On offense, the Browns desperately need a quarterback, running backs, offensive linemen, wide receivers, and tight ends.
The guy who normally writes this blog blabbers about ratings, accuracy, and stuff like that, but the bottom line is all that matters, so Cody Kessler lost all his games, so he was a huge draft whiff.
The Browns urgently need to find a starting quarterback. I would consider signing Tyrod Taylor or Tony Romo or the Bengals backup guy, who I bet they could get for only like a second round draft pick.
At running back, there is a desperate oh man I just can't stay dumb enough for long enough to keep writing this garbage. The world is eyeball deep in LaCanfora-spewing Joe Twelvpacks. A lot of fans might not even know I'm being sarcastic.
The article I linked to on Kessler is written by a guy who thinks that Cody Kessler IS the franchise quarterback.
I know I know, I kind of doubt it too, but he makes a pretty good case. I've been defending this guy forever. I'm pretty sure he starts game one and plays well. Kessler will win when he has help. He's a good quarterback, do you hear me?
The concussions, however, are alarming.
But now these knuckleheads have stuck to the Gramps Romo stuff, added Tyrod Taylor, and are even talking about trading for the Bengals backup what the hell?
Dane Brugler, who is a Mentor native, is high on Jimmy Garopollo and Deshone Kizer both, so I guess I've changed my mind again. Brugler should know both the Browns and Kizer better than other analysts, and has always been rated high in my book.
Brugler isn't talking about #12 for Jimmy, but the top second rounder, and maybe a conditional pick next year, which would be another second if certain performance targets were met. This might be enough to win the bidding war.
Dane is sadly still stuck on this immediate impact stuff, but goes on to say that Garopollo does have franchise traits, and likens him (roughly) to Tony Romo.
Finally, somebody has enlightened me about Kizer! Dane doesn't believe Kizer actually regressed last season. He lost his top ten left tackle and his top six wide receiver. I'm not clear on details here, but Dane also felt that his Head Coach preferred another quarterback, and may not have been in his corner. I haven't looked into this yet myself.
He's not the only guy who has said that Kizer has the most arm talent, and the highest upside of any quarterback in this draft. He's big and should take a lickin and keep on tickin.
Per Dane, Deshone has the deep ball down pat, but needs to work on his short accuracy more. This isn't that bad, since most of these are slants and crosses.
These passes are a LOT different than verticals. If you can be accurate deep, you can be accurate short. It's a matter of timing and leading the receiver.
Some guys, like Derek Anderson, never get very good at short passes, but DA was 6'6", not athletic, and had footwork issues; it's hard for him to plant and throw quickly.
Kizer has more starts than Trubisky, and more tape to study. Dane thinks the Browns could "fall in love" with him.
He also says that if the Browns do believe in any of these draftable quarterbacks, and the Jimmy G thing can't happen, they have to draft him first overall. The impact of a quarterback is significantly greater than that of any passrusher.
With that disclaimer, Dane's Plan A for the Browns is Garrett, Malik Hooker (FS Ohio State), and Garopollo. Sounds good to me. (Brugler rates Garrett significantly higher than everybody else).
Plan B is unlear. I can't help thinking that Hue Jackson might like more than one of these quarterbacks, and that a trade-down could work if it still got them one of Hue's favorites, OR he might like Mahones, Kelly, Webb, or somebody none of us never heard of again. Who knows?
Oh no! Malik Hooker only started for one year! He'll screw up as an NFL rookie! We can't draft him because he won't make the Pro Bowl until his second or third season!
We've got to draft a less-talented guy who is more NFL ready so we can go 7-9 instead of 6-10 in 2017!
We can't draft Kizer either! He shouldn't start for one or possibly even two years! We need to draft a different position instead, and pick a nice ripe quarterback off the quarterback tree next season instead, or draft a Tom Brady in the sixth or a Russell Wilson in the third!
Speaking of immediate impacts, Jeff Schudel has divined Hair-Trigger Haslam ultimatums to Hue and Sashi from Jimmy's letter to season ticket holders. He thinks that by promising his customers an improved product in 2017 and beyond, Haslam is turning up the heat on his management team, and that this means they have to sign a veteran quarterback.
This is wrong for just too many reasons:
1: Jeff clearly has zero faith in Rodney Kesslerfied. I can assure you, Hue, Sashi, and Paul have a higher opinion of him than Jeff does. So do most other football people and analysts.
2: If the Browns use a high draft pick on a rookie quarterback, they still have four top 65 draft picks, three of which should upgrade three positions immediately. There are only 22 starters. Don't act like this just means the Browns have 19 more players to replace, okay?
The Browns will automaticly win more games as the many, many first and second year players develop, mature, and master their respective systems. It doesn't require that Cody Kessler or even RG3 need to get kicked to the curb!
I can't even inflict the link on you, but somebody else wrote another atrocious article on how the Browns should spend every penny of their cap space on everybody they can get.
I can't argue about cornerbacks and under-tackles, but stop it:
You don't need Myles Garrett AND another edge rusher to bench both Ogbah AND Nassib (and Johnson/Holmes/Orchard)!
There are THREE good players competing for right tackle, and even Pazstor was a little above average by the end of the season, and he is a better guard than tackle! Why are you pretending the whole freaking offensive line needs to be rebuilt?
And here is another goober who thinks Tyrod Taylor or even Ryan Mallett is better than Cody Kessler!
I've honestly blacked out much of this article (it was that traumatic) but I'm sure he had Sashi getting wide receivers, running backs, tight ends, linebackers, punters, kickers, and waterboys too.
Don't let this clown borrow your credit card, okay? You'll need a second mortgage by sundown good grief stopitstopitstopit #@!&%×+?!@!!!
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