Now some of the ex-players on NFL Radio are echoing eachother bashing the Browns draft.
They don't generally have a problem with Shorty Mayfield, except that old "AFC Prototype" stuff.
Is Aaron Rodgers a Green Bay prototype? You'd pick an inferior quarterback with your fingers crossed because he's bigger?
Listen to what other GMs have said about Mayfield. It's mostly mental and psychological. The best quarterbacks all have it right in their heads.
Brees, Rodgers, Big Ben, Brady, Payton Manning. Before that it was Montana.
Would you turn down Joe Montana because he was a little guy (with a popgun arm)? Why not? He's not an "AFC North" quarterback!
And they haven't thought it through: Mayfield can operate in the pocket just fine. He likes the pocket! Haley will of course make some adjustments to help him hit the ground running (and to help Tyrod too), but everybody is going overboard over chickenshit.
It's the number four thing, and Ward over Chubb.
Ross Tucker and Brady Quinn each said "can you argue that Ward is a better athlete than Chubb? Of course not." WRONG! That is a preposterous statement, and just because you say it to eachother doesn't make it true.
Chubb is exceptional for his size, but so is Ward. If we're grading on that curve, it's a close contest, but 4.34 at 195 lbs? Ward has the edge. If we just go by the numbers, Ward outclasses Chubb (and Myles Garrett and Jamie Collins for that matter).
Brady and Ross Tucker both value the scary passrusher over the shut-down corner every time, and they're right. Brady hates that guy because he got messed up by them a lot, and Ross because they made his outside teammates look bad.
But Williams wanted Ward, and it's his defense. He explains why here.
Brady did point out that all three of Chubb's defensive line-mates were drafted in the top four rounds. He suspects that he didn't get double-teamed or chipped as much as some other guys (like Bosa). Very interesting!
We can't take that too far: Bradley Chubb is a beast. But he might not be quite as good as, say, Myles Garrett.
Brady still didn't like the Ward pick. But when he said that if Dorsey really wanted Ward over Chubb, he could have traded down and still got him.
That's assuming facts not in evidence. Maybe not at twelve, and probably not below that. But as Peter King reports, nobody offered much for the fourth overall pick. None of the teams from 5 to 12 had much incentive to even make an offer.
Elway actually had a trade-down on the table, but wanted Chubb first. He never considered trading up for Chubb, though.
And this Callaway stuff it was a FOURTH ROUND PICK for cryin out loud! He's a top twenty talent! Did you all flunk math or something good grief! Pick-pick-pick crap how many fourth round picks crap out for cryin out loud!? I sure wish I could get you in a weekly poker game!
Ross Tucker was worse than Quinn, calling Mayfield, Ward, and Austin Corbett all "misses".
Nevermind the first two, but Ross was an offensive lineman. He doesn't think Corbett is going to be a good left tackle. He likes the player, but doesn't think he'll make any impact at all as a rookie.
This still troubles me, too, and this one probably had little to do with Todd Haley.
But the jury is still out here. As I've posted, a lot of smart people really liked this pick, and I'm pretty sure that Dorsey thinks that either Corbett or Bitonio can play left tackle, or at least was determined to max out the competition for that position, along with upgrading depth.
That left tackle competition, by the way, does include Roderick Johnson, who got hurt but didn't die.
...and I'm sorry but screw this "immediate impact" crap too! You have FIVE starting offensive linemen, and they get injured. If Austin Corbett is better than Drango, this is a good pick.
You'll see, because in 2018, one of the starters is likely to get injured, okay? And 3-4 years from now, somebody else will leave, okay? So it's okay to draft a good offensive lineman in the second round, even if he doesn't start right away!
Hue Jackson has clarified his stance on Tyrod Taylor being the starting quarterback:
Since english is my first language, I will translate his original statement:
"Tyrod Taylor is our starting quarterback". I shouldn't need to do this -sigh-. Look at the third word. "Is". Can you find "no matter what", "for the whole season", or anything beyond "is" in this sentence?
Now, Hue has said "Right now", and "I'll never stop a quarterback from being all he can be".
It will take awhile for everybody else to sort these statements out, since Hue was speaking english again, but I can tell you that "Right now" means "right now". Can you find "for the whole season" in there anywhere?
If Baker Mayfield is better than Tyrod, he will start.
This is not Kizer or Kessler here. What happened in the past has nothing to do with this four year starter.
I do hope Tyrod keeps Baker on the bench, and that means he "wins" if it's even close in preseason (preseason isn't the same, and Taylor has done well in real games).
But Baker Mayfield learns (and thinks) fast. He will overtake Tyrod. At some point, he'll get on the field in 2018...
And those of you who can't read english will say "So much for keeping Mayfield on the bench".
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