You gotta think about that calendar.

That's a 12 month calendar.

Here we are in no, basically in November, so he probably won't be at full strength to the end of November of 2021.

So now you start to think about all the snap, crackle, pop, the things that Odell brings to the table, whether it's running, reverses the fast twitch, all of those sort of things when he gets the football, his hands.

I don't believe that you'll see the same Odell Beckham when he returns that you see right now, because injuries like this for a wide receiver is very, very tough.

It's not in the Keeley's.

It's an A C L, which still takes a long time to rehab.

Stephen.

Well, first of all, I'm sad.

I'm sad for him because here's the bottom line.

We weren't seeing the Odell Beckham Jr you were talking about anyway, and it was primarily because of who his quarterback waas.

We all know what time it is, and it's ironic to me or more than a mere coincidence that they played that he got injured or was an interception by Baker.

Mayfield, now who looked absolutely fantastic, props the Baker Mayfield, after Odell Beckham Jr went down the way, connected on 21 straight passes.

But prior to that, that was a bad throw on his part of very perception.

And then, as a result, the Odell Beckham Jr trying toe, you know, catch the guy that intercepted the ball.

Ultimately, you know, court is putting the turf.

It looked like a little bit and messed up his knee.

And so I find that a bit ironic, to say the least, Having said all of that.

Odell Beckham Jr has 23 receptions on the season in the first seven games.

That's less than four receptions a game.

He's not even their leading receiver, not in receptions, not in yards.

And he clearly wasn't happy there with everything that was transpiring.

And for him to go down like this.

No, Clearly, he was looking for his money.

He was looking to go somewhere else at the end of this season of not before the November 3rd trading deadline on DNA.

Now all of that is done, you know, we don't know.

In all likelihood, he's not gonna be back next season.

He's clearly out for this season, so we're not going to see him before 2022.

And as a result of that, coming off the A C L injury, the one thing that we're assured off is that he's not going to get his money, the money that he covers down the line, number one and number two wherever he ends up.

It's not like everybody's gonna be kicking in their doors to get him, so he might not end up where he wanted to end up.

It's a really sad that we all know where this is heading for.

Belichick's getting Odell on a discount in a couple of years.

Uh, here's the thing that's painful.

Toe watch.

Odell is a good dude, like if you talk to teammates of his by and large, they like him.

He wants to be great, but he wears his heart on his sleeve.

And people who have passion like that, especially young people who don't have as much of a filter when cameras and microphones air in their face.

They're going to say some things that that turns some people off for behave in ways.

Most of us fall into that category.

By the way, we're asking athletes like Odell not only be a one in a million athletes being a one in a million person who could handle all the attention, right?

I feel bad because to me, over the years he's matured and it seems like he was ready to really be great.

And when I said they needed to deal Odell, it wasn't just for Adele.

Also, Baker.

Those two have no chemistry.

And then when Odell leaves the game, Baker balls out right.

It's not about hating each other something.

I don't think they just don't have chemistry.

I think they're both better off without each other.

Let me say something about what he said.

A C L.

It's like a catastrophic injury if it takes a year to come back.

So we're talking about November 2021.

That means really 2022 is when we see him again.

So he's 29 years old, but really, a lot of times it takes a full season for a guy coming off a catastrophic injury to get back to what he was.

So really, we might not see the Odell Beckham Jr until 2023.

Now he's 30 years old now.

He's not a 22 year old doing things.

No one's done at that age.

He's 30.

So so the window for Odell's greatness just shrunk.

Ah, whole lot and the trajectory of his career of one of the greatest athletes I've ever seen, This dude is like athletically different, just completely was altered before our eyes.

It was like, This is one of those events I'll remember like in a way when Bo Jackson hurt his hip and it's like that guy is never gonna be the same again.

I was seeing something once in a lifetime or once in a generation, and Odell's talent made me feel that way.

And this is like This is a Big Mac Max.

There's no question that he has talent.

When they put the ball in his hands in Cleveland, we saw what he was capable of doing.

Much like y'all.

I feel bad for him because I know the way NFL players, athletes, receivers in particular think about their money.

Okay, well, nobody say okay, he's at the toward the end of that deal that he signed with the Giants in terms of real money, whether he was gonna be in Cleveland next year or somewhere else that was gonna have to be addressed.

Now all that, like you say, Stephen is in major jeopardy.

It's in major jeopardy because we don't know what he's gonna be when he comes back where Who's gonna make him their number one coming off in a C l.

If they were traded for him this offseason, you say, Well, you know, New England that could he could be there 12 years from now.

He's not because looking at him like because of what you highlighted in terms off the restrictions that ultimately hit you once you suffer such an injury because of that reality, it's not just he doesn't just need to come back, but he needs to be in an ideal situation.

I have a chance to get the kind of things that he wants and that it was hard for him to get what he wanted in terms of editing that ideal situation.

Maxim Ali.

Even before this injury, he couldn't get to where he wanted.

He had.

Eli Manning is his quarterback, and then he had Baker, Mayfield, Odell Beckham, Jr has not had an elite quarterback throwing him the damn football.

And now he Is it your feeling like his crimes really wasted.

I wanna go back to something you said earlier because he gets injured on a play throwing a pick.

And then after the fact he threw five touchdowns.

Baker and was ridiculous.

Baker.

Mayfield actually is a better passer rating when Odell's not on the field, and we're just saying it's a chemistry thing.

I'm not saying O.

Dell is not good, But with that being said, could the Browns ever be better off?

We'll listen, Be a positive.

You do have people.

And I'm quite sure you have executives out there who would say something like this.

Odell Beckham Jr being who he is and demanding the ball or what have you, because you have that that presence.

It might compromise the productivity's of a quarterback like Baker Mayfield.

That remains to be seen, But I don't believe it.

I don't believe it for one second.

Here's my thing about Baker.

Mayfield, major props to him yesterday performed very, very well, but the Brothers, five and one against Cincinnati, and he's like 12 and 18 against everybody else.

I'm not sold on what he did yesterday because it was against Cincinnati.

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