Terry Pluto, who is not a sheep or a spazz, hence not the lynch-mob type, figured out something like what I told you in re the Garropolo thing.
It turns out that they never stopped chasing Jimmy G. His agent did indeed tell them "no dice", but they never gave up. They didn't even know that Lord Insideous and San Francisco were negotiating.
For whatever reason (probably the Browns proscription stipulated by the player and his agent), the Browns were never "invited".
And you people need to begin to start to commence to comprehend this: All deals involve at least two parties. You pantsed Sashi Brown, locked him in his locker, and stepped on his glasses for nothing.
Terry probably has a good bead on the (fortunately) failed McCarron deal. The Bengals were reluctant to part with him, and Sashi (I bet) was forced to make the offer in the first place.
Ya can't knock Mike Brown for trying to extort all he could for a player Marvin Lewis doesn't want to let go. And if a secind and third round pick is what the Bengals settled for, I don't even want to think about the original asking price.
Like Terry, I'm glad it fell through, and would like to add this:
BIG FREAKING DEAL😨!!!
Terry also noticed that the Browns lost four games by a field goal or less, the defense has imroved a lot (fifth vs the run).
You people just can't be objective or analytical. Your roof leaks. You don't see it until it travels down some drywall and beams, and you see swelling and paint flaking off.
It never occurs to you to get up on the roof. No, instead you decide to tear the house down. "This house sucks, man! The faucet is dripping too! Where's the kerosene?"
I don't think Zane Gonzalez sucks and would not cut him. He was pretty much THE best and most reliable kicker in college over the course of several years, and it's almost the same gig in the pros as it is in college. He's been too good for two long to just fall apart now.
However, he has been the leaky roof, and the Browns should be 3-5.
Well okay it's not just him. I've listed Hue's blockheadedness and inefficiency, the lack of wide receivers, and of course the atrocious performances of every Browns' quarterback...
No wait: Cody Kessler was doing fine til Big Joe went down. Hogan has been pretty good throughout 2017 until his one start, in which he was conceivably almost as bad as Kizer...but yeah he really stank in that one...
Terry says they should be more effective running the ball. I won't say it again. The blocking scheme is the biggest part of that!
No listen! Shanahan offenses have always run the ball successfully, using committees or running backs you never heard of before or since. The Seattle Seahawks offense ran the ball really well before Beast-Mode. Lynch put them on the map.
The Seahawks never had a dominant offensive line, either, but they did what they did.
Well, that's zone-blocking dammit! Marshawn Lynch was always a really good running back, but when he got to Seattle, well..."Beast-Mode" was born!
He was in heaven! "You mean I can just pick my holes, and nobody in my way has their feet planted or is coming forward? Nobody can get more than one arm on me?"
You didn't think that was "power/man" blocking (like Hue insists on running) did you? No! The power part was all Lynch!!! Isaiah Crowell has been like that (when Shanahan ran the offense) and could be again if only...if only...
And trust me: He wants out now. And he might take less money to sign with San Fransisco and get back with the Shanahans.
If this happens, watch him do his Beast-Mode thing, and you people will blame Sashi Brown for "letting him go", when the real culprit is Hue Jackson and his cave-man blocking scheme!!!
Before you burn the house down, look a little deeper:
The New England Patriots lack "playmakers" too! They're not that talented! They've got Brady and Belichick. Yeah I know Gronk, but he's been injured a lot. Edelman is gone, and without Brady wouldn't be as effective. Their defense is pretty bad!
The Browns? Josh Gordon is back. They have Myles Garrett and Duke Johnson. Many think Njoku will be a stud (I've told you so can DeValve). Jamie Collins? You think Jabrill Peppers is done already? You people!
Burn it all down because the quarterbacks (and kicker) have sucked?
The less blatently obvious thing you don't want to see is the second-tier blue collar talent here.
Wide receivers Bryce Treggs and Kasen Williams have made some nice plays, and I think they have first dibs on Leslie Jordon. It's not all black and white like simpletonians who go fishing with hand-grenades think!
Chris Hogan is like this. Jamal White, Dion Lewis, three of their offensive linemen, every tight end not named Gronk, and every wide receiver not named Cook.
Guys like Ogbah, Rango, Treggs, Calhoun, Louis, Burgess, Vitale, Kindred, Taylor, Orchard, Dayes etc etc all fit this profile. Pick a loser off this list!
I'll try extra hard to get this across and use the Kansas City Chiefs:
Wow! Karim Hunt, Tyreek Hill, and Travis Kelce. But until this season, Alex Smith was a "game manager" who couldn't win the big games (which was bullcrap anyway). To this day, some KC fans still spew that crap!
Anyway, can Njoku re-learn how to catch the damn ball and become as good as Kelce! YES.
The Browns don't have anybody like Hill. Instead, they have somebody like a mix of Green and Jones (Josh Gordon), so I'll take it.
Crow is dead meat under Hue Jackson, so there is no Hunt analog here.
But Andy Reid is a great coach, who really does adapt his offense to his personnel, like Hue Jackson was erroneously reported to.
Hill is a microbe with a microscopic catch radius, so he's not a true deep threat, despite his world-class speed. So Reid lines him up all over the place (usually behind the line of scrimmage), and Alex hits him all over the place, usually short and intermediate. He's as quick as he is fast, so nobody can cover him.
Smith is very accurate, and hits him just right and on-time. Defenders try to off-man him so they can at least stop him where he catches it, but because the passes are so precise and quick, Hill still screws them up and gets by for huge plays.
Also, if Andy Reid had two Kelces, he would not keep one of them on the bench...
The Browns need a Tom Brady, or an Alex Smith. They HAVE EVERYTHING ELSE DO. YOU. U N D E R S T A N D?
*I'm crossing my fingers that Josh Gordon stays out of trouble this time, and assuming that Njoku stops dropping passes, and that most of the rookies and sophomores make their utterly predictable progress).
In re Josh Gordon, I was initially furious that he wouldn't be eligable to play for three more weeks, but upon further reflection, it's good for everybody. (After what Gordon himself said about Goodell, I can't hate him so much).
Josh will have three weeks to get into football shape, practice with Kizer and the other guys, master the "language", and be ready to rock, full-time, in game 11.
Ideally, the adrenaline-rush from football will mitigate his temptation, and a structured schedule will help as well. Ideally, he will now be kind of obsessed with football (like me), so he's not idle, or bored.
This kid is 26 years old, and he has Hall of Fame talent. He's broke (probably in debt). He is a smart guy (believe it or not), and I think he'll come back strong, and not backslide in the offseason. I hope.
All this doom and gloom crap is overly optimistic now. The Browns will certainly draft high, but might not draft first overall...
Ok I just checked. The Browns and Niners are tied at zero, but the Niners just got Jimmy G and have a smart offense.
The Giants have one win, but still have Eli Manning and that super-tight end they just drafted.
The teams with two wins have some actual talent as well, (for example the Colts with Brissett, who can score with his feet from anywhere).
Unfortunately, I know that Hue will put Gordon on the field ASAP, and Myles Garrett might stay healthy, and DeShone Kizer will get at least a little bit better, and bad things will happen.
I hope I'm wrong, but am afraid the Browns could win as many as four games. I didn't mention a possible sustained Zane Gonzalez cave-in, because it might not be that close.
I calculate that if Gordon and Garrett stay on the field, it's 40-60 they draft first overall now. I would upgrade that if I could assume that Hue Jackson would continue to keep one of his two pass-catching tight ends on the bench at all times, not help Kizer with zone-reads or screens, and continue not to zone-block, but I can't count on that.
Hue talks to other coaches and stuff, and even his assistants have stuff to say, not to mention Crowell, Thomas, etc. so he might actually listen to somebody and stop being a Martonian blockhead.
It's a mess: too damn much talent to keep screwing it up! McCourtey will be back, Williams won't mismanage Garrett---there's just too much talent for even bad coaching and mediocre quarterbacking to stop!
It's okay, though. You need to take the annual college quarterback-bashing with a grain of salt. Even if the Browns draft third or fourth, they might land a "big one".
Stop it! They didn't miss on Wentz! They built the rest of their team instead! Almost all the experts applauded their trading down from Watson, then snagging Kizer late! So did most of YOU!
They can pick a quarterback. Based on recent returns, it's probably a good thing Hue Jackson oknevermind I don't want to confuse you even more.
Anyway if DeShone Kizer never gets better than Daunte Culpepper, he'll do fine. If Josh Gordon makes him look good enough for somebody to offer a first round pick for him, that works too.
Alex Smith and Kirk Cousins will be...
Nevermind. Just shut up.
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