I was ignoring the trade-down stuff until Adam Shefter weighed in and said that's what he's hearing. Adam doesn't make stuff up, and he's almost always right about everything.
This irks the hell out of me.
But there's no way Sashi Brown will pull the trigger without Hue Jackson's approval. That's exactly why Hue Jackson answers directly to Jimmy Haslam, just like Brown does.
Hue can go tattle on Sashi. I think Jimmy would use Dee for this. I can just imagine it:
Hue: Sashi says he's going to trade my quarterback away! You promised!
Dee: Sashi, is this true?
Sashi: Wull...but I can get so much stuff!!!
Hue: See? I told you!
Dee: Now Sashi, what did we say about the quarterback?
Sashi: No fair! I already got him RG3!
Hue: He's just for now! You said I could pick one in the draft!
Sashi: You don't even know which one you want! Say it! Pick one now!
Hue: No! I mean I like them both!
Sashi: See? PFF says Goff is better and he's probably going to be gone!
Hue: I don't care Wentz is good too! He's just different! I can fix him too!
Dee: Sashi, you know what we said. Hue picks the quarterbacks. You can trade the second round pick and Joe Thomas.
Sashi: Oh, okay. (Hue sticks his tongue out at Sashi).
Seriously, with Shefter weighing in, it means negotiations are going on. I do believe Jackson has veto authority. He has to. He's the Head Coach and the quarterback expert. To override him right out of the gate on the most critical decision any team can make would destroy this whole thing.
So what's going on?
Well, I heard Phil Simms on all the quarterbacks today. He likes Goff best, but agrees that Wentz is also for real.
He likes Paxton Lynch a lot too, but picked at him a lot more for some mechanical things he sometimes does wrong. But he did say that Lynch was the best short passer of the bunch, and that this would help him enormously as a pro.
Like everybody else, he said that he might be the most talented quarterback in this whole bunch, but would take time and patience. Then he mentioned several other guys like him who had failed in the NFL.
THIS JUST IN! According to inside sources, the Cleveland Browns have already agreed in principal with the San Fransisco 49ers to swap first round picks!
The Niners will include their 2016 second round pick, and their 2017 first round pick.
With the seventh overall pick, Hue Jackson will knock down and restrain Sashi Brown and send an assistant coach to the podium to draft Paxton Lynch.
Browns fans will cheer and boo and shrug. Talking heads will say Lynch could have been drafted much much lower, and begin the slow process of whipping the mob into a frenzy.
Hue will let Sashi up once the pick is made, and help him adjust his tie. Angrily, Sashi will trade Joe Thomas to the Seahawks for their first round pick, a third round pick, and a conditional 2017 fourth round pick.
With that pick, he will draft a left tackle, wide receiver, passrusher, tall cornerback, or other player of some sort.
Sashi will then auction off the top second round pick and move down perhaps five slots. He will get an additional 2017 second round pick and a 2016 fifth round pick in return.
Back to back, he will draft Braxton Miller and somebody else in the second round.
He will then have a top third round pick, a bottom third round pick, and on day 3 trade his top fourth round pick for a 2017 third round pick and a 2016 sixth round pick.
He will later make a couple more trades to get additional picks in 2017.
RG3 will start the season behind a repaired offensive line and with inexperienced receivers and won't suck. Josh McCown (who Hue and Jimmy wouldn't let Sashi trade for a seventh rounder) will back him up, and Paxton will marinate.
The Browns will get creamed early in the season but finish strong as Terrell Pryor and Braxton Miller go apeshit and surprise everybody but me.
They will finish 5-11, extend RG3, and come back scary.
...According to sources.
Well I let that get away from me there, but I'm just wildly guessing that Lynch could be part of this.
Or Dak Prescott.
Understand this: The Browns have nothing to gain by pretending they want to trade down. All they could gain is the knowledge of what they could have gotten, and the emnity of everybody who negotiated with them in good faith.
No, they are not planning to draft number one next season, or betting all their marbles on RG3.
If Brown or DePodesta are too geeky to comprehend how critical the quarterback is, Hue Jackson isn't.
I suppose Hue might have the quarterbacks ranked differently than the majority. If so, my guess would be Goff/Lynch/Wentz.
That's not hard to imagine. Entering 2015, Lynch was the man. In fact, he was the man until he got humiliated in his Bowl Game.
Here's another thing: Hue's system. Most of you guys don't really understand Coacheze, but I'm fluent on it. It took me several years to learn, but here are some tips to get you started.
1: Most of it is garbage. Start by filtering out "at the end of the day", "what he brings to the table", "-ilize", "winning", and everything else you hear more than four or five times.
2: Nothing will ever be clear. You have to fill in a lot of blanks in order to determine what the coach is carefully not saying. He circles around it a lot. You have to deduce what's in the circle.
Anyway, Hue said he won't change his system for RG3 or anybody else. They will play in his system.
I believe what Hue is determined not to say is that he has a massive playbook, and in year one will only use the 15-20% of it that suits his personnel best.
His massive playbook includes read-option, west coast, vertical spread, Infante, Coryell, zone, man, and probably stuff nobody has ever seen before.
Hue's system is whatever will work best.
This brings us back to Lynch. The big risk with this guy is his unproven ability to process information rapidly. His arm, legs, and accuracy won't let him down. Only his brain, or lack of effort, can stop him.
If Hue finds out that Paxton will never be like Manning, Brady, Rogers, Russell, or those guys, he will move on to Newton, or maybe Romo.
But you know...Ben Roethsenberger learned it, eventually. How hard can it be?
At any rate, this massive offensive system of Hue's could be a big reason why he might think the talented kid with the big question mark is the guy he wants.
Or not. Adam Shefter is only human, after all.
Hmm...The Browns have no motive to lie about a trade-down, but somebody else might...
Just a note on Pat McNanoman's 1-15 prediction:
Everybody seems to think the Ravens will bounce back this year. Yeah now they got Mike Wallace to go deep and Gramps Smith will be back as good as ever and all that. The free agents they lost? "Next man up" yeah. And Flacco!
Superstition. They're rebuilding. Great coach good quarterback and old guys and cheap free agents and lost studs. The Wizard misplaced his magic wand a couple years ago and his draft picks haven't been up to par.
The Browns could get one or even two wins here.
I haven't even seen the schedule yet, but I bet they also have a shot to beat...do they play the Niners? Or the Titans early? Uh...
Well okay but look: COACHING made the defense worse last season, along with injuries in the secondary. Gipson at strong and Whitten at free really? That's reaching pretty far for a curve ball ain't it?
The outside linebackers in coverage more than passrushing. Yeah they'll never see that coming!
Running exclusively to the weak side. Going away from zone-blocking. Losing Hawkins, then Hartline for several games.
And what about RG3? I don't know how this will work, but this is the first time he's fully healthy, and a fresh start with Hue Jackson. He wasn't just a dual threat-he has a great arm with great accuracy.
And Pryor. Terrelle Pryor is going to slap you people awake. Probably not right away, but by the end of the season.
They still got Duke, Gary, and Hawk. They don't suck as bad as everybody thinks.
Ok ok there are some problems. But 3-13 or even 4-12 wouldn't surprise me. Everybody always assumes that all the tough teams are just as tough, when as often as not key free agent losses, injuries, and coaching changes set them back.
Pat needs to take a pill.
Not that I don't hope he's right. I like drafting number one. It would be great to auction that pick off...I mean if the Browns have their franchise quarter...dammit take Sashi's phone away will you? Hue go tell on him! Has this guy got trade ocd or what?
One chance. One shot. He wants to trade it oh god please let it be Hue wanting Lynch I can't take another decade and thirty more quarterbacks please no no nooooooo
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