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Man, you can feel that. Speaking of quarterbacks, bruh, Baker Mayfield, my man, he said he felt disrespected undervalued by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because of the offer they gave him. Man, listen to what he said yeah.
Baker Mayfield
Yeah. I mean, obviously I've told you guys I've been pretty upfront and honest about my feelings about Tampa, that being home for now, our family, raising kids here, we love it here. I wanted the deal done and set the deadline and told them it was going to be all ball after that. And I. I did mean that. And I don't know if they thought I was just gonna take some of the offers that they gave, but I'm at the point of my career and understanding what I've brought to this franchise. One, I'm very, very thankful for the chance they gave me. Do not get me wrong on that. But I've also know. I really know what I've brought to this franchise, leadership wise and even play wise. It's been some of the best years of. Of my career, and I. I think it's only going to trend upwards just being comfortable and feeling that. So disappointing in that regard to. To not have, you know, to feel disrespect a little bit. And that's really the disappointing part, to. To feel undervalued after, you know, thinking you've earned it. This is not a poor me thing. It's. There's a lot other people that have it were way worse off, but I can sit here and. And look at other quarterbacks and peers and evaluate myself based on that and put myself in certain categories that I deserve to be compensated for that. And I think I'm a franchise quarterback. I've been told I'm a franchise quarterback. It's been said publicly from ownership down here. And so to not have a deal done is very disappointing. But I said the deadline was a deadline and I addressed the team to let them know. I meant that it's. It's all ball. I'm with these guys. I think all the guys that have been here know exactly who I am. The guys that are new here, I wanted to address that because they might have had a notion prior to coming here about who I am as a person. But it's. It's all team. It's all about winning here now and what we're going to do. And, you know, hopefully Vita gets his back fixed and gets his. His deal done. I mean, he's the second longest tenured buck behind cg and Vita deserves that. He's the anchor of our defense, and so I hope they take care of him. It's disappointing to say the least, but it's all ball here, and I know I'm going to have a good year. I know this team, the things that we went through last year put us in a good spot for this year, depth wise. A lot of guys being thrown to the fire to be able to grow and learn fast, and it didn't go the way we wanted. But it's a new season and it's, it's going to help us in the long run this year. Added some new pieces, and so I'm excited about it. It's all ball from here. You know, after today, like, I'll answer a few more questions about the contract, but after today, I'm not answering anymore because I'm not negotiating anymore.
Debo
Costa, be more careful. Joe, what do you think? Think. What do you think, Bucks man?
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You think he got, he got, he got a, he. He got a position. You think they, they should have did something, found out a way, did anything? What do you think, Joe?
Joe
It's tough. It's tough because Baker can feel some type of way and be able to want to get a contract that's compensate with. Who is it, like his peers. When you see other dudes that are making $50 million that you don't feel like your numbers are better than theirs, when we looking at 50, Jordan Love, we got Brock Purdy, and we've got all these dudes making 52, $55 million a year. Baker signed a three year, $100 million contract with, with Tampa, and he outperformed these other guys since 2023. He's second in passing yards and third in touchdowns. So when you're looking at that from him, like, I don't care how y' all perceive me, my numbers say that this is what I shall get compensated. And. And when people are looking at Baker like, we can find another quarterback for you, or we can just leave you under this deal, then we could tag you. If you go ahead and outperform that and play, it's just a tough situation to be in because it's like, Baker, you have a point, but at the same time, the team has a point to not have, but not a point, but they have a right not to pay you. You signed this first contract, the three years for 33. You were cut from a couple of teams. You first, you got a one year, $4 million from Tampa, then you outperform that, and they gave you a three year, $100 million contract. So I feel where you want to go get that bag, too. And I'm looking, I'm with you, Baker, but then at the same time, you're looking at them like, do I want to give Baker a Three year, because he wants to get.
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Joe
I heard one of the things guaranteed. They said it was. They gave him up to two years, like a two year, $102 million contract. But he won.
Debo
Yeah, he said that was not true.
Joe
He said, okay, he says not true. I said, because what's the guaranteed? I think it's all about the guarantee. Because if the guarantee, if you got. If they open a two year, $101 million, 51 guaranteed, they offered him a one year, 51 million dollar contract.
Debo
I would have took that all day for sure.
Joe
So I'm saying with Baker, if his number was around the 50 and they were not looking at something where that. I don't know where that stands, but for him, no, look, I'm not going to talk about the contracts after this. I know I'm going to want to go try to get my bag. That's how like it looks different now because when you're a wide receiver, they could just tag George Pickens and they don't make it. It's like he got hit with the tag. When it's a quarterback, if he wants to go try to outplay this deal, he's making $27 million this year. He's going to feel like, oh, I'm going to outplay this deal. Then they have the right to tag you. Do you know what I'm saying? Or try to let you go. So I understand what Baker's saying, but they don't have to pay. So this is where it looks like. I hear you. You played what you had to do. You've done your job. So you're expecting a compensation with people you see up the street from you that you had better seasons than.
Debo
Yeah, I ain't gonna lie to you, bro. At first I was like, maybe, you know, he might be tripping. But after looking at this, bro, and I'm taking his, I'm taking last year out of it. The reason I'm taking last year out of it was because he was hurt. And when you take last year out of it, you look at his 23, 24 numbers when he was healthy and he wasn't hurt. Dude, over that two year span, bro, it wasn't a quarterback that passed for more yards than him, other than it was Dak and golf. He had 8,044 and the highest one was 8,100. Over those, over that two year span, bro, on top of that, that same two year span, nobody had more passing touchdowns than him. Like he has 60, 69. And the next person was one below him, it was 68. Josh Allen Completion 66.8. Again. The highest was 68 again. Dak Golf, and I think it was Burrow. Now, you know, you go from that and you look at these guys and you talking about top at 63 million to the bottom person is 52. And y', all, as he said, y' all can't even come close to the 50 number. And again, they're probably thinking, oh, we did a three year, 100 million, 33. We go run it back. No, y' all ain't gonna run it back. The price don't went up, man. It ain't got nothing to do with nothing else. And yes, he will leave there and go somewhere else and easily get close to 50 based on the guys that's making that money now and the numbers that they're putting up. As long as he said he does what he said he's gonna do going this year and ball out, he's going to get all that. They can try and tag him if they want to. He already told him like, yo, that's not happening, boss. You go tag me for no reason. He's done negotiating. It's no more negotiating to be had. So if that's the case, you ain't go talk no negotiation. Then he's like, that's it. And I see, dude, at first, I'm looking and I'm like, yo, he. He might be asking a little much getting 50. But I'm looking now and I'm like, and you can't, as he said, come close. You can't get the 46, 47. And the lowest guy on the list is 50, 51. Come on.
Joe
And he.
Debo
He done. He done outperformed and went healthy.
Joe
That's the part. So he got every right to feel that way, but that's why one down
Debo
year and he was hurt. It wasn't like, I just had a down year. I'm playing through injury, I'm playing through everything. Like, I want to see everybody get paid, no question. Like, but at the time I'm looking and I'm like, ah, he's taking 50. Come on now. So I'm like, yo, let me see. Hell, he doing better than every cat on there. Except for, you know, two cat.
Joe
That's what. That's that market. I'm telling the course, right?
Debo
The price don't went up, man.
Joe
The price don't went up the market.
Debo
Same thing. Hey, still is the price that went
Joe
up, that's making 31 with the new. And then Chris Olave, my Man, Chris Olave, love him to death. Baller. My man does sign for $33 million a year at wide receiver. The price tag at the receivers went up. George Pickens like Dallas, you could have signed him a little earlier. Now you got.
Debo
You gotta pay pay.
Joe
Crystal Lobby is a baller. But you can't tell me George Picker is not better than Crystal Lobby and Miami like so he gonna have to go get that. So it's like sometimes it's just when you looking at players they're gonna. The contracts are doing nothing but going up. The NFL the salary going up. So looking at somebody's dollar amount that they're making and saying it's hard to fit the market. How is the in between of a dude making $0 to 65 million. That is a wave of money for quarterbacks. So if you're going to be the elite of elites, make a 65. And then when you got Daniel was in then Daniel Jones making 44. And then you got like the Dax in fifth at 55 and Jalen Hurts at 51. So it's like where. Where is the media area? So do you sound as 47?
Debo
But. But that's what I'm saying.
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You can't put him in a medium air when his numbers don't say. You could put him in another area.
Joe
He's doing the 55. That's why when he said right. He doesn't sound ridiculous.
Debo
I think. I think they might regret that one buddy. Man, like.
Joe
But they gonna get it. He's. Oh he gonna get it for sure he's gonna ball. He's this thing is too like he's having to still they're going to get the best performance out of him. So it's either going to be. They're paying them this year without the contract if he doesn't ball out. You see why we didn't get you a deal. If he does ball out, then I understand. Can they do. You said that he wouldn't. He's not going to try to allow them to franchise tag him. But what can he do if they try the franchise tag him? Like sit out.
Debo
No, you gotta let him know like I'm not like dude, he. Everybody know you could franchise tag him if you want to. It's not gonna happen. If he goes and can you tag him like he gotta sign it. He might be free. Free. So yeah. I don't know bro. But I know what the Atlanta Falcons. Your boy Kevin Stefancy over there. Tua. I guess he. He working through a little, little injury over there. He said a tight back is keeping to a sideline during this stretch of training camp from per espn. That's what they said. He said he will be out there sooner rather than later. Stefanski said. Joe, what you think happened? You know me, I got, I got, I got a theory.
Joe
Literally with this one, I have no idea.
Debo
Hey, hey, hey, Joe, you. You want to hear mine?
Joe
Please tell me.
Debo
Okay. You know me, I'm always thinking Joe. And when I go to thinking Joe, I gotta start looking like, like what happened that made my man's back tight, like, you know, and that back tightening up, you know, that's hard thing to explain. You know, hard thing to see. Your favorite artists in your library, your
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Joe
Yes, if it was, if, if I'm tour back still tight. No, no, Debo, I would be trying to. Wouldn't you be thinking now that you can get the starting job and be able to. And be able to go out there and go get a bag.
Debo
As soon as Pennix comes back and he's healthy, that starting job is gone. He got to get the bag while he got the bag opportunity, man. He got 52 coming from the other people. They only getting him 1.2 right here, man. You want me to come out here and I know your starter, starter that you want. You got a rookie that you ain't trusting. And you done signed Cooper Rush who. What was it in Baltimore? That man had like four picks in his last two games. Four picks and playing for the 100 yards or something. It was something crazy
Joe
playing for the other team when he was playing against our team. He was our team. That's what I'm trying to tell you. So what I'm trying to tell you, that's what you.
Debo
My back will still be tight. That's what you went and got tighten my back and you telling me what he say? He will be out there sooner rather than later.
Joe
No, he won't ask. Needs to get out there immediately. If, if I'm tour. I'm trying to get my. This is the.
Debo
Joe, I'm saying what I'm thinking. I'm not saying if it's me and you. Yeah, I'm trying to go get that starting position. I'm starting to do that. I'm just saying when I'm. I told you, I think, I'm thinking, you know me cuz you need me right now. I'm gonna have to get some. You gotta put something extra on my books. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying. Joe, come on Joe, listen man. Yeah. Unless. How many more opportunities you think the man go get.
Joe
Let me tell you this. If you making the 53 from, from them. Don't. This is what I'm saying, it doesn't matter where it's coming from, if you can still have an opportunity to start for this professional football team.
Debo
If I could start for a professional football team right now, that got to be at least worth 20.
Joe
No, no, no, no, no. You. You're.
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Joe
Debo, you was wrong because don't think about that. You gotta show how much. How that you can still Play.
Debo
I got 52 coming. You want me to put my life for 1.2?
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Joe
How much longer like you said, is he going to be able to play? So that 53 is coming regardless. And that 1.4 is coming regardless. So if you have an opportunity to show that you can be a starting professional quarterback in the NFL, you need to go get it. Because right now, listen, at 1.4, that 53 is from what you used to do. So now, right now you're making 1.4 for what you're doing today. So show that you're worth.
Debo
Who go give him some more? Who go give him some more, Joe.
Joe
Not to go play well, to go get some more.
Debo
You the gm.
Tab Ramos
Other than that.
Joe
So you saying Debo, you just saying he need to not show face no more.
Debo
I'm just saying, man, you don't already put. You don't already. You know, you don't already pulled the pistol on somebody got you some paper, man. Listen, right now, he got an opportunity right now where everybody in there and. And everybody is dark. But he got on the night vision goggles.
Joe
You see it?
Debo
So hey, why not go in there and tap on. Hey, listen, I don't want a lot, but my back tight. I think. I think another 15 might loosen it up.
Joe
What I'm trying to tell you this. I'm trying to tell you if you're a baller. Do you not. Does he not like he. He should feel like he's already stole you already not I stole, but you, you came to league and you got that.
Debo
That, bro, you just signed a minimum deal. He ain't feeling like nothing.
Joe
The 50 you. But like you said, you're still making this year playing 50 million plus the 1. So you're still making 51.4. I don't care who it comes from, but like when it was coming from the locker room with. From the Atlanta Falcons. So I'm just in there trying to hoop out, ball out, because I want to show that I can continue to get these like you said, or else this is it.
Debo
Joe, Joe, you are the corner that just came over. They just gave you 1.4. You got guaranteed money over Here, but the corner that they got there is their franchise corner. He's going to. When he come back, he's getting in that. That. That position. He's not cleared yet, but he will be cleared by the end of this. By. By the by. By. Sometime during this season, they're giving you vet minimum, and they're paying corners that start 20, 20, 20 million. You going in there and you plan that out until they go ahead and just get a job up back to him.
Joe
I'm going out there and I'm going to ball out because it's going to show the other team that they let me go. Then they gonna see my tape.
Debo
You ain't gonna get a full year of tape, though.
Joe
I'm like, give me eight games. Look what he was doing out there. I'm going versus the ones, and I'm strapping. So that starter right there is the same starter that's playing versus you. I don't gotta play against him two, three times a year. Same 16 games. You got eight real live game reps of me. 60 plays, 70 plays. Not getting bombed up.
Debo
Okay, but what about the whole season of trash before that and the half season before that?
Joe
You as best as your last.
Debo
Nah, man.
Joe
Man, listen, we talking about Deshaun Watson. You saying Deshaun Watson go out there, ball out, then what they gonna have to do, pay him again? I'm like, oh, my.
Debo
I said, that's what y' all would do, you know?
Joe
See, that's what I'm saying, though.
Debo
That's what y' all would.
Joe
The mindset should be if you're like, go out there.
Debo
And if you go out there, Joe, listen, he ain't gonna get the bag back for me personally, if the Sound Watson was to go out there and ball first team, 5060 Tuggies, I am not touching nothing close to what he got before. But that's just me because I already know you got a history. So you saying two is history, but eight games will make up for that?
Joe
No, I'm just saying.
Debo
That's why I'm thinking like I was thinking, like I said, you know? But, you know, that's just me, you know, Like I said, I think outside the box when they trying to keep you in the box, you know?
Joe
You told me you want him to stay out with the strain back, see? Oh, y' all need me now.
Debo
So I'm gay.
Joe
I was trying to get. I'm like, dang, you don't want the man. Him like he got the job. You like this? Nope. Starting quarterbacks getting paid more than that.
Debo
Hey, you need me now. You gave me. Hey, you. You brought me in here because you thought I had the potential. Now you need me. Show me my back top.
Joe
Show me a spiral. Show me a spiral.
Debo
I'm just saying, Joe. I'm just saying. Your boy Miles Garrett over here in la, he said he won't push Aaron Dallas difficult comeback decision with the Rams. He said, if he's here, I'm going to be excited to be his teammate, his partner in crime. I think we're going to do great things. But it's a difficult thing coming back, Joe. I know it's a difficult thing coming back, Joe. I came back once and that was only a few months, you know, and that time off was. It was hard getting back into it, man. Body. Body hurts. It goes through some changes when you. You soften it up, you don't continue to give it that. You know that. That same impact and forces and you don't train as if you're ready to go, you know, get ready for a season. So. But with that being said, you think. You think Aaron gonna come back? You think, you think Aaron Donald will come back?
Joe
I don't. I don't.
Debo
Why is that, Joseph?
Joe
What the things were you said. I think Aaron Donald, like you said, he doesn't have anything to prove. You know, and then him stepping away from the game and being out for two years, it is a lot on your body. I think if there was somebody that'd be ready to come back and be able to do it. I don't know what his offseason training looks like since he's retired, but I think he might be able to be one of the people. But when he retired, it just seems like knowing what he put into the game, knowing that he was so many first team all pros, knowing that if you were to just come back how good he was, I know the greats, they're like, I don't want to come back and be like a. Not a shell of myself, but just not Aaron Donald, you know what I'm saying? So he could still be a really good player, but it's not. He knows what Aaron Donald could do. He knows how he feels when he's able to just throw people up out of there. So I think being able to be off the field for two years, mentally, physically, having to get back into that, into that grind, because I was kind of numb when I was in the league. Like, we know when you. When you're doing it for so long, back to back you don't realize how much you're actually working out, how much consistency you have. Every morning you're waking up, you're doing stuff, thinking about football, everything. Your schedule, your family schedule is rotating around. You have a schedule that you do every year. Like, the off season is the same. Off season, the same time. We report back the same stuff as this. Then the games. Then Mondays are Mondays, Tuesdays or Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Wednesdays. You have that level of consistency that you do it for so long, did it for 12 years, and then when you get out of it, it's like, dang. And then you don't take care of your body. You don't really realize, like, I was putting my whole. My life, my family's life, everything around making sure I was the best that I could be. And then when you take that off and just really. Just sit and then trying to get back into that rotation, I could, like. It could be something that I didn't realize how much work we were really putting in.
Debo
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not concerned about him coming back, man. Said he accomplished everything he needed to. If he came back, that wouldn't be true, would it, Joe? That wouldn't be true. If he came back, he didn't accomplish everything he wanted to. That meant that he left something unfinished. But he said he accomplished everything he wanted to. Hey, listen, I gotta talk. I gotta talk to the ego. I gotta talk to the ego.
Joe
You be saying that you funny.
Debo
I gotta talk to the ego. I ain't calling him a lot. I just gotta talk to his ego. Now, hold up now. If you come back and you don't win that championship, you telling me the accomplishment that you came back for was to play one more year and not win the championship, that you accomplished everything before that, but now you come back, that means you didn't accomplish everything, but your goal was to come back and play one more year and not win it. I'm just saying, Joe.
Joe
I hear you, Debo. Ad.
Debo
Hey, I'm just. Hey, listen, I got to talk to his ego, man. I got to.
Joe
I got to.
Debo
Listen, I got to.
Joe
That's the only way.
Debo
That's the only way it's gonna work. Hey, don't. Don't come back and not win it now. Ain't gonna be good.
Joe
Look, they gonna have a chance, though, Debo.
Debo
Everybody got a chance. It's 32 team. Everybody got a chance.
Joe
Joe and the Browns got a chance.
Debo
It's 31 teams, Joe. Everybody got a chance. There's 32 teams, but 31 got a chance, Joe.
Joe
Okay.
Debo
You know. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know why you keep trying to put the Browns in there when I'm talking to somebody else. They actually got a legitimate chance. You see what I'm saying? It's like crazy. You all Browns, you all Browns, but when it comes time for you to put. Put your foot down. Oh, it ain't. It's Braun over. Everybody home.
Joe
It's braun over. Is braun over everything that's good, because I. I can't.
Tab Ramos
Wow.
Joe
I was. I was.
Debo
I started being.
Joe
When I was 16 years old. When I was 16. Maybe 15 years old. Probably 15 years old and no younger than that. I was 12 years old. I was 12. What am I talking about? Brown was 16 at Montrose. I was 12 years old. So I didn't get drafted. So I was 21 years old. That's nine more years of Braun being my favorite player.
Debo
Where did Brian. Okay, so you. You was just Brown fan. You ain't care nothing about the city, even though the city that drafted you, you. You said you love, you dedicate. You go out there, you live. You, you, you, you. You die for all this other stuff. Like love this, love that. Cleveland home, the land. But like, oh, no. Hell with y'.
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Joe
My man Bron.
Debo
Oh, Brian Beachard from a high school
Joe
kid has been called the chosen one, and I watched him with my own eyes. Debo, do it. Stay out the way, not get in trouble, be a professional and be dunking on everyone. This is one of the best basketball players. Like just from the eye test. Deebo just from the eye test when he was with the Cavs.
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Wait, I came in for two things. How is this $47?
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Joe
Do you remember those first years where he was just literally taking off from the free throw line? The athleticism. Then he goes to the heat, wins it, ships okay. Goes to the. Comes back to the land, ship again, goes to la, ship again. Then I go, I play. I played.
Debo
You didn't go there with no talking
Joe
about I play in the league.
Debo
You forgot Dwyane Wade was over there. And Boston.
Joe
I played in the league, Debo. I play in the league for 12 years. I go back home, I retire. I'm chilling here. We're talking to my man and LeBron is still out there balling and dunking on people. I was. What are we talking about here?
Debo
We're talking about the land. We're talking about who you actually have. You know what I'm saying? You say it's your city, but it ain't your city.
Joe
That's what. Because look, the city, the city. Look, Braun, the city. Braun reps the land too. And he could go play. He played in Miami, he played la. He just went and played in Philly. Could have came back to the crib. Nobody disrespecting Braun.
Debo
He got that man. Went to Philly, bro. And he is going to fly every day to practice, bro. Listen, Kobe from New York City, who else?
Joe
It was. It was a lot of players that did it too.
Debo
What a lot of players.
Joe
I saw.
Debo
I think the Philly fans ain't gonna feel some type of way about him not staying in the city of brotherly love, man.
Joe
A couple players did that.
Debo
Who name it. Give me another one.
Joe
Well, I think it was. Was it will hold up. No, no, no, no, I will hold on. I'm finding. I'm find it.
Debo
Come on, I'm waiting. Joseph. You can't even find it.
Joe
Hold on.
Debo
You know how much they said that gonna cost? They say that gonna be like 800,800, 000. They say it's 12, 000 round trip, bro. Every day. 60, 60, 67, 68, something like that. Whatever, whatever. Whatever it was trips or whatever it may be, however it. I don't do. I don't know this, this crazy thing.
Joe
And JJ Reddit,
Debo
Wilt Chamberlain, helicopter. Did they even have helicopters back then?
Joe
No, I think.
Debo
What are you talking about, Joe?
Joe
Well, he does. He did it on the train. He took the train. Train. He took the train. And JJ Reddit. I think Jerry Reddit had a. I think JJ Reddit took a I think he drove. But they, they lived in New York. They still made it.
Debo
It's a 35 to 50 minute. 50 minute flight.
Joe
35 minutes.
Debo
Helicopter.
Joe
He's gonna have a different helicopter than that. Than. Than the seaplane. He's gonna have. I understand what you said, helicopter. Yeah.
Debo
You got a big old helicopter. But I'm saying like, Joe, I'm. I'm not, I'm not. I'm not flying. Why'd you just come back to the land, Joe? You wanna, you wanna fly? You could have.
Tab Ramos
What?
Debo
He could have came back to the land.
Joe
So back to the land. And we would have been on the floor, Debo.
Baker Mayfield
We would.
Debo
Joe, you will never get floor seats in Cleveland again. I'm telling you that right now, brother.
Joe
What are you talking about?
Debo
Dan Gilbert is not giving you floor seats again after this.
Joe
Fine. You're just going to tell me you're crazy. You trying to put.
Debo
You just said Brian over everybody.
Joe
I do say that. That is true. That is true.
Tab Ramos
Bron.
Joe
Bron bronze. That's my good man. But after, after that, who do you have see, do you have a favorite player that you're passionate about like this? No.
Debo
Over who?
Joe
Over who's your favorite player of all time?
Debo
I ain't gonna lie. I never really had a favorite player.
Joe
What I'm saying, that's what I'm saying. It's all good though. It's all good though. Oh, good.
Debo
But here it goes. If as you. As you know, I'm Jordan, I think Jordan is the best ever to do it.
Joe
Okay.
Debo
If it was Jordan playing against. Say Pittsburgh had a basketball team.
Joe
Okay, it's Pittsburgh.
Debo
Cause I'm real home team. You fronting, false flagging.
Joe
There's only been one player that made me. Well, actually when it was Jordan. I'm a player kind of guy. Maybe when I was a kid. Maybe that's why.
Debo
That's what it is.
Joe
Maybe that's why. Michael Big. I just individual. I just like the individual. And I'll follow my favorite guys wherever they go. I like you. I like what I wait, Boom. I'm gonna follow you wherever you go. That's kind of how I was. So that's if that's Jakey. I mean, I like the player. You know what I'm saying? Good. Boom.
Debo
That's janky. That's super janky. That's the jankiest thing I'd have never heard of Joe. That's jankier than your hip.
Joe
That's just.
Debo
I'm just telling you, Joe. But man, let's stay with these super chats, man. Look at this. What is that? CT Saints. I don't even know what that is. He got $2. He said, Joe is brown over the land. You right. Everybody know he's an individual.
Tab Ramos
Hold up.
Debo
That's Dan Gilbert didn't say that. Hold on, hold on.
Joe
No, that's not. Hold on.
Debo
He just texted me. Hold on.
Joe
Oh, he's not. See, my good man ct.
Debo
He tell Joe he needs to call me if he thinks he go ever get floor seats again.
Joe
There's nobody else. Nobody else that I could even think about rooting for over the land than LeBron James. LeBron James started out at the land, so he put. He just made it. It was all together. Everything rolled in. Woods, listen. And I got drafted there to the land.
Debo
To the land. You got drafted there to the land. But you go, go again.
Joe
I landed in the land for a man.
Debo
You will go against the land for a man. He was flying past me with the land.
Joe
He was flying past me in the air to Miami. So I didn't even get to see him my first years there. It was me.
Debo
You got a tv, don't you?
Joe
Yeah. That's when I was rocking with the Heat. I was.
Bobby Bones
He.
Joe
I was a Heat bronze. I was a Bronze fan because he's playing for the Heat, but I was Cavs, Anderson, Bearjow, Baron Davis. Rocking the Baron Davis beard to the Games.
Debo
What beard you got? He never had a beard. Oh, you mean a fake beard. Okay, I'm tripping. Okay, how about. Say, Joe, you ain't never had no beer. What you talking about? You out here. You out here. You on them drugs.
Tab Ramos
Oh, man.
Joe
Real good.
Debo
Covenant life. She back. $10. She said, welcome back, Debo and Joe. We missed y' all so much, I almost had to start listening to Brown's podcast.
Joe
Ah, yep.
Debo
Then I remembered I have standards. Joe. She has standards. Glad the show is back for show come to life again. She said. She said Tua went to Magic City. That's why listen. That's why it's back. It's tight and. Or they know the first game is the Steelers, and that defense is about to put the one hit a quitter on his one hit away from that blue tent. Yeah, yeah. He won't hit. Listen, I listen. That ain't right. But the game is rough.
Joe
Hey, it's a tough game.
Debo
He knowing like, yo, and my back get tight now I could, you know, possibly not have to play against them Pittsburgh Stills about to be real. Coming to life. She back Again, coming alive. Hey, she said the Browns have the first chance of picking their place at the beach in Cancun. Love you, Joe.
Joe
Dang. Coveted.
Debo
That's it. That's the real life.
Joe
Oh, that's some real life. No, she. What you're not realizing.
Debo
Hey, Covenant, did y' all send you your jersey yet?
Joe
Covenant got two Steelers jerseys from me. I gotta steal. Senator Browns one
Debo
you got on right now.
Joe
She don't want no brown jersey.
Debo
She want to burn it up on tv.
Joe
Disrespectful. Coveted life. Sending us to Cancun before the season started.
Debo
Y' all know y' all already had y' all truck shipped and ready to go before December, man.
Joe
Listen, Shador was there during rookie minicamp, okay? They're getting the play calls down. We're going to average at least 23 points a game this year, okay? That's all I'm telling you.
Debo
Well, she said no. She did not get her jersey yet anyway. That's a no.
Joe
She keep on talking crazy about the Browns, though. God, why is why so reckless?
Tab Ramos
Why?
Debo
Why? Why do you care? You don't even care about the city of Cleveland like you said.
Joe
No, I do. Don't do that just because there's one. There's a brawn that I'm rocking with.
Debo
Hey, hey, listen, listen, Joe.
Joe
Oh, crazy like. Oh, no.
Debo
If it's just one, it's okay, right? If it's just one, it's okay, right? Is that what you're saying? There's one. What if it's just one? Just one person that you know you. You against everybody for you just for that one person, it's okay. Even though you claim to be the land. You claim to be the land. The city that drafted you.
Joe
Yeah.
Debo
Took a chance on you when nobody else.
Baker Mayfield
Joe.
Joe
The land rock with me. Cause they know how I feel about them. Everybody be always trying to.
Debo
But they don't know how you feel about them right now. They thought you felt the way they felt about you, but they saying that's not true.
Joe
To know the land is feeling how much love I have for them right now. To know that what where the love at? You said Brian over everything is bronze in the land. Oh, like to know that we're. Come on.
Debo
Hey, Joe. Hey, Joe.
Baker Mayfield
You know we.
Debo
Hey, Joe.
Joe
Huh?
Debo
If something was to happen, Joe. And we were to get into altercation.
Joe
Yes.
Debo
And I'm like, joe, you my brother. I got your back no matter what. But it end up being Brian. And I like. And I, I, I ain't there for You. Because I'm like, you know what, man? I can't. I can't do nothing for you, man. You shouldn't have did whatever you did. You on your. You solo by yourself, man. Him and his team, they go just stomp lights out.
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Debo
I'm gonna go ahead and watch it. Hey, really? You ain't really my brother like that then, is you? How many. How many. How many times you done sat down and ate with Brown? How many times you done sat down and had and talked and talked about the word? How many times you don't sat down and had conversations with him about his cheering?
Joe
Let me tell you something. I had a couple of times. But this is what I'm gonna tell you. I would never let nobody put their hands on you. I don't care who it is, okay?
Debo
That's how the land feel about you. I'd be like, you don't feel like that about them.
Joe
Joe, he was ready to jump on you. I'd be like, bro, that's Debo. You better not jump on him. But he jump on us. That's what I tell him. See, people don't do that. You see, that's. There you go.
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Joe
You have to put
Tab Ramos
each other.
Joe
You ready to go?
Debo
I gotta find something. I gotta find something.
Tab Ramos
Joke.
Joe
How can I make Joe want to fight?
Debo
I gotta find some
Joe
depot, bro. I gotta watch you.
Debo
I'm telling you. Oh, my goodness, brother. Listen here, baby. We got some. We got some good stuff coming up here next week. I think we got hottie and up next week. I think that may be Tuesday. Hopefully we'll be at a Steelers training camp for a couple days, uh, the week after that. But yeah, we. We got some. We got some stuff going on for you.
Bobby Bones
Hold up.
Debo
Covenant. Like she back again. $10. She said should door. Oh, man, she's got purchase the Browns Christmas cards already.
Joe
Christmas gifts. She trying to play first.
Debo
The grounds Christmas gifts already. Hold on. Yeah, these chairs and umbrellas. I want. I want the Browns jersey because I know you're going to the hall of Fame as a Brown. That's the only reason she want the jersey.
Baker Mayfield
She.
Joe
She can't just be nice. We got to put all.
Debo
She said she want the jersey because she know that's nice saying you're going to go in the hall of Fame as a Brown. That's why she wants the jersey going
Joe
to make sure that she has to start it off with the beach chairs and the gifts to make sure that she gonna be like, everything's not gonna be nice Beach Chairs and gifts for Shador because we going to Cancun.
Debo
Why is that something crazy like, that's nice to do to like as a. Like to purchase for like, like the Browns, like the weeds. That's. Wouldn't you. If I send you a beach chairs and umbrella, you go take it because you like to go to the beach, right?
Joe
Yeah, but it's the purpose.
Debo
It's like used to going to the beach in January.
Joe
Send it to me saying like, oh, you're not going to be in the playoffs. You're going to be in Cancun. That's what makes it, you know, you look at.
Debo
Oh, my bad. I'm sorry. I didn't. I didn't interpret it, though.
Joe
You're not going to be in the playoffs. Early trip.
Debo
No, I didn't. I didn't interpret it that way. I didn't. I'm sorry.
Joe
You're mathematically eliminated. Here goes. A lawn chair.
Debo
I mean, y' all usually are by December, so, I mean, it's not really a lie, man.
Joe
Y' all wild.
Debo
I'm just saying. Joe, look here, man. Ladies and gentlemen, we want to thank you for joining us on this episode of Debo and Joe. Please make sure you, like, subscribe, download where you get your show. Hit the like button. Hit the like button, Joe.
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No.
Joe
We'll see you guys on Monday, same time, same place. Let's get it.
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Wait, I came in for two things. How is this $47?
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Date: July 31, 2026
In this high-energy, characteristically unfiltered Nightcap episode, Deebo and Joe dive into the latest buzzing NFL storylines. The main focuses are Baker Mayfield’s frustration with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers over his contract situation and Tua Tagovailoa’s back injury at Falcons camp. The conversation winds through NFL contract dynamics, player leverage, personal stories, and playful home-team debates—delivering instant takes, savvy stats, and locker-room banter.
Baker’s Discontent ([03:12]):
“It’s been some of the best years of my career, and I think it’s only going to trend upwards…To feel undervalued after, you know, thinking you’ve earned it—this is not a ‘poor me’ thing. …I think I’m a franchise quarterback.”
—Baker Mayfield [03:12]
“After today, like, I’ll answer a few more questions about the contract, but after today, I’m not answering anymore because I’m not negotiating anymore.”
—Baker Mayfield [05:14]
Deebo & Joe’s Reactions ([05:41–13:28]):
“The price don't went up, man.”
—Deebo [11:58]
Tua’s Tight Back ([14:02]):
“My back might have got tight too, baby. …It might have been an opportunity, a positional thing that may have tightened his back up.”
—Debo [19:15]
Joe and Deebo Debate Player Leverage ([21:01–26:17]):
“If he came back, that wouldn’t be true, would it, Joe? That wouldn’t be true. If he came back, he didn’t accomplish everything he wanted to.”
—Debo [30:47]
Joe’s Love for LeBron over Cleveland ([33:00–42:51]):
“There's nobody else that I could even think about rooting for over the land than LeBron James. LeBron James started out at the land, so he put—it was all together.”
—Joe [43:30]
Fan Q&A / Super Chats ([43:00–51:05]):
Baker Mayfield on Bucs Negotiations:
“I think I’m a franchise quarterback. …So to not have a deal done is very disappointing.”
—Baker Mayfield [03:12]
Deebo's Mic Drop on Contracts:
“The price don’t went up, man. …He has done outperformed and went healthy.”
—Deebo [11:58]
Joe on NFL Market:
“How is there a wave of money from $0 to $65 million for quarterbacks? That’s crazy.”
—Joe [12:27]
On Tua’s Injury:
“That back tightening up…that’s a hard thing to explain, you know?”
—Debo [15:02]
“If I could start for a professional football team right now, that’s gotta be at least worth 20.”
—Debo [22:51]
Miles Garrett Hopes for Donald’s Return:
“If he’s here, I’m going to be excited to be his teammate…I think we’re going to do great things. But it’s a difficult thing coming back.”
—as paraphrased by Debo [27:40]
On Fandom vs. Hometown Pride:
“My man Bron…from a high school kid has been called the chosen one, and I watched him with my own eyes…this is one of the best basketball players.”
—Joe [33:37]
“You go against the land for a man.”
—Deebo [43:56]
This Nightcap episode is a must-listen for NFL fans who want real talk about football’s business, culture, and personalities. Deebo, Joe, and surprise appearances (voicemails, superchats) deliver sports insight with humor and passion. Whether discussing contracts or clowning Joe’s allegiances, their banter is as entertaining as it is sharp.