Fred seems to like
Fred says they should draft Rosen, Darnold, or Allen. So why would they draft a quarterback first overall when at least one of these guys is there at four?
I'm being silly here, of course. Fred isn't claiming to be a quarterback expert, and is probably assuming that the brain crust will have one favorite (just doin my Black Cloud imitation Fred...good thing you didn't make any grammatical errors).
Like everybody else, Fred makes some assumptions in prioritizing free safety, but I can't pick on him for that, especially since he might be right. At least me mentions McCourty as a candidate👍.
Fred opens up with signing AJ McCarron. As I've posted my own self, this could be the bag the Browns are left holding among veteran quarterbacks, for assorted reasons.
If I could access my damn clipboard on this damn thing, I could show you how Thomas Moore backed up his McCarron bashing by pointing out that AJ averaged one whole yard less per-attempt than Dalton, among other things.
I kind of agree with Fred that AJ might be a good bridge guy, but Fred has some of this upside down and backwards:
He lists Keenum as a consolation prize to McCarron, and I'm not sure Bridgewater wouldn't be better. Now that I'm hearing that nobody will be dumb enough to overpay Bradford yet again, I'm even liking him more now too. And of course Josh McCown.
Damn that Thomas Moore guy just keeps confusing me with all these irrefutable facts! But Fred Greethum should check that out too.
Fred points out that "the Browns were willing to" cough up a second and third round pick for McCarron last season. No way. Hue Jackson was, but not Sashi Brown or DePodesta.
I can tell, because this trade, had it gone down, would have ranked as one of the top thirty dumbest trades of all time. I still think Jimmy Haslam backed Hue Jackson up, and Sashi sabotaged it on purpose for his own good.
I know Haslam had to jump on Dorsey, but he should have just given Sashi a couple mil as a "thank you" parting gift for saving him from further humiliation.
Hue Jackson is not to be trusted as a talent scout.
Anyway, Fred also said that Corey Coleman is looking "more and more" like an average receiver. But where did the second "more" come from, when a guy should be entitled to play in 16 games before he even gets to his first "more"?
And, of course, there's this: DeShone Kizer is the first quarterback to ever make JOSH GORDON look average! Back off Coleman for a minute or two, Fred. If he looks the same with a competent quarterback, ok?
But in every other way, anybody with a brain can see that Greethum is insightful and brilliant, as he agrees with me on most things.
For instance:
1: The front seven is all set. Fred allows for a Chubb at four, but thinks the Browns could nab an edge-rushing specialist (to augment Ogbah and Garrett) in the lower rounds, but that's pretty much it. (I still like Nate Orchard too btw).
2: The offensive line is all set, unless/until Big Joe rides off into the internet.
3: LaQuon Barkley is a no-brainer at four.
4: Nail down corners, wide receivers, and free safeties as free agents ahead of the draft.
Trumaine Johnson is a bigger target than ever, as the Rams just traded for superstud Peters.
Fred gets a little out of hand as he thinks they should sign a free safety AND draft one high...
Well I don't want to pick on Fred too much. He could be right about
But I have to really hammer him for this: Derrick Kindred did not "show some promise" at strong safety. He was a STUD, on his way to the Pro Bowl in his second season.
Indeed, Kindred was Gregg Williams' hybrid player. Everybody else just can't wait for Jabrill Peppers to bench this guy. Gregg Williams does not.
Before Gregg makes any other moves, he wants to see Peppers at free safety in his second (his S E C O N D)
season, because he wants Kindred on the field as much as possible.
If Peppers doesn't pan out at free, he might invent a new defense.
I know this, because Gregg Williams has been called a genius, and this is what I would do.
Case closed.
Greetham mostly gets it, but he's got an itchy trigger finger.
In case you missed it, Derrick Kindred was awesome until he got injured, Free safety was the ONE position rookie Jabrill Peppers had never played in college, and Fred is right: McCourty can play free safety.
Fred gets it: He knows cornerback is the bigger need (he needs to replace McCourty at corner before he moves him).
I don't know what's wrong with Jamar Taylor, but something IS. The Browns are covered at nickel (not just Calhoun, but Kindred, Peppers, and a depth-shrimp), but they need two starters (due respect to McCourty but he's 31 and we want him at free safety) and maybe even two backups outside!
Fred Greetham pointed out that (translated) Williams played a lot of zone and (WAY) off-man coverage than he wanted to because he couldn't trust his corners to man up.
Don't bring up Joe Haden. You don't want me openin up that can. Axe the Steelers.
I'm trying very hard to pick on Fred Greetham here, but it's tough. He's premature on Corey Coleman and thinks Allen is better than Mayfield, has prematurely dismissed Peppers at free and benched Kindred at strong, but he's still smarter than almost everybody else I've read.
Bud Shaw isn't a great analyst, but is hysterical in talking about the top draftable quarterbacks.
Yes, I am concerned that only one police officer overtook and tackled Mayfield, *haven't seen the video*, but I think the passrushers he evaded and outran in college outweigh that, along with the fact that Mayfield was (presumably) not impaired at those times.
Seriously, this incident doesn't bother me as much as it does Mike Mayock et al.
As McGloughan and Dorsey say, most of us screw up in our respective punkdoms, then mature. Mayfield's screw-up was extreme/insane, but then, so is what he's accomplished.
I've met people like Mayfield. I know. He is the best quarterback in this draft, and he's at least as good as Wentz and Goff. Mayock is wrong. I am right. Wait 3 years and see.
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