Terry Pluto wrote another great (almost perfect) article on Browns free agency.
Terry says Malik Jackson will cost a fortune (and he will), but asks why not Jaye Howard (KC Chiefs DE)?
Howard also had 5.5 sacks, and is great vs the run. I hadn't even heard of this guy before I read Terry's article.
Jackson will collect a stiff premium because he played for a Superbowl winner. It's also been asked, how much of what Jackson did had to do with the great players surrounding him?
Terry was right, of course, about 31 year old Mario Williams. Williams declined last season partly due to age, but also partly because he was converted from defensive end to outside linebacker. Guess what he'd play here.
Really, do we have to go nuts over every big name we hear? Shouldn't some thinking be involved?
Terry mentioned Marvin Jones
and Mohammud Sanu (yawn), but also Reuben Randall of the Giants.
Of all of these, Marvin Jones should be and probably is the top target. Sanu was moved from the outside to the slot to make room for this guy. Brown can make big plays. He has number one potential.
But Terry repeats the big fast receiver mantra, perhaps by reflex.
Terry, Josh Gordon and Terrelle Pryor (just signed) are coming back from the corn field.
This is another reason to prioritize Brown in free agency. Unlike Randle or Sanu, Jones is insurance at X-receiver.
Terry talks a lot about elementary analytics. If he understood analySIS better, he'd get that with these three receivers contending for the X slot, having it covered by 2017 is a virtual certainty, making using a high pick on a fourth one downright stoopid.
Im being extremely pessimistic. It's hard for me to bet against Josh Gordon. Just keep laughing at Pryor. Jones is well-established, and has all the tools.
None of this means that Braxton Miller wouldn't be too good to resist in the second round.
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