Leon West's Bold Predictions for the post-bye Browns sound optimistic, but he backs them up with facts and logic.
Leon predicts that a pissed off Mayfield comes out of his corner for round 7 ready to rock, and ends up with over 35 TD passes.
Myles Garrett tops 30 sacks. Here Leon points out that both starting cornerbacks return this season, the offense should establish leads in the majority of their remaining games, and that most of those teams rank in the bottom half in sacks allowed.
-sigh- John Dorsey will blow 15 mil or so/year and at least a first round pick on a frequently injured 32 year old Trent Williams.
If it was just Dorsey, maybe. But Paul DePodesta is still here, and has Haslam's ear thank GOD.
The Browns will finish 11-5 and win the Division. This is too optimistic for me, but Leon cites the healthy defense, pending addition of Hunt to the roster, and a few other factors.
Nick Chubb is one of those factors, and Leon thinks he'll win MVP. Makes sense.
Jeff Risdon is still either playing pin the tail on the donkey or swinging at a piniatta as he proposes possible trades.
He restates a hypothetical Genard Avery trade (which makes zero sense), but it gets more interesting when he suggests trading with Tampa Bay for TE OJ Howard.
That's idiotic at first glance, but then Jeff suggests that Avery, Ricky Seales-Jones, or even Njoku himself could be part of this deal, and it makes sense:
OJ and Njoku are similar players, but OJ is healthy, and outproduced Njoku in college and outperformed him at the combine.
Jeff is more dismissive of Ricky Seales-Jones than I am, but Howard has the strongest resume of all these guys, and is ready to step right in.
If it's mostly a player-for-player deal, this is workable, as it would (probably) upgrade TE immediately without throwing away high draft picks or massive cap-space.
Antonio Callaway? It's possible, since Dorsey might actually get a decent deal for him. But Rashard Higgins would be the more expedient WR to trade.
Callaway's upside is (see OBJ). Well Jeff is just spitballin so...
Nick Dudukovich almost certainly reads this Blog, as he wonders who the "source" was for a report that Freddie Kitchens would be fired if the lowly Seattle Seahawks beat the Browns.
You guys know this, right? I am a "source", and a few others like me. I speculate and hypothesize, and guys like the one Nick cites steal our thoughts and pretend they "heard" it from a "team" (or "league") "source".
In this case, the blogger or poster or whoever was a lot dumber than me.
Nick as usual reasons this out:
Freddie Kitchens should have all of 2019 to sink or swim.
...DUH.
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