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I've been the president of the Andrew Berry trust bandwagon for a long time. I got the T-shirts. I got the hoodies. I was rocking with AB when a lot of y'all had already hopped off the train. And I need everybody who doubted him to pull up a chair, because what just happened in Pittsburgh was an absolute masterclass. Back-to-back years. Andrew Berry hit a grand slam. The Trade Down Nobody Expected to Work This Well Going into draft night, I'll be honest — I wasn't sold on goi

Let me be real with y'all. I didn't want to go offensive lineman with the first pick. I said it publicly. I've been saying for months this team needs playmakers. But you know what? Andrew Berry made me shut my mouth real fast — and I'm not even mad about it. Here's why the 2026 Cleveland Browns draft was one of the best in franchise history. Before the draft even got started, Berry engineered a trade-back from pick #6 to pick #9 with the Kansas City Chiefs, banking extra pic

Mitchell 30, Harden 25, Mobley 25 — Cleveland's Big 3 combined for 80 points in a 115-105 Game 2 win. Chef Zae breaks down the Cavs going up 2-0 on the Raptors.

Chef Zae breaks down the Cavs' 126-113 Game 1 win over the Raptors — Mitchell's 32, Max Strus going OFF in the third, and why Cleveland is built different in the playoffs.

Chef Zae breaks down the blueprint for the Browns to draft both Carnell Tate and Jordyn Tyson — plus the QB slip from Berry's press conference nobody is talking about.

Todd Monken held his first press conference of the 2026 offseason program yesterday and honestly? He said everything I needed to hear. Not in a hype, tell-me-what-I-want-to-hear kind of way. In a real, this-man-actually-gets-it kind of way. Two things stood out to me above everything else. Let me break them down. “A Team Nobody Wants to Play” When Monken was asked about the identity of this football team, he didn’t give a long drawn-out answer about systems and schemes. He sa

The QB Room All Showed Up — Including the One We Weren’t Sure About This was the headline coming into the day. We knew Shedeur Sanders was going to be there — he’s been in the building all offseason, Monken has praised his work ethic multiple times, and he clearly understands the assignment as a second-year player trying to lock down a starting job. We knew Deshaun Watson was going to be there too. Watson literally posted a TikTok of himself strapping on his Browns helmet be

Today is Day 1 of Cleveland Browns voluntary offseason workouts, and I’ll be honest with you — the word “voluntary” is doing a lot of heavy lifting right now. Because whether or not certain guys choose to walk through those doors in Berea today tells us more about this team’s 2026 season than anything that happens once the pads actually come on. Two names I’m watching more than anybody else: Myles Garrett (not a BIG DEAL) and Dillon Gabriel. Two completely different situatio

We just sat through Todd Monken's full 38-minute press conference from the NFL Owner Meetings live on the CrocPot Podcast. And I'm going to be straight with you — I came out of that more encouraged about this Cleveland Browns team than I've been in a long time. Not because Monken was flashy or made wild promises. But because everything he said made sense. And without him ever saying a name, he basically told us everything that was wrong before he got here. First thing I want

The days of splitting quarterback reps four ways across two fields are officially over in Berea. Speaking at the AFC coaches breakfast at the NFL Annual Meeting in Phoenix, new Cleveland Browns head coach Todd Monken made one thing crystal clear — the rep distribution in the QB competition will not be equal. The number of reps each quarterback receives can shift on a daily basis as the offseason and training camp progress. "I think there's always competition irrespective of t