Browns Don't Need More Players. Get With the Program.

Mary Kay might be right that John Dorsey was targeting Sam Beal in the third round of the supplemental draft...or not.

The few who criticize Dorsey for not having used his second round pick don't rate a comment, because he's eyeball deep in cover cornerbacks in their primes.

Beal is an excellent man corner who will get bigger and stronger.  He does have first round talent/potential, but he's not a Denzel Ward.

No bigee.

Patrick Maks wrote a great article on how Drew Stanton is good with his "mentor" role to Taylor Mayfield in 2018 (and his "consultant" role with Tyrod).

While Josh McCown is the ultimate quarterback-nanny in my book, Drew Stanton is right up there with him.  He'll also be a terrific third string quarterback.

PFF weighs in on what Jarvis Landry brings to the Browns.  As usual, this article is enlightening, as they diagram the route tree he mostly ran with the Fish.

These were, in order, crossing routes, out routes, quick outs, and in routes.  

PFF isolated the ratings for his quarterbacks on these routes, and they were all over 100 (including a 119.3 on out routes).  He also caught an ungodly 77.1% of these targets.

Matthew Burks gets a little deeper, as he points out that Tyrod Taylor was below average on quick outs and downright bad on outs.

Matt thinks that Jarvis Landry is the perfect guy to fix that particular "hole" in Tyrod's "swing".

The two players certainly hit it off out of the gate, and the early returns are that the Taylor-Landry connection is already established.

Burks talked about Mayfield, too, but -yawn- Baker already excels on those routes (along with the rest of them -yawn-).

But this data is from last year, and my janitor says that Todd Haley is expanding Landry's package (wait...that didn't come out right...)

Anyway we've had a chance to see this even on the few training sessions which were open to the public.  I saw Landry gathering in several vertical passes (over-the-shoulder catches).

He looked great on those, too.

I think those four routes will remain Landry's "core", because Coleman, Gordon, Callaway, and Rodney Ratleyfield (and Njoku too) are the real deep threats here.  It just looks like Haley is going to have him mix in some change-ups (Todd Haley is kind of sadistic about torturing opposing defensive coordinators like that).

Joe Gilbert's "Film Room" on Antonio Callaway's strengths was exciting!  This guy does everything Coleman did in college, plus ran good routes.

Of course 1: This was Gilbert's "Strengths" part of the Callaway analysis; there will be a "weaknesses" version, and 2: Corey Coleman is now a veteran with a big head start and comparable talent.

We can argue about who has the best wide receiver corps in the NFL, but to me it seems obvious that if you consider the whole crew, the Browns top the list.

Gordon and Landry are carved in stone, and Callaway is a Dorsey pick (trust me: with Haley's approval), and that's three.  Now, various pundits are wondering if Corey Coleman will get traded, and writing off Ratley (another Dorsey pick)...well then we get to Higgins and Louis after that.

Any wide receiver who leaves this team in 2018 will be unemployed for nanoseconds.

I think it likely that both Callaway and Coleman make it, and figure Ratley is the fifth guy (he has to be waived before he can get to the practice squad.  Somebody will nab him if they try it).

I think Louis and Higgins are good players, just stepping into their primes, but well...

I guess Todd and Tyrod will just have to scape by with Landry and four lethal weapons.  And Njoku.  And Duke.  

Poor guys...