Nice Haul, Anyway

My inner fan is having a temper tantrum about this trade, but my inner analyst is overruling him.

Inner fan is ranting and raving over the quarterback position.  These guys aren't the other guys and might do a good job picking players.  If they do then McNanomans visions of 1-11 can't happen, and they draft lower next season.

Franchise quarterbacks don't grow on trees, and RG3 gets hurt even if Hue Jackson can help him become one again.  This was probably their last chance.

But inner analyst agrees with Craig Lyndall.  Hue Jackson had to have signed off on this.  His target was either Goff, or else he didn't love either of them enough to fight for them.

Wentz has been dinged up recently by PFF and others.  The level of competition stuff is crap for a quarterback, but his team was a powerhouse before he got there and will remain one after he leaves.  It went undefeated while he was out with an injury.

No doubt, he can still be a good or even great quarterback, but to spend a number two pick on a guy, you need to be pretty sure, don't you?  
The quarterback hunt isn't over.  Hue almost certainly has another target in mind.

Lynch and Cook are a cut above the rest for different reasons.  Lynch will take time to marinate.  Cook looks like a so so starter or a great backup.

The rest fall into a statistical category called "longshot".  And best I can recall, Brady, Romo. Wilson, Delholm, Werner, and...and...

And how many hundreds of guys picked later have we never heard of?

This is why I think it's Lynch.  I'm just afraid they'll get greedy and screw it up.

Too many fans read one article projecting this guy to go in the middle of the first round and assume that, even with Goff and Wentz off the board, the Browns can trade down and still get him.

They read that he's ranked as a high second or low first rounder and check their stone tablets:  Nope.  Can't pick him this high.

Hue might well like Prescott, Hogan, or somebody else a lot, but the tables should turn here: The analytics guys should point to the microscopic odds in favor of that working.

No doubt, one of them is Plan B, but Lynch must be Plan A, and they need to MAKE SURE of it, because this probably IS their last chance.

Lyndall was right to blast the "Coulda had Roethsenberger" mantra.  That guy would have got pounded out of the league on that Browns team.  The Steelers were vastly superior and could protect him.

Ross Tucker is on now: Maybe Hue thinks an Andy Dalton (forgot about him) could be there later.  I forgot about Dalton's backup in Cinci too what was his name?

Hmm...maybe Hue really is that good!

A caller called in blabbering about building the team first and then finding a franchise quarterback on the franchise quarterback tree.  Idiocy.

Ross thinks the Browns will be horrible next season.  He will again proclaim them the least talented team in the league.

If so, maybe the moon and stars will align and a franchise quarterback and the number one pick will be there next season.  But are you counting on that?

Are you counting on none of the high draft picks making an impact?  On me being wrong about Pryor? On RG3 not regaining his greatness?  On Hue Jackson and these coaches not winning any chess games? On a franchise guy even emerging in 2017?

If so, you need a brain transplant.

That caller should be Lynched.  Get it? Lynch ed?