I know you guys think I'm a Browns shill, but I'm actually a voice in the wilderness...well more like a voice telling everybody else they shouldn't burn the wilderness down.
It was never as easy for me to get "caught up" in an emotional tide (a mob mentality) than it obviously is for most of you.
Well, I shouldn't say "never", since my hormones made me a pseudo-Marxist during Viet Nam, but after my brain matured (very late), I was trained to think with my that, rather than my other organs.
Anyway, this O'Hara guy in Detroit scouted the Browns, and nailed it.
Thankfully, he didn't bother predicting that his Lions would massacre the Browns (as they almost certainly will), but he was OBJECTIVE.
He noted nine first round picks on the current roster, and (I think) seven more third rounders. YOU PEOPLE are calling them all busts, because you are spazzing out, but O'Hara seems to think they're not. How refreshing.
He said Corey Coleman was on IR, but I think he might be back. He didn't mention Njoku, so I guess he doesn't think he's a bust just yet. Is OJ Howard a bust?
No, O'Hara thinks the Browns will become a pretty good team, because of their OVERALL TALENT DO YOU U N D E R S T A N D?
This writer didn't even bash DeShone Kizer! He just listed his hideous stats and rating, along with where he was drafted, and the fact that he is a rookie. He no doubt foolishly thinks that his readers are sentient, and will infer the obvious contexts.
As a Detroit guy, he naturally mentioned former homie Jabrill Peppers, and his lack of big plays to-date as a Brown.
Here, he is wrong: As a Senior, Jabrill played more weakside linebacker than anything else. He did a great job there, but was not a "playmaker". He made big plays as a returner.
Gregg Williams has him lining up very deep a little over 30% of the time. Simpletonians declare this dumb, despite the fact that every Williams defense had a guy sometimes doing this.
But as Peppers himself says, he has been screwing up (I love this guy! He's at least as smart as Ed Reed!)
Harbaugh did not use him this way in college, and he is still learning this single-high safety position. He has taken poor angles, read things slowly, etc.
He readily fesses up, but is confident he can do it.
So am I.
YOU PEOPLE still don't comprehend that Gregg nWiliams needs some player in this position, and feels that Peppers has the right skills...but I guess he must not be as smart as all of you.
Related to that: The release of Ibraheim Campbell (and signing of Smith from the Bengals Practice Squad) probably means a promotion for Kai Nacua.
Nacua is an experienced, true free safety, arguably better-qualified for the aforementioned "Angel" center-field position. He might now actually replace Jabrill Peppers there (that is, move him closer to the line of scrimmage) on those downs where Gregg uses that set.
That's just a guess, but Nacua is almost certainly the maturing rookie who made Campbell expendable.
I can't credibly predict a Browns upset this sunday, but I feel I must point out a few things everybody else is ignoring:
Matt Stafford gets sacked a lot, and Myles Garrett is back. Shelton is healthy, and McCourtey is back.
Stafford is the problem. Monday night, Marvin Jones was covered like a blanket, but Stafford kept putting it in an almost microscopic window.
No Coach can fault a cornerback when this happens. Keep that in mind when you're calling Calhoun and McCourtey bumbs. Their only chance to stop Stafford is to sack him like ten times, and pry the ball out of his hands on a couple of those.
Could happen😟
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