Same Old Kevin Stefanski? Cleveland Browns in QB Limbo as He Refuses to Name a Backup vs Steelers

Same Old Kevin Stefanski? Cleveland Browns in QB Limbo as He Refuses to Name a Backup vs Steelers

[Music] What it do? Welcome to another episode of the Ultimate 216 show. I’m Earl and Pearl. That’s Titus Pow. Y’all know the vibes. If you woke up this morning, you already won. I hope you are doing something right now that your future self will thank you for. We got a packed show. We going to introduce two new segments to you around town fair file. And of course, we’re going to start off with reacting to what Kevin Stfansky had to say at his press conference earlier today. Tyus Fairof File on the fly. Better Cleveland R&B singer. Uh, no. Fair file. Gerald Levert is a better singer from the city of Cleveland than Avant. That’s fair. Like you damn right. I understand. I might I might like Avant’s music a little bit better, but if you talking about just pure office singing, Yeah. I’m going with Yeah. Gerald Lever for sure. I think it’s a fact that everybody around our age, men around our age, we ride to like the the the the classic R&B at night when we by ourselves. Is that safe to say? I ride by I ride the classic R&B at night. Now, morning day, if you get in a whip with me, you listening to some 90s and 2000s R&B for sure. Big fact. Big facts, man. Let’s get into the show. It’s a good time to let you know that today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. The NFL season is here. FanDuel is making sure you’re ready for kickoff with can’t miss offers. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. I like to use my uh bonus bets on the anytime touchdowns. is my favorite thing prop bet to bet. So, are you ready to play? Download FanDuel the download the FanDuel app now by visiting fanduel.comuss to get started. That’s fanduel.coms to place your first $5 bet. So, Kevin Stfansky spoke to the media earlier today and it kind of came off as same old same old. And I and I ain’t gonna lie, I kind of set myself up for for the woo this time because I should have known better, right? Like I really went into the day thinking Kevin Stfans is gonna tell us clearcut who who QB2 is on this team, but instead he did not. Man, I got two uh screenshots. This is what Zack Jackson tweeted out after the press conference. He said uh first the Flaco trade took them by surprise. They called us. happen very fast. As far as week 2 QB goes, still working through all roster type things with young players. I’m always mindful of their development. Let the week play out and make a decision on that. Then, uh, he followed up with this. Asked about practice reps this week for the potential QB2. Need to work through it all. Really like the guys we have. Just need to work through it. Kevin Stfansky Stfansky essentially said nothing. So, he leave us room to speculate. How how frustrating is this for you or for the fan base? Like when you hear constantly kind of Kevin put himself in situations that it create more questions than answers. How did that how does that make you feel? I’m not frustrated. I mean, I understand why the the average fan might be frustrated by it, but I’m not because like I know him. Like you kind of know him. You know what he Kevin says a lot without saying a lot. Like if you know him and you just know his tendencies and how he talks, you ab you absolutely can under read straight through the lines of what this is saying. Like he’s literally saying Bailey Zappy’s going to be the quarterback, too, because he wants to trust he has his his mind made up of what Shadur Sanders needs to to be successful in this league. And he wants to stick to that process no matter what. So to me, essentially, this is looking like a red shirt type year for him, but he might get like the last one or two games. That’s kind of how this thing has been playing out. That’s how they’ve been going about it. If you listen to Jason, if you listen to Zack, if you listen to anybody that covers the Browns, they continuously tell you that Jadur is clearly at the bottom of the depth chart and they’re not hiding it. you know, it’s just some and it’s not fair because us fans want to see him out there, but clearly there’s something that he’s not doing or he’s not grasping or something’s going on to where they’re not trusting that he’s ready to go out there and they don’t want to put him out there if they feel he’s not truly ready. Now, everybody will go back to the preseason games, you know, against the Carolina Panthers, but again, that was against the twos. You know, that was against the twos and that’s against a Carolina Panthers team who’s obviously not doing that well this season. So, you know, it’s not a lot it’s not a lot of stock there. I just thought that he he it just showed that he could throw a really good ball. He can thread the needle in tight windows and things like that. But then the Rams game is the one again, that one’s the one that one’s more detrimental because nobody on that that he played is on the team. I don’t I don’t even know if anybody he played with is on the team. But that’s not even that’s not the point there. The fact that he looked that bad against that terrible of competition is the red flag that everybody keeps ignoring, you know, and we don’t want to ignore it. Again, I’m with everybody else. I want to see I’m ready to throw my wrist up, too. But for some odd reason, they they see something in him that they feel like he’s not ready. And they just they don’t care what the fan base is saying. They just don’t want to put him out there because they don’t feel he’s ready. But I just I think that we going to see him eventually because the fact that the the owner has said that you will see him at some point in this season. So we will see him. But I think this Sunday and for a couple of weeks, they probably gonna roll Bayy Zafy at quarterback, too. All right. So, for me, it’s a lot to unpack from what you just said. I I kind of go backwards. I agree with the fact that if he’s not listening to the fan base and he’s focusing on going about it his way, then that’s what you should be doing as a head coach because if you start listening to us, you gonna be sitting next to us. That’s just the facts, right? But like, bro, to me it’s like, okay, if if you know Bailey Zappy is your is your backup quarterback, if you feel more comfortable with him being a veteran, you know, like for whatever reasons that you have, I feel like you do yourself and everybody else some service by just coming out and saying that, right? Like you leave so much room for speculation and whatifs or people for for people to create whatever narrative by not just keeping it real. And I ain’t saying that he need to come out here and be all the way transparent about what’s what. But it’s almost like, man, you welcome the drama. You know, we going to talk about it. You know, we going to write about it. You know, it’s going to be people out here that’s going to spin it, create whatever narrative that they have based on whatever agenda that they already have. And I I just feel like personally as a as the head coach of this team, you can do yourself and your team some favors, man, by just being more forthcoming about what your plan is. Because see that that’s not fair though because is who’s to say that he’s not having those conversations. So like, okay, let’s say this. Let’s say you and I had let’s say you and I had a disagreement, right? And but you and I talked about it behind closed doors. And when I went out in the public and they asked me it, I said very little to nothing about it. But then you see people come out and make up their own stories. Would that bother you? Because it’s like you but you know the real you know what it is because you and I have already talked about it. So would you even care that they people come out with their own narratives? I kind of get triggered a lot. So I like I’m keeping it in the book. like I would probably be annoyed. But like like I said, let’s use the same let’s let’s use the same scenario. I could be transparent without telling you nothing. Me and Tyus talk everything cool. So if if if we go about it that way, if they paint whatever picture they want to paint behind that, I at least gave you something that you can really stamp. We talk. Everything is cool. Everything I gave you is accurate information. Everything I gave you is fact. Put the Put the quote back up again from Zack. Which one? Quote one or quote two. The first one. Put the first one back up. There it is right there. The bot the last quote at the bottom. Still working through all roster type things with young players. I’m always mindful of their development. Let the week play out and make a decision later on. That tells you right there. That telling me quarterback too. Just so maybe I’m naive. Maybe I just told you the answer. You just don’t want to hear it. That’s what it is. Maybe maybe like I maybe I shouldn’t maybe like I’m looking for Ken like okay I see what you said I can read between the lines but I’m like bro just say it bro I don’t see that do you agree with it let fact hypothetically though that’s his decision right but no before we get to that point because a lot on today’s show and if y’all missed today’s show go check it out it it it was lit Shador is not ready and I I thought about this a lot because when you disengage emotionally and you separate fact from your own personal feelings, it can do you some justice, especially us who do this job. Yeah. And I was just thinking about a few things. Like it’s two sides to every coin. On one side of the coin, as a fan or just a person with common sense, I want to believe that nobody inside the Cleveland Browns organization is gonna operate like I’mma I’mma cut my nose to spite myself, right? Like just to save face, right? That’s not how they strike me as people who move. If Shador Sanders is the person that gives you the best opportunity to win, you know, jobs is on the line, etc., Why would you not put him out there if it’s going to benefit you and your team, right? And so it’s like, okay, could he very well not be ready to play right now? And even if he is not ready to play, that’s okay. But I guess what I have a hard time wrapping my mind around, and maybe you could help me on this, is I go back to the preseason when Andrew Barry was like he’s learning a brand new language, right? It’s like asking him to speak fluid Mandarin or something like that on the fly. Bro, his last two years at Colorado, Pat Shurmer was his OC. And so, let’s say he’s not ready. I don’t think that’s totally on Shadore if that’s the case. Because essentially what you saying is Deion Sanders runs a program at Colorado. and his offensive coordinator are not equipped to get quarterbacks ready for the next level of play, which is the NFL. I just find it hard to believe basically that you had a former head coach, NFL head coach, former NFL offensive coordinator as your OC and like is this hard to catch on? That make sense? Yeah. No, I that that makes a lot of sense. But I’m gonna take you back to something that Tom Brady said. You know, Tom Brady was asked, I don’t know if it was a year ago or two years ago, and he basically was talking about why young quarterbacks struggle, you know, why is it that we seeing these young guys come into the league and they’re not ready to play right away? Why does it take so long for them to figure it out? And, you know, he had a lot obviously his one of his reasons was, you know, these guys are jumping program to program and all of those things, but he he really went in on the coaching. He’s saying it. He said the development of players is not as good as it once was. For example, like if you look at if you look at colleges nowadays, like some coaches take it’s different. They got the headsets now, but some a lot of programs took the thinking out for quarterbacks. You ever seen you ever watch a college game and the the team gets up to the line and then the whole team they fake the snap and then the whole team look to the sideline? They look to the sideline. Everybody look to the sideline. That’s that’s telling you that the quarterback can’t process things. So, the coach has to look at what the thing is and then put them in the right formation and tell them what to do because the quarterback isn’t going through those things. I personally think that’s a huge disservice. I’m not saying that’s what happened at Colorado because it wasn’t. I I don’t think I don’t recall them doing that. I’m just giving you an example of how quarterbacks are not being prepared properly. So with that being said, to fast forward to Shadore, I think that Shadore, like I’m not gonna say Pat Shurmer didn’t teach him the same thing because they say Pat Kevin learned under Pat Shurmer. But things change, you know, languages change, you know, maybe that worked. They maybe they said it in a way that he could get it in Colorado, but in the NFL, it’s not I’m about to tell it to a way you can get it. It’s you need to learn my way, you know. So maybe I’m I’m It’s not like Shador things like that. But maybe he just don’t understand like we called it this but they call it that and I’m struggling with that. I’m just pulling for straws here. But that’s that’s something that could be a thing. I just think that Shadore just got to continue to do what he’s doing. Just go in there. And I think that the reason that Kevin is so hesitant, honestly, the reason why I believe Kevin so hesitant to put the Shador in is because the DTR. the way the DTR thing panned out. This was their fifth round pick. I we threw him in there. He wasn’t ready and his career is done because of that. You know, he never bounced back. And I think Kevin is so scarred from doing that that he refuses to do it again. And if he got to be painted as the villain, he’s going to sit there and take them bullets because he not about to put this man in there if he truly in his heart don’t feel that that guy is ready. Because this the thing, this the thing, this the part that I don’t understand. So, from a fan base, from a fan base, why wouldn’t the Browns want Shador to be the guy? They wouldn’t want him to be the guy. You know how much money, how many, how much people will come to the game, how much national attention you get, you will want this guy to be the guy. So, if they not put them on the field, it’s not because they have a narrative against him. It’s because he’s not right. Like, just that’s the way I look at it. Because there’s no reason why you wouldn’t want this guy to be the guy. like you know how much comes with that like all the attention prime time games all of that you would get all of that if he became a starting quarterback. So, I think like to to your point, it does speak to a bigger issue because as you was talking like you know how many college games I done seen and they looking over to the sideline and sometimes they got cars held up like Yeah. Like they got Q cards held up and a whole nine. But like I’ve heard a lot of podcasts lately talk about the language and being adaptive, right? And how simplifying football so you can play faster. And a lot of coaches have this mentality to where I’m going to teach you my way. You got to learn it my way. And I’m not saying like I’m trying to give the players a pass for like not trying to be adaptive to the learning style, but I feel like as a leader, like you got to like you got to be adaptive too. And in order sometimes to kind of like to get the best out of people, you got to get on their level. Like we both got kids, right? So like sometimes I’ve been 17 before. My daughter ain’t never been 37. So sometimes I kind of got to get on her level to simplify my message if I want to get through to her. That might be too strong of an of an analogy. But I feel like not just Kevin Stfansky, it’s a lot of coaches out here that got this language today to their to their playbook or the sophistication to their offense. And if they know players are not being developed like they once used to, then why not simplify everything so it’s not so much you thinking. You just read and react and you can play faster. I think that if Shadore Sanders was the guy like let’s say let’s say that Bailey Zappy wasn’t on the roster and let’s say Dylan Gabriel got hurt. Kevin wouldn’t have a choice but to do that. But because he’s not quarterback one right now, he’s not my priority right now. especially in season. This is some offseason stuff that we talking about. You can do that. You have time to sit down and explain it in a way that he get it. But during the season, I I I have to get the team ready to go. So, I don’t have time to just go talk to the second string or third string quarterback to make sure he’s ready. Like that. That’s like I understand that. Like I understand that from a football standpoint. Like I ain’t got time to be really sitting there talking to the backup. Like I’m trying to get the the starter ready to go. And on top of that, in in this case, it’s another rookie that I’m trying to get ready to go. So, like, I don’t have time to sit down and and and try to teach Shador these things. So, I I can’t fault Kevin for that. Like, that’s that’s part of the business. No, like I guess like that wasn’t even necessarily just to Kevin. It’s that’s an assistant coach that need to do that because it’s like, man, you look around the league and it’s like, man, this is this ain’t just a Cleveland problem. That’s a problem everywhere. But as we move on, y’all let us know what y’all think, man. Did Kevin Stfansky’s vague answer show you that he’s keeping his options open or that the Browns still don’t have a plan at the backup QB? Remember, like, subscribe to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Ring the bell to stay into the know of everything we got going on. Also, Sunday, October 11th, we are doing a live Browns postgame show from Sweet Pork Wilson’s. It’s gonna be me, Mikey McNuggets, and G. Bush. Pull up on us, man. We’ll be there watching the game. Going live at the two-minute warning, eating some good food. Might even have a shot or two. I’m just saying. Just saying. You getting that new hand from Bra? No, man. I drink I don’t drink Kgnac. I drink tequila or whiskey. Still drink that dart. Nah. No. Dangerous situation right there, man. Don’t nothing good come from that, man. Don’t nothing good come from that. So, we decided to kind of bring our own little variation of uh no offense riders or pick or choose. It’s a game that everybody know. I call it fair file. It’s one of those things to where it’s like you got Pepsi and Coke. They taste similar. They just kind of call it their own thing. That’s what we doing here with Fair File. And what we going to do is we gonna pick a game. Right now, we in football season. So, we gonna use the Browns Steelers game week six. It might be a Cavs game that’s on later on at night when the season started. You never know. and we gonna come up with like three or four impact questions and we gonna ask Fairfile give a short assessment of why we answered the way we answered. Are you ready? Let’s roll. All right. Number one, the Browns come to Pittsburgh with a 21game regular season losing streak in the city of Pittsburgh. The last time they beat the Steelers there was October 5th, 2003. The score was 33-13. Fair or foul, the Browns snapped the streak this week in Pittsburgh. I mean, from from from what all the information that we got going on right now, it’s foul. It’s very foul. However, I can’t ignore the fact that in football, especially NFL football, on any given Sunday, any team can beat any team. But it doesn’t look good for us. Let’s just So, I’m going to go with foul right now. Yeah, man. When I read this stat, I called two people to double check to make sure like, you know, like I wasn’t getting false internet information here. Like, that that’s crazy. October 5th is my daughter’s birthday, man. But she was born 2011. That’s wild. 2003, bro. You know what was going on? That like we started his career in 03, bro. Bro, we haven’t won in Pittsburgh in 21 years. Well, that’s not true. We won the the playoffs. That’s why I said regular season. Outside of that, that’s that’s pathetic. I’m not gonna lie to you. That’s pathetic. All good things must come to an end at some point, though. Yeah. I’mma go ahead and go file myself, man. It seem like we got a lot of drama going on over here in Cleveland. We don’t really know what’s what. And Pittsburgh, like they coming off a bye-week. Mike Tomlin had a week of film on a rookie quarterback. I just don’t think this is gonna be the week that the Cleveland Browns snap that streak. But you know, there’s always next year. As they say, there’s always next year. Number two, Quinn Sean Junkkins became the first player in Browns history with at least 70 yards from scrimmage in each of his first four games. Mike Tomlin called him a complete back. Fair foul. Juckens gained 70 yards from scrimmage on Sunday against the Steelers. That’s fair. That’s going to happen. I mean, they they gonna spam him. And you know, Steelers defense has gotten better over the past couple of weeks, but at the beginning of the season, they were not the steel curtain. And one thing the Browns can do effectively, at least decently, is run the ball. And Quinnshine got an attitude to him. So, I I can definitely see him getting 70 yards. No, same here, man. Like, Quinn Sean is a straightup beast, bro. Like, I don’t really know how else to put it. Like, he’s a rookie running back. He’s very patient when he run the ball. He’s a physical runner. He can run inside, outside. I think he can be a a three down back. Truthfully, I think he got the physicality and the size to be able to pick up on a pass blocking. I mean, he played at Ohio State. I believe he got a high football IQ right now. Without a doubt, Quinn Sean Jugens our overall best player on offense. That’s a easy fair. Oh, easy money. Yeah, easy money. Easy money. Number three, Dylan Gabriel threw for 190 yards and two Tutties in his NFL debut. The Steelers defense allows around 260 yard passing yards per game, while the Browns have not topped 200 yards passing since week one. The irony, Joe Flacco threw for 290 yards against his current team, the Cincinnati Bengals. Fair or foul, Dylan Gabriel will crack 200 yards passing versus the Steelers this Sunday. This is a tough question. This is a tough question. Is Joey Porter Jr. gonna still be out? Because I think Joey Porter Jr. is playing this week. I think they get him back this week. I can double check while you ask. Yeah, he ain’t getting it. With our tackle situation, too, he ain’t getting it. Nope. Uh, we got a report here from NBC Sports. 23 hours ago. Arrow is pointing up for the return of Alex Heismith, uh Joey Porter Jr., and Jaylen Warren against the Cleveland Browns. So, we just get to try. Everybody come back. Like, he he he gonna throw for about a buck 70. Buck 60. Buck 70. Yeah, I’mma go foul on that as well. Listen, man, the offense is just too conservative. I think it was like 4.8 eight yards per play last week. He was two for 10 on air yards that traveled over 10 yards. And like you talk about the the tackle play. I just feel like Kevin Stfansky is going to do what he did last week to protect his rookie quarterback, put him in a situation to where he can be serviceable and just move the chain some. So, it’s going to be hard to come about them yards this upcoming Sunday in Pittsburgh. Uh let’s get to number four on this. This one should be a good one. Of Miles Garrett’s 13 career sacks in 14 games against the Steelers, five of those sacks have come in the city of Pittsburgh. He’s had three multi-sack games at home, but none on the road. So far, Miles Garrett records a multi-sack game on Sunday in the city of Pittsburgh. It’s the long pause. He think he the rock. I’m talking about You know what? He gonna have to he have if they want a chance to win this game. He gonna have to. And A-Rod is getting older. He got a little juice to him. He still can move around a little bit, but he ain’t going to be able to maneuver out maneuver Mount. So, I’mma I’mma say one and a half count as as a multi-sack. Yeah, man. All right, let’s go. Let me go Let’s go one and a half. Yeah, I’mma go with fair for the same reasons, man. Aaron Rogers just can’t move like that. I know for the last two games, I felt like the opposing coach has done a good job of kind of neutralizing Miles Garrett. I think last year he had like I mean last week he had like one pressure, you know, I thought Kevin Okcono did a good job of scheming that up, but this is a division rival. This is the pitcher Steelers and these are the type of games that Miles Garrett get up for. And plus that defensive front that he’s playing with is better than at any other point in his career. So I’mma say fair. He get a double a double a multi-sack game. I’mma up your one and a half to two sacks. I’mma I know I know he gonna go off at this game. I’mma tell you why. Did you see the Juan Thornhill and Cam Hayward uh video I sent to the group chat where they asked who’s better between Miles and TJ and Juan said TJ is better. No, I didn’t see that. Oh man. I And I said dude on dog food. Dude, he on food for that. So my house is definitely going to turn up because every time they play each other, it’s like beef. So he definitely going to turn up and have a multi-se game. Hey, you know how I like it. American gangster. Anytime somebody uh disrespected Denzel, he just My man, my man. My man. All right, man. We’re almost segment to go, man. Again, subscribe to the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. We got all the Ultimate Showers jumping off on a Wednesday. You probably done already watched the Ultimate Cavs. You watching the Ultimate 216 show now. in an hour from now. Tyus, you, Dustin Fox, y’all gonna shoot the ultimate Buckeye show. What’s coming up? What’s on top? We just previewing the Illinois game, talking about Ohio State’s defense, offense, you know, what we expect to see, what challenges that Illinois poses, and you know, where how does Ohio State stack up around the rest of the teams around the country? Is there really a big gap between them, Miami and Oregon, or is that just the national narrative? There it is, man. Make sure y’all check that out. 600 p p.m. on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show YouTube channel. So, as a couple dudes from the inner city of Cleveland and we trying to find some new structure to the show. Y’all let us know what y’all think. We going to call this around town. Basically, we find two or three things that’s either sports, uh, entertainment or culture and we just kind of throw them out there and we just share whatever random thought that we have that jump in our head. The first one, couple couple cats, man. a OG and somebody currently in the game making headways. Man, Cleveland uh is is a prime spot for the music scene at times tonight. Ice Cube. Yay. Yay. No. One of the best diss songs ever. But Ice Cube was performing tonight live at Rocket Arena this Saturday. Kevin Gates will be here at Rocket Arena performing live. thoughts on Ice Cube and Kevin Gates coming to our city to put on the show this week. That’s love, man. Uh Q, obviously, everybody been fans of Q for a long time with the NWA and then him going solo. It’s nice that he pulling up to the city. I feel like I never really seen him in Cleveland like that. You know, all that West all that Westside stuff. He finally making his way to the east or to the Midwest. Like I can’t quote many Ice Cube lyrics, but I can quote a Ice Cube line from any movie you wanted. Listen, is he playing the old bangers? Is he playing Good Day and Check Yourself and Novas? I could quote those. I could quote the No, I could quote the ones that everybody know, but I can’t go through his I ain’t gonna act like I can go through his catalog and just go post. Yeah. But uh it’s funny though because it’s like you think about his movie lines like either they don’t know don’t show. Yeah, man. Yeah. So I’m I’m I’m excited for that. And Kevin Gates Kevin Gates is a dude that I’m like like I listen to his music but like that ain’t you know that ain’t he wild bro. Dude dude dude dude be out of line sometimes. Right. But I like like sometimes he one of them people like I be feeling what he be saying sometimes but then his other times I’m like dude what are you doing like that like the brun thing like the Savannah thing. Yeah I understand that man man like come on man. So like if people want to go see I like when I go see Kevin G. Yeah. Do I know some songs? Sure. He got some vaggers but like that ain’t nothing that I’m pressed to go see. I don’t really disagree with you. Second one. This one right here, man. You know, like, bro, we gotta give it up, bro. Like, like like, like, we gotta let it go. So, apparently the city of Cleveland is suing ODOT over stadium permits, man, claiming it wrongly issued a construction permit tied to the brows new stadium. It could delay or reshape the team’s lakefront lo uh relocation. Like, the city just don’t want to let this go, bro. Like, they find they trying to find any and every loophole, period. And like I’m laughing, bro. But before you go, you know what pisses me off about this, man? Y’all got money to file all these lawsuits, man. Like, like the homeless problem is real. Like, like the people not being able to have food in the city of Cleveland. That’s real. Take that money and do something for your people, man. And let Jimmy Hasslam and them folks be, bro. You fighting a battle that you not gonna win. I don’t understand. He paying for it, ain’t he? Hey, you know the question, man. It is what it is at this point. Like, let it go. Like, we need to talk about what we going to do with the stadium. Knock it down. We gonna make it a nice lakefront. Let’s talk about cleaning the lakes. Let’s talk about the homeless. Let’s talk about feeding the poor. Let’s talk about that, man. Like, if that man taking his own money and he buying and doing that stuff, I know we supposed to be giving what, like 600,000 or something? 600 million or something like that. and he’s supposed to be paying 600 million towards whatever happens with the old stadium. So basically he paying the money back. Like it’s over with, bro. Like the dome is what it is. Like let’s just let’s just move on. It’s over. Finally, tomorrow night, man, from 7 to 11:00 p.m. at the Great Lakes Science Center, uh there will be something called the Best of Cleveland Party. I believe this is a a party that’s hosted by Cleveland Scene Magazine. It’s an annual celebration. Uh people like DJ DJ EV, Bad Guju Cleveland, Hayden Grove. Y’all all know Hayden Grove will be performing. It’s going to be over 75 local vendors there showcasing the city’s top food, drinks, and culture. Tickets range from 70 to $120. And they say right now it is near a sellout. That sound like it’s a cool event. No, it is. I like the fact that it’s got like the Cleveland artists in there. Look at He Man, they doing this thing. Got DJ E. [Music] It’s lit, bro. You know, you gonna have vendors like No fork there. You probably gonna have Sub City up in that joint. Like, hold on. If they gonna pull like artists like that, then I need like Royal Royalty Camp. I need I need Puga. I need Corey Bates. I need Fat Fat Out. We need all of Bossberg. All of Bossberg up in there. Like we gonna do it. Let’s do it right. Hey, can you imagine if Corey Bates came? It’s the Corey Bates. Oh my god. Get drunk. Hey, they ever put an event like that. I’m coming. All right, I’m I’m calling off work next day. I’m definitely pulling up to that. I need to hear Hayden Grove sing cuz we stay balling. He don’t know nothing about no cuz we stay balling, but he don’t fit. He don’t know nothing about that, man. Shout out to my homie Blows, man. Hey, Boss Bird is having an event too on the 17th uh at the beachland uh right there on Waterl, man. So, shout out to him. Shout out to Bossberg, bro. They’ve been going hard since we was like in seventh, eighth grade. They’ve been doing this, bro. Shout out to them, man. Shout out to y’all for watching. Y’all know the vibes, man. Thanks for always tuning in. Tuning in to the Ultimate 216 show. Be great. Spread love. Remember, being great come with a price. Spread love is priceless. To next week, I’m Earl of Pearl. That’s Titus Pow. We out. Peace. [Music]

Kevin Stefanski met with the media on Wednesday and once again left Browns fans guessing. After admitting the Joe Flacco trade to Cincinnati “took us by surprise,” Stefanski wouldn’t name a backup quarterback behind rookie starter Dillon Gabriel — saying only that he’s “still working through it all.” That uncertainty reignited questions about the Browns’ direction at quarterback and whether the organization truly has a long-term plan.

With a road trip to Pittsburgh looming, Cleveland heads into Week 6 in familiar territory — juggling quarterback questions and public skepticism. Shedeur Sanders and Bailey Zappe are both battling for the QB2 role while Deshaun Watson continues to rehab, leaving fans to wonder who would step in if Gabriel struggles against the Steelers’ defense. In our Fair or Foul segment, we ask: can Dillon Gabriel finally crack 200 yards passing, and will Myles Garrett finally record a multi-sack game in Pittsburgh after years of being shut out on the road?

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