Starting to Think We Go QB Early

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(04-18-2019, 04:38 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I honestly don't know if Browns fans were excited by new QBs or not. If they weren't, I'd wager their track record had something to do with it. 

You weren't excited when we drafted Palmer? In general I think Palmer and Lewis were why people were excited going into 2003...and that was before we started winning.

I watch people throw up new QBs on the boards literally every year and you guys don't think some people would be excited if we finally pulled the trigger? Guess I'll have to just disagree there.

And no, I didn't help your point. Re-read the post. I said that a new QB could learn behind Andy AND we could trade Andy next year.

It's a different situation.  The Bengals didn't have a decent QB when Palmer was drafted, so obviously there was a lot of hype and hope around Palmer.  There was a good chance he would be better than guys like Akili Smith and Gus Frerrotte.  It's a lot less likely that a rookie will be better than Dalton.  There will be some excitement if it's Haskins, mainly because there's a large number of Ohio State fans that will go nuts for any highly rated OSU player the Bengals take.

I don't think it happens for a number of reasons.  If Mike Brown made big changes for the purposes of pumping up the fans and pushing ticket sales, Marvin would have been gone a long time ago.  He just doesn't run the team that way.  Mike said he wanted to give Dalton a year under Taylor and I think that's exactly what he does.  I also think that after Zac would lose a large chunk of the locker room if they went QB after he talked Andy up so much.  He would come off as two faced and many of the players wouldn't trust him.  Plus, if there's a QB at 11, I'm sure the Dolphins and or Redskins will be calling.