Good morning. Welcome back to the Zach Jackson and Friends podcast. I am Zach Jackson. We are rolling

through July, we are rolling through the vacation slash Brownsdown time slash seeing who I can

get to come on the pod period of the show. What I have learned, one of the many things I have learned through the

years of trying to grow and connect with an audience is that some of you are just enthusiastic

and passionate sports fans and you're into almost everything. Some of you are just avid podcast

listeners and love when I have the guests on, even if they are not

someone you're familiar with or from a background that you really are into. But many of you

just love the Cleveland Browns for whatever reason. So today we're going to talk some Browns with Dan Lobby of Cleveland.com, my

long-time friend and colleague.

If you go back one episode, I talked with Anthony Lima from 92, 3, The Fanon, and Cleveland's

Best Morning Show, the Ken Carman show.

We talked a lot of LeBron James,

but we talked about the business. We mixed in some Browns. We just talked about some things.

And that's what I've wanted to do here in this kind of vacation period. So we're all counting

down to July 23rd, which is the first day that the Browns are officially on the field.

They're at home for about two weeks, nine or so practices before they go away to

their start of their joint practices in Carolina.

But we all know what's at stake with the quarterback competition, the much scrutinized

and hyped quarterback competition.

We all know what's at stake for everyone coming off the 3 and 14th season.

So we'll dive into that. So if you are new here, welcome and thank you. If you are not new here,

welcome back and thank you. We are a Browns podcast. We are a football podcast. We will mix in other

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