Jared Goff and the Cleveland Browns

I don't provide links to dumbass articles, but have read a couple about Jared Goff and the Browns that were pretty ignorant.

One suggested that Goff might pull an Eli Manning, and refuse to come to the Factory of Sadness.  Manning forced a trade by doing that to San Diego. 

I almost wouldn't mind that, since Ernie Accorsi, then GM of the Giants, got hosed on the deal, and the Chargers had to settle for the vastly inferior Philip Rivers (that was sarcasm).

Predictably, the article cites the irrefutable history of wrecked Browns' quarterbacks since the franchise was reborn.

What is ignorant is that the writer ignores that Jimmy Haslam has only owned the team for four years, that Hue Jackson just got hired, that Jackson has a great history of developing quarterbacks, the Browns had a respectable passing offense last season, have Gordon and Pryor returning, have Gary Barnidge, and a very talented offensive line.

People as intelligent as Goff don't tend to believe in gypsy curses, or to think he's just like Manziel, or that Hue Jackson is the same as any of his predecessors.

In point of fact, Hue Jackson and all of the above are all Goff should consider before acting like a spoiled brat and trashing his room like Eli Manning did.

Cleveland isn't the place where quarterbacks come to die.  It's where they went to die, past tense.  None of that has anything to do with today, or even last season.  Last season, it was the place that Josh McCown came to be reborn, and Manziel returned to become a real NFL quarterback...then flush it down the toilet.  (Don't blame anybody but Johnny for that.)

And look at the list of names on that guy's jersey.  Hardly any of those guys were any good before or after Cleveland.  The fact is, the previous...now gone...General Managers missed on a lot of quarterbacks, period.

Tim Couch was an exception.  He was as good as any quarterback, but his elbow blew up, and then his shoulder.  Colt McCoy is pretty good too.

Stepping away from the smoking ruins of that idiocy, this isn't like the Manning/Rivers draft.  None of the quarterbacks in this class have credentials like those two.

The top three are looking like Goff, Lynch, and Wentz.  To the majority of talent guys, they rank in that order, with Goff the most NFL-ready.

My interest in Wentz spiked when I saw that Mike Mayock said he was as good as the other two.  Mayock is the best.

Wentz will participate in the Senior Bowl, and I look forward to that.  

We know that Hue Jackson, his talent guy, and Paul DePodesta will spend some time on all three of these guys, and the Browns will have people at the Senior Bowl.

Wentz could use that event to prove his ability to make reads and calls, and if that happens, he can pull ahead of Lynch.  

This would be good for the Browns.  Both Wentz and Lynch are expected to need more time to develop than Goff, but this could give the Browns a Plan B if somebody jumps ahead of the Browns for Goff.  The reverse is also true: It could prevent another team from making that move, and guarantee Goff for the Browns.

Interest in Johnny Manziel is indeed very low.  But some talking head said that Dallas wouldn't be on the list.  This goober said that Jerry Jones's son was still there, so he'd nix it.

How dumb.  He nixed spending a first round pick on Johnny Manziel.  That doesn't mean he wouldn't scrape up a conditional sixth or seventh round pick for him.

Even if the Browns can't get so much as that for Johnny and have to release him, Dallas is more likely than not to take a flyer on him for the league minimum salary.  Zero risk, high potential reward.  DUH!

And this would make the Cowboys less likely to trade up to number one for Tony Romo's heir apparent.

By the way, did you see that yesterday?  The Cardinals had the ball on the Green Bay four in overtime.  Carson Palmer threw a shovel pass to Fitzgerald for the touchdown.

Why isn't anybody bashing that "risky" play call?

Because it worked.