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Thoughts on Matt Stafford Coming to the Browns?

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  • Matt would have a great familiarity with the language and play structure, given his time with McVey.  So from an on-field standpoint, it makes sense. 

  • Matt would have a great familiarity with the language and play structure, given his time with McVey.  So from an on-field standpoint, it makes sense. 

    @tiamat63 said:

    Matt would have a great familiarity with the language and play structure, given his time with McVey.  So from an on-field standpoint, it makes sense. 

    Get him now and maybe Myles might chose to stay. Instant credibility. Or of course just another over the hill player looking for a nice payout on the way home (a Browns specialty I believe).

  • @tiamat63 said:

    Matt would have a great familiarity with the language and play structure, given his time with McVey.  So from an on-field standpoint, it makes sense. 

    Get him now and maybe Myles might chose to stay. Instant credibility. Or of course just another over the hill player looking for a nice payout on the way home (a Browns specialty I believe).

    @texasag1969 said:

    Get him now and maybe Myles might chose to stay. Instant credibility. Or of course just another over the hill player looking for a nice payout on the way home

    Yes, he'd be looking for one last payday.  If money were no object, I'd love the idea of bringing Stafford here...and if they really liked Sanders, I'd still draft him.  In that scenario Sanders knows that he ain't starting this year.  He will come up through the ranks and be given the time to hone the craft and learn from a pro.  So I'd try and upgrade my OL in FA and get a RB somewhere in what draft picks would be left to us after working the Stafford deal.

  • 10% chance.  90% chance his performance would decline if that 10% came true 

  • 10% chance.  90% chance his performance would decline if that 10% came true 

    @sdbacker80 said:

    10% chance.  90% chance his performance would decline if that 10% came true 

    If one looks through his career stats one sees that as the team surrounding him improved, his completion pct and QB rating improved.  On a decent team he's gonna have a 66, 67 ish completion pct.  It'd be awesome if we could get 2 out of 3 passes completed.  🙂  

    But we can't afford him, and he'd have to be nuts to come to the QB graveyard while he still has value as a SB winning QB.  I think we'd be more in the Geno Smith ballpark of QB's.  

  • Would like to see Stafford here. The first question to be asked is would he want to come to a place where QB’s go to die?

    On second thought Mayfield did rise from the dead, so he may take note of that.

  • It'd be nice to have him, but I don't see any path for Stafford coming to the Browns. Sure, kick the tires but that's about it.

    Stafford's under contract, what could we offer in a trade? Stafford is 37 and still has a few more years left in him, but I wouldn't sell the farm to get him. I'd only do that if QB was the only thing we needed for a Super Bowl and we are far from that right now. Plus, Stafford reportedly wants a new contract for more money, which we can't offer unless the Rams took Deshaun's contract back in a trade. 

    The Rams made it to the playoffs and won a playoff game with Stafford this year, I don't see why the Rams would get rid of him. They gave the Eagles their toughest game in the playoffs. Get him some more weapons and run it back if I'm the Rams. 

  • That’s a big price tag for a guy who would be bridge QB. This team should be built for the move to Brookpark, when Stafford would probably be retired 

  • I would rather bring in Gino Smith

  • They should see if Clipboard Jesus wants to come back  !!

  • They should see if Clipboard Jesus wants to come back  !!

    @7moses7 said:

    They should see if Clipboard Jesus wants to come back  !!

    Moses calling for Jesus.  🙂 

  • That’s a big price tag for a guy who would be bridge QB. This team should be built for the move to Brookpark, when Stafford would probably be retired 

    @dutch-oven said:

    That’s a big price tag for a guy who would be bridge QB. This team should be built for the move to Brookpark, when Stafford would probably be retired 

    It should be until we factor in the FO that caused the current rebuild has tenure.  The time to fire and hire the upgrade should be BEFORE a draft that mercifully extends this team draft slots near the top of every round.  Right now, an owner with tunnel vision on Brookpark remains distracted from knowing who the potential FO upgrades are in his business.  If Berry messes this draft up - of course we'll be very annoyed with him.  Having said that, 100% of the blame would fall on Jimmy.

    Right now Brookpark sounds more like an untapped sitcom awaiting a clever author with an ideal sense of humor.  

  • @dutch-oven said:

    That’s a big price tag for a guy who would be bridge QB. This team should be built for the move to Brookpark, when Stafford would probably be retired 

    It should be until we factor in the FO that caused the current rebuild has tenure.  The time to fire and hire the upgrade should be BEFORE a draft that mercifully extends this team draft slots near the top of every round.  Right now, an owner with tunnel vision on Brookpark remains distracted from knowing who the potential FO upgrades are in his business.  If Berry messes this draft up - of course we'll be very annoyed with him.  Having said that, 100% of the blame would fall on Jimmy.

    Right now Brookpark sounds more like an untapped sitcom awaiting a clever author with an ideal sense of humor.  

    @flugel said:

    It should be until we factor in the FO that caused the current rebuild has tenure.  The time to fire and hire the upgrade should be BEFORE a draft that mercifully extends this team draft slots near the top of every round.  Right now, an owner with tunnel vision on Brookpark remains distracted from knowing who the potential FO upgrades are in his business.  If Berry messes this draft up - of course we'll be very annoyed with him.  Having said that, 100% of the blame would fall on Jimmy.

    Right now Brookpark sounds more like an untapped sitcom awaiting a clever author with an ideal sense of humor.  

    Part of me thinks they should have just cleaned house and started the full rebuild now, the other part of me wonders who would volunteer to come in right now and do the grunt work. A really talented young upcomer at GM and/or head coach might pass on having to go to a team that has to pretty much start at the ground floor. Experienced guys probably wouldn’t even consider it. 

  • @flugel said:

    It should be until we factor in the FO that caused the current rebuild has tenure.  The time to fire and hire the upgrade should be BEFORE a draft that mercifully extends this team draft slots near the top of every round.  Right now, an owner with tunnel vision on Brookpark remains distracted from knowing who the potential FO upgrades are in his business.  If Berry messes this draft up - of course we'll be very annoyed with him.  Having said that, 100% of the blame would fall on Jimmy.

    Right now Brookpark sounds more like an untapped sitcom awaiting a clever author with an ideal sense of humor.  

    Part of me thinks they should have just cleaned house and started the full rebuild now, the other part of me wonders who would volunteer to come in right now and do the grunt work. A really talented young upcomer at GM and/or head coach might pass on having to go to a team that has to pretty much start at the ground floor. Experienced guys probably wouldn’t even consider it. 

    @dutch-oven said:

    Part of me thinks they should have just cleaned house and started the full rebuild now, the other part of me wonders who would volunteer to come in right now and do the grunt work. A really talented young upcomer at GM and/or head coach might pass on having to go to a team that has to pretty much start at the ground floor. Experienced guys probably wouldn’t even consider it. 

    I think that a major deterrent to coming to Cleveland might be having to interview with DePodesta.  If he were a part of the 'cleaned house' then it might be a little more appealing (tolerable?) to come here.

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Part of me thinks they should have just cleaned house and started the full rebuild now, the other part of me wonders who would volunteer to come in right now and do the grunt work. A really talented young upcomer at GM and/or head coach might pass on having to go to a team that has to pretty much start at the ground floor. Experienced guys probably wouldn’t even consider it. 

    I think that a major deterrent to coming to Cleveland might be having to interview with DePodesta.  If he were a part of the 'cleaned house' then it might be a little more appealing (tolerable?) to come here.

    @orion said:

    I think that a major deterrent to coming to Cleveland might be having to interview with DePodesta.  If he were a part of the 'cleaned house' then it might be a little more appealing (tolerable?) to come here.

    31 other teams are probably laughing their asses off at the combines still seeing Berry & DePodesta still in charge of "The Dumpster Fire."   This is a sequel that beats the crap out of Rocky.  

  • he is staying in l.a Good

  • LA Rams have their QB and LT situation all set before free agency and the draft.  LT Alaric Jackson signed a 3 year contract for 57 million $ which prevented him from hitting the free agent market (where there were rumors a lot of teams were interested). They GET it.  Now they can draft to compete for a Super Bowl.  That's what smart owners and FOs do.     

  • LA Rams have their QB and LT situation all set before free agency and the draft.  LT Alaric Jackson signed a 3 year contract for 57 million $ which prevented him from hitting the free agent market (where there were rumors a lot of teams were interested). They GET it.  Now they can draft to compete for a Super Bowl.  That's what smart owners and FOs do.     

    @flugel said:

    That's what smart owners and FOs do.     

    Wouldn’t it be nice if the Browns had that too?

    Since I started this thread, I thought it seemed appropriate to put this here. ?

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  • LA Rams have their QB and LT situation all set before free agency and the draft.  LT Alaric Jackson signed a 3 year contract for 57 million $ which prevented him from hitting the free agent market (where there were rumors a lot of teams were interested). They GET it.  Now they can draft to compete for a Super Bowl.  That's what smart owners and FOs do.     

    @flugel said:

    LA Rams have their QB and LT situation all set before free agency and the draft.  LT Alaric Jackson signed a 3 year contract for 57 million $ which prevented him from hitting the free agent market (where there were rumors a lot of teams were interested). They GET it.  Now they can draft to compete for a Super Bowl.  That's what smart owners and FOs do.     

    But would that smart FO do that with Wills?  And our other 2 top OT's are always getting hurt.  Plus Bitonio might retire.  Our OL needs a major overhaul.  -  Zinter needs to be a good player

  • @flugel said:

    LA Rams have their QB and LT situation all set before free agency and the draft.  LT Alaric Jackson signed a 3 year contract for 57 million $ which prevented him from hitting the free agent market (where there were rumors a lot of teams were interested). They GET it.  Now they can draft to compete for a Super Bowl.  That's what smart owners and FOs do.     

    But would that smart FO do that with Wills?  And our other 2 top OT's are always getting hurt.  Plus Bitonio might retire.  Our OL needs a major overhaul.  -  Zinter needs to be a good player

    @orion said:

    But would that smart FO do that with Wills?  And our other 2 top OT's are always getting hurt.  Plus Bitonio might retire.  Our OL needs a major overhaul.  -  Zinter needs to be a good player

    How many more horrible investments do you want to list before you get how bad this FO really is?  Are we going to wait until Dawand Jones shows up way overweight and out of shape a 3rd time before someone we're counting on realizes this guy isn't prioritizing his football career?    Playing pretend with all this ain't gonna help us.

    Regarding the Rams, before they resigned this LT's work ethic they had a longtime veteran LT Andrew Whitworth with a great work ethic.  They know how to win.