As my crickets know, I like and learn a lot from NFL Radio analysts Tim Ryan and Pat Kirwin. But here we go again with these guys being too bored and cynical about a 4-12 team to do pay any attention to them...or even think about them.
In response to a caller question, Pat Ryan said he thought that the the Browns trade of a second round 2013 pick for Josh Gordon in the supplemental draft was a "panic" move.
Oh please! They first saw him when they scouted Phil Taylor. They know of him through Jordon Norwood's father, and they've been checking him out for over two years.
I'm not done. It's a 2013 pick, and they don't worry about whether or not he'll do much in 2012.
Later, Pat Kirwin, valiantly trying to snap himself out of the doze brought on by the subject of the Browns, did acknowlege that if Heckert and company had agreed with others that WR was an urgent need, they could have signed the venerable and stately Plaxico Burress, or another veteran free agent.
While Pat went back to sleep until the Browns talk was over, Ryan went on to some more analysis of the Browns prospects.
He said that it remained to be seen how Brian Weeden would react to getting the crap beat out of him by the Stoolers, Ratbirds, and (yes) Bungles defenses. Weeden didn't take much heat during his college carreer, and this is a whole different ballgame.
Fair enough, but here again, another ex-player erred on the glass half-empty side because he didn't want to think about it.
1: The two college coaches who described how they beat Brian Weeden's team by getting in his face failed to mention that he threw for around 900 yards in the two losses. I kind of hope the aforementioned AFC North teams have similar success against him.
2: This offense will be run-oriented and center on Trent Richardson, not Weeden. Weeden's college offense was all Weeden.
3: This is a timing offense that will get the ball out of Weeden's hands quickly, and Weeden is well-suited to it.
4: This offense will probably go shotgun on most probable passing downs.
5: This offensive line and these tight ends will be among the best in the NFL.
So while Tim makes a valid point about Weeden getting knocked around by his AFC North rivals, he seemed to expect failure--because he didn't want to think about all those other factors.
I understand cynicism about the Browns from the fans, who apparantly don't know Tom Heckert from Butch Davis, or Pat Shurmer from Eric Mangini. But it really ticks me off when these smart, insightful, legitimate experts act just as ignorant.
They also stated flatly that the Browns don't have a number one reciever. I'm telling you and them now that Gregg Little can be a number one. He's as a fast as Braylon Edwards, is actually trying, and he didn't have a strong-armed quarterback to hit him deep in 2011.
This is MM stuff. Guy converts from running back, doesn't play a year in college, comes in raw with no offseason and catches 62 passes, and these guys yawn.
Anyway, even if Little's speed weren't massively underrated, and the Browns don't have a number one...do you mean that between Mitchell and Gordon they won't have one?
No--they haven't thought that far ahead. They don't care. When can we change the subject? How bout them Cardinals?
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