Terry’s Talkin’

Is Kevin Stefanski coaching on borrowed time? Remembering Lenny Wilkens; Kenny Atkinson's next challenge

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Highlights:

  • Browns fan sentiment has shifted from despair to anger, with calls for firings and major changes.
  • Terry Pluto argues the 1980s Browns era was defined by consistent success, not just heartbreaking losses like "The Drive."
  • The franchise's identity since 1999 has been a perpetual and unsuccessful search for a quarterback.
  • Why a new stadium will not improve the Browns' on-field performance due to the NFL's salary cap structure.
  • A listener's analogy, endorsed by Pluto, compares a bad offensive line to a bad baseball bullpen that collapses the entire team.
  • The hosts highlight the rare importance of a great offensive line coach, questioning if former coach Bill Callahan would return to the current instability.
  • The loss to the Jets: the "beginning of the end" for head coach Kevin Stefanski?
  • Why the defeat was statistically unprecedented: Since 1950, teams holding opponents under 175 yards with zero turnovers were 225-0 before the Browns' loss.
  • The Browns' special teams have become a glaring liability, allowing an NFL-worst six return touchdowns under coach Bubba Ventrone.
  • A failed fourth-down play against the Jets epitomized the team's dysfunction in both play-calling and execution.
  • Analysis revealed that quarterback play and other factors, not just the O-line, were responsible for nearly half of the sacks allowed.
  • Kevin Stefanski's offense, which once excelled with backup quarterbacks, has severely regressed this season.
  • Terry Pluto fondly remembered the late Lenny Wilkens as a Hall of Fame coach, a great teacher of basketball, and a man of dignity.
  • A new injury to Darius Garland puts pressure on Donovan Mitchell and the current Cavaliers to find alternative offensive schemes.
  • Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been federally charged in a game-fixing scheme involving manipulating on-field events.
  • The indictment identifies Clase as the instigator who recruited Ortiz for a surprisingly small financial payout.
  • The scandal may cost Clase his $6 million salary for 2025 and two team options worth an additional $20 million.
  • A key unanswered question is whether Clase attempted to recruit other players who may have reported the scheme.
  • A listener has a scenario about a stolen base and the new challenge system in MLB for balls and strikes. What Terry and David think it could mean.

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