We knew this would happen as soon as Andrew Berry was hired, and here we go: Berry has already cut 4 of the real football players John Dorsey added to the roster last season.
No doubt Berry and Mister Moneyball intend to resume stuffing the roster with fake football players who will go 1-31 again. Rinse and repeat.
I can't sustain that level of stupidity for more than 2 paragraphs anymore:
TJ Carrie is a good player who Dorsey overpaid. Adarius Taylor was an adequate player who Dorsey overpaid. Kush seemed like a good deal at the time.
Demetrius Smith was a Dorsey favorite who replaced fake football player Darrin Fells just in time for Fells to catch a bunch of touchdown passes for another team...and who Dorsey overpaid.
The cap savings for off this move increases the Browns' cap space by around 15 mil (that's right, folks: I told you: overpaid. It would be great to hold onto Carrie, but no way at his salary).
Many pundits expect the new crew to conduct a "purge" and load up on familiar players, like John Dorsey did. That is utterly clueless.
Jarvis Landry is probably in good shape. IMO Terrence Mitchell, Kareem Hunt, Sheldon Richardson, and all of Dorsey's remaining draft picks have every chance to succeed here.
Analytics isn't egotistical. DePodesta, Berry etc don't give a damn who signed or drafted who, or who will get credit for them.
Idiots are blaming Berry and DePodesta for 1-31 and leaving out one Hue Jackson (and Kizer and Kessler) because this crew didn't want any of them.
They're also mindlessly assuming that they wouldn't have picked Mayfield first overall or used the draft picks and some of the cash they had piled up in 2018 like Dorsey did.
What's with you people? You think the analytics guys just trade down and refuse to spend money just...forever, or something? No target? No plan?
Dorsey is a great judge of talent, and DID have more to do with building the Superbowl champs than Andy Reid did, but look what he did TO the Browns; to DePodesta's plan:
1: That dumbass trade with his buddy Geddleman and the Giants (I won't repeat myself too much, but part of this involved fake players Zeitler and Peppers for real players OBJ and Vernon, around 20 mil in cap space, and a first and a third round pick...that's exptremely cringe-worthy, is it not?
2: Kicking fake TE Fells to the curb and replacing him with good ole Demetrius.
3: Kicking fake player Karl Nassib to the curb (along with Ogbah)
4: Replacing Bob Wylie with good ole Campen, the greatest OL Coach in history (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain)
5: (full disclosure I agreed with him) naming Freddie Kitchens the new Head Coach for 2019 (overriding DePodesta who wanted Stefanski). (Dorsey and I both look wrong so far).
6: Inflicting Mywayorthehighway Haley on Hue Jackson--not firing Jackson sooner (the last part probably wasn't Dorsey's fault. Retaining Jackson after 1-31 had to have been Haslam's call).
Anyway, DePodesta, Berry, Stefanski and company think with their brains, which just naturally makes them more efficient and effective than their equally smart "foodball guyz" because they aren't urinating on trees to stake out their turf and killing Dorsey's cubs and stuff.
These 4 cuts were predictable (and they're probably trying to get Carrie back for less money).
I've predicted a Vernon release and OBJ trade, but that's about money and draft picks, and if they can get Olivier Vernon back cheap enough, they will (he's really good when healthy).
Chris Kirksey isn't a Dorsey guy, but is a GMF...
At the same time as the punditry half expects a Dorsey player purge, they expect the NEW REGIME to kick Damarius Randall to the curb and try to cash David Njoku in (as does this Steelers' writer.)
Well nooo... David Njoku remains a freak athlete who Freddie Kitchens (who everybody agrees screwed everything up) stuck in his dawg-house.
Well Njoku's siblings include (I think) a couple MDs, an engineer, another freak athlete, and they're all disciplined and SMART, ok?
Character-wise, David Njoku is a guy you want on your team.
And NO, Kitchens didn't bench Njoku because Baker Mayfield forgot how to throw to him (where tf does that come from!?! A soap opera? They "drifted apart" or something gimme a fking break!!!)
Ohmmm.....ohmmmm....
Peter Smith and PFF don't think much of David Njoku as an in-line blocker, but shame on Peter for overlooking the wide zone blocking scheme that Stefanski brings with him, plus the certain upgrade at Offensive Tackle that's about to happen, plus the fact that many current Tight Ends RARELY block in-line today.
Njoku can be retained on his rookie contract for 2 more seasons on his rookie deal. Andrew Berry (and DePodesta) had everything to do with drafting him in the first place, and here we go Steelers' writers are wondering if they can get him for a bag of donuts!?!
And why is everybody ass uming that Rodney Randallfield is a GMF?
2018 never happened? The Woods coverage scheme isn't nearly identical to Gregg Williams'?
Damarius Randall has very little leverage here (no Brinks' truck). He can man cover slot guys, excel as a center fielder (see previous posts)---assuming his latest injuries haven't screwed that up.
Rightfully, many pundits expect the Browns to go after Vikings FS Harrison Smith (and several more Vikings players, as Minnesota is in cap hell, and the Browns have Stefanski and lots of money).
The bidding war on Smith could get rediculous, and John Dorsey isn't here anymore.
In 2018, in the Gregg Williams defense, Randall was easily a top 5 FS.
Unless team doctors say that Randall's recent injury won't mess him up, the new guys will try to retain him...for perhaps less than 1/3 of what Smith will cost overall (except front-loaded so that...oknevermind) anyway when tf did you guys decide Damarius Randall sucked?
Everybody wants Joe Schobert back. I concur, unless he gets too expensive.
As I've said, screw what Joe Woods said about running a 4-3. He won't.
This gets deep: Ok well the Ravens are technically a 3-4 and Wade Phillips is like that too, except not really.
Both defenses could be called "4-3"'s, if you go strictly by where players line up, and don't get stuck on who is standing up and who isn't.
Schobert has a great shot here. In college, he was actually a 3-4 OLB. Mike Pettine tried him there as a rookie---nevermind but Joe excels in coverage and is a brain who can call plays and has a nose for the ball.
He still misses too many tackles, but he's improved in that department.
Still, Wilson is coming on strong, and Sione Takitaki is a beast...
I haven't yet heard enough from Peter Smith, Jake Burns etc to figure out what Woods will come up with here...
Okbye.
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