I also like Mike Lucas at Dawg Pound Daily. Here, he writes a really smart piece on why Tyrod Taylor should start, while Mayfield sits and learns.
...however, Mike's not perfect:
1: Tyrod Taylor doesn't have a stronger arm. In fact, Mayfield probably has him outgunned.
2: The Oklahoma offense required Baker to make line-calls and adjustments.
3: Mayfield is perfectly comfortable in the pocket (why does everybody say he isn't? Sam Darnold scrambled and improvised more than Mayfield ever did!)
That's it for correcting Mike, but I might as well correct a bunch of other recent disinformation from various sources:
3 (cont'd): Oklahoma didn't do much read-option, and Baker was stationary in the pocket most of the time. He read coverage and got rid of the ball quickly.
4: Hue Jackson's "processing speed" does not refer to how fast one learns a playbook. It refers to how quickly he diagnoses what a defense is doing after the snap and reacts to it. It is measured in fractions of seconds, and a lot of guys can't do it like Mayfield, Rodgers, or Brees. Most can't do it at all. You can't "learn" it.
I am confiscating "processing speed". It will be returned to you when you comprehend wtf it means.
5: The Browns did not and do not need to upgrade defensive tackle. This was and is one of the stronger sub-units in Gregg Williams' defense.
Danny Shelton fans don't seem able to accept that Jamie Meder outperformed him in 2017 (and did a nice job in general).
You people must accept that undrafted short small unheralded guys deserve what they earn, just like the first round guys do.
And (to redundate) Ogunjobi, Brantley, and Coley are all early in their growth-curves. All three will be substantially better in 2018, and all three have great measurables.
6: Most 4-3 defensive coordinators use one big "space-eater" who forces double teams, and one "penetrator" who shoots gaps, but nobody carved that in stone.
That Paea guy in this draft was a guy that Gregg would love to have, but defensive tackle was probably at the bottom of his list.
For that matter, edge-rusher wasn't that much higher (obviously).
7: First, some of you thought that the Browns might try Joel Bitonio at left tackle. Now that they've drafted his successor and clone, Austin Corbett, you find it inconceivable that the new kid can play left tackle.
Bitonio was drafted lower than Corbett, ok? By Ray Farmer.
Corbett will be in the left tackle derby with at least three other players (Coleman, Johnson, and Bitonio himself).
8: Corbett is not likely to be a backup in 2018. I like Chris Hubbard, and would feel bad for him if the new kid aced him out at right tackle, but that's very possible.
Left tackle is the priority. Todd Haley, Hue, and Wiley will have to pick a winner and a number two there before the rest rolls downhill.
Shon Coleman improved steadily in his first season starting at RT, and I think his future is bright, but it's possible that he could not only lose at left tackle, but get passed up at right tackle by Corbett, or conceivably Hubbard...
Without knowing what happens at left tackle, it's hard to project.
If Corbett doesn't start immediately, he can back up all five positions on the offensive line for one season.
He's really very good!
9: Some guy tried to analyze how this Dorsey draft differed from previous Dorsey drafts, and he starts out with Baker Mayfield being the exception to his "big tall strong armed" ideal...
Where the fk does this come from? Even Mike Mayock did this, based on Dorsey's drafting Patrick Mahomes.
In reality, Dorsey likes A C C U R A C Y first, and okay, Mahomes could hit the moon, but he could hit the right crater on the moon too, okay?
And he's only two inches taller. And he can throw accurately on the run. He's more athletic than Mayfield, but not as accurate...
I'm getting into the weeds here, but Dorsey just plain drafted the best quarterback period...and that's his "type", period.
This guy goes on into the arm-lengths of the cornerbacks Dorsey has drafted and stuff, and citing metrics on the arm-lengths of Pro Bowl cornerbacks (Ward comes up short haha get it?)
Look, people, do not play this at home. If you're using arm-lengths to judge cornerbacks (let alone to confirm a Dorsey "type"), you're trying way too hard.
I'm Mister Analytics here, but even I can tell you, once you get to the sub-atomic level, it's irrelevant.
I left out the link as a favor to the writer. But he does have potential. Like me. When I was 16.
Joel Cade wrote about Antonio Brown's "Big Brother"-ing Browns' F O U R T H- round pick Antonio Callaway
(Screw the reptilian brain crap: Brown is a good person who just wears the wrong uniform.)
Anyway, really Josh Gordon is better suited to being his "sponsor", but lost in this is the fact that Brown is also (shhh don't tell Stooler fans) "coaching him up".
Antonio Brown is an inch shorter than Callaway, but the two players are very similar.
Callaway has Brown beat on "measurables", but Brown plays a lot faster than he tests (and is a little more sudden out of breaks...maybe...)
Anyhoo, the 6'3", 223 lb Josh Gordon can't teach Callaway a lot. Antonio Brown can.
And Avery could become another Antonio Brown (err...with a good quarterback I mean got that?)
So could Corey Coleman, by the way (he's in intensive care but not dead just yet).
Callaway (assuming he's not suspended) should immediately return punts and kickoffs (how's that for "immediate impact"?).
Callaway was used everywhere in college, and (although it's not saying much) ran a route-tree with more branches than Coleman did. His hands were never an issue, either.
Callaway has an acual family with actual munchkins now, and says that will anchor him.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this guy staying out of trouble now...and that rap-sheet was the ONLY reason he wasn't THE top WR in this draft.
I got my fingers crossed, of course.
I'm very optimistic generally, since Corey Coleman is also still here so far, with a real quarterback.
If Callaway can just stay on the wagon, he is a steal.
But Genard Avery. is so far the front-runner for "biggest steal", as he was picked in the fifth round.
Pundits talk about him covering tight ends and stuff, just because he's faster than all of them and can stay with them, but that's not realistic, because he's still short.
However, he can cover in zone as well as anybody, can jam a tight end (on his way to the quarterback--too deep he lines up on the tight ends outside shoulder, showing blitze, so the TE can't "chip" Ogbah, and has to engage Avery instead one-on-one and like I said too deep sorry can't help it)
Avery is right in Jamie Collins' face here.
In general, John Dorsey is doing an outstanding job, if you understand that part of his job is to challenge every player on the roster (ie bring in competition).
Competition is good. Competition works. (If I sound like Gordon Gecko here it's purely cooincidental)
Aside from defensive tackle, Dorsey has systematically challenged every player on this roster.
YOU guys can see the obvious one:
Mayfield vs Taylor (oh I forgot another correction: Hue never said that Mayfield would remain third string for all of 2018 no matter what. Mike Lucas shouldn't need me to translate english into english for him, but I guess he does).
- Drew Stanton won't be the primary backup in game one, because Mayfield is already better than Stanton. and Drew probably accepts it.
I heard Mayfield's post-draft words, and feel better now than I did before the draft:
I believe he will be patient, and keep his mouth shut...until/unless Taylor screws up repeatedly.
...which he won't.
Tyrod will make the most of this array of offensive weapons in this "contract year".
He's not deaf, so (now that he can) he'll go deep more, and stay in the pocket longer. Tyrod is auditioning for the rest of the NFL here. He's going to kick ass here.
...crap even that zinged over some of your heads...
Dorsey just released Dominique Alexander.
That guy won't be out of work for long, but Avery is the main reason for this. Dorsey is already cutting really good players.
Competition at backup EDGE is as intense as at left tackle. Cornerback (behind Ward) is intense, and right tackle is now at issue as well.
Even Carlos Hyde now has Chubb in his face!
Can't ovelook WR...
Competition is good. Those who win, win. Generally, those who win are those who are the most dedicated, and work the hardest.
This is what ex-linebacker John Dorsey means by "football players".
A s-load of physically talented players crap out, while guys like Antonio Brown, Jarvis Landry, Brian Sipe, Joe Montana etc etc etc kick ass.
Paul DePodesta (Sashi Brown) would have drafted Baker Mayield first overall here.
Duh.
But I'm still glad Dorsey is here instead.
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