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(03-26-2016, 11:20 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I feel ya on McCown teaching Wentz. The thing is, they've tried to turn around that franchise SO many times by trying to find that miracle QB. So what if they reverse that approach? Build the team first, then find a long term QB? If I'm a Browns fan, I'm hoping they trade that #2 pick (we may as well say the rights to Carson Wentz) for a slew of draft picks. 

The Browns already had a ton of holes before they let Benjamin, Dansby and half their o-line walk. So I'd like the idea of getting a small truckload of additional picks to build the team. 2016 can be a building year, and in the meantime they can find out if RGIII can be a long term solution. If he is, great for them. If not, they'll probably be picking high again next year, and they can then select a QB. This time with (theoretically) a better young cast to put around him.

As for RGIII's red flags, I think the Redskins are as much to blame for all of that, if not more so. They handled him poorly, imo.

Hmm, I guess it depends on if Goff/Wentz are actually good QBs that can be developed into franchise guys or not.  I realize this draft doesn't have a no-brainer like Luck but it's not exactly the EJ Manuel or Geno Smith draft either.  

The Browns can/should build the rest of the team but I don't think the AFC North is the sort of division where you can compete without a QB anyways, so the issue wasn't the Browns drafting QBs, but drafting the wrong ones.  

Manziel
Weeden
McCoy
Quinn
Frye
Luke McCown
Wynn
Couch

are all the QBs they have drafted since they came back into the league.  If I recall, all of them either had red flags prior to being drafted, were low, unlikely to be franchise QB picks, or were Tim Couch (a man selected to put an entire franchise on his back ala David Carr).  I don't think they've drafted the RIGHT QB, and I don't see Wentz or Goff fitting the same mold as guys like Manziel (so many red flags), Weeden (this guy is like 30), Quinn (what a jackass), or the other later picks.

I didn't expect the Browns to pick a guy at #2 and then become good overnight, but it would be the first QB they picked in a long time that seems like a good pick, right?