I don't always agree with Grossi, but am absolutely thrilled by what he said on the radio (think it was Hooley) about what the Browns should do with the number two pick.
They should stay right where they are and take whichever quarterback the Rams don't. At last, another rational person!
Joe Banner said that if the Rams draft Goff, the Browns are in trouble. I still don't get that.
Hooley (I think) kept bringing up the bevy of picks they could pile up in a trade-down, but Tony wasn't having any of that.
Hooley brought up how Jimmy Johnson built a dynasty off his trade-down, but Tony had the pin to pop that balloon: He already had Troy Aikman (and Walsh too).
As Tony says, only a quarterback can turn a whole team around. Not a pass rusher, or a wide receiver. Only the guy who handles 100% of the offensive snaps and 100% of the passing game.
As I've belabored to catatonia, Goff and Wentz are neck and neck and both regarded as potential franchise guys, and you can not pass them up.
Pat McNanoman wrote an opinion piece predicting a 1-15 season and the next thing I read is somebody asking Mary Kay why not trade down this year and get a quarterback next year.
Tony calls that "chasing ghosts", and rightfully so. Next year's class looks weaker, NOT stronger, the top quarterback may not be as good as either of these two, and the Browns are far from a lock to draft even in the top five.
Why not draft the quarterback this year and trade down NEXT year huh? THAT is what Jimmy Johnson did, after he refused to trade his first pick down and drafted Troy Aikman with it.
Acheman took a horrific pounding as a rookie, but then Johnson had that massive draft, and suddenly the Cowboys were contending. Johnson's rebuild took all of two years, and had the whole core of his team assembled.
That is the model I'm sure DePodesta is studying here. It's naive and presumptuous to assume that an analytics guy can't study the last five Super Bowls and discover where most of those quarterbacks came from (the top five in their respective drafts).
Another study came out looking at twenty quarterbacks who were picked outside the top five, but in the first round, since 2008. The grand total of their playoff victories was one.
Tim Tebow.
Yeah yeah Wilson and Brady so stipulated, but these guys are literally around one out of seventy or eighty.
Oh I hear you: Those are just numbers. It doesn't make Goff or Wentz as good as any of those Superbowl guys. Top five picks crap out sometimes too.
True enough, but Jim Miller insists that these two are right there with Winston and Mariota. Mike Mayock and Greg Cossell compare Wentz to Luck (without equivocation). Newheisel likens Goff to Joe Montana.
You've got to sift through a mountain of that stuff to find a pebble of "they're not worth it" here. That's mostly the pundits who just got used to saying it since the Luck draft.
No, these two quarterbacks project as franchise quarterbacks, and they are here now.
Go Tony Grossi! Draft the other guy, whoever it is! Trade down! In the second round!
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