I've been waiting for Robo or somebody else to so much as mention wide receiver Jordon Leslie. Leslie didn't just outperform every other receiver in the live scrimmage friday, but put an exclamation point on it in saturday's scrimmage too.
What does this 6'3" freak athlete have to do to get noticed by somebody besides the coaches? Moon the reporters?
It's cool that other undrafted guys like Danny Vitale and Trevon Coley are getting some hat-tips, but damn! Leslie is standing out. I don't get it!
Is it because he's not a vedderrunn? It gets hard to keep reciting that mindless Saunders and Britt-insulting mantra when a kid from the bottom of your (old) depth chart makes your tight ends and other wide-outs look sick.
Maybe everybody just made up their minds to black out any news about young guys kicking butt to try to force the Browns to sign some old geezer who can come in and keep the kid on the bench.
Nobody else will tell you, so I will. Leslie caught five passes (all from Osweiler), including three in a row for two first downs. Don't you think Gregg Williams and the safety were paying attention the third time?
The Browns might really have something here! This guy's had a couple seasons worth of NFL coaching, and is fairly refined (not a typical rookie).
He's a skyscraper like Kenny Britt, and can do everything he does. While we've been waiting for Ricardo Louis to do something special, Leslie has been sneaking up on him, and may have passed him on the depth chart.
A star may be being born right before our eyes, and nobody else seems to see it!
Now, for the first time in 81 attempts, Rodney Kesslerfield throws a pick, and Collins returns it 80 yards for a TD. Chris Pokorney had obviously been waiting for this, as he wonders if this was "the last straw" for him.
What the hell are you people talking about? Kessler has unofficially completed 64% of his passes! Kizer? FIFTY TWO PERCENT. Don't you understand that this matters?
Why don't we just bring Tim Tebow back?
For that matter, Rodney Hoganfield is at 63%, and Osweiler (thanks to Leslie) has come on strong and got up to 57% (and climbing).
In reality, Osweiler and Hogan were the two best quarterbacks on friday, and Osweiler did it again saturday too.
It won't matter to Mary Kay, no sir. She said early last week that (52%) Kizer had already passed (then 67%) Kessler, and "it's not even close".
You know what Head Coaches call a 66% passer? "Acceptable". A 52% passer? "Gone." A guy with a popgun arm who completes two out of three passes can move the ball. A guy with a cannon who misses as often as he hits kills drives.
That's why Hue Jackson (and every other Head Coach) lists accuracy above arm-strength. Why doesn't anybody think he means it?
I hope Kizer succeeds, and think he will, but Mary Kay? Chris? He's not even close yet. Put your glasses on!
OMG Mary Kay expects Hue to start Kizer thursday! What the hell maybe he will just to get her to back off her irrational, obsessive campaigning for him!
I got egg on my own face over Brock Osweiler. I posted that he was just too tall, and that his physical flaws might be unfixable. Maybe he read that or something, because he got hot in the live scrimmage, and stayed hot.
Kessler is being challenged...by Osweiler.
Ezweav weighed in on Brock, saying much the same thing.
Just think: What if Osweiler were to win the job and play as well or better than he did in a similar system in Denver?
His salary would look like a good deal, with a year left on it he's now worth a high draft pick should they trade him, and wow...they got him and a second round draft pick for...free?
Sashi Brown for Mayor.
Matt Stevenson posted this pretty good preview of the Browns wide receivers. But something is missing.
That's correct: Jordon Leslie. (Ok well, he did mention his name in the middle of John Doe and Joe Blow as an afterthought). Why does Jordon even bother showing up?
At least Matt included Josh Gordon.
Matt says he has proven he can't be relied on.
No, he hasn't. He had drinks with teammates on a plane after the season was over. He drank too much water. He walked by somebody smoking pot and gave a second hand sample well below the US military cieling, the subsequent raised NFL cieling, and his other sample passed.
He's being persecuted, pure and simple. Let the poor bastard up!!!
This just in: Nate Lese is here to challenge Danny Vitale. He's not here to play tight end.
Rasheed Bailey is not a rookie. He's played in Canada and is actually a pretty good wide receiver.
The Eagles just loaded up at wide receiver (including Terrelle Pryor), and Bailey was most likely intended for their practice squad (light-fingers Brown strikes again).
One or more of the wide receivers drafted in 2015 could be in trouble.
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