The Quaterback Question

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  • #8097
    DawgPoundDude
    Participant

    Well, now you can add Bryce Petty and Geno Smith to the mix.

    God help us.

    #8099
    Dawg E. Dawg
    Participant

    Chase Daniel will also be talked about a lot.

    Personally, I don’t see an answer outside the draft. Period. The other options are all retreads, no thanks, or Garopollo, who I’m not sold on. I think Bill isn’t either, and his whole song and dance about not trading him is just an attempt to drive up his price (just my opinion).

    Nope, we need to go in the draft. Personally, is take Mitchell at #1, though I’m in the minority. My second choice would be to take Garrett and then trade up for Mitchell from 12.

    I do think the odds are better today than a week ago that he makes it to 12. With Hoyer and Barkley in SF and Glennon in CHI, I think those teams will be waiting until the 2nd at least to address the QB. For some reason, Mitch just doesn’t strike me as a Jets pick. I think they’d go Watson or Kizer over Mitch, just a hunch. If the FO has the balls to go Garrett and wait for Trubitsky at 12 and he falls, I’d be thrilled. But I don’t wait any longer than 12 to pick a QB.

    #8100
    DawgPoundDude
    Participant

    I’m with you on the Mitchell pick. Still, this year there’s no way he starts this season. However, if brought into the role properly, he could be a sharpshooter.

    Question is, how do we do that? Our QB room isn’t exactly the most experienced. Make no mistake that this year will be much better than last year, but this position isn’t exactly inspiring confidence.

    I hope we run the ball a lot.

    #8102
    Shooter
    Moderator

    I’m in agreement that the position needs to addressed in the draft this year. The FA market is garbage. I’m all for bringing in a vet to mentor, but not to start.

    I’m also of the opinion in the 1st round. Just not at 1. There’s no way the Browns are going to pass on Garret. It’s not happening. It’s all but a done deal.

    That leaves the pick at 12. Trubisky, Watson, or Mahomes will be there at 12. All of them might be, but at least 1 of them will be.

    If there’s a decision to make, make it. If there’s only 1 left, well, it’s an easy decision, you just take whoever is left.

    Either way, taking a QB at 12 is a necessity. A must. An it-has-to-be-done scenario.

    #8104
    Dawg E. Dawg
    Participant

    Pft.com is reporting the Browns have interest in Geno Smith, potentially as a starter.

    If this happens, I think I’d just skip Browns games and slam my head in a car door for 3 hours every Sunday.

    #8105
    DawgPoundDude
    Participant

    If there’s a decision to make, make it. If there’s only 1 left, well, it’s an easy decision, you just take whoever is left.

    Now, you’re Hue Jackson, all-powerful, walk-on-water, and spends his off time holed up as the hidden leader of a group of Tibetan monks in the mountains of Nepal learning the lost art of American Football. You even already have a shaved head. As said football guru, you don’t tie your job and your franchise to a guy you don’t believe in, or a guy who might come around. Now, if you feel that you can make it work with the Plan B guy, then yes, reach here and take him. If not, you take BPA and fill another need with a productive player.

    I can tell you without a doubt that, of those four kids, Hue already knows who he wants at #12, or he’s at least close. Doesn’t matter how we at BFT or the media wants to over-analyze it (not looking in your direction at all DawgStyle), if the guy that he wants isn’t there at #12, there is NO WAY that they waste a pick on someone who they don’t feel has “eventual starter material” written all over them.

    And make no mistake, the decision you make at #12 this year, while it may involve the whole front office…well that pick better produce. Yeah, it’d be hard to evaluate in year one, but when the guy at pick #13 is going to the Pro Bowl and the guy picked at #12 is still struggling 3 years down the road, if I’m Haslam I’m saying “well why the fuck didn’t we take that guy?”

    Between last year until next year, we have 32 draft picks to manage. THIRTY-FUCKING-TWO! And that’s just for now- who knows what aces are up the sleeves of Sashi & Co.? But I can say this much…they aren’t gonna be wasting first-round picks on “might’s and maybe’s”. The beauty of their setup is that the coach is involved in the process, and if Hue feels that he can’t make it work with whatever QBs are left on the board at #12, he isn’t gonna be shackled with one. Sashi watched that happen with Farmer, Pettine, and Manziel, and knows better than to force it.

    #8106
    Ice
    Keymaster

    If it’s true that we’re looking at Geno Smith (dubious), then that’s a statement about the quality of QB’s in this draft. They’d rather have a guy who has thrown way more INT’s than TD’s in his lackluster career than one of these draftees.

    #8111
    Shooter
    Moderator

    Pft.com is reporting the Browns

    Stop right there.

    Just stop.

    PFT.com is run and operated by Mike Florio. A Pittsburgh native and die-hard Steelers fan. Since that site came into existence there has yet to be even 1 objective, sound, logical, or even remotely positive thing ever uttered about the Browns because they pride themselves in mocking, rebuking, and destroying everything the Browns do. Everything they say and print about the Browns is heavily biased bullshit.

    Literally, everything. I’m sure they have a mock draft up somewhere, take a look at it, they probably have the Browns drafting a RB at 1 and a CB at 12.

    #8112
    soup
    Participant

    What didn’t I address?

    You said sitting behind Manning was a plus.

    Curtis Painter sat behind Manning. It wasn’t a plus.

    You said having a ring as a back up QB was a plus. That would mean the same for any player and Mingo has a ring. So by that logic trading Mingo was dumb.

    Yes, he was benched for Manning — who was in the bench for Osweiler because Manning was so bad in his final year.

    The team was all defense. Just like Houston. Forget the coach of Houston. It’s not like Osweiler was Manning in his prime and a coach took him to, well, Osweiler status.

    If he’s here competing we are in a world of hurt at QB week 1.

    Freedom!!!

    #8113
    Shooter
    Moderator

    You put this in the wrong thread. Might wanna fix that.

    #8114
    soup
    Participant

    You put this in the wrong thread. Might wanna fix that.

    I’ll fix your mom. (And I just realized it’s in the wrong forum. My bad)

    Freedom!!!

    #8115
    soup
    Participant

    Pft.com is reporting the Browns

    Stop right there.
    Just stop.
    PFT.com is run and operated by Mike Florio. A Pittsburgh native and die-hard Steelers fan. Since that site came into existence there has yet to be even 1 objective, sound, logical, or even remotely positive thing ever uttered about the Browns because they pride themselves in mocking, rebuking, and destroying everything the Browns do. Everything they say and print about the Browns is heavily biased bullshit.
    Literally, everything. I’m sure they have a mock draft up somewhere, take a look at it, they probably have the Browns drafting a RB at 1 and a CB at 12.

    Even worse, original report is actually by Ian Rappaport. I think I actually have more contacts than that guy does. He’s the Mary K Cabot of the NFL. A clueless dolt.

    Freedom!!!

    #8116
    DawgPoundDude
    Participant

    You put this in the wrong thread. Might wanna fix that.

    I thought you had, like, moderator superpowers or some shit… 😛

    #8117
    Shooter
    Moderator

    I thought you had, like, moderator superpowers or some shit…

    I do. And I could have fixed it, but I figured I’d just point at the mess and let Soup clean it up since he made it.

    #8118
    Shooter
    Moderator

    Even worse, original report is actually by Ian Rappaport.

    True.

    #8124
    Dawg E. Dawg
    Participant

    Even worse, original report is actually by Ian Rappaport.

    True.

    You’ll get no argument from me on Florio and the site. They flagrantly hate thebBrowns as often as possible. I only included it for arguments sake and to see if there was a Smith fan lurking in some dark corner of the Internet.

    When I see somebody report something the Browns do before thy actually do it and not after, then I’ll start believing they have sources.

    Now, they’re “reporting” the Browns have interest in Cousins. This has me a little interested, but I don’t think there’s anyway it happens. Plus, according to that article, Cousins doesn’t want to come to Cleveland (they took it a bit further into assholery) and if he doesn’t want to come and won’t sign a contract, that would kill a trade even if the Browns did come up with one.

    #8125
    DawgPoundDude
    Participant

    Exactly…even after Cousins was quoted as saying, basically, “if it happens, it happens”. That was a month or two back, but I’m sure the proof exists in some way. I’m not hunting it down.

    By the time I finish this, we’ll be in the mix for Derrick Carr and Mark Sanchez.

    #8128
    Shooter
    Moderator

    I’ll end this real quick, for everyone.

    Kirk Cousins, nor Geno Smith, are coming to Cleveland to start for the Browns next year.

    I made a sigline bet with Soup for a year about the 1st pick in the draft.

    If either one of these guys is our starter at the beginning of the year, I’ll give you my fucking Facebook password and let you post as me. Forever.

    If they don’t though, I get to do the same to you.

    Feel free to jump out of your seat and take that bet. I’ll be here, waiting for any takers lol.

    #8130
    Dawgstyle
    Participant

    (not looking in your direction at all DawgStyle)

    Yeah you were, but it’s all good. I know I’m cray cray.

    On that note, am I the only one hoping and dreaming of Cousins? Not because I think he’s the best QB that’s every lived, but simply to spite Terrelle Pryor?

    Yeah, it’d be hard to evaluate in year one, but when the guy at pick #13 is going to the Pro Bowl and the guy picked at #12 is still struggling 3 years down the road, if I’m Haslam I’m saying “well why the fuck didn’t we take that guy?”

    Because, to Shooter’s point about Bill O’Brien, situations matter. Do you think Dak Prescott is Dak Prescott in Cleveland Last year? Does anyone think Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers could do better than 8-8 with the roster we had in 2016? There’s a reason we built up the interior line. It’s not voodoo that QBs make better decisions and throws when they’re not running for their life. Stress, and the individual’s ability to cope with it, matters.

    Is Brock Osweiler the answer at QB? I certainly hope not (he looks too much like the vampire from those Two Light movies). Is there reason to believe that in Hue’s QB friendly system and our revamped line Osweiler could do better with Cleveland than he did with Houston? I think that argument could be made (that said I’d demand he restructure his contract to something similar to Griffin’s). I’m still taking a QB no later than pick #33 (and with the Saints holding pick #32 now, I’m making sure damn sure I know for a fact they don’t want “my guy” before I skip on a QB at #12).

    Osweiler is an intriguing prospect. There is a reason Denver tried to keep him. He’s young, he has the physical abilities to succeed, he just doesn’t have it going on between the ears. Some coaches coach system regardless of the player, others tailor their approach to the individual. O’Brien is the former, Hue is the latter. I can’t say Brock would succeed, but I think if he can succeed, it would be under a guy like Hue that game plans to his strengths instead of insisting he become something he’s not.

    818 mph. 13,723 feet. 3 second burn.
    https://youtu.be/hy-3bb1Nqy0

    #8134
    Shooter
    Moderator

    On that note, am I the only one hoping and dreaming of Cousins?

    Probably.

    Do you think Dak Prescott is Dak Prescott in Cleveland Last year?

    Uh, he’s Spergeon Wynn.

    Is Brock Osweiler the answer at QB? I certainly hope not

    No, and me too.

    Osweiler is an intriguing prospect. There is a reason Denver tried to keep him. He’s young, he has the physical abilities to succeed, he just doesn’t have it going on between the ears. Some coaches coach system regardless of the player, others tailor their approach to the individual. O’Brien is the former, Hue is the latter. I can’t say Brock would succeed, but I think if he can succeed, it would be under a guy like Hue that game plans to his strengths instead of insisting he become something he’s not.

    Don’t talk to Soup.

    He’ll probably just throw a beer at you and grunt like a caveman.

    #8181
    soup
    Participant

    @shooter hmph. Ugh. Ugga bugga

    Freedom!!!

    #8183
    DawgPoundDude
    Participant

    Don’t talk to Soup.
    He’ll probably just throw a beer at you and grunt like a caveman.

    Fuck you dude, Soup has beer!

    Soup?! SOUUUUUP!!

    #8193
    DawgPoundDude
    Participant

    And then there’s this tidbit. I seen a post over the past week questioning Watson’s velocity. Certainly ain’t advocating a pick at 12, but it’s been slow around here.

    My work here is done.

    #8196
    soup
    Participant

    Geno Smith is signing with the Giants. Agreed to terms. Never visited Cleveland. How does Ian Rappaport have a job?

    Freedom!!!

    #8197
    Ice
    Keymaster

    Geno Smith is signing with the Giants. Agreed to terms. Never visited Cleveland. How does Ian Rappaport have a job?

    He just got the team wrong. It’s really not that bad of a mistake. Everyone mistakes the Browns for the Giants lately.

    #8198
    Shooter
    Moderator

    Geno Smith is signing with the Giants. Agreed to terms. Never visited Cleveland. How does Ian Rappaport have a job?

    I have no idea.

    There was no merit at all to what he said. There never was.

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