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Best Podcast Available - Episode 5: Analyzing the Browns first two free agent signees

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🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Andrew Gribble and Jason Gibbs break down the Browns first two signings in free agency: Safety John Johnson III and DE Takkarist McKinley.

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0:00.0

And we welcome you into this special free agent edition of the best podcast available presented

0:15.7

by our great friends at key private bank.

0:18.0

I'm Jason Gitton's alongside Andrew Gribble, key private bank at the forefront of helping

0:22.8

affluent families take a comprehensive approach to building, managing and protecting their

0:27.8

wealth in any market environment through objective advice and personalized solutions.

0:33.9

We are taping this late day, Wednesday, free agency, officially upon us, tampering is over

0:40.8

Gribs and the Browns with two editions to their roster here going into 2021 and those two

0:49.1

editions, safety, John Johnson III and Takeris McKinley defensive edge.

0:56.4

Gribs, your thoughts you take away, so I want the Browns have done here so far.

1:00.8

Well, I think that John Johnson signing first off is the headline maker here and I think that

1:05.6

that to me, I viewed it almost as a pleasant surprise because I didn't know if the Browns were

1:11.3

going to address safety in a big way in free agency. We've talked about addressing safety in the draft.

1:16.7

We've talked about maybe looking at some of these guys on one year deals,

1:19.8

kind of like the Malik hookers out there, Keanu Meals, players like that, but to be in the running

1:25.2

with a player who arguably could have been the franchise tag player for the Rams this year and John

1:30.4

Johnson, I mean, to me, it almost reminds me of when the Browns signed Austin Hooper last year.

1:36.1

It felt like, wow, that's a great signing and also I didn't know that that might be the path

1:41.0

that the Browns go right away. And I think that you get a player who's getting the prime

1:45.1

of his career who's played great football. One of the ones that stands out to me is the guy

1:48.8

played 16 games last year, didn't miss a single snap. I mean, after what the Browns went through

1:54.0

last year, that is a very important statistic. And arguably, the guy should have been in the probo

1:58.1

last year. He was PFF's number three rated safety in the league and just a great player and you

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