03-12-2018, 01:34 PM
(03-12-2018, 10:36 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Yeah, the Browns completely sold out the past 2 seasons in order to get more picks and higher picks. It's amusing how every football fan laughs at how awful the Browns have been for the past 2 years (and rightly so), but every time their own NFL team dips 2 games below .500 they start wanting to tank in order to get a better pick (herein lies the hypocrisy).
Fans really seem to hate those seasons where you win 5-8 games and accomplish "nothing but ruining your draft pick" and I know we were debating for the past year on whether Bullock missing that kick and losing the Texans game was a good thing or not. Well, the Browns went all-in on stinking, isn't that what any non-playoff team's fans want them to do?
All the Browns do is throw the young guys and new QBs out there to see what they have in them and tank in order to get better draft picks while evaluating the young guys instead of playing the vets. My lord, you'd think they'd be the most popular team in the NFL the way fans kvetch about 7-win seasons and seeing ho-hum vets on the field! The only thing left is for the to run the ball 60 times per game and they'd hit every fan demand there is.
Honestly, I love (hate?) how the Browns have been doing things. It's definitely outside the box for an NFL team. I've never seen an NFL team so obviously tank before. Maybe the Colts in the suck for Luck year, but not over multiple seasons, trading for picks and loading up on top ones.
(03-12-2018, 11:08 AM)Wyche Wrote: That's what I keep trying to tell people. They have a lot of bargaining chips AND a competent NFL GM. FAs are skittish? No problem, we'll trade for them. Hit the draft? This team could make some noise in a couple seasons. Maybe sooner than that.
Meanwhile, we're stuck in 2nd gear with tweedle dee and tweedle dumb and the good ol annual FA dumpster dive. I'm PUMPED!
I've never been one of those "this is the year things turn around" guys when talking about the Browns, but this time is different. The Browns look like they've had a master plan for 3 years and now it's all kicking into gear. QB went from being a major problem, to being pretty much solved a year later (assuming Taylor is a stopgap for a Josh Allen). Mediocre run game? Enter Barkley (most likely). Corey Coleman was a bust? No problem, lets trade for a 3 time Pro Bowl WR.
That team is going to be unrecognizable this year. Haley and Hue with all those weapons and a competent QB?
(03-12-2018, 11:39 AM)Wyche Wrote: He was ran out of Pitt because Pig Pen's vag was hurting......nothing more, nothing less. That offense hummed.
Exactly. Offense scores 42 against (easily) the best pass defense in the NFL while the defense allows 45? They fire the OC. Smh. Their loss.
(03-12-2018, 11:54 AM)Wyche Wrote: What's even funnier is dude said he'd be more worried about a guy that has played a grand total of what, 5 games?
...with a 2-3 record on a far superior team. All Taylor did was lead the Bills to their first playoff spot in like 17 years.
51 TDs to 16 INTs for his career. Not saying he's great, but he's the best QB they've had since Kosar. Someone mentioned Jeff Garcia, but I guess they forgot Garcia was bad with the Browns.
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