Orange And Brown Talk Podcast

The Browns open training camp Saturday and play a football game in two Thursdays. What better time to throw open the floor and let our Football Insider subscribers ask us whatever they want, football or not. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe take one last opportunity to answer as many random questions as they can before diving headfirst into football until at least January. There are football questions, of course, about Kevin Stefanski's playcalling and his future, the defensive line, Andrew Berry's player acquisitions and Browns goals and priorities this season. There are also plenty of non-football questions. Which non-fiction sports books are must reads? Which 'Succession' character do we most relate to? Who would we want to interview (alive or dead)? It's all covered on this Thursday edition of the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/

The Browns waived second-year defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey on Wednesday morning after details emerged of a disturbing incident he was involved in, resulting in Winfrey being listed as a suspect in an aggravated robbery incident. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe discuss the latest legal issue for Winfrey on Wednesday's Orange and Brown Talk podcast and why the Browns stuck by Winfrey for so long after a season full of maturity issues and a separate incident in Harris County earlier this offseason. Then they look ahead to training camp and discuss what they're looking forward to watching when the Browns finally take the practice field this weekend and beyond. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Expectations are sky high for the Browns with Deshaun Watson back for a full season and talent on both sides of the ball. Are there any excuses left for this team if they fail to meet the expectations? Mary Kay Cabot and Dan Labbe answer questions from our Football Insider subscribers on another Hey, Mary Kay! edition of the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast. They also answer questions about injuries in training camp, whether Nick Chubb could have a big year this year and, of course, talk about those new white helmets. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Training camp week is here and we are back with a brand new Hey, Mary Kay! edition of the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast. Mary Kay Cabot and Dan Labbe start by recapping their time off before they get caught up on some recent news, including DeAndre Hopkins agreeing to sign with the Titans. Should the Browns have gone harder after Hopkins? Then they answer questions from Football Insider subscribers about which players could break out this season, who could become the darling of training camp and who we should temper expectations for this year? They also discuss if there are players on the roster who could be Hall of Famers and touch on the league's gambling policy. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're continuing our 23 questions series on today's Orange and Brown Talk Podcast. Today, our focus is on two of the Browns' most important offensive players, running back Nick Chubb and tight end David Njoku. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe start by discussing Chubb and how his role will evolve in 2023 and the Browns' new-look offense. Will Chubb get more touches in the passing game? Will he take the next step as an all-around back? Then they turn their attention to David Njoku. Will Njoku make a leap playing a full season with Deshaun Watson at quarterback? Will he put his name in the same sentence as some of the top tight ends in the NFL? Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Browns are expecting to contend this year and that means the spotlight will be back on Cade York as he enters Year 2 as the team's kicker. York is the subject of one of our 23 questions for the Browns in 2023. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe start today's Orange and Brown Talk Podcast by discussing York. What impact will Bubba Ventrone have on him? How will York bounce back from an up-and-down rookie season? Then they look at the wide receiver position. What does the future hold for Anthony Schwartz and David Bell. Does either player have a role? Could they both be on the bubble? Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Browns and Bengals both have their franchise quarterbacks in place, so we got the crews from both Orange and Brown Talk and Strictly Stripes together for our third annual NFL quarterback draft. Mary Kay Cabot and Ashley Bastock join Dan Labbe from our Browns beat are joined by Bengals reporters, Andrew Gillis and Mohammad Ahmad for the annual tradition of drafting quarterbacks. The intrigue, of course, is where Joe Burrow and Deshaun Watson land. The five go through three rounds, picking 15 quarterbacks and discuss each one. How high does Burrow go? How much are we betting on Watson's return to pre-Cleveland form? Check out our draft on this special crossover edition of the Orange and Brown Talk and Strictly Stripes podcast. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch

Where do Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski and Bengals head coach Zac Taylor rank among NFL head coaches and AFC North head coaches? It's a question we set out to answer with our third annual NFL coaches draft. Browns reporters Mary Kay Cabot and Dan Labbe are joined by cleveland.com Bengals reporter Andrew Gillis to draft NFL coaches. They go four rounds, picking 12 total. Did Stefanski and Taylor get picked? If so, how high or low did they go? Why did they land -- or not land -- where they did? They pick coaches and discuss their reasoning behind each pick. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The AFC North is loaded as we head into the 2023 season and it's wide open with two clear favorites in the Bengals and Ravens, a sleeper with a high ceiling in the Browns and the Steelers, who are always a difficult team to deal with. In a crossover edition of the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast and Strictly Stripes Podcast, cleveland.com Bengals beat reporter Andrew Gillis joined Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe to draft position groups from the AFC North. They pick 12 position groups and discuss each one as they go along. Find out which team was most represented and see which position are the best in what might be the league's toughest division. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you ready for the first full NFL season in Ohio with legal gambling? On our Friday podcast today, Doug Lesmerises and Dan Labbe got together to figure out some bets they're keeping an eye on as the Browns season approaches. They start by digging through some Browns bets. How bullish do you want to be on this team with Deshaun Watson? Could they win the North? What's the right win total? Could some Browns players win some awards? They throw out some opportunities. Then they look at the NFL and come up with some interesting long shots to watch and some other bets they like. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a while since Doug Lesmerises joined us on the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast and he's back on Thursday and he has some questions. Doug joins Lance Reisland and Dan Labbe to ask questions about the Browns defense and get caught up on concerns and other things he wants to know. Why will Jim Schwartz be better than Joe Woods? Is there more for Myles Garrett to accomplish? How good can the Browns secondary be? Which unit will be better, the offense or the defense. Doug asks and Dan and Lance answer. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Browns have made significant changes on both sides of the ball heading into 2023, whether through player acquisitions, coaching changes or both. It's created a high level of intrigue for what this team can do this season. Cleveland.com's film expert, Lance Reisland, joined Dan Labbe on Wednesday's Orange and Brown Talk Podcast to talk about the 10 players they are most excited to see this season. They do a draft and take turns picking five players each, starting with some obvious choices and then winding through the roster. At the end, they throw out some honorable mention picks, too, including one player they probably should have drafted. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're steering away from football talk on our Monday edition of the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast and we're turning our attention to the Fourth of July. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe decided today would be a great day to do a Fourth of July draft. What are the things we love to do on the holiday? What are the things we love about the holiday? They do a snake draft and pick everything Fourth of July. We're taking the holiday off on Tuesday but will be back on Wednesday with more Browns podcasts -- and make our return to talking Browns and the NFL. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Browns remade defense features a new coordinator in Jim Schwartz who loves the defensive line and the pass rush. You don't hire a racecar driver like Schwartz, though, and then give him a Honda Civic. The Browns went out and traded for Za'Darius Smith and signed Ogbo Okoronkwo to help bolster the D-line around Myles Garrett. Will Smith and Okoronkwo make the impact the Browns are hoping? Mary Kay Cabot and Dan Labbe talked about both pass rushers as they continue our 23 questions series. Will Smith get double digit sacks again and make the Pro Bowl? Will Okoronkwo pick up where he left off from the second half of 2022? Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Browns linebackers were ravaged by injury in 2022 and they're relying on a number of them to return this season and contribute in Jim Schwartz's defense. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe continue their 23 questions series by looking at the team's linebackers and how players will bounce back. They start by talking about how the linebackers will play in Schwartz's scheme and how having an upgraded defensive line will help them. Then they go through the top players at the position and discuss what to expect. Will Anthony Walker Jr. take back over the MIKE linebacker job? What will we say about Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah after this season? What is the future for Jacob Phillips? Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This season ushers in a new era for the Browns defense under Jim Schwartz. How the defensive line performs has made the headlines, but how Schwartz deploys his safeties is another big thing to keep an eye on this season. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe continue their 23 Browns questions series on Wednesday's Orange and Brown Talk Podcast by looking at the safeties and how Schwartz might deploy them. Then they turn their attention to backup quarterback. Is Joshua Dobbs the answer for the Browns? When does Dorian Thompson-Robinson need to take over as the backup to justify the pick? Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Myles Garrett's career in Cleveland is already off to a roaring start. He's broken the team's official sack record and will break the unofficial record soon. He's also getting close to 100 sacks and, two years in a row, logged 16 sacks. Is there another level for Garrett? Will he break his own sack record and finally win that elusive Defensive Player of the Year award? Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe discuss Garrett in their latest 23 questions podcast. Is this the best defensive line he's played on? How will Jim Schwartz impact Garrett? What is the next level for Garrett? They get into all of it on Tuesday's podcast. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's not uncommon for local and national opinions on a team to differ, especially this time of year. Why does it happen? Who's got it right? Mary Kay Cabot and Dan Labbe tackle that question on Tuesday's Hey, Mary Kay! edition of the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast. Our questions came from our Football Insider subscribers. Mary Kay and Dan also answer questions about leadership at the player level and who might step up, who could Browns fans clamor to get the ball more a few weeks into the season and how will Kevin Stefanski and Alex Van Pelt adjust the offense with Nick Chubb and Deshaun Watson together? They even answer questions about naming the dog mascot and how they'll spend time at The Greenbrier. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this summer Friday, we decided to have a little fun. Mary Kay Cabot and Ashley Bastock took questions from our Football Insider Subscribers for an AMA. The two hit on their favorite Cleveland ice cream spots and the latest restaurants they've tried. We're also staying on a music theme this week as they pick their dream concert lineup. There's some football talk mixed in too, as they discuss why they think the NFL John Carroll University pipeline exists since Ashley has some inside knowledge as an alum. They also touch on alternate career paths they think they would be good at, and finally, Mary Kay closes with a fun tidbit from her time covering the team during the Bill Belichick era. Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here for more info and to sign up. Music credit: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's almost that time of year. We are exactly one month away from the Browns beginning training camp and that means it's time to preview their practice schedule. Mary Kay Cabot and Ashley Bastock discuss the schedule for open practices in Berea, and how fans can get free tickets for those eight open sessions. They also discuss Cleveland's decision to begin training camp out of town this year at The Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia with a week of closed practices, and their two joint practices in Philadelphia with the Eagles. The two also get into answering one of their 23 questions ahead of the '23 season. First up, they tackle who will start opposite of Dalvin Tomlinson on the interior defensive line. They make the case for why it could actually be an additional edge rusher in Za'Darius Smith, and all the new alignments they might see. Finally, they break down the latest with Perrion Winfrey and what his role could be after he encountered a legal issue this offseason that charges were dismissed for last we