Browns GM Andrew Berry says they will NOT trade Myles Garrett... But what if the Commanders offer the barn for Garrett?
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00:00Let's get back to the topic at hand, and that is that the Cleveland Browns are saying they
00:04do not want to trade Miles Garrett.
00:06Andrew Berry, the GM of the Browns, was at the podium today at the Combine.
00:10He was asked about Miles Garrett, and these are some of the answers he had about the defensive
00:14end and whether or not he's going to be on the move.
00:17As I mentioned before, you know, I understand the frustration.
00:20We've had plenty of dialogue, but ultimately my responsibility is to make the decisions
00:25that are best for the Browns, and having Miles a part of the organization is a huge
00:30piece of that.
00:31We've had plenty of dialogue, you know, throughout the season and after the season ended.
00:36You know, certainly both him and his camp, you know, both, you know, before and after
00:41the trade requests.
00:42And again, you know, our interest is in keeping Miles in Cleveland.
00:46I wouldn't really touch on any conversations that I had with other teams, just respectfully.
00:52I don't think that's appropriate just for current and future business, but it's irrelevant
00:57to this situation because we're not interested in moving Miles.
01:00So that's Andrew Berry, the GM of the Browns.
01:02So the question we're asking you guys is, would you make them an offer they couldn't
01:06refuse?
01:07They're saying they don't want to trade him.
01:08You don't have to want to trade him.
01:09I'm going to make you an offer that makes you trade him.
01:12I'm offering them two ones and a four.
01:14I'm offering them, you know, two ones and John Allen and a five or a six or whatever
01:20it is.
01:21I'm going to throw two ones into a package and I'm going to make them say, yes, Danny,
01:25are you willing to do the same?
01:26I am.
01:27And here's, here's the reason why it's two reasons.
01:30One, the player, obviously he's incredible.
01:33You're not going to get a player this good anywhere else.
01:36I mean, you hope when you draft somebody second overall, you hope when you, uh, you know,
01:41find that diamond in the rough in the second round, third round, whatever, they blossom
01:44into this, but this is security.
01:46This is bonafide.
01:47This is one of the best players in the sport.
01:49This is a guy that's got a lot left.
01:52This is your dominant blue chip piece that I think would fit right in very well to what
01:55you're doing, what you're trying to do.
01:56The other again is how do I make my team the best I'm I got chips.
02:01I got, uh, these little, you know, whatever you want to call marbles, you call them Skittles
02:04to fill up the jar.
02:06I'm going to use the resources in the best possible way.
02:08I don't know that I get this level of impact.
02:11If I use my first round pick 29 overall on somebody and do marginal free agent Marty
02:17and, uh, another one year veteran deal on somebody else to get to this point.
02:21I think this is the best way to make my football team the best looking.
02:23What else is out there?
02:24Here's my ranking of Skittle flavors.
02:26Since you said Skittles go number one, red, number two, yellow, third is green.
02:36Fourth is going to be orange.
02:38Fifth is purple.
02:40Yellow at two is something that's, that's pretty high for yellow.
02:45I don't think most people are going to have yellow in their AP top, top yellow is good.
02:49Yellow hadn't lost a game all year.
02:50You know, what are their six flavors?
02:52Five flavors.
02:53Yeah.
02:54Yellow was five, but I think for most, you're forgetting that purple and orange are in the
02:57bag.
02:58I've forgotten.
02:59Thank you very much.
03:00Purple's the two seat.
03:01That's a lot of red and purple.
03:02I will gladly give you every purple.
03:03I would pick every purple.
03:05Are you a yellow Starburst guy too?
03:07I love them.
03:08Oh, of course.
03:09Absolutely.
03:10I'll go red and pink.
03:11Then yellow.
03:12Then orange.
03:13As far as Starburst go.
03:14Yeah.
03:15I love a yellow Starburst.
03:16Red's the ones you would agree there.
03:17I think purple two, green three, orange four, all the distance a light could travel, like
03:26light years, light millennium, light everything, warp speed, black hole, wormhole to the other
03:32side of a different galaxy that you'll never comprehend.
03:36Then more of that than yellow.
03:38Oh, that's sleepy.
03:39All it is is good.
03:40Let's go to Ryan and Culpepper.
03:42Ryan, are you making a sweetheart offer that the Browns can't refuse?
03:47All right.
03:48Well, first of all, I'm not a Skittles fan.
03:52I'm a M&M's with the peanuts inside fan.
03:55Second of all, what's more important than money?
03:59Not much.
04:00But in this case, I think we do a little combo.
04:04We do a Miles Garrett and we get to Sean Watson.
04:08We take the bad contract.
04:11We don't give up any picks at any point.
04:13Maybe they give us a couple kicker kicks.
04:15I don't know.
04:16Just trying to get creative.
04:17Oh, wait.
04:18So you're saying get them out of their terrible deal.
04:21We'll take the Sean Watson's remaining contract and then just release him outright.
04:27Take all the dead money for two years.
04:28The commanders have all of the cap space and then you don't have to give up any picks,
04:33which is super creative.
04:35It would never happen because teams are obsessed with their cap space and being in a good cap
04:41cap situation where you've got sweet deals and no dead money and you don't have to worry
04:46about bad contracts.
04:47It's like the entire goal as a general manager.
04:49It's like balancing your budget or having a checkbook where you don't bounce anything.
04:55But if you want to not trade picks and you want to get Miles Garrett, it's not going
05:01to happen.
05:02It's not realistic, but it's actually a pretty creative idea.
05:04Maybe next year you could do that because this year, if you went through with that plan,
05:07it's $172.7 million of a dead cap.
05:12There's just no way to get even with the Washington's cap space.
05:15You can't get around that.
05:17You now have the same problem that Cleveland does.
05:19Yeah.
05:20I mean, you wouldn't.
05:21Obviously, it couldn't all be in one season.
05:23I mean, that's that is the salary gap.
05:26You know, you're basically put it over to you.
05:28Can't overcome it.
05:29I mean, you're sporting 80 some million dollars over two years this year.
05:33If you did right, you would have to keep him around and yeah, probably wait a year, which
05:37is another reason why it's not happening.
05:39Luke's in Richmond.
05:40What's up, Luke?
05:41How are you?
05:42Controversial here, but I'm going to say no.
05:48It seems like everybody's on the S train, but I don't think that any team in the NFL
05:52is a defensive end away from winning anything, and I I'm just big on the future and keeping
05:57your draft picks.
05:59So I don't think they're a defensive end away, Luke, but you'd acknowledge they are star
06:03defensive players away.
06:04They lack talent.
06:06They got exposed for their inability to just make enough plays against the Eagles.
06:12Very true.
06:13Very true.
06:14And Danny was telling me there from being real, though you're not getting anything in
06:19the draft.
06:20It's guaranteed to be miles.
06:21Garrett.
06:22So that's a great point.
06:23Thanks, Luke.
06:24I mean, I understand his point, though, and that would I would understand.
06:27I guess I'd be more sympathetic to it if this was their only move.
06:30If they went, thanks for the well, you're still going to go out and be shrewd and be
06:34smart and, you know, find those value signings.
06:38Find your Wagners, your Eklers, your guys up and down the lineup that thrive for you,
06:42that outperformed their deals.
06:44I mean, you know, they threw a bunch of things at the wall and they got ten and a half sacks
06:47out of Dante Fowler.
06:48You're going to trust this front office to keep doing that.
06:50You got to do that with or without miles, Garrett.
06:52So it doesn't mean your business of the offseason is done because you're right.
06:55Getting a new defensive end that's excellent doesn't now go, OK, now you're a champion.
06:59Not at all.
07:00There's a million needs they have to fill.
07:01And if you just brought everybody back, you stood up to upgrade, but you can't bring everyone
07:05back.
07:06You've got 30 free agents, basically.
07:07Paul's in La Plata on Grant and Danny.
07:10What's up, Paul?
07:11Yeah.
07:12How are you doing?
07:13I would not give up two round first round picks for him in a second or any.
07:19I think he's a great player, but I just think overall our team needs to get better.
07:24Yes, he could definitely make us a lot better, but I think we can get decent productivity
07:29out of just another one or two year guy, just like we did with Fowler, and then sure
07:35up the back and a little more with a great corner or safety.
07:40So here's the problem, though, and it's a good phone call.
07:42Thanks, Paul.
07:43You might get decent productivity.
07:46Miles Garrett is a game changer.
07:48Miles Garrett is elite.
07:50It's like the difference between saying Taylor Heineke might be able to manage the game as
07:55opposed to what you just saw from Jaden Daniels.
07:58It can count on one hand.
08:01The number of guys in the NFL that have the impact of Miles Garrett, the perennial favorites
08:07for the defensive player of the year award, their guys like Micah Parsons and TJ Watt
08:12and Aaron Donald when he was playing.
08:14He's now since retired.
08:16That's kind of the short list.
08:18That's where we're talking about.
08:19When is the last time the commanders have had one of the best players in the NFL on
08:25their team?
08:26They've gone years and years and years between all pros, which just means you're the best
08:31player in the league at your position or one of them, right?
08:35They went from Matt Turk in 1996 until Brandon Scherf a couple of years ago, literally in
08:43the 2020s, before they had a first team all pro that wasn't on.
08:48In Turk's case, he was on special teams, I guess, but there wasn't a special teamer.
08:53We're talking about maybe the best defensive player in the NFL.
08:57They just don't have that star power, Danny.
08:59Right now, they've got some good football players.
09:02Terry McLaurin's a good player.
09:04Hopefully, Marshawn Lattimore, who wasn't this past season, can be a good player for
09:09you.
09:10They haven't had a guy like this.
09:12They don't become available.
09:13It's so rare in the way that Daniels changed everything, their offense, the whole thing
09:19changed when he showed up.
09:21That's what Myles Garrett is capable of doing for a defense.
09:25When you tell me like Dante Fowler running that back and hoping he...
09:29Even in a year where he had 10 and a half sacks, he didn't make a huge impact.
09:33That means he made 11 plays.
09:34Now, I'm not saying that was his whole season.
09:36That's not.
09:37He had a pick six.
09:38He did a lot of good things.
09:39I actually really liked Fowler.
09:40I would keep him around.
09:41I would pay him and make sure he's my number two edge rusher.
09:44But the difference between a guy who can get 10 sacks in a fairly quiet season, for the
09:49most part, and a guy that on every single play is doubled, is chipped, I always reference
09:54when he has to run from one side of the line to the other, that the two tight ends motion
09:57with him and there's penalties on the other team because they're trying to keep up with
10:01what side of the formation he's on to have their tight ends over there.
10:06It's just night and day, man, that they have not had anything like this.
10:09We talk about it with quarterback and people know what it looks like.
10:12This is the exact same thing on defense.
10:14And by the way, the sentiment is correct.
10:16You can get decent production from a lot of places.
10:18Cool.
10:19All right.
10:20And you need that still, right?
10:21You, you, I mean, Ryan's ever been told us this famously years ago.
10:24Not everybody gets to make $200 million, right?
10:26You got to have the below the, the, the line guys or the, you know, the 34th to the 51st
10:32guy on your roster, step up and play well for you.
10:34You still need that regardless, but you need more of these two.
10:38And the path to get them is you strike gold in the draft or break glass in case of emergency.
10:44And a guy that is this excellent in his prime is available.
10:47And this is one of those times.
10:48Let's go to Jeff and DC on Grant and Danny.
10:50What's up, Jeff?
10:51How are you doing guys?
10:53I do not make this deal.
10:55And I'll tell you why.
10:56If you look at dynasties, I'm talking about the Patriots, I'm talking about green Bay
11:01Packers.
11:02Even I'm talking about kids, city chiefs.
11:04They don't give up multiple first round picks for that great player who's going to change
11:09everything.
11:10That's a Dan Snyder move.
11:11That's a Dan Snyder move.
11:13And I know that Jane Daniels has a window and I know, but you know what?
11:17I want the commander's window to be 15 years.
11:21I want it to be a long window and I'd rather go and do a kind of a Montez sweat reverse
11:26deal where, you know, like there's a guy like that and he's available because some other
11:29team has some cap issues and we could pick him up and we get two first round picks.
11:34And then we've got ourselves a dynasty because I think we need to change and not go after
11:38the shiny object and give all our picks away.
11:41It's not a Dan Snyder move to go get one of the best players in the league.
11:44He never did that.
11:45It would be a Dan Snyder move to go get a really old player whose best days are behind
11:50them who's a superstar name.
11:53It's more of a Howie Roseman move.
11:54He went and got AJ Brown as an example, as a piece for a really good Eagles team.
11:59It's more of a, you know, green Bay Packers move when they went out and free agency finally
12:08and made a splash and added a couple of big pieces on a really good team to help Jordan
12:12love.
12:13Like, no, it's a, it's a winning move.
12:14Are you getting a great player?
12:17I hate that idea of like, anytime you go get a big name, it's a Dan Snyder thing.
12:21Dan Snyder went and got old guys past their prime that were popular names.
12:27And by the way, every free agent movie made wasn't bad.
12:29London Fletcher, Marcus Washington, Pierre Garcon, they did some really good things in
12:34free agents.
12:35So by that standard, never go get any stars.
12:38That's a Dan Snyder.
12:39Some trades didn't work out.
12:40You think of the restricted free agents with the jets, some work, some didn't.
12:43I mean, there have been good moves and bad.
12:45I mean, I can't do something simply because the, the horses asked before didn't manage
12:50the team very effectively, but I understand your point by the way, if the most valuable
12:54thing to you in building an organization is your draft picks, then you'd be less inclined
12:57to make this deal.
12:58I understand that.
12:59But again, I think there are exceptions to every rule.