting for a job, and we fighting for a job. And the guy told me the wrong route. I didn't know it was the wrong route. I went in there and ran it. Dan Reed chewed my ass off.
Unknown
You doing full speed, though?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, ask me what the hell. I'm running the route. Hey, I'm swole. I just knew I read the right. Hey, nice move. A nice slap armor rib that try to. You know what I'm saying, on your eye. Hey, I hit it right quick. Cause you know back then, you spend too much time dancing in the line of scrimmage. They gonna come up through your face mask. So, hey, plant chop. I'm over. He blowing the whistle. I'm like, damn, I ain't about halfway through my route. Don't you. What he blowing the whistle for? Let me get this rock and do something on it. Shannon Sharp, what the hell are you doing? You know me, old smart. I'm thinking to myself, what the hell it look like I do it running this route. What you got on such and such? I said I thought I got. What can I say? Somebody told me the wrong route. You supposed to know. What the hell you supposed to do anyway, That's.
Unknown
Hey.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Bro, I'm trying to get a job.
Unknown
Absolutely.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
And if I. If I can remove you out of the way to make my opportunity to get this job easier, guess what I'm going to do? I am going to remove you. Called removing the competition. We know it. We hear all about the. The drug, what they try to do. Take over somebody territory. You try to expand the territory. It doesn't matter how. I just need to expand. I need to make sure. So he tried to remove me. I run the wrong route. Hey, let me. Hey. Never asked again. But you know what? And Mayor Porter used to say, God don't like ugly. Sometimes he don't like pretty. Guess who won the first one to get cut.
Unknown
But he told you the wrong route.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah.
Unknown
Hey, listen, one thing about it, boy, you can't deny greatness. Boy, you. You can't.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
It was.
Unknown
You can't deny greatness.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You know, it was meant for me to go there.
Unknown
Remember when we got. When we got. When Shador got drafted? I said it's a blessing in disguise because they both. They've always been. They've always had an issue at finding the answer at that position. Now watch. They try to play with him. I said watch. They try to play with him, and he ends up being the answer that they didn't even know they had. Watch. I guarantee. I guarantee you. And if I'm wrong, I put my foot in my mouth. If I'm wrong.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Well, the thing is, he might be the answer, Ocho. And that was not even the test that they gave him. That's the problem that they're up against.
Unknown
Wait a minute, man. We. Man, bring that back one more time.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That's it. You said he to be the answer. Yes, he might. He could well be the answer. And that's not the test that they gave him.
Unknown
Hey, what you preaching tonight? What God?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
What's for you? What's. What's for you? What's for you is for you. Can nobody stop it? If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. And God is God and good and in bad, and we just got it. We just. We understand that. We accept that. But. Yeah, he has a lot going on. Don't think his mind is not. Hey, it's Pops. You know how close he is with his dad. His dad dealing with what he's dealing with. But his dad said, hey, you handle that. I got this. You handle that up there in Cleveland. You let me take care of this down here in Boulder.
Unknown
Hey, make the Browns great Again. Mbga. Yeah, yeah. Make the Browns great again.
Sarah Spain
Get fired up, y'.
Megan Rapinoe
All.
Sarah Spain
Season 2 of Good Game with Sarah Spain is underway. We just welcomed one of my favorite people and an incomparable soccer icon, Megan Rapinoe to the show and we had a blast. We talked about her recent 40th birthday celebrations, Co hosting a podcast with her fiance sue, bird watching, former teammates retire and more. Never a dull moment with peace. Take a listen. What do you miss the most about being a pro athlete?
Megan Rapinoe
The final. The final. And the locker room. I really, really like you. Just, you can't replicate. You can't get back. Showing up to the locker room every morning just to talk.
Sarah Spain
We've got more incredible guests like the legendary Candace Parker and college superstar Az Foot. I mean, seriously, y', all, the guest list is absolutely stacked for season two. And you know we're always going to keep you up to speed on all the news and happenings around the women's sports world as well. So make sure you listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of.
Jake Hofer
Iheart Women's Sports, I'm Jake Hofer and this is Back 40, a limited series show on Wire to Hunt, part of Meat Eaters Podcast Network. Each episode I'll be asking eight whitetail hunting pros a focus on thought provoking question about hunting and land management. How do I hunt the best part of the farm with less than ideal access?
Unknown
Should you? That's what the real question is. Stand without good access is not a good stand.
Jake Hofer
Listen to Back 40 on iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, check this out. Shador Sanders will start Cleveland's Friday preseason opener. Kevin Stefanski confirmed this today and added that Tyler Snoop Huntley will be the only other quarterback to play in the game, with Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel slated to rest.
Unknown
Won't he do it? Won't he do it? Hey, look, look. Your opportunity has presented itself. It's kind of like divine order if y' all ask me. Unc and Ocho, you know what I mean? Like, it's like God working mysterious ways, man. I know we don't want nobody to get hurt, but to see them two dudes have, you know, somewhat hamstring injuries. And Flacco, obviously, probably who's not gonna play, man, I'm looking forward to him just coming out, you know, relaxing and just having fun, bro. I think it's gonna Be a good time for the young fella.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
My mind, you know, my mindset is.
Unknown
What's that?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel about to get some permanent rest. They're gonna be gone. It's old for. Just go. Hey, just do what you do.
Unknown
Enjoy the moment. That's it, man.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Just be you.
Unknown
Titus, stop.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Boy, shut up.
Unknown
Hey, but look, can y' all imagine, like, the jitters or. Or the butterflies that he may have? Like he's actually about to get ready to live out of the American dream, you know, which is making it to the NFL. That's probably one of his main goals. And to be able to, you know, start in his first preseason game. Man, I remember when I was a rookie. Uncle Ocho, listen, boy, I took the preseason like it was the playoffs. Like, you know, as. Because as a young fella, you know, you gotta.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You gotta prove you don't know no better. You gotta.
Unknown
You gotta prove yourself.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
So.
Unknown
Only thing you know is going out there, playing hard and showing that you belong.
Mm.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah.
Unknown
What's that? Wait. Yeah, it's a party over there, huh?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
What's up, Tight, man? Thanos done got a haircut.
Unknown
Where he at?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
He right here.
Unknown
Oh, I thought that was Teddy. What.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm.
Unknown
Oh, get him. Get him. Thanos.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Titus, you need to hush, bro. You.
Unknown
Hey, you got some killers over there, boy.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I agree with you, Joe. And I was talking to. Telling Ocho this. I said, look. Look how this thing worked out.
Unknown
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Fourth string ain't gonna start.
Unknown
Yeah, I told you. Listen. I told you.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
He's fourth on the depth chart.
Unknown
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I don't know, because what I've been. I mean, I read, and it says, man, Shadora is outplaying Dylan Gabriel. And then some people keep saying, well, he ain't. He ain't it? I don't really know. I mean, I wish I could be there to actually see it for myself, but I've read more articles in which it's. It. It says. It reads that Shador is out playing Dylan Gabriel. Yeah, I agree.
Unknown
I've been. I've been seeing some of that. I've been seeing a lot of it, too.
Listen, you know, my eyes and the ears. My eyes and the ears, they in Miami. You hear me?
What do you mean?
But what I want to know about what's going on and how.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
He got eyes in Miami, he got ears in Cleveland.
Unknown
Okay?
You hear me? So I just add. I go straight to the source. I go to the source that's actually on the field. I go to the source that's not a media person, that's not an analyst that can give it to me straight. Boy, what them boys out there looking like, man? Okay, boom. That last time I said a name. This time I'm not saying no names, which is why I'm so confident. And when we talk about Shador and the Cleveland Browns, that's all. Because I also mean no disrespect. I told you we're gonna get his opportunity. I didn't know it would come this fast. And then this way, I've said it, I said it before, okay, Joe Flacco will be the starter. And I say if things aren't going well for Joe Flacco, because he plays well in spurs, he'll get on a four or five game stretch and things somewhat fall apart or come off the hinges and then get his opportunities. Now, you get your opportunity early. You see how God work.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yep.
Unknown
Remember the Wally Pip story? You know about the Wally Pip? Yeah, Chad, if you don't know about the Wally Pip story, look at the Wally Pip story. I don't want nobody injured, but I just want the opportunities given to players that are drafted to a team to be fair and everybody giving well. See how God works?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Wally Pitt wasn't injured. He just had a headache that day. It never got a job. It never got his job back. But you look, we'll find out. We'll see everybody. Like I said, it's only three preseason games. So I mean, the mere fact that he's playing, because normally when guys, they're not expecting guys to make a team, Ocho, they don't let. Normally, they don't let them guys play. Because you know why? Because I don't want you to get hurt and I got to keep you.
Unknown
Hey, but listen, he prepared for this, huh, Joe? He prepared for this moment. If at anything and all you've been through, the doubters, the naysayers, the haters, your enemies right there in your own backyard that drafted you, if what the owner said last week is not motivation to go out there and cut a plum full. In an organized way. In an organized way, in a structured environment, it's still the game of football. Show that you can be a leader. Calm, quiet, collected and reserved. Martha, I guarantee. Watch what happened. Guarantee. He marched their ass right down the goddamn field in that first drive. First drive, first drive. I guarantee you that's how it play out, marching right down the field. Listen, if he don't play well, I'm gonna hold him accountable. If he don't play well, I'm gonna.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hold him accountable, just like we supposed to hold everybody accountable. I mean, but you see how they fix it up, don't you?
Unknown
Huh?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, they talk about, oh, Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel are slated the rest. Nah, they hurt. Two of the three hurt. Ain't no resting. They ain't no. They ain't got enough credential. They ain't got enough time under their belt to get rest in a preseason game. They ain't done enough.
Unknown
Only one got time to rest is Joe Flacco.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Exactly. He got 18. Okay, I get that.
Unknown
But them other two, they fighting for jobs now. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited. You know who play tomorrow?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Who played the ball?
Unknown
The Bengals. Huh? That's who.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
What you mean, who they play? Who they play?
Unknown
Ocho?
They play the Eagles, bruh. We play the Eagles. You know we play the Eagles.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You know, we go.
Unknown
We gonna. We gonna put belt to ass.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That's what y' all know. First of all, y' all don't play in the preseason. And guess what?
Unknown
Hey, we can't. Listen, we're not pulling that. We're not pulling that this year.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Y' all pull that every year.
Unknown
No, no, no, I'm saying they've been relaxing in the preseason, right?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah.
Unknown
Not playing the preseason and then going to week one, trying to go from zero to a hundred. Jamar, T. I need y' all boys get one or two series. Get one or two series. Just get. Get the juices flowing. Get acclimated to the speed of the game. I know. I know. Y' all your veterans now. Come on, now. We can't start. We can't start the season. 0 and 2. 0 and 3 out the gate again. We can't. We can't afford that. We can't afford that.
I give y' all a court. I give him a quarter.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Ocho, they ain't playing no quarter. They ain't playing no quarter. The first preseason game.
Unknown
One series. One. One or two series.
They ain't gonna give us a half.
Not to the third game. Well, it's only. It's only a. Only three games now, huh?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Three. Yeah.
Unknown
Yeah. See the third game? Hey, Joe, we played a half. Damn. The whole first half?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah. Or play. Or play the first series of third quarter.
Unknown
All right, See what y' all working with.
Hey, Joe, I love the practice so much. I love the preseason so much because I wanted to get my body as acclimated to game speed as fast as possible. Joe, we could practice for 100 days straight. Full Pads against yourself and you get in the game. It's nothing like that. Yeah, nothing like that. It's faster no matter what you do. There's no way to duplicate and replicate the speed of an actual NFL game. I don't care how much you practice. That's why I love them so much. I had Coach Lewis. Hey, I told this before, Joe. I would not come out the game. In preseason, I made Coach Lewis call a timeout.
You wanted to get your reps in.
What? He took out one series, man. He came out and the tools went in. I told the receiver to stay back, and I went back in the game again.
Hey, Ojo, I understand what you're saying. Rhythm and timing is everything, brother. Especially in basketball, you know, So I can understand. In football, you know, just, you know, route running, being sharp on your plays. I can understand that part. Just like basketball, if you don't play, bro, you lose that rhythm and time, and it throw you off, Right?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah, yeah, it definitely takes time. And look, I needed to get reps, too. That's how I was on show. I wanted to look. I understand. Okay, we gonna go a series. The first. The first game, maybe two series or the quarter. The third, the second game. And then we go into the half. We. We go. At bare minimum, we go into the half. And normally we take the first series because. And sometimes we're like, okay, we're gonna use the. The first series in the third quarter. We're gonna go two minutes. So we're gonna go. Hurry up. Just to get that in one time. But, yeah, I needed a preseason. Like these guys. I don't know how they do it. I take my hat off to these guys that come out there. And I guess right now, the way they do it, Ocho, these scripted practices against each other, I guess that's their preseason game. That ain't. That ain't. That ain't pre. No, no, it ain't the same, right?
Unknown
Not even close.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
But I'm anxious to see. I'm anxious to see what should. How should do it. I. Look, I don't care what anybody says. You're gonna be nervous. I don't care how long you've been playing football. This is every. Every. Every. I got nervous every game I played. That's just the preseason. I mean, I got butterflies and I got goosebumps. Every game that I played, same. Hey, uncle, you've been playing. I've been playing tackle football since I was nine. Yeah. And I still got nervous. Yeah.
Unknown
Hey, Unc. When they. Hey. Hey, Joe. What's up. They play that field, Collins.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, in the air tonight.
Unknown
And.
Oh, that thing. When that thing play and you out there stretching, I can feel it. Hey, Joe. Yo. Right before. Right before kickoff. And that welcome to the jungle Star playing, man.
Listen, I know what you talking about, Joe.
I'd be. I'd be so nervous. Yeah, I'd be so nervous. And for one. And I made it even worse on myself, Joe, because I done talk trash all week.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Ocho, it's saying burrow and the starters will play the first quarter.
Unknown
See, I told. Boy, we going to super bowl, man.
I just told y' all that.
Hey, why we going to Super Bowl? What? Listen, I know, I know. Hey, Zach. Hey, Zach Taylor. Hey, Zach. I know you're gonna see this. I love you. Hey, Joe Burrow. I love you. T. Higgins, chase the rest of the receivers, the whole line. Now, this. This. What they doing, what they doing today, what they doing tomorrow is going to be the reason why we going to be in San Francisco. I said it here first, okay? I said here first. Now. Now watch how we come out. Week one in September.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, y' all got week one.
Unknown
It don't even matter. Cleveland.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I think we got Cleveland.
Unknown
No, I'm serious.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I think.
Unknown
Hey, Chad. Chad, who? We got week one, the Bengals. We got Cleveland, right?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
You know what? Me, Ocho, I ain't like opening up with division opponents. Let me get. Let me get my rhythm. Let me get some time. Let me get like two or three games in before I tell y'. All, look, that first game, oh, you ain't got your time and your foot. You know, you ain't got your feet right yet. You know what I'm saying? Let me get like, three or four games and let me get y'.
Unknown
All.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Let me see y'. All. Week four, week five.
Unknown
Okay, okay.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
But y' all do open up with. Y' all do open up with Cleveland.
Unknown
Yeah, I knew. I know.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I want at Cleveland. At Cleveland.
Unknown
I got the schedule in my head. I got the schedule in my head. I'm ready.
Hey, look, look, it ain't nothing like getting off to a good start neither, boy. Winning that first game.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Unknown
There ain't nothing like you always want to get off to a good start, boy.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah, you got to win that first game. Ain't nothing like that. So the Browns are giving Shadow one day of reps with the ones for the very first time at the joint practice two days before a start. So let's see here for a second chat. So all this time, he. He Ain't got no work with the ones. Not one. Not one snap, not one rep. He'll you. Won't he do it?
Unknown
Hey, the boy from the ball out, man.
Hey, mysterious ways. I'm telling you. Gonna go out there, take them boy right down the field.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
I'm just trying to figure out if you're really trying to do an evaluation, Ocho. How can I say I'm trying to evaluate you when. When I don't give you the same opportunities that I'm giving everybody else that I'm evaluating. Now, Ocho, I'm gonna see if you can do this job. Now, the job requires a computer, but I ain't gonna give you no computer, Ocho. But this is what I'm gonna do. Oh, damn. Them other guys ain't come to. Ain't come to work today, okay? Oo, you up. Here's the computer. Now you ain't let me work the computer the whole damn time for two weeks.
Unknown
But you know the funny thing about that? Huh? Even though I wasn't able to work the computer for them two weeks, when you put the computer in my hands better than those that's had it at their disposal before me anyway.
Hello. Hello.
I'm gonna be better than those that had the computer them other two weeks before me anyway. And I'm gonna put it on display under the. Under the lights at that.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Well, I just thought, like, if you're evaluating, you evaluate under the same sort of circumstances. You can't say, well. You can't say, well, I'm gonna see these two. If I got two pans, and I'm gonna see which one can stand at the temperature. I gotta put them under the same temperature in order to do a proper evaluation. I can't let one guy get no reps with the ones. Only get a few reps with the threes and fours. And now I get two days before. Okay. Okay. You up, son?
Unknown
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That's not an evaluation. Evaluation is you put. You put things under the same set of circumstances over the same amount of time.
Unknown
I like it.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
That's how you get boiling or you get freezing temperatures because guess what? It's going to add 212. It's gonna boil.
Unknown
It's either gonna bust pipes or make diamonds. Baby.
I'm ready.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
This is an opportunity. This is what he waited for. This is what a lot of people cheered for. Like, man, I sure hope he get an opportunity. I hope. I sure hope he gets a chance to show what he can do. And it is. This is how the opportunity came About. I don't feel bad.
Unknown
I know you saw this chat. I know y' all saw that. Joe, I'm not sure how often you on Twitter, but, you know, I'm on there all day having fun, making jokes. But did you see the meme? Right? The meme would. I think it might have been the end of Kobe's career. Kobe might have hit 60 at a game, and all the celebs was there, and they use that. That clip of a Snoop Dogg and. And Kanye. Everybody was courtside and they were cheering. It was hype, right? I guess Kobe might have hit 60 or something.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah, he had 60 that year against Utah.
Unknown
That's what it was.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah.
Unknown
And then the caption was, this is. This is black Twitter. When Shador threw his first eight yard slant. Everybody go celebrate, dog, it is so funny. Even prime had to comment on it.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
8 yards lap. His first completion.
Unknown
Yeah, first completion.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
His first completion. People go back, hey, man, that's the game winning the Super Bowl.
Unknown
Hey, dog, now that was so funny.
Hey, what y' all think the race is gonna be on this game Friday when they play?
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, it's gonna be crazy. Yeah.
Unknown
Rating gonna be crazy because, you know, everybody tuning in to see what 12 and do.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Yeah, for sure. For sure. It'll be the one. It. Hell, this game might do a bigger rating than the real Browns game. Why you bull. Hey, no, no real talk now.
Unknown
Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
When was the last time, the last time they had a player that was this talked about? You probably got to go back to Baker Mayfield.
Unknown
Yeah, probably Baker.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
And the same thing happened to Baker. Remember, Hugh put Baker as the backup and everybody was talking about Baker the backup. Yeah.
Unknown
Damn. I'm trying to think of a player that was talking.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Hey, this is how big it is. Ocho Joe. It's a national televised game.
Unknown
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Cleveland in a preseason.
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. The stage said, man, it's the a set time.
Yeah.
Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco)
Oh, let me. Hey, let me add a little plot twist for yo. Cleveland. Carolina Panthers national televised game.
Unknown
That's crazy. That's. That's. That's. That's crazy, ain't it? It's crazy. The power of that last name. Even though they trying to humble it, let that sink in.
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Summary of "Best of Shedeur Sanders Mania Part 1: Browns sign 5th QB ahead of Shedeur's preseason debut" – Club Shay Shay
Release Date: August 13, 2025
In this episode of Club Shay Shay, hosts Chad Johnson (Ocho Cinco) and his co-host dive deep into the Cleveland Browns' tumultuous quarterback situation as the team prepares for Shedeur "Shador" Sanders' highly anticipated preseason debut. The conversation navigates through team dynamics, quarterback evaluations, Shedeur's potential impact, and the surrounding fan excitement.
Overview: Chad Johnson initiates the discussion by highlighting the Browns' recent decision to sign their fifth quarterback amidst a backdrop of injuries and inconsistent performances.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Chad Johnson (01:11):
"The Browns are signing Tyler Huntley... with Kenny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel nursing hamstring injuries and Shador Sanders having a sore shoulder, the Browns need another arm."
Co-host (02:24):
"Have they figured it out yet? ... Have we had one for a decade that we've been able to lean on and build around?"
Overview: The hosts critique the Browns' long-standing issues with maintaining a stable quarterback, questioning the organization's ability to provide a consistent leader at the crucial position.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Chad Johnson (02:41):
"The last good quarterback... has been Bernie Kozar, from the mid-80s."
Co-host (03:07):
"How are we supposed to trust this organization when it comes to choosing quarterbacks at a position when they haven't figured it out all these years?"
Overview: A significant portion of the episode centers on Shedeur "Shador" Sanders, exploring whether the Browns are genuinely investing in his potential and the fairness of the opportunities he's receiving.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Chad Johnson (06:32):
"They drafted Shador in the fifth round. They're not expecting much... But if Shador can make something out of nothing..."
Co-host (08:15):
"He’s going to have to rely on his faith because at this time, that’s all he has."
Chad Johnson (12:06):
"Strength is overcoming something that you didn't think you could see. He has to have the strength that his father has instilled in him."
Overview: The hosts debate the Browns' methods in evaluating their quarterbacks during preseason, stressing the importance of equal opportunities and consistent evaluation metrics.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Chad Johnson (41:03):
"How can I say I'm trying to evaluate you when I don't give you the same opportunities that I'm giving everybody else that I'm evaluating."
Co-host (41:47):
"It's either gonna bust pipes or make diamonds. Baby. I'm ready."
Overview: The episode touches on the heightened attention Shedeur Sanders is receiving from fans and the impact of social media on his emerging reputation.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Co-host (42:21):
"And then the caption was, this is black Twitter. When Shador threw his first eight yard slant. Everybody go celebrate, dog, it is so funny."
Chad Johnson (43:04):
"His first completion. People go back, hey, man, that's the game-winning Super Bowl."
Overview: Anticipation builds as the hosts speculate on how Sanders will handle his first game, considering his preparation and the current team dynamics.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Chad Johnson (26:38):
"Shador Sanders will start Cleveland's Friday preseason opener. Kevin Stefanski confirmed this today... Let's see how he does."
Co-host (27:54):
"You've been through the doubters, the naysayers, the haters... Show that you can be a leader. Calm, quiet, collected and reserved."
Overview: Concluding the episode, the hosts reflect on the broader implications of Sanders' debut and the Browns' quarterback strategy moving forward.
Key Points:
Notable Quotes:
Chad Johnson (44:39):
"This is an opportunity. This is what he waited for. This is what a lot of people cheered for."
Co-host (44:39):
"If he doesn't play well, I'm gonna hold him accountable. We're fighting for a job, and we're fighting for a job."
This episode of Club Shay Shay offers a comprehensive analysis of the Cleveland Browns' quarterback situation, with a focused lens on Shedeur Sanders' emerging role. Through insightful discussion and candid opinions, Chad Johnson and his co-host provide listeners with a nuanced understanding of the team's challenges and the potential paths forward. The blend of strategic critique and fan-centric perspectives makes for an engaging and informative listen for anyone interested in the NFL and the dynamics of team building.