"Holmgren is an idiot": It sure didn't take long for some of you! This burst forth in response to the Browns getting hosed by the Lions for corey Williams. And to be sure, Williams AND A SEVENTH for a fifth was a hose job.
Well, they "should have just kept him!"
OK, this aint rocket science:
1: Williams wanted out--specificly to go back to a 4-3. Everybody in the NFL knew it, because he was starting to really crank up the bitching. If you ARE an idiot, you force this guy to stay.
2: His performance would never match his salary. The guaranteed money was astronomical. This is an uncapped year, but if you think that means Lerner should buy a championship, YOU are an idiot!
There WILL BE another cap, and all the contracts Lerner, Dan Sneider, etc. carry over into it will be ruled by it. Only an IDIOT would want to be found 20 mil over the cap!
3: By trading, rather than releasing him, they got out from under the guaranteed money, and now have that for other signings.
3a: The Lions, in turn, are stuck with it. They knew they were doing the Browns a favor, and took advantage of it.
The person who called Homgren an idiot over this is an idiot, and stands corrected.
Now, at least, the Browns have turned their seventh into a fourth fifth...
Pat Kirwin noticed that Tavares Jackson (sp?) was tendered a third round deal, and that the Browns have two third round picks. This is a small-college kid who was thrown into a west coast system, probably too soon.
He did start out quite well, but went downhill fast once the defensive coordinators got some film of him. This is pretty common. He was replaced before he could get a handle on that.
I lack information on him, but I do know that he is extremely athletic, strong-armed, and pretty accurate. The two things Holmgren will no doubt be able to determine for himself are, does he have the heart, and is he smart enough to run this complex system?
Just sayin: it's a possibility: A third for Jackson, who is still fairly young, and has some real experience in this very system.
Matt Flynn of the Packers won a National Championship, and has had two years in a west coast system. How bout that?
Fujita would be a sweet signing, since he's just thirty, and was with the Saints from the basement to the Superbowl, calling the defensive signals IN the Superbowl. The Browns would really like to have this guy in the locker room telling stories and stuff.
Now, he's a 4-3 SAM. Local reporters ASS UME that he'd play inside here. But he's 6'3", 250, can cover TE's, defeat blocks, and based on his tackle stats (at that position especially), he can really MOVE, so don't make any such assumption.
Because he wasn't USED on blitzes doesn't mean he can't play OLB here. I'm not saying that he would be, just that he could be. The reporters no doubt had in mind the hallucinated need for an inside linebacker, and a whole bunch pf premature obituaties. RIP's on Benard, Maiava, Trusnik, et al.
D'Qwell was tendered with a second-rounder, but the Browns have the right to match any offer. Calm the hell down. And anyway, a second rounder might just be a deal. Things change. Fujita, for example, might be able to do well at the weak inside position.
Maiava, who is about the same size as London Fletcher, in fact started there and did well, perhaps in the eyes of the coaches making D'Qwell expendable. I know that the notion of Mangini scoring on another low-round pick is horrifying to some, but I'm afraid that this could be the case.
Trading Williams does NOT preclude a Rogers trade. Once again, some reporters are ASS UMING again. The guys they dis are: Coleman, who should be fine for another season and is an EXCELLENT (if unsung) 3-4 DE (especially vs. the run). CJ Mosely, who (word to Oblivia) has emerged as a pretty good 3/4 DE himself. Mosely is best as a pass-rushing penetrator, and needed to work on defeating blocks as a 2-gapper. He has now succeeded in doing that.
I know that it's more convenient to assume stagnation and not think, but I'm unable to shut my brain down, so there it is. I am very sorry that both of the aforementioned are ex-Jets.
Brian Schaefering: A college nose tackle with surprising speed. Two seasons ago released from the Browns practice squad, picked up by the Jets, signed here by Mangini just in time to emerge as a solid and improving 3-4 DE. (You really need to work on this: Young players have a strong tendancy to improve, and while you were busy carefully ignoring him, Schaefering was making some real good plays!)
Robaire Smith: Getting long in the tooth; will probably be used less to preserve him--but still very solid, and able to stop-gap at NT.
There are other guys that I don't know about, but RUBIN even YOU know about, so there's that.
Really it would be best to have two real nose tackles, since they take such abuse and should be relieved and rested. In a perfect world, Rogers stays (and plays more DE, where he should have been all along). But his retention is NOT critical, as the Browns have a solid group of defensive ends and at least one solid nose tackle.
If Rogers is of more use to move up in the draft or trade for a real quarterback or WR or something, that will happen.
I like the interest in the ex-OSU guard named ROB. You can't miss with a name like that. He started in Seattle and has turned into a pretty good player.
Reporters ASS UMING that this would leave Womack at RT may be correct, since he did a pretty good job there--but once again they already have Capizzi's gravestone all engraved and ass ume he won't be any better than he was as a rookie.
They ASS UME that this would mean that the Browns no longer would use a high draft pick on an offensive lineman, but they are wrong.
In the first place, they were NEVER going to use a high first for a left tackle they would pay more than Thomas and have play right tackle, which would be idiotic.
In the second place, if a real stud slid into the second or third round and was the best player available, they'd pull that trigger. They have Thomas and Mack, and the other guys vary from adequate to pretty good. If you can upgrade that, you do it.
Gil Brandt must really focus on the draft, and not pay much attention to losing teams. He said of Harrison "He's not real big and not real fast", and "he's a good second or third back". Even as he ackowleged the third highest rushing game in NFL history, he pointed out that the Browns offensive line had Joe Thomas and is otherwise average.
This stuff drives me nuts, and I hear it on NFL radio every day. OK so he runs for 280-odd yards despite an "average" offensive line but he's a "good" second or third back. It's just impossible to rationally torture logic into these shapes! My god!
MACK is average? FIVE 100-plus yard games and he's a second or third? How can an offensive line be "average" when the other running backs did pretty well too?
I get it: Mike Holmgren told a story of how once he was going to draft a 5'8" running back. Ron Wolfe came back with a printout, showing that Barry Sanders and one other guy were the only 5'8" running backs that did anything. So he didn't draft the guy.
Well, I don't see the problem! Harrison is five-NINE!
Anyway, I wonder how many of those little short guys just never got a CHANCE!? JEEEEEZ could it be that Jerome isn't the only 6 YPC pass-catching running back to get no chance until everybody else got hurt? How many short 6YPC running backs collected splinters til they retired because coaches ignored everything they did?
Could it be that despite what he did last season, none of it mattered? Is even Mike Holmgren standing there with a printout pretending it didn't happen? This shit is just madness!
I can't defer to NFL pros on this, man! He DID it! He's DONE it in every offensive scheme and with every offensive line he's had, every time he was on the field! Why do you GIVE a shit how short he is are you INSANE!?
Of course, Holmgren told that story in reference to why the height of quarterbacks matters, and why Brees is a rare exception. In that context, I can see it, since you can't hit what you can't see, and helmet-high trajectories are bad.
I hold out hope that he isn't some Martonian blockhead about Harrison's height trumping his PROVEN ABILITY.
Ron Jaworskie knows more about quarterbacks than you or I. HE SAID that Derrick Anderson could be a very good quarterback with a little support.
This is the difference between an objective pro who studies game films and a barstool GM in Cleveland. HE sees what he sees. YOU see what you expect to see. Jaws got no dog in this fight.
Don't count DA out.
You stand corrected.
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