Orange And Brown Talk Podcast

The Browns escaped Carolina with a win on Sunday thanks to the leg of rookie kicker Cade York. A win's a win, yes, but there were certainly some things to clean up. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe talk about four things the Browns need to fix up prior to Sunday's home opener against the Jets. They get into the passing game, the defense, the operation of things and the special teams. Then they go off the field for a few minutes to discuss what they would put at midfield for the logo and what TV show they would love to watch from the beginning again without any knowledge of what happens. 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

Wednesday marks the start of a new week in the NFL and the Browns officially begin preparing for the Jets in Week 2 today. To get you started, we discuss a few things we're thinking. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe each offer up something on their mind as we look ahead to Week 2. They discuss Jacoby Brissett, the Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt combo and Ashley talks about her takeout on Cade York. You can read it here. Then Lance Reisland joins the show to give us three things from Sunday's game that stood out to him. He discussed the play of the defense, the Browns' ability to run the ball and the missed opportunities on both sides of the ball. 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

Tuesday means the Hey, Mary Kay! edition of the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast. Mary Kay Cabot answers Browns questions from our Football Insider subscribers on this weekly edition of the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast. Today, we start with continuity and whether the Browns could have used a little more time together in the preseason and training camp on the offensive side of the ball? Then the discussion turns to Jacoby Brissett and how the Browns can adjust their passing game to make it run better moving forward. In the second half of the podcast, Mary Kay and Dan Labbe get into how many games the Browns might have won last year if Cade York were the kicker and the two big mistakes the Browns made on defense on Sunday. 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 beat the Panthers, 26-24, on Sunday and did so in dramatic fashion with Cade York kicking a game-winning 58-yard field goal. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe begin our postgame pod there. Then they get into takeaways from Sunday's win, the first opening-week win since 2004. They discuss the performance of the defense and Myles Garrett in shutting Mayfield down. They get into why Mayfield was unable to get going against his former team. Then they talk about play of Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt. Lastly, they discuss the Browns' passing attack and the struggles they had moving the football through the air. 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 face Carolina and their former starting quarterback, Baker Mayfield, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on Sunday at 1 p.m. We're previewing all aspects of Sunday's game on our Friday podcast. We start with the things you need to know for Sunday's game. Then we get into some prop bets for Sunday's game. How many yards for Mayfield? How many carries for Nick Chubb? We get into all of it. Former cleveland.com wirter and current Panthers beat writer Ellis Williams makes his return to the podcast to give us the view from Carolina. Then we make our picks for Sunday's game as well as what we think the Browns record will be this season. This podcast features Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock, Doug Lesmerises, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe. 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 mega

It's our official Browns season preview podcast. Listen back to our live podcast held at the Music Box Supper Club on Wednesday night. Mary Kay Cabot, Doug Lesmerises, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris, Dan Labbe and Lance Reisland took a look ahead at the 2022 Browns. What do the Browns need to do in their first 11 games? What are realistic expectations for Deshaun Watson when he returns? How will we judge Kevin Stefanski on this season? What about Andrew Berry? We also take Q&As. Our film guy, Lance Reisland, stopped by, too, and offered up his analysis on the Browns defensive tackles. Don't worry, you don't need to see the clips to get the gist of what he's talking about. 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 moved on from Baker Mayfield this offseason, but it's left them in a pickle for 2022. They have to play 11 games without their new franchise quarterback, Deshaun Watson. Would they be better off, for this season only, with off-field issues out of the discussion, with the Jacoby Brissett-Deshaun Watson split or Baker Mayfield starting 17 games? That's one of the questions our Football Insider subscribers had for Mary Kay Cabot in the Hey, Mary Kay! edition of the podcast. They also had questions about the leash on Brissett, the importance of the first four games, players we're not talking enough about on offense and defense and more. Are you a die-hard Browns fan? Join us for a free live Orange and Brown Talk Podcast on Sept. 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in person! Hear from cleveland.com sportswriters as they discuss the upcoming season, hot topics and special team analysis. This event has limited seats available. Get your tickets at: https://musicboxcle.com/event/orange-and-brown-talk/ Want to get invol

Browns wide receiver Amari Cooper is about 15 minutes into an interview. He’s just off the practice field, spending extra time to work routes. It’s hot and there’s no shade. He spent the first five minutes of the interview catching his breath between answers. He’s answering a question about his favorite route and you can tell he’s heard the question plenty of times before. Then he stops. “Check this out, right?” he says. “All the routes are really the same if you think about it.” That excerpt is from a story on Amari Cooper that ran on cleveland.com on Tuesday. In this podcast, you can hear the full interview between Cooper and Dan Labbe. Are you a die-hard Browns fan? Join us for a free live Orange and Brown Talk Podcast on Sept. 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in person! Hear from cleveland.com sportswriters as they discuss the upcoming season, hot topics and special team analysis. This event has limited seats available. Get your tickets at: https://musicboxcle.com/event/orange-and-brown-talk/ Want to get involved i

Are the Browns a playoff team in 2022? Will they have a winning record with Jacoby Brissett as their starting quarterback? What's up with Anthony Schwartz? Mary Kay Cabot, Doug Lesmerises, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe got together to throw out some declarative statements about the Browns and they ended up covering a lot of ground. How will the passing offense look with Brissett as the starter? Should Joshua Dobbs be part of the game plan -- or could he even start some games for this team? Each of our podcasters throws out a statement and find out why everyone else thinks they're right or wrong. Are you a die-hard Browns fan? Join us for a free live Orange and Brown Talk Podcast on Sept. 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in person! Hear from cleveland.com sportswriters as they discuss the upcoming season, hot topics and special team analysis. This event has limited seats available. Get your tickets at: https://musicboxcle.com/event/orange-and-brown-talk/ Want to get involved in Football Insider? Click here f

At this point, whether Baker Mayfield said what it was reported he said probably doesn't matter. It's out there and the Browns aren't going to shy away from using. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe delve deeper into this story as Mayfield denied saying what Cynthia Frelund originally reported he said. The problem is it's out there and Browns players probably won't be too forgiving. How much benefit of the doubt does Mayfield deserve given how often he's had to have backtracking press conferences? What impact will it have on the game regardless of whether it was said or not? Then they discuss Mary Kay's story on Michael Woods II and how it came together. Are you a die-hard Browns fan? Join us for a free live Orange and Brown Talk Podcast on Sept. 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in person! Hear from cleveland.com sportswriters as they discuss the upcoming season, hot topics and special team analysis. This event has limited seats available. Get your tickets at: https://musicboxcle.com/event/orange

Baker Mayfield unintentionally made headlines on Tuesday when comments he made to NFL Network's Cynthia Frelund came out, via Frelund on a podcast, saying of the Browns he was going to "(expletive) them up." Kevin Stefanski played it cool. Myles Garrett played it a little less cool. Who do we believe when it comes to using the comments as motivation? Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe discuss that before looking at the initial 53-man roster and what it tells us about the Browns this season. Then they talk Deshaun Watson's suspension starting, if the NFL should send players away from their teams while they're suspended and turning it forward to Jacoby Brissett for 11 games. Are you a die-hard Browns fan? Join us for a free live Orange and Brown Talk Podcast on Sept. 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in person! Hear from cleveland.com sportswriters as they discuss the upcoming season, hot topics and special team analysis. This event has limited seats available. Get your tickets at: https://musicboxc

Week 1 storylines abound in the NFL this season and the Browns will be front and center when they face their former starting quarterback, Baker Mayfield, in Carolina on Sept. 11. What if the Browns lose to the Panthers? It's what one of our text subscribers wanted to know on today's Hey, Mary Kay! edition of the Orange and Brown Talk Podcast. Mary Kay Cabot answers questions about the Week 1 matchup, about who ultimately will decide if Deshaun Watson is allowed to return after the initial suspension is over and if Joshua Dobbs should have a role in the Browns' offense. They also discuss Anthony Schwartz's future and why the Browns appear to be sticking with the struggling receiver as well as a bunch of other questions. Are you a die-hard Browns fan? Join us for a free live Orange and Brown Talk Podcast on Sept. 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in person! Hear from cleveland.com sportswriters as they discuss the upcoming season, hot topics and special team analysis. This event has limited seats available. Get your ticke

The Browns will set their initial 53-man roster between now and the league's 4 p.m. deadline on Tuesday. While the top of the roster seems relatively stable, there are plenty of decisions to be made at the bottom of the roster. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe used today's podcast to try to project what the Browns will do with their roster between now and Tuesday. They lay out the sure things and then fill out the roster on each side of the ball. Are you a die-hard Browns fan? Join us for a free live Orange and Brown Talk Podcast on Sept. 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in person! Hear from cleveland.com sportswriters as they discuss the upcoming season, hot topics and special team analysis. This event has limited seats available. Get your tickets at: https://musicboxcle.com/event/orange-and-brown-talk/ 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: htt

The Browns wrap up their preseason on Saturday night at FirstEnergy Stadium when they host the Bears at 7 p.m. Head coach Kevin Stefanski already announced Jacoby Brissett will start the game and other starters will play as well. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe looked ahead to Saturday night's game by each offering up something to watch. From Brissett to the wide receivers to running backs and the defensive formations, they get into what they want to see in the Browns' final warmup for the regular season opener in Carolina on Sept. 11. 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

As the final preseason game approaches, the Browns will face a number of roster decisions prior to Tuesday's cut-down to 53 players. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe each pick one thing they believe the team should or shouldn't do between now and then and make their case for it. Then everyone else reacts to it. Is there a quarterback move they should make? What about the receiver position? Is there a player on the bubble who could end up being valuable if injuries hit? They each make their cases. 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

Browns defensive end Myles Garrett has big expectations for himself. Topping the NFL's Top 100 players list is among them. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe discussed Garrett on today's Orange and Brown Talk Podcast and whether he could one day top the list. What would it look like? They also discuss what Garrett had to say -- or avoided saying -- when he talked about facing Baker Mayfield in Week 1. Then they talk about Deshaun Watson running the scout team and look ahead to Saturday night's preseason game against the Bears and whether the Browns will -- or should -- play their starters. 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

Jimmy Garoppolo's name keeps coming up whenever we talk about Browns quarterbacks and our Football Insider subscribers have some questions about him. If the Browns wait until he's released, why would he choose Cleveland? Would he start over Jacoby Brissett or back him up? Mary Kay Cabot talks with Dan Labbe and answers those questions and more on today's Hey, Mary Kay! edition of the Orange and Brown Talk podcast. They also discuss Deshaun Watson's status for Week 13 against Houston before looking at Week 1 against Baker Mayfield and who might be most excited to go up against their former quarterback. 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

One of the bright spots in Browns training camp and preseason so far has been defensive end Alex Wright. He's had plenty of opportunity, too, with Myles Garrett and Jadeveon Clowney not playing in the preseason. Wright appears to have the third edge rusher job locked down and he's soaking up as much knowledge as possible from Garrett and Clowney as the third round pick embarks on the start of his NFL career. Dan Labbe caught up with Wright in the locker room after the game. Here's the interview presented as a bonus pod. 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 played their second preseason game against the Eagles on Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium. It came on the heels of two joint practices against Philadelphia on Thursday and Friday and neither team played their starters. It doesn't mean there wasn't plenty for Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock, Irie Harris and Dan Labbe to talk about during Sunday's postgame podcast. They discussed the performance of Joshua Dobbs and whether he's locked down the No. 2 quarterback job. They also got into the play of rookie receiver David Bell and rookie kicker Cade York and more. 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 NFL and NFLPA reached a settlement on Thursday suspending Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for the first 11 games of the 2022 season. The suspension means the Browns and Watson can move forward with some clarity as the season approaches. Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe discussed Watson's suspension on this podcast. They start by talking about the suspension itself and if Watson's camp should be happy with where it landed. Then they discuss what Watson had to say today as well as what owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam said following the announcement. In the second half of the podcast, they turn their attention to the football side of things. How do the Browns need to perform in the first 11 games to give themselves a chance? What can we realistically expect from Watson when he does return? 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/s