Giants Make Move on Browns in Race for Rosen

Uh-oh!  The Giants are making a move on first overall!  Eli Manning is benched, and Geno Smith and (3rd round rookie) Davis Webb are taking over!

This is bad!  Just when DeShone Kizer shows some real promise and Josh Gordon is coming back, the Giants are getting even worse!  They could well overtake the Browns!

The news on the 49ers front is better, as Jimmy Garopollo will indeed start this week, and many real experts expect him to be pretty good.  As I've also mentioned, the Niners do have some emerging talent starting to round into shape, so there's a good chance they could fall further behind, or at least finish behind the Browns.

Sam Darnold never said anything about staying in school to avoid being drafted by the Browns.  I knew that, of course, but it wasn't worth mentioning.  Some writer speculated about it and another writer embellished it and now you have a work of fiction.

Besides, would you throw away eight million or so bucks to avoid dealing with Duke Johnson, being protected by Joe Thomas, and throwing to Corey Coleman and Josh Gordon?

...why...?

Anyway consensus favors Rosen, whose offensive system has a lot of NFL type elements to it, and who has coped with a serious loss of supporting talent *elevating the play of his teammates*.

The ideal scenario would be for Kizer to finish the 2017 season well (while not winning more than one game, of course), and the Browns drafting Rosen anyway.

Why would they do that?  Because the Browns haven't had a franchise quarterback for a couple centuries or so, and have a chance at having two!

In that situation, Kizer would return as the presumptive starter.  

Did you see what the Eagles got for Sam Bradford? 

Rosen could be like Wentz.  Darnold could be like Goff.  

As Bob Evans points out, the Bowns could have three more picks in the top forty next season.

Bob can't realisticly compare first and second year players to those drafted by previous regimes, but the arrow is up for the majority of Sashi Brown's picks, and those drafted by previous front offices were either so-so or downright horrific.

*Bob stresses that all the previous regimes were "football guys", by the way.

The Browns will have six picks in the top three rounds, so they could (at worst) get quarterback insurance plus five more potential impact players.  There are only twenty two starters on the roster DO YOU U N D E R S T A N D?

If you just said "they'll blow it", are you utterly impervious to reason?  THESE guys are not the same guys as the ones they replaced!

What are you already shoveling dirt on Coleman, Peppers, Ogbah, Shon Coleman, Njoku, or for that matter Kizer? (I left Garrett out on purpose).  What round was Schobert drafted in?  Ogunjobi?

You don't want to start up with me on free agents, do you?  (HINT:  YOU DON'T).

As usual, Bob Evans is right.  The "baseball geek" and "lawyer" are doing better than the "foodball guyzz" preceding them, and it will be almost impossible for any Head Coach to screw up enough not to win in 2018 with the talent-laden roster they'll have to work with.

...Starting this week:  Are Josh Gordon, Corey Coleman, and Duke Johnson playmakers?  Well, how many do you think we need?  Are you aware that between the quarterback and offensive line, that's six guys!  There are only five left!  Even if you dismiss Njoku (and DeValve) for now, very few offenses have three "playmakers", ok?

You can bash DeShone Kizer, but if you keep mindlessly repeating that he has no "weapons",  you are..."out of touch"...no I can't do this you are an imbecile.

Black Cloud just heard me guarantee that the Browns would blow the Chargers out this sunday.  Did you?

Sadly (or happily, come to think of it) Philip Rivers and company are coming together big-time, and are very talented.

They're hard on opposing receivers and tight ends, and it's a bad matchup in general.

...except they haven't had to cover a Josh Gordon and a Corey Coleman at the same time yet.

Fortunately, while for any veteran quarterback with any running game at all, this is the land of opportunity, Kizer can't be trusted to make the right reads (yet), and might "miss" Gordon because he's not used to him yet...

The Browns will probably lose...after scaring the Chargers somewhat.

Yeah things are looking up! "Too little too late"; the Browns won't be able to lose out, but are solid front-runners for Rosen.  2-14 might be just about perfect.