I was all for the Browns paying a lot for Jarvis Landry before doing more research, and reading this article by Bryce Rossler.
Landry's production and reliability is not up for debate; I liked him a ton because I play weekly fantasy, and always consider drafting him.
However, Landry is a slot receiver who, per Bryce, has some physical limitations (not very fast or sudden).
The Browns are certain to draft a big workhorse running back in this draft (unless Todd Haley's presence and Crow's Hue-engineered lack of leverage keeps him here).
Haley will want Duke on the field as much as possible, and that would put him in the slot a lot, fulfilling a role very, very much like Landry's.
Team prospects aside, Landry is not likely to want to come uo here from Florida to shovel snow and scrape windshields. As it is, his contract demands sound pretty high, and Florida has no state income tax.
I still like the idea of Terrelle Pryor coming back (dirt cheap).
I know that he was dropped to fourth string or something with the Redskins, but there's no arguing with what he accomplished with the Browns in his first full season at wide receiver.
That wasn't Bernie Kosar throwing those passes to him, and he was the solo deep threat in 2016, so defenses paid attention. Pryor is also a deep threat outside receiver.
He's too tall (and built wrong) to ever be explosive or sudden out of his breaks, but he will have improved in his positioning and leverage. He's demonstrated some really good hands, and simply can't be ignored if he goes postal.
He's a bomber and cornerbacks are fighters. He'll often be "covered", but an accurate quarterback can get just inside that huge catch radius consistently.
With the Browns, Pryor made a large percentage of his catches on comebacks. That's partly by design (it's easy for him and for the quarterback), but more because Kessler and company couldn't or wouldn't throw deep to him on his intended route, and he was often coming back to bail his pigskin-hungry quarterback out. And trust me: They love him for it.
TP also offers that wildcat offense thing. That's been marginalized in the NFL of late, making 2018 a great time to bring it back. Pryor was not a great quarterback, but he was a quarterback.
Quarterback rumors are getting kind of crazy since Nick Foles won the Superbowl.
People are talking about who the Vikings will hire as their new offensive coordinator, and who might or might not want Foles (instead of Keenum).
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Apparently, nothing Case Keenum did last season even registered with a lot of people. I don't know about the Vikings themselves, but if they think like most pundits, Keenum could indeed become available on the open market!
Jeff Risdon listed six free agent safeties that he feels could help the Browns, and some of them were really good (and potential bargains).
But Jeff is a ton more concerned than I am about Derrick Kindred's recovery from his injury, and has zero respect for Kai Nacua (the only true free safety on this roster to date).
The Browns don't need a strong safety, period. They need to see how Peppers and Nacua look at free safety, because if one of them doesn't make a big leap in 2018, they need a center fielder...or to move Jason McCourtey there.
The Browns are all set at strong safety, linebacker, and defensive tackle.
Linebacker is not a position of need. This is a Gregg Williams 4-3 defense, not a 3-4. Calling outside linebacker a position of need based exclusively on sack numbers is dumb.
The defensive linemen are the primary passrushers, and the defensive ENDS are the edge-rushers. Defensive backs (notably the slot corner or safety) actually blitze more than the linebackers do in this particular defense.
4-3 outside linebackers usually have similar skill sets to 3-4 inside linebackers. They cover, stop the run, and blitze in that order.
Overall on defense, free safety is a question mark, they need a couple cornerbacks, and another edge-rusher to help Garrett and Ogbah.
This concludes today's corrections.
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