The writer takes care of the bad advice part (Colin advises the top two quarterbacks to stay in school in order to avoid being drafted by the Jets or...Browns---really?)
Anyway I have to upgrade this from Dumbassitude to idiocy. Like he was on acid idiocy.
I only skimmed the article, so maybe the writer (a smart guy btw) missed something:
1: Why would 2019 be better for these guys than 2018?
2: Why should they forego one year of NFL salaries when they could get injured or lose their best weapons or simply have a bad year? Would you pass up being drafted first or second overall? Would any sentient being?
Honestly, I can't believe Cowherd said this stuff. Seriously, I think he took something. It's beyond idiocy, in fact, and into dementia.
But my own gripe is that this nimrod expects the 2018 Browns to draft first or second again.
I honestly can't fathom this. I'm really sorry about getting redundant again, but I kind of have no choice.
I guess that for a lot of people "You can be loaded with talent, but if you don't have a quarterback, you're not going anywhere" is taken literally, and is literally true.
But even the people who say this are not being literal. It's a very general-really almost metaphorical, statement.
First, "If you don't have a quarterback" does not mean if you don't have Tom Brady.
Second, "You're not going anywhere" does not mean that you will go 0-16. It means you're not going anywhere in the playoffs, and even this is a pretty dumb statement as-is.
Clearly, Colin Cowherd considers every current Browns quarterback a bumb. In this particular insanity, he clearly regards Kizer as a bust as well.
Third, Colin clearly considers Gregg Williams, Myles Garrett, the rest of the defensive line, offen...well the whole rest of the team a dumpster fire.
I mean really--1-15 again? My God!
Is it possible...could Colin be oblivious to the Browns whole offseason? Could he be seeing a bad offensive line, no pass rush...is that even---
Nevermind it's not even worth addressing. This is like kicking puppies. Colin should stop taking/change/resume his medication, that's all.
Well, minicamp is over now, so all the NFL players are "off" til training camp. This means more for the Browns than it does for other teams, because so many of them are rookies, and Gregg Williams brought a new system with him.
Even more significantly, these young, "unproven" players are motivated as hell.
I don't believe that the Browns released Tyvis Powell to "send a message", but it nonetheless sent a message to the survivors. Free safety is the big question mark on this defense, and the guy they released was a veteran free safety considered by us clueless masses as a real contender to fill that position of need.
Rather than "let it be" until training camp, they went ahead and cut him loose.
The message: It doesn't matter how long you've been here, or how impressive an athlete you are, or where you came from, or what position you play, or even if we don't have to cut you til later.
A lot of these young players are going to hang out around Berea. They're not going to party overmuch. They're going to work out, and practice together unofficially. They're going to do this, because they know they're in the fight of their lives to make this team.
A factor overlooked by most pundits is the "unproven" part of this:
If you're drafted below the 4th round, and get cut from a 1-15 team, it might be the end for you.
Further, if you were drafted, and get released, you forfeit your guaranteed salary, even if your team puts you on their practice squad. That's a league minimum salary, which could end at any time.
Sashi and company have loaded up, big-time:
Set aside your "question marks" for the moment: The reality is that the Browns have too many strong and free safeties, defensive linemen, interior offensive linemen, tight ends, linebackers, and yes: wide receivers.
The guys at these positions can all do the math. If you're a pure free safety, you have at best a 50/50 shot at making this team. If you're a strong safety (or 3-tech DT) it's under 40%, including third round picks and guys named Bryant.
It's even lower for defensive ends.
Competition is good. Competition made the United States what it was, before...anyway fighters get it. In most cases, once you're done trying to kill eachother, you're pals, regardless of who won. It's a fraternity.
Football is more like that, because you are teammates, with a less selfish overall goal.
It boils down to this: You do your best. I do my best. We both accept the result. I might think the Coach (or referee) is an idiot, and like I really won, but that's not on you. We'll argue about it, but with smiles on our faces. When nobody else is in earshot, the winner often whispers to the loser "yeah, you got screwed".
Some pundits don't get this, at all. Nor do they get situations like we have here with Osweiler. The only relevant thing about Osweiler is that he (like Josh Gordon) remains a Cleveland Brown.
The other thing they have in common is that it would be idiotic to cut either (unless one isn't better than his competition).
Gordon aside, the Cleveland Browns have to pay Brock 16 mil for 2017 no matter what. Nothing Sashi Brown said about the trade that brought him here, trade proposals after that, rumors, wild guesses, his Texans record, rumors, Buzz Kill Bill etc are relevant here for Osweiler.
If Brock Osweiler is deemed better than Kevin Hogan, he makes this team. The Cleveland Browns are on the hook for his salary no matter what, so if they can't bribe somebody to trade (at least a 4th round pick) for him, the only rational reason to cut him would be if Kevin Hogan was better than he can be.
In general, you people don't think with your brains. If you did, you would realize that his salary is irrelevant here, along with whatever Sashi said, or rumors, or what stupid people predicted, or everything that happened before he completed this mini-camp as a Cleveland Brown.
Competition is good. Brock is very close to Cody Kessler right now. While I personally pick the more accurate/athletic/quicker Kessler to start game one, I love the idea of Osweiler between him and a raw DeShone Kizer...
...but if they can't trade Osweiler, they will cut him?
I swear, you people need adult supervision or something. You listen to Cowherd a lot, right?
This just in:
Ok, Factory of Sadness, you run this crap instead of me?
Ok well, Ryan Roscoe had a bad night. He's actually pretty good in general, but...he's not me, you freaking idiots (I'm sick of this click the fkng link):
Grammar aside, nothing Hue Jackson did as an offensive coordinator has anything to do with his scheme here, where he can pick his own talent and run his own scheme.
Kenny Britt is not AJ Green, but that doesn't mean he's not a better number one than half the freaking teams in the freaking NFL have, or that if Hue had had two Eifert's he would have parked one on the freaking bench, or that more than half the Superbowl teams in the last five years HAD a top five wide receiver, let alone 27 out of 32 teams, or that this is mandatory, or that Hue thinks any given 29 or 30 year old veterans ARE better than Britt or Coleman, and I'm so sick of this:
SCREW what Hue did in Cincinatti with the players he didn't pick! It means NOTHING! And the hell with the cookie-cutter "number one" wide receiver/guys named Joe model too, because those guys are less common or realistic than franchise quarterbacks!
When tf was the last time the Patriots, Panthers, Broncos, etc had one, and where tf did Megatron get the Lions, or Green the Bungles, or Marshall the whoevers, or Edwards Sissorhands the Browns, or even Julio Jones prior to 2016, etc etc etc?
I'm not bashing Roscoe here. I assume he's smart but has stuff to learn. This was the first stinker I've read by him.
Still, it was a stinker, and you dumbass editors need to do a better job of finding guys like ME gdammit I'm sick of this
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