Brendan Gulick details all of the latest news and information surrounding the Browns from the practice facility in Berea.
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00:08 Well, hi everybody, Brendan Gulick with you live from the Cleveland Browns
00:11 training facility in Berea.
00:13 It's Friday afternoon, we just had a chance to talk with Kevin Stefanski.
00:17 We had an open locker room with a couple of players and the big news of the day,
00:21 of course, that Deshaun Watson has been named the team's starting quarterback
00:25 here this weekend.
00:26 His shoulder is apparently healthy enough and as Deshaun indicated when he spoke
00:31 with the media yesterday that he was gonna be leaning on a more group effort.
00:35 Where he had more of the say in the decision when he was gonna start against
00:39 Indianapolis.
00:41 There must be cohesion between Kevin Stefanski, the coaching staff,
00:45 the medical team and Deshaun that he is healthy enough to give it a go.
00:49 Deshaun feels well and it's time to see if he can do it.
00:53 So Deshaun Watson will start for the Cleveland Browns on Sunday down at
00:56 the stadium when the Arizona Cardinals come to town for a 1PM kickoff.
01:00 Obviously, there's gonna be a lot of eyeballs on Deshaun.
01:05 He's gonna be under a microscope, right?
01:08 And PJ Walker is the backup quarterback.
01:10 When he thought he was healthy the last time, it didn't take particularly long
01:15 before he took a pretty hard hit and was ultimately knocked out of the game.
01:19 So there has to be some level of certainty that he is healthy enough and
01:24 ready enough such that if he gets in the game and takes another hit like that.
01:29 That it's not necessarily gonna be something that just quickly triggers and
01:33 he would go back on the shelf.
01:34 So fingers crossed that all things go well.
01:36 I know the Browns are certainly hopeful that Deshaun is gonna be ready to go
01:40 on Sunday and Kevin Stefanski has officially named him
01:43 the team's starting quarterback this weekend.
01:46 Couple other quick things.
01:47 The only other big injury note is that DeJuan Jones, the starting right tackle for
01:52 the Browns is listed as questionable with a right shoulder injury.
01:55 DeJuan, I saw him practice each of the last couple of days and I thought he,
02:01 I mean, look, he was moving fine.
02:03 It's not a lower body injury.
02:04 I am leaning toward kind of expecting that he's gonna play.
02:10 I would be a little surprised if he doesn't play, especially as a rookie.
02:13 You're trying to make your living, make your impression.
02:19 You wanna be out on the field if at all possible.
02:22 So I would be surprised if he doesn't play.
02:26 That's my personal opinion, but
02:27 he is listed as questionable on the team's injury report.
02:32 They will be without Newsome, without David Bell, and without Alex Wright.
02:37 Here, those guys are all out with injuries this weekend.
02:39 So that's the latest on that front.
02:41 And the only other thing I wanted to bring up in case folks haven't
02:44 heard about this quite yet.
02:47 There's obviously been a bit of a rotating cast in the Cleveland Browns radio boot
02:50 this year as Jim Donovan works to get his health back in order.
02:55 And obviously Chris Rose and Andrew Siciliano have filled in as the play by
02:59 play announcer for the team's games the last several weeks.
03:03 The Browns have actually tabbed Paul Kiels to come up to Cleveland and
03:07 do the game here on Sunday.
03:08 So the voice of the Buckeyes is coming to Cleveland to call the Browns game on
03:13 the radio after he's done with the Ohio State Rutgers game
03:16 tomorrow, Saturday, on the road in Piscataway.
03:20 So you'll have Paul Kiels listening to him locally.
03:23 Certainly, or you can listen on the Cleveland Browns app or
03:27 on the Odyssey app if you're within 100 miles of downtown Cleveland.
03:30 So lots of ways to listen to the Browns game on the radio.
03:33 It'll be cool to have Paul Kiels and
03:35 his terrific play by play skill set doing the Browns game this weekend.
03:39 That's the latest here from the facility.
03:40 Obviously, the big news is that Deshaun Watson is gonna play this weekend.
03:44 The Browns are certainly looking forward to playing the Arizona Cardinals and
03:47 hoping to get back in the win column.
03:49 I'm Brendan Gulick.
03:49 We'll see you on Sunday down on the lakefront.
03:52 Of course, for all the latest news and information on your Cleveland Browns,
03:55 check out brownsdigest.com.
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