Please calm me down...

[Nicomo Cosca]

(04-01-2020, 11:05 AM)TJHoushmandzadehs Shiny Shoes Wrote: The Browns had a chance to draft a Heisman winning franchise QB who had done unprecedented things in Lamar Jackson and they passed on him twice.  He was the 4th(?) QB off the board in that draft. I'm sure they'd do that draft differently now.

Mahomes and Watson weren't the first QB off the board either.

I want Burrow but picking a franchise QB is a lot easier with hindsight than it is at the time. Burrow isn't necessarily the slam dunk we hope he is. If he isn't people will look back and point out the red flags - a one year wonder, weak arm etc. It could be that Herbert or Tua or Love or someone else becomes the franchise QB and in years to come we'll be looking back thinking how stupid we were to pass on them at the top of the draft and how, like with Akili, that king's ransom could have transformed the franchise. Or it could be Trevor Lawrence who becomes the new Brady and we are left ruing not accepting all those future picks from Miami that might have handed him to us on a plate.

Or we could look back years from now after watching Burrow hoist the Lombardi for the Dolphins and wonder wtf we were thinking trading him for a bust OL, mediocre LB, and #2WR...