I have looked into Hue Jackson's past and now know what he will do.
He started out coaching Joe Flacco and traded for Carson Palmer while coaching Campbell, so he clearly wants a tall quarterback with a strong arm. Andy Dalton isn't like that which is why Hue drafted AJ McCarron.
In Oakland he had Micheal Bush who was 6'1" 245 lbs and Darren McFadden at running back. The Browns backs aren't like those guys, and I thought they'd be cut or traded before I realized that the guys he had in Cincinnati are like Crowell and Johnson, so I guess they're all right.
Hue didn't have a good tight end in Oakland, but Barnidge probably won't get cut since he had Eiffert with the Bengals.
The Bengals have a big, physical offensive line, so Joe Thomas is in trouble.
The Bengals don't have smurfs, so all the small receivers here will have to go. As Sashi Brown confirmed, Josh Gordon will be released, and the whole Terrelle Pryor experiment was a failure, so the Browns need big receivers. Johnny Manziel isn't big enough, and Cardale Jones is the biggest quarterback in this draft, so they'll draft him instead of Goff, who is too skinny. Or they might get Jason Campbell back.
After releasing Cameron Erving and trading the undersized Joe Thomas, they will need bigger offensive linemen for Hue's favorite blocking scheme. Alex Mack can play in it, so they need to pay him whatever he wants.
The defense sucked last season so they need to get rid of all those players and bring in better ones this offseason. Tony Grossi is right that the defense should be a 4-3 so Hue needs to make sure Ray Horton runs one.
It will take several years for the Browns to be like the Bengals, because most of the team isn't like Hue Jackson's former team. But in five or six years, they should start winning more games than they lose.
The good news is that the Browns will be drafting first overall for at least two more years, so they can get a couple big number one wide receivers and a backup quarterback for Cardale.
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