Josh Gordon
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I agree man.....be proactive. Look to improve. We did that today.
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Gordon is a starter right now.. he's got better hands, is faster, and runs better routes than Massadrop. Yes, he'll probably lead the league in drops/target like Little did - and for the same reason - but his ceiling is 10x higher than Massaquoi's ever was.
Little/Gordon/Norwood/Cribbs/MoMa/Mitchell would be the 6 WR's I'd go to battle with this year. Cooper on the taxi squad.
If this was the normal draft, Gordon is a 1st rounder. He fell asleep in a car where there was pot.. big deal.
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I think we finally have a Front Office that will take a chance to improve & I am excited with this move. What I was afraid of most was that we would wait until the 3rd & one of the already solid teams would jump on him late in the 2nd. I have literally no doubt that would have happened had we waited.
Look at it this way...we didn't wait, hoping they were there later, for T Rich, Weeden, Schwartz, & now Gordon. I applaud this aggressive Team building.....It's long over due, but it's happening NOW!
Mike
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I think we finally have a Front Office that will take a chance to improve & I am excited with this move. What I was afraid of most was that we would wait until the 3rd & one of the already solid teams would jump on him late in the 2nd. I have literally no doubt that would have happened had we waited.
Look at it this way...we didn't wait, hoping they were there later, for T Rich, Weeden, Schwartz, & now Gordon. I applaud this aggressive Team building.....It's long over due, but it's happening NOW!
Mike
I think we finally have a Front Office that will take a chance to improve & I am excited with this move. What I was afraid of most was that we would wait until the 3rd & one of the already solid teams would jump on him late in the 2nd. I have literally no doubt that would have happened had we waited.
Look at it this way...we didn't wait, hoping they were there later, for T Rich, Weeden, Schwartz, & now Gordon. I applaud this aggressive Team building.....It's long over due, but it's happening NOW!
Mike
Aaaah, I'm excited, but the last time I was this excited was when we picked up Big Baby, Stallworth and Williams(?).
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Interview with Josh Gordon... seems like a good kid... Now I really can't wait for the season to start!!!
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He does seem like a guy that realizes he made a mistake and doesn't want to repeat what happened. Let's hope he's as genuine as he's coming off. This guy makes us better. I said it a few days ago and I can finally set it in stone now that he's a Brown.
The Browns will make the playoffs this year.
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I figure that Washington, New England, Ratbirds and Squeelers, Eagles... a lot of teams
would have nabbed him in the later round - before the Browns had another chance.
Kid seems a whole lot more wise, and a good one.
Really nice, smart move by the Browns.
Playoffs? Browns? You're kidding?
I'm not. The Browns have added real solutions to the weaknesses on the roster.
This next season is going to be a LOT of FUN !
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There are alot of idiots on this board...
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The only thing I'm worried about, is our luck on WR's in the 2nd round.
We keep drafting more WR's in the 2nd round to replace past 2nd round WR failures.
I think we've had like 7 to 9 2nd round WR's and so far none have panned out (Little is still pending).
Johnson,
Northcutt
Q
Davis
Robiskie
Massaquoi
Anyone name any other 2nd round WR's we've failed on?
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I liked Johnson and Northcutt. Momass is still pending but Little is the real deal. Just wait until Gordon gets hot, who will the Defense cover? Cameron and Moore running around with Little and Gordon streaking and cutting, Travis zipping around and Cribbs taking the snap... LMAO this is gonna be a great time. My pizza and wings and beer are going to taste sooo sweet and amazing after a decade of heartache. I'm ready, are you ready Believeland?~~!
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@mike-h said:
I'm drinking it. We got T Rich and a No. 1 stolen from the 2nd round of the supp. draft.
Pass the kool-aid around.
HERE WE GO BROWNIES HERE WE GO
- Hell ya! ...Easy on your mancrush... 
This is the time of year when it feels like Christmas for me. Everyone is 0-0 and tied for first place. Miracles can happen and hope springs eternal, everything is high fives and smiles around Brownstown. God, THANK YOU! - I love being a Browns fan!!!
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Gordon won't start in Week 1 unless he shows up and is ready to go. He'll be starting by no later than Week 6 or 7, though. Might be like Little and take a few weeks in a less pivotal role then shine through once they've gotten back into the swing of football at a high level.
That being said, wouldn't it be sweet if we pulled a 1999 Rams? They went from 4-12 to the Super Bowl. They got a QB (Warner), a WR (Holt), and a RB (Faulk) all that year and it all clicked with the receiver they already had (Bruce.) What if this is the 2012 Browns? We have the WR on the roster (Little), we got the stud running back (Richardson), we nabbed an older QB no one believed in (Weeden), and we got a stud rookie receiver with huge upside (Gordon). Not that I'm saying it will happen, but maybe it's time for us to catch lightning in a bottle for once.
The greatest show on turf is about to come to Cleveland.
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Looks like he has his head on straight too.
http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2012/07/josh_gordon_cleveland_browns_n.html
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- New Browns rookie receiver Josh Gordon promised Thursday to stay clean and repay the Browns for taking a chance on him in the second round of the supplemental draft.
"Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Cleveland Browns stuck their neck out and risked taking me and put their faith and belief in me, and I won't let them down," Gordon said in a phone interview. "I'm grateful, and I know I can't go back to being the person I used to be."
Gordon's arduous journey to the Browns began in October 2010 when he was in the midst of a solid sophomore season for Baylor. Following a big victory, Gordon attended a party with teammate Willie Jefferson, and the two later were arrested on a misdemeanor marijuana charge after falling asleep in a fast-food drive-through.
The next day, Gordon tested positive for marijuana, marking the beginning of the end of his Baylor career.
"From there, it was just a whirlwind of bad things," he said.
Gordon was permitted to finish the season because it was his first offense, but Jefferson was kicked off the team because it was his second. Still, Baylor, a strict Christian university, took Gordon's test seriously even though charges were dropped.
"They put sanctions on me and placed me on a probationary period, with community service and biweekly drug tests," said Gordon. "They weren't going to stand for it, and I understood that."
Gordon (6-3, 224) remained drug-free throughout the season and finished strong, catching 42 passes for 714 yards and tying teammate Kendall Wright with a team-high seven touchdowns. But when he returned to the school in June after summer break, he tested positive again for marijuana.
"That was the last straw for them," said Gordon. "We had to part ways that summer."
The farewell broke coach Art Briles' heart, because he loved Gordon as a person and a player.
"It killed me, it really did, because as a coach, I think we're in the kid-saving business," said Briles, who's remained in close contact. "I know Josh's character, I know his heart, I know his mind, I know his soul and it's all good."
Gordon transferred to Utah, but shortly before leaving, his family's apartment caught fire, and they were forced to evacuate. Gordon fled early for Utah, taking his mom's car and his brother with him. His mother stayed behind but had to live in a hotel and drive rental cars.
"It was hard for all of us," said Gordon.
At Utah, Gordon sat out the season but still practiced with the team and submitted to drug tests.
"I was in a rehabilitation program with group counseling, and I saw a psychiatrist, like, three times a week," he said. "I had to report back to the team while I was practicing. But I never tested positive at Utah."
Every Saturday, Gordon watched as Baylor took the college football world by storm and Robert Griffin III made his amazing run toward the Heisman Trophy and toward becoming the No. 2 overall pick in the draft.
"It was hard watching ESPN every day, seeing the whole RG3 phenomenon take place, and I was like, 'Man, I was just there a year ago, this is crazy,' " Gordon said. "I was really happy for them, but it was hard."
After the year, Gordon had a decision to make. His brother couldn't find work, and they struggled to pay their rent. His mom was also back home struggling financially.
"I decided to go back home and try to enroll in the University of Houston," he said. "I wanted to alleviate the stress on my mom and brother."
As recently as June 27, Gordon still was trying to obtain a transfer hardship waiver to get into Houston. "But time was running out," he said. "I had to declare for the supplemental draft by June 29th. I had to make a lot of hard life decisions pretty quickly."
Coach Briles helped him make the decision to go pro.
"Having his belief in me and support helped motivate me," Gordon said. "I thought another year of college and film was what I needed and what everybody expected me to do."
The moment Gordon declared for the draft, the Browns pursued. They had already fallen in love with him during the 2010 season while scouting their 2011 first-round pick, Phil Taylor.
"Cleveland was the only visit I made," said Gordon. "I had a good feeling they were going to draft me, but I was still shocked when they jumped up to the second round."
The cost for the Browns was their second-round pick in the 2013 NFL Draft.
Browns General Manager Tom Heckert already had done his homework, talking to Briles, Taylor and Baylor assistant head coach Brian Norwood, the father of Browns receiver Jordan Norwood and a close associate of some in the Browns personnel department.
"I couldn't find anybody to say one bad thing about the kid," said Heckert. "I drilled him pretty hard when I was with him. He didn't back down, and he told me everything that I thought I needed to hear from him."
Gordon said he's not a drinker and never used other drugs.
"There was definitely a pattern there with the two failed tests, but marijuana has never had that strong of a hold on my life," he said. "I'm not an addict, and I shouldn't be treated as such. Being sober is not a struggle for me."
But he knows actions speak louder than words.
"I can tell people until I'm blue in the face, and there will always be naysayers that will say, 'I just don't believe him, I can't trust him.' But I know that I have no intentions or any ambition to try to go back and regress to what I was doing before -- testing positive or just being caught in a negative light."
He viewed fellow rookie receiver Justin Blackmon's recent DUI arrest as a cautionary tale.
"I've definitely learned from this," he said. "It's been a long road, but I'm seeing light at the end tunnel after today. Looking back, it was something that had to happen in order for this to even take place. I promise the Browns won't regret this."
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blah blah blah.
willy wonka talk.
now we have the best receiving corp in the league let alone our division?
:lol:
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