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Did You Enjoy Watching Myles Garrett Struggle in Week 1?

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Ken owns up to something Browns fans aren't supposed to say out loud, that he wanted one day of feeling good about not having Myles Garrett around instead of watching the Rams roll toward another Super Bowl. Anthony pushes back on the idea that this counts as toiling in someone else's misery, and the two dig into whether it's fair to enjoy Garrett getting neutralized after advocating for the trade in the first place. They also work through why everything seems to break the Rams' way, from Sean McVay's reputation around the league to the specific matchup problems that made last night's game an outlier rather than a trend.

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Did You Enjoy Watching Myles Garrett Struggle in Week 1?

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Tune in to 92 three of the fan your home. Your flagship home of the Cleveland Browns. Nathan Zagura 905 on the fan. Can you admit that you enjoyed Miles Garrett struggling yesterday? I got a minute I did. Yeah, you know what? You got a minute I did because I had this more big curiosity. Is he going to get five sacks? Is he going to get seven? Is he going to play like a man possess? And the reason is is that can I just I know what the season's going to be? Can I get one day where and I don't think that like I disagree with Darryl. I don't think the Rams are going to like miss the NFC championship game. I think they're going to be a good football team. I think they'll be fine. All right. Chameleon Bay has enough currency in the league and enough currency with the general public to like he knows what he's doing. I need one day that I don't need to sit here and hear about my team being terrible. And that Miles Garrett has freed himself

of the terrible football team that he used to play for because that was what was bad over the last five years even before that. And now he is with a good football team. And I just wanted one because I did I expected here to come in here today and go, okay. Yeah, Miles had four sacks and the Rams ended up winning even though they only traveled 24 hours out to Australia before the game for crying outlaw. You might as well crown the Rams. Here we go. I really did. I really did because all this stuff seems to work out for the Rams. And when other teams try to make the same decision, it just gets their people fired. I don't know if it's a horseshoe that they're carrying around or they just have that culture and they're clicking and they're finding it all cylinders. I mean, I remember I told you a couple years ago when like McVase contract was coming to an end and they had made those first run of trades and it looked like they were going to have to replenish that roster. It's like man, Sean McVase should get out. Well, the getting is good. Go do TV for a couple of years. Pick his next place and go ahead and go before he gets blamed for all this rebuilding that has

to be done with the Rams. Nope, they look like they're going to go to a Super Bowl probably, not after yesterday, but before the season, a lot of people are picking him to go to the Super Bowl. It just always seems to work out and then they get the player that the rest of the country was begging to get out of Cleveland. And he's out of Cleveland and it's like, can I just have one day? And I got my one day where he sounded like he sounded with the Browns. He sounded like Kevin Stavansky yesterday in the post game. And I'm still I got another day. He played on Thursday night. I got two more days of my honeymoon with Jared verse and Jared versus talking tough, talking about winning, talking about being a leader. Like, yeah, that's what this team needs. So let me just enjoy the next 36 hours while I enjoy my young defensive end who I'm going to pay next winter. Well, I'm going to pay him. Andrew's going to pay him. I'm going to pay it. The Browns are going to pay in the spring. Let me enjoy my young defensive end who wants to be the leader. Who if we did pick captains for the year would have a see on his chest. Let me enjoy that for 36 hours until we

get into the real nitty gritty in the minutiae reality of what the Browns are. Oh, old Lima would have said can loser mentality, toiling and someone else's misery for no, I think that as somebody who said and tried to make an argument, the trading miles probably made sense. And the return they ended up getting. Then they returned. They ended up getting like I had to sit there and have to I had to be okay with miles having a great season. And I assume by the way he's I love what you're saying. This is honest as a yes. And I assume he's going to still have a really good season. And I still assume that the Rams are going to the playoffs and he's going to be vital to their success when they have the lead in the fourth quarter with that said. Hey, it was fun. It was fun last night seeing him neutralized. And yeah, Kyle Shanahan, Trent Williams, like they have the ways to neutralize miles Garrett more than most teams and the plane ride and first game of the year. And he hasn't been healthy and he was complaining about his knee afterwards. Hey, perfect storm. I don't expect it to be like that every week. But yeah, as a Browns fan,

hey, I got to I got to enjoy seen Travis Hunter struggle. Last year, even though the Jags did. Yeah. You know, you've got to try to win some battles here. Totally 100% right because if you would have been an advocate of the trade, which you were over the last couple of years, advocating trading miles Garrett. If you advocate trading miles Garrett, then you immediately kill your own argument when you're when you're lamenting that he does so well with the Rams, he was always going to get traded to a team that's contender. Oh, he had a no trade clause. No team that is going to be bad was trading for the guy. No team that was going to be probably in the Bronx category was trading for the guy. So you couldn't be an advocate for the trade and then turn right around go, I can't believe we gave up a guy who got five sacks in the opener in Australia or something like that. So yeah, I don't think that he's going to have a bad year. I don't think that he's damaged goods or a lemon like we make jokes. I made jokes right to start the show and chanted we won the trade. I hope we do for this year. I don't mean no ill will towards him, but I think for a bronze fan,

a lot of bronze fans don't think they're going to do very well this year. And so there's absolute freedom going. Yeah, it's not like it's going to cost my team. I don't think my team's going to do very well this year. And so if it costs them, find hell with them. It's pro sports. I don't need to have some some with some weird karma with the LA Rams. I don't need to deal with that. So yeah, you know what? You don't always have to take the high road. You can get in the gutter every now and then. And if you were happy about last night's performance with the Rams, get in the gutter. That's fine because none of that and what they did made any sense. And because they have such a history of with this group of winning, what Lime said, says, it's not being true. I had to write it on the internet. Like yeah, you could definitely see them at a pregame and an NFC championship game where Aaron Andrew sits down with Sean McVeigh and he goes, yeah, we use week one as an experiment. We wanted to see what it would be like with no jet lag. We just wanted to see like if they were tired. We didn't bring Aaron with us. We played miles a little bit sporadically. What was it? 27 snaps or whatever they said it was. We played miles sporadically. We did

a lot of things that we wouldn't normally do because we didn't really want to play in Australia. Now they look like they played them at linebackers. Yes, they can get away with that. Sean McVeigh and the Rams can get away with that. And I fully expect them to be able to get away with that. I'll be very surprised if this season ended up in the gutter for the Rams. Even though, you know, we see this in college football. It's a different animal. But teams go over to Europe and they come back and it's not a great year when they start that series in Ireland. And then they come back and it's kind of shaky. Whoever wins or loses, they'll see if it messes with the 40 diners because there's a lot of theories that it could mess with them for the next month. It's really hard. It's really hard to do that. Coming up in five minutes, Nathan's going to join us on the show. We are going to have a moment of reflection with our family of Odyssey stations here on the 25th anniversary remembering 9.11 25 years later. Coming up at 9.45. Crystal Geyser Alpine Springwater is now the official water partner of the Iron Man North America series. Together, we'll hydrate athletes from the first mile to the finish line with Alpine Springwater that's always bottled at the natural

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