What was I Thinking

1: Due to a poor connection, my previous blog published incorrectly, and I missed some typos too. I haven't been able to access the "edit" feature, which is why I look semi-literate.

2: I said that Tom Schneider (mispelled) would probably go for Matt Ryan instead of trading up for RG3. Matt FLYNN. 2 botches in one sentence. Impressive, no?

Speaking of which, I was basing my theories on bad information. I had been told that Flynn would cost a bunch of draft picks in a trade, but he is unsigned. The only way Green Bay could extort a trade would be if they franchised Flynn.

I'm no expert, but I don't think clubs operate that way. It's sort of bad faith. They prevent a player from exploring his opportunities and getting his chance to start, and put a cieling on his salary. As a GM, being the ruthless cutthroat I am, I would be strongly tempted to do it anyway, but wouldn't. Bad PR, hard feelings--not good.

If that's the case: that Flynn is an unencumbered free agent, then (DUH) he's the Browns likely first option.

I've read some laughably shallow cliched comments about Flynn:

1: He was a seventh-round pick for a reason. What does that have to do with what he did to Detroit and New England? These clowns are like women--they never forget, and it always matters, no matter what.

Nobody seems to notice yet that he's as short as McCoy, Rodgers, Montana, and Young, and less than two inches taller than Brees...but it will come.

2: We only have two games to look at, and he was in a great system with great support. Yeah. This one has some actual logic to it. All the same, Rodgers was statisticly the best quarterback in the NFL last season, and Flynn more than matched him. Matched Aaron Rodgers, ya know?

3: The Browns don't have enough money. I won't bother to comment on that. That's a top ten dumbass there.

He's been practicing the West Coast for four years, learning from the best in the business.

It's true that, given Cleveland's relatively lesser talent, Flynn couldn't be as effective as he was in Green Bay. But a guy who's been around as long as him, with an arm like his, has an edge on Colt McCoy, and an extremely short learning curve.

Salary shouldn't dictate who starts, and I can't accept that it will here, so if Colt McCoy outdoes Flynn, so be it. They said they wanted to bring in somebody to compete with McCoy: Flynn is it.

Now they have all options on the table in the draft. RG3 could still be there at #4 and the trade possibilities are all there. Claiborne will be there, but might still be there after a trade with Washington.

What would they give for Flynn instead? Just a thought.