Football's Back + Browns Optimism with Joe Thomas

Zac Jackson and Friends

Blue Wire

Sports

4.8 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Thomas talks with Manchester Journalism Hall of Famer Zac Jackson about Sunday's Browns-Bengals game and the season ahead. Also: Reasons for Browns optimism and pessimism plus a check-in on the juggernaut that is Kent State football.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome back to Zach Jackson and friends.
0:05.4	I am Zach Jackson and I am very privileged to be here to talk football.
0:10.6	That's what we do here on Zach Jackson and Friends.
0:12.6	Sometimes we talk basketball.
0:14.0	Sometimes we talk life.
0:16.1	Sometimes we talk about other things.
0:19.3	We talk Cleveland Browns football and we talk NFL football. We talk college football and we talk football. And we talk about other things. We talk Cleveland Browns football, and we talk NFL football, and we talk college football,
0:24.0	and we talk football.
0:25.7	And just about the time that this goes up on this lovely sweatpants day, some of you
0:32.4	don't like 64 and rainy, I'm just fine with it.
0:35.8	It feels like football.
0:36.8	Just about the time that this podcast
0:39.0	hits the internet and sweeps parts of Northern Stark County. The NFL season will
0:46.5	officially kick off. Ring night in Philadelphia, Eagles and Cowboys. TV loves the NFC East.
0:52.6	The Eagles are the best roster in the league.
0:54.9	The Cowboys are a fascinating train wreck, not wholly unlike the one here in Cleveland.
1:00.8	Different, but not completely different.
1:05.2	And football is on.
1:06.6	So I love it.
1:07.8	It gets me excited, gets me wound up.
1:10.3	And I really, really mean it from the bottom of my old cold heart when I tell you guys, thank you.
1:15.6	When I was 11 years old and still chasing the dream that I could actually play football,
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