Draft Day Page #2

Hello?

Sonny. Earl Jennings.

- Hey, Earl. You're with your boy today?

- Yeah.

You guys in the Big Apple?

Listen, Sonny.

It's none of my business who

you draft today, all right?

Ray will play for

whoever wants him.

But if you're thinkin'

of pickin' him...

I need you to know that

I raised Ray right.

C'mon, Earl. I know

what the papers say.

I'll have him explain it to you.

What's goin' on, Mr. Weaver?

First of all,

I'm not in a gang.

The guys that were with

me, I grew up with them,

I've known 'em since I was a kid.

But the dudes we ran into,

they were big dudes,

and they came at us.

What was I supposed to

do, just stand there?

Well, they say you whooped

on that kid pretty good, Ray.

He's still in the hospital.

He's not a kid.

None of 'em were.

They were grown men.

They should have known

better, Mr. Weaver.

Well, that's not the point.

Did you hurt your hands?

You need your hands, Ray.

I know.

I just lost my head.

Did you find it?

Yes, sir.

Well, good. Now hold on

to it, you understand me?

Yes, sir.

Enjoy today, Ray.

You only get drafted once.

Yes, sir. I appreciate

that, Mr. Weaver.

Ah...

Jesus...

What? What'd he say?

I just wanna be a Brown.

Like you, Pop.

Yeah, I want that, too.

But you'll play where you play.

That's the way it works.

I know.

I'm just nervous, man.

You see that?

That's the Dungeon Drop.

Kids waited an hour to take it.

It's exactly 50 feet from the end

of the slide right into the pool.

Huge splash.

Anybody within shouting distance

would've gotten completely soaked.

And people pay for that.

I need you to make a splash,

Sonny. We need to sell tickets.

Well, I'm trying to help you do

that, Anthony, in my own way.

You can help me, by

makin' a splash.

And if you can't do it,

then I have to do it, and...

I don't wanna have

to do that, Sonny.

Just to be clear here, you're

threatening to fire me, right?

Let's talk about the Draft.

What do we need?

I hear a quarterback is

a good thing to have.

- We have Brian Drew.

- Well...

Word on Drew is that he's weak in

the knees. That's what I heard.

Well, that's because

you heard it from me.

We were 6-and-10 last season.

We were 5-and-1 until

Drew went down.

And he went down because

he's weak in the knees.

There's not a quarterback in

this draft after Callahan

that can make a difference

to our team, all right?

And we're way too far

down to get him.

Okay, okay. What else?

Our shiny new head coach

wants a shiny new running back.

Ray Jennings. He's

Cleveland royalty.

I know what Penn wants.

Come on, Anthony, you said

you would stay out of this.

Coach Penn has a Super Bowl ring.

He used to coach the

Cowboys, you know?

He took over for a team

that won the Super Bowl

and then proceeded to

run it into the ground.

Got himself fired. Lucky for us.

The Cowboys really

have great helmets.

Well, Anthony, you're the owner. You

can change the helmets if you want.

Look, you just gotta let me

do my job. I mean...

I like Vontae Mack.

He's special. He's different.

He could transform our

defense. Even as a rookie.

Defense doesn't make a splash.

Sonny.

People pay to get wet.

Shameful.

You're almost glad Coach

Weaver isn't around

to watch his son run this

team into the ground.

I mean, Tone, listen,

this guy comes two years after

supposedly saving San Francisco

and general manages us

right to a losing season.

Then you follow that up the next

season by firing his own father.

Coach Weaver, rest his soul.

Tone, he was football in...

- Have we tried everyone?

- Everyone worth asking.

So far, no one's

willin' to overpay.

Sh*t.

I really thought I could

get Sonny Weaver to bite.

I mean, he just lost his old man...

Fleece him.

Sonny! How can I help you?

Okay. I'm ready to do this, Tom.

Our next two number one picks and a

third-rounder for your pick today.

Correction. Your next

three first-round picks.

What?

You heard me.

You want me to give you

the Cleveland Browns' first-round

picks for the next three years?

That's right.

Well, that's insane, Tom. That...

That wasn't your offer.

Well, I changed my offer.

Hell, we live in a different world

than we did a couple of hours ago.

I made you a fair offer and you

told me to enjoy my pancakes.

You think I'm gonna give you my

next three number one picks?

You're panickin', Sonny, and I

intend to take advantage of that.

I'm not panicking.

Your next three first-round

picks. Yes or no?

You still there, Sonny?

It's fourth and forever.

I'm talking fourth

and, like, miles.

Fourth down and 26

yards to go, okay?

Everybody's dropped back deep.

Their safeties are

halfway to Abilene,

thinkin' they got this thing iced.

Everybody and their mother,

hell, their grandmothers,

think it's gonna be the deep ball,

the Long Bomb, the Hail Mary.

Instead, it's a toss out

to my man Ray Jennings.

And then, boom!

He gets swallowed up by this

huge, ugly nose tackle.

The Hee-ha or the Ho-ha.

One of those huge

Samoan kids, right?

And when he looks down,

guess what he sees?

Nothin'. 'Cause Ray ain't there.

You know where Ray is?

He teleported six feet to the

left and he's off to the races.

Every poor Sooner

bastard on the field

is soilin' his Pampers

tryin' to get to him.

What does Ray do?

He brings it back! He cuts!

Shimmy, shake-n-bake, and

hurdles over Kyle Danforth.

All-American Kyle Danforth

and he's ghost.

He's a good player.

67 yards. Touchdown. Ballgame.

I'm telling you guys.

Ray's dad was a special

player for the Browns,

but this kid might be even better.

'Morning, Sonny.

Good morning, guys.

Was just tellin' Jelly

Doughnut and the guys

my favorite Ray Jennings story

'cause they're tellin' me

we have not yet decided.

I mean, we're not seriously

considering anybody else, right?

What are you doing, Sonny?

I just made a trade

with the Seahawks.

For?

The number one pick.

Oh!

You got us Bo Callahan?

Certainly appears that way.

Ali, you here?

Yes.

Is this gonna screw us

up with the salary cap?

Moving from seven to one?

It's about another $1.5 million

we weren't anticipating

for this year.

Maybe an extra $5.5

million in signing bonus.

We have that?

We can make it work.

Let me get into it.

- Pretty good news, huh?

- Yeah!

Number one pick?

Pretty big! That's great!

I thought we had a QB.

Tell me, what did we give up?

A number one pick this year?

And?

First-round pick next year.

Okay, well, that's a lot, but

when you get a chance at

a player like Callahan...

And the year after that.

Three number ones?

You gave up three

consecutive first-rounders?

Sonny, that's our future.

No.

Bo Callahan's our future.

$30 million, Sonny.

Excuse me?

$30 million.

That's what you're paying

me to coach this team

for the next six years.

Did it cross your mind, did you

think it might be maybe important

to discuss this

decision with me first?

No.

It's my call.

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