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Browns Draft Strategy beginning in 2016

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  • The QB has to actually hit him for him to get stars. They are a pointless metric when Hoyer is your QB. Name 10 slot receivers better than Hawkins.

  • The QB has to actually hit him for him to get stars. They are a pointless metric when Hoyer is your QB. Name 10 slot receivers better than Hawkins.

    @wargograw said:

    The QB has to actually hit him for him to get stars. They are a pointless metric when Hoyer is your QB. Name 10 slot receivers better than Hawkins.

    While I think you are actually on the same page as Farmer, that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts, I just think you need more than slot receivers and burners. You need that guy with great speed who can win 50/50 balls and require the other team to be honest in it's coverage. Now Brady, Rodgers, Luck and whomever else we want to classify as "elite" QBs can work with a little less or if you have a Shady Mccoy back there to do damage you can survive. Unfortunately the Browns have a career backup and a RB by committee that may add an aging veteran to the mix cause the rookie can't get on the field. While Josh Gordon doesn't make this team Superbowl contenders it takes some of the heat off the QB and keeps the D guessing where the ball can go.

  • @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    Spot on.

    Just take a look at those Pro Bowl WR's in Seattle and New England.

    Tom Brady, Russell Wilson & Josh Mccown

    @baconhound said:

    Tom Brady, Russell Wilson & Josh Mccown

    And McCown would have been our QB regardless of what shiny hood ornament WR we drafted.

    So tell me...what was your point?

  • @baconhound said:

    Tom Brady, Russell Wilson & Josh Mccown

    And McCown would have been our QB regardless of what shiny hood ornament WR we drafted.

    So tell me...what was your point?

    @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    And McCown would have been our QB regardless of what shiny hood ornament WR we drafted.

    So tell me...what was your point?

    Point is the examples you used as to successful teams without that prototypical #1 have a very good QBs. If you have a great QB you can survive with lesser talent at the skill positions.

  • And if you have lesser talent at QB the receivers don't matter, so pretty much it boils down to receivers don't matter.

  • And if you have lesser talent at QB the receivers don't matter, so pretty much it boils down to receivers don't matter.

    @roycerolls said:

    And if you have lesser talent at QB the receivers don't matter, so pretty much it boils down to receivers don't matter.

    Not true AJ Green and Julio Jones make their respective offenses a lot better. I'll be interested to see how Carr performs with a #1,

  • @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    And McCown would have been our QB regardless of what shiny hood ornament WR we drafted.

    So tell me...what was your point?

    Point is the examples you used as to successful teams without that prototypical #1 have a very good QBs. If you have a great QB you can survive with lesser talent at the skill positions.

    @baconhound said:

    Point is the examples you used as to successful teams without that prototypical #1 have a very good QBs. If you have a great QB you can survive with lesser talent at the skill positions.

    The examples I used were the examples of the last two Super Bowl teams.

    So what you're saying a #1 WR isn't needed for a Super Bowl run. I'm glad you could clear that up, now I get what your point was.

  • @roycerolls said:

    And if you have lesser talent at QB the receivers don't matter, so pretty much it boils down to receivers don't matter.

    Not true AJ Green and Julio Jones make their respective offenses a lot better. I'll be interested to see how Carr performs with a #1,

    @baconhound said:

    Not true AJ Green and Julio Jones make their respective offenses a lot better. I'll be interested to see how Carr performs with a #1,

    Yet the Falcons and Bengals are a combined 1-6 in the postseason since drafting their studly weapons.

  • @roycerolls said:

    And if you have lesser talent at QB the receivers don't matter, so pretty much it boils down to receivers don't matter.

    Not true AJ Green and Julio Jones make their respective offenses a lot better. I'll be interested to see how Carr performs with a #1,

    @baconhound said:

    Not true AJ Green and Julio Jones make their respective offenses a lot better.

    If Julio makes his offense better, why do the Browns have a better record over the last 2 years than the Falcons?

  • @baconhound said:

    Not true AJ Green and Julio Jones make their respective offenses a lot better. I'll be interested to see how Carr performs with a #1,

    Yet the Falcons and Bengals are a combined 1-6 in the postseason since drafting their studly weapons.

    @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    Yet the Falcons and Bengals are a combined 1-6 in the postseason since drafting their studly weapons.

    Yet in the playoffs.

  • @baconhound said:

    Not true AJ Green and Julio Jones make their respective offenses a lot better.

    If Julio makes his offense better, why do the Browns have a better record over the last 2 years than the Falcons?

    @canton-dawg said:

    If Julio makes his offense better, why do the Browns have a better record over the last 2 years than the Falcons?

    Falcons have no defense.

  • Our passing attack was better in 2013 with Josh Gordon than it was in 2014 without him.

  • Our passing attack was better in 2013 with Josh Gordon than it was in 2014 without him.

    @baconhound said:

    Our passing attack was better in 2013 with Josh Gordon than it was in 2014 without him.

    Oddly it seemed better in 2014 without him than in 2014 with him.

  • @tim-couch-pulls-out said:

    Yet the Falcons and Bengals are a combined 1-6 in the postseason since drafting their studly weapons.

    Yet in the playoffs.

    @baconhound said:

    Yet in the playoffs.

    Very true.

    Except the Falcons were in the playoffs in 2008 and 2010, right before Julio was drafted, and Bengals in 2009.

    So these shiny new WR's took playoff teams to...right back where they were before.

  • Both Julio and AJ were drafted in the belief that they were the "last pieces". It's why ATL and CIN paid to move up and get them.

    Both, when healthy, have more than fulfilled their promise.

    Yet neither team materially improved their results.

    Q.E.D.

  • We have good receivers. We have a good OL. We don't have a good quarterback. We have a good running game. That combination is enough to win games. You can tweak this or that here or there and the results will be the same. It's all about balance.

  • Both Julio and AJ were drafted in the belief that they were the "last pieces". It's why ATL and CIN paid to move up and get them.

    Both, when healthy, have more than fulfilled their promise.

    Yet neither team materially improved their results.

    Q.E.D.

    @tour2ma said:

    Both Julio and AJ were drafted in the belief that they were the "last pieces". It's why ATL and CIN paid to move up and get them.

    Both, when healthy, have more than fulfilled their promise.

    Yet neither team materially improved their results.

    Q.E.D.

    I believe I posted the win totals of teams that took top 20 receivers the past 5 years and how only 2 teams improved their record the following season.

    So QED indeed.

  • Who defines top 20?

  • The Seahawks and Patriots "proof" only works insofar as you ignore the other TEN playoff teams all to a "man" having what people would regard as a great number 1 receiver....

    Also, Gronk. Also, Wilson's legs. So you see, there are many ways to skin a cat.

  • The Seahawks and Patriots "proof" only works insofar as you ignore the other TEN playoff teams all to a "man" having what people would regard as a great number 1 receiver....

    Also, Gronk. Also, Wilson's legs. So you see, there are many ways to skin a cat.

    @wargograw said:

    So you see, there are many ways to skin a cat.

    And there it is. Not every team employs the same strategy to find success. Although it does seem that the most successful teams focus on positions more important than WR. Belicheck has never selected a 1st RD receiver and only has 4 Super Bowl rings.