Don't Reorganize Because Your Quarterback Sucked

Kevin Hogan was terrible last night.  The rest of the team wasn't so bad, but he was.

Let's not overcomplicate this.  The articles I'm already reading are proposing major overhauls.  Why?  Your quarterback played badly.  That's all!

Fire DePodesta?  Find a "football executive"?

Would the football executive have forced them to draft Watson, or Wentz?  I know most fans think those would have been smarter moves than those they actually made, but smarter executives consult with their coaches and scouts, like Sashi Brown does.

Now we got this he said/he said Hue texting DeShaun on draft day "controversey".  Whether Hue texted him that day or not, Watson himself said the text concluded "anything could happen".

Some nimrod will turn this into Hue Jackson pounding the table for Watson and the evil micromanaging powermad Geek Sashi Brown overriding him (evil laugh included).

If your roof is leaking, it's not time to replace the siding and change the locks.  Just fix the leak.  The Browns need to find a quarterback.  That's all.

I know, so far so bad on that front, but as of the latest count, they've piled up 24 draft picks off those two trades, including an extra first and two second rounders in 2018.

One theory is that you draft the quarterback first, and then get him some help.  The other is that you build the team first, so that your rookie quarterback has a support system.

Paul and Sashi focused on building the other 21 positions first, and taking a shot on Kiser.

Really, you want an Executive to come in here and do it your way instead.

It's irrational, too, since that ship has sailed.  Kizer isn't dead yet, nor even is Kevin Hogan.   Either one of them will get it together and find ways to win instead of lose, or the Browns will be in position to take a legitimate, consensus top prospect in 2018.

If you think that this front office will trade down a third time with the rest of the team already built, and all those draft picks already stockpiled,  you're just not thinking.  There really is a phase two.

If you think your football executive will pick different players, that's not necessarily true either.

The Mack decision was logical.  The Scwartze thing is history.  Haden wasn't Haden anymore.

Do you hate Collins, McCourty, Schoebert, Zietler, Tretter, Shon Coleman, Calhoun, Louis, DeValve, Njoku, Ogbah, Coley, Ogunjobi, Peppers, Garrett, etc?  That plus next season's draft picks is a bad job, really?

It is possible that the Haslams are checking out executives named Manning, but the rest is just a rumor.  I just heard Ross Tucker report this "executive search" story as fact.

Ross does that a lot.  He's a bit of a gossip himself.  But I still like him.

After Hogan's putrid performance, Hue Jackson really is between a rock and a hard place, because he now has two quarterbacks who most recently played horribly to choose from for next week.

I can't pick a dog for this fight.  I guess I lean towards Hogan, because the one crappy game isn't enough to wipe out the rest of what he's done to date.

Kizer was consistently bad, and getting worse.  I would give him another week to watch and learn, and Hogan the chance to get his mojo back.  One week off isn't going to be long enough for DeShone Kizer to turn it around, and one horrible game isn't enough to throw in the towel on Hogan.

Don't tell anybody this, but I'm starting to daydream about Rosen.  If Wentz can do it, and Watson can do it...