Browns Hysteria

When you think with organs other than your brain, you're prone to get extreme.  

The Browns one-sided losses to the Rams and Bengals pushed some commentators beyond reality.

1: The Browns have a lot of talent overall.  They're a little short at wide receiver, but they're average or above everywhere else.

Yes, including quarterback--based on what McCown has done this season.

The fact that these guys have screwed up and underperformed doesn't negate that talent.

Guys like Randy Starks, Brian Hartline, Carlos Dansby etc were all proven commodities.  Duke Johnson is a bum now?  Want to kick Desir, Erving, Benjamin, Barnidge, the rest of the offensive line, and all the new and old safeties to the curb now too?

Some clowns started second-guessing Ray Farmer as soon as he made his first move.  Captain Obvious wants you to know that a wide receiver catches more passes than a cornerback, so you should never trade down and always take the receiver.  Even if the scouting consensus on the cornerback is that he has the rare ability to cancel out that receiver single-handedly.

Maybe Ray misjudged Gilbert's psychology, because that's what's wrong with him.  Physically, he might have more ability than any cornerback in the NFL.

Manziel is a work in progress, but his arrow is pointing up, at a steep angle.

...ok ok Dwayne Bowe ok you got me.  I might have signed him, but paying him that much?  Really?

But I digress.  It's too early to lynch Ray Farmer, especially when a GM should be judged by his overall performance.

Players don't want to come to the Browns!  Ray can't pay the elite free agents enough.  

You've got to look at Mike Pettine here.  When too many players screw up too often, and fail to develop, you've got to look at the coaches first.

That's inconvenient.  It's way more complicated than saying everybody sucks so fire them.

Look at all the draft guides!  I wouldn't have drafted Danny Shelton, but just about everybody else would have!  If you call that a screwup, Ray has a lot of company!

And I don't care how high a guy was drafted, only a running back can be a star out of the gate.  

There is talent here!  It's just not performing well!  Why?

2:  I agree with Andrea Hangst.  Duke Johnson needs to be used a whole lot more.  It doesn't even matter if a defense tries to focus on him.  Nobody matches up with him!  

I'll bet some clowns are already calling him a bust!

Now I know that Johnny missed some reads on Thursday.  That's inexperience for you.  He might have seen it, but not trusted what he saw.  It's common for young quarterbacks to hesitate, because they know how sneaky defenders are.

He'll get better.

I can't believe that Mike Pettine is dumb enough not to start Manziel now, regardless of whether or not McCown can last a couple plays before getting re-injured.

I hope he's just being mysterious to keep the Steelers guessing.  I hope.