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  • Here is my point......looking at the Walter football draft database......in the early versions of Mock drafts, NO ONE had Lynch and Goff up near the top.....most didn't even have them in the first round. You saw Hackenberg, Cook, even Cardale....but not these guys.

    The fact is.....Hackenberg, Cook, Cardale could in fact turn out to as good or better pro QBs as Lynch/Goff.

    And my further point is.....if in fact the likes of Lynch/Goff/Wentz are who we thought they were originally......then I would prefer taking a Bosa with #2....and Thomas/Doctson with #32......and getting Hackenber/Cook...even Cardale in round 3.

    I'd rather get Russell Wilson in round 3 than Brandon Weeden in round 1.

    Drafting QBs is such an inexact science......but I see the DE/WR a bit of a more sure thing. (though nothing but Nicollette Sheridan is that)

    @the-gipper said:

    Here is my point......looking at the Walter football draft database......in the early versions of Mock drafts, NO ONE had Lynch and Goff up near the top.....most didn't even have them in the first round. You saw Hackenberg, Cook, even Cardale....but not these guys.

    The fact is.....Hackenberg, Cook, Cardale could in fact turn out to as good or better pro QBs as Lynch/Goff.

    And my further point is.....if in fact the likes of Lynch/Goff/Wentz are who we thought they were originally......then I would prefer taking a Bosa with #2....and Thomas/Doctson with #32......and getting Hackenber/Cook...even Cardale in round 3.

    I'd rather get Russell Wilson in round 3 than Brandon Weeden in round 1.

    Drafting QBs is such an inexact science......but I see the DE/WR a bit of a more sure thing. (though nothing but Nicollette Sheridan is that)

    If you go back a few years, they also had people like Tajh Boyd going at the top of the first round before the season started, and Blake Bortles (in a different year) coming from nowhere to go 3rd to the Jags.

    The most recent body of work is almost always the most important at that level.

  • @the-gipper said:

    So....you agree with me that Goff and Lynch may be nothing very special......and overrated due to their position and a dearth of real quality QBs coming out?

    I hear this all the time from Browns fans. "No ones worth that high of a pick".....the result is settling for who is left over late in the 1st round. In the mean time other NFL teams have identified the QB they want and do what it takes to get them. Not the (previous i hope) Browns way of...." no ones worthy of a high first, lets chose from whats left over.

    McCown is fragile (fact). To those not wanting a QB with the 2nd pick, what is your QB alternative because more likely than not, he will see action.

    @furious-styles said:

    I hear this all the time from Browns fans. "No ones worth that high of a pick".....the result is settling for who is left over late in the 1st round. In the mean time other NFL teams have identified the QB they want and do what it takes to get them. Not the (previous i hope) Browns way of...." no ones worthy of a high first, lets chose from whats left over.

    McCown is fragile (fact). To those not wanting a QB with the 2nd pick, what is your QB alternative because more likely than not, he will see action.

    When you spend a #2 pick on a guy youre drafting for the next 10 years, not just next year. I dont think anyone plans on competing next year, so it doesnt matter whos takin snaps. We could keep McCown, Johnny, and still take a QB.
  • sounds like Goffs arm is on par with Hoyers if we're going with "55 yard'ish". Not saying that disqualifies Goff, but aren't people here always yelling about arm strength arm strength?

  • sounds like Goffs arm is on par with Hoyers if we're going with "55 yard'ish". Not saying that disqualifies Goff, but aren't people here always yelling about arm strength arm strength?

    @clevfan4life said:

    sounds like Goffs arm is on par with Hoyers if we're going with "55 yard'ish". Not saying that disqualifies Goff, but aren't people here always yelling about arm strength arm strength?

    He ain't no John Elway?

  • Im on board with the keep Johnny and surround him with better weapons crowd. Hes been a headache, but I think he can play on the field. We can draft another QB in the third round. Go Bosa or Jack at 2, take Henry or Elliot in the second.

  • sounds like Goffs arm is on par with Hoyers if we're going with "55 yard'ish". Not saying that disqualifies Goff, but aren't people here always yelling about arm strength arm strength?

    @clevfan4life said:

    aren't people here always yelling about arm strength arm strength?

    I think people have learned more about the importance of the other aspects of the QB game since Weeden came along 😉

  • Here is my point......looking at the Walter football draft database......in the early versions of Mock drafts, NO ONE had Lynch and Goff up near the top.....most didn't even have them in the first round. You saw Hackenberg, Cook, even Cardale....but not these guys.

    The fact is.....Hackenberg, Cook, Cardale could in fact turn out to as good or better pro QBs as Lynch/Goff.

    And my further point is.....if in fact the likes of Lynch/Goff/Wentz are who we thought they were originally......then I would prefer taking a Bosa with #2....and Thomas/Doctson with #32......and getting Hackenber/Cook...even Cardale in round 3.

    I'd rather get Russell Wilson in round 3 than Brandon Weeden in round 1.

    Drafting QBs is such an inexact science......but I see the DE/WR a bit of a more sure thing. (though nothing but Nicollette Sheridan is that)

    @the-gipper said:

    Here is my point......looking at the Walter football draft database......in the early versions of Mock drafts, NO ONE had Lynch and Goff up near the top.....most didn't even have them in the first round. You saw Hackenberg, Cook, even Cardale....but not these guys.

    The fact is.....Hackenberg, Cook, Cardale could in fact turn out to as good or better pro QBs as Lynch/Goff.

    And my further point is.....if in fact the likes of Lynch/Goff/Wentz are who we thought they were originally......then I would prefer taking a Bosa with #2....and Thomas/Doctson with #32......and getting Hackenber/Cook...even Cardale in round 3.

    I'd rather get Russell Wilson in round 3 than Brandon Weeden in round 1.

    Drafting QBs is such an inexact science......but I see the DE/WR a bit of a more sure thing. (though nothing but Nicollette Sheridan is that)

    this is a quality post-- we don't know how goff/lynch/wentz will turn out as pros. If anyone says they do they are fos. Neither of these guys are the class of qb prospect(admittedly very few are) where there is some level of certainty that they will be very very good.

    I will say I'm a little concerned that his arm and athleticism doesn't jump off the page at me. Because if it *doesn't* jump off the page in college, it's going to be several steps below that(meaning several steps below great) when translated to the nfl.

  • I'd rather get Russell Wilson in round 3 than Brandon Weeden in round 1.


    Drafting QBs is such an inexact science......but I see the DE/WR a bit of a more sure thing. (though nothing but Nicollette Sheridan is that)



    I guess, conversely....I would rather have taken Brandon Weeden in round 3 than in round 1.



    Note: we are not nearly as forlorn about the Browns having taken Charlie Frye and Colt McCoy in the third round. We knew these were risks...and that the investment in them was not as dear as the investment of a 1st round pick.


    So, we don't get Nicolette Sheridan in round 1, we take Daphne Zuniga. Not as hot, but cute nevertheless......more a "take home to Mom" kind of girl.


    Frye and McCoy were more "take home to Mom" kind of QBs.


    I mean....isn't it fair to say that we got more production out of our 3rd round pick than our 1st round picks?


  • Here is the deal on that QB production.....using the PFR CA....which measures a players career production. These are these guys total career numbers, including with other team:

    Couch: 30

    Wynn: 2

    Luke McC.: 7

    Frye: 8

    Quinn: 2

    McCoy: 12

    Weeden: 12

    Johnny: 1

    Just to give comparison, here are the numbers of some decidedly mediocre or below QBs:

    Matt Cassell 45

    Kyle Orton 41

    Vince Young 33

    Josh Freeman 38

    Mark Sanchez 33

    Tim Tebow 12

    Sam Bradford 25

    And compare to these guys: youngest to oldest:

    Luck: 42

    Wilson : 46

    Newton 56

    Dalton 43

    Kaepernick 34

    Rodgers 107

    Rivers 114

    Roeth. 99

    Palmer 84

    Brees 141

    Brady 146

    Peyton 176

  • Im on board with the keep Johnny and surround him with better weapons crowd. Hes been a headache, but I think he can play on the field. We can draft another QB in the third round. Go Bosa or Jack at 2, take Henry or Elliot in the second.

    @flyin-j said:

    Im on board with the keep Johnny and surround him with better weapons crowd. Hes been a headache, but I think he can play on the field. We can draft another QB in the third round. Go Bosa or Jack at 2, take Henry or Elliot in the second.

    And the addition of Josh Gordon with an entire training camp and a quarterback that he likes to get in sync with? Fuggetabouttit.

    WSS

  • sounds like Goffs arm is on par with Hoyers if we're going with "55 yard'ish". Not saying that disqualifies Goff, but aren't people here always yelling about arm strength arm strength?

    Gip,

    I have seen enough of your arguments to know you've dug your heels in now... but do you realize in all the time you've spent defending your position, you could have watched every cutdown from Goff's Senior year and formed your own opinion rather than mistakenly regurgitated others' opinions?

    @clevfan4life said:

    sounds like Goffs arm is on par with Hoyers if we're going with "55 yard'ish". Not saying that disqualifies Goff, but aren't people here always yelling about arm strength arm strength?

    Except that Hoyer's arm was 45-ish. McCown's is 55-ish and no one seemed to be complaining. Since the 55 you quoted was my estimate, now it has some context.

  • The Titans are open to trading their number 1 pick. No wonder they pick first every year. If Goff goes number 1 in a trade then Cleveland should go Bosa and quarterback at 32. Goff just isn't Aaron Rodgers or Andrew Luck! He might be more Blane Gabbert or Christian Ponder.

    I don't think any team is dumb enough to trade up for any of these QBs. We shall see after the Combine.

  • If Goff goes #1 overall to somebody else than I think it would be stupid to not take Joey Bosa. But stupid is as stupid does and stupid might as well be the byline under the Browns header. We'll probably panic and take Paxton Lynch #2.

  • The Titans are open to trading their number 1 pick. No wonder they pick first every year. If Goff goes number 1 in a trade then Cleveland should go Bosa and quarterback at 32. Goff just isn't Aaron Rodgers or Andrew Luck! He might be more Blane Gabbert or Christian Ponder.

    I don't think any team is dumb enough to trade up for any of these QBs. We shall see after the Combine.

    @opal312 said:

    The Titans are open to trading their number 1 pick. No wonder they pick first every year. If Goff goes number 1 in a trade then Cleveland should go Bosa and quarterback at 32. Goff just isn't Aaron Rodgers or Andrew Luck! He might be more Blane Gabbert or Christian Ponder.

    I don't think any team is dumb enough to trade up for any of these QBs. We shall see after the Combine.

    I heard that possibility on Channel eight today.

    WSS

  • Gip,

    I have seen enough of your arguments to know you've dug your heels in now... but do you realize in all the time you've spent defending your position, you could have watched every cutdown from Goff's Senior year and formed your own opinion rather than mistakenly regurgitated others' opinions?

    @clevfan4life said:

    sounds like Goffs arm is on par with Hoyers if we're going with "55 yard'ish". Not saying that disqualifies Goff, but aren't people here always yelling about arm strength arm strength?

    Except that Hoyer's arm was 45-ish. McCown's is 55-ish and no one seemed to be complaining. Since the 55 you quoted was my estimate, now it has some context.

    @tour2ma said:

    Gip,

    I have seen enough of your arguments to know you've dug your heels in now... but do you realize in all the time you've spent defending your position, you could have watched every cutdown from Goff's Senior year and formed your own opinion rather than mistakenly regurgitated others' opinions?

    Perhaps.....but I do not have the expertise to evaluate these guys like the guys whose opinions I have quoted do.

    I mean, Dirty Harry said that a man's got to know his limitations.....and I know mine. I am not an expert quarterback talent evaluator. Certainly not like Bill Polian.

  • The Titans are open to trading their number 1 pick. No wonder they pick first every year. If Goff goes number 1 in a trade then Cleveland should go Bosa and quarterback at 32. Goff just isn't Aaron Rodgers or Andrew Luck! He might be more Blane Gabbert or Christian Ponder.

    I don't think any team is dumb enough to trade up for any of these QBs. We shall see after the Combine.

    @opal312 said:

    The Titans are open to trading their number 1 pick. No wonder they pick first every year. If Goff goes number 1 in a trade then Cleveland should go Bosa and quarterback at 32. Goff just isn't Aaron Rodgers or Andrew Luck! He might be more Blane Gabbert or Christian Ponder.

    I don't think any team is dumb enough to trade up for any of these QBs. We shall see after the Combine.

    Be ready for the shitstorm you are going to get for having an opinion like that

    err.....well....like mine.

  • Greg Cosell says Goff is a better prospect than Winston (remember that I said it first though right)

    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000626040/article/cosell-jared-goff-a-better-qb-prospect-than-jameis-winston

    I like Cosell a lot more than some of the other losers - although the other losers also say that Goff is the best, so it's virtually unanimous.

  • Greg Cosell says Goff is a better prospect than Winston (remember that I said it first though right)

    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000626040/article/cosell-jared-goff-a-better-qb-prospect-than-jameis-winston

    I like Cosell a lot more than some of the other losers - although the other losers also say that Goff is the best, so it's virtually unanimous.

    @bbedward said:

    Greg Cosell says Goff is a better prospect than Winston (remember that I said it first though right)

    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000626040/article/cosell-jared-goff-a-better-qb-prospect-than-jameis-winston

    I like Cosell a lot more than some of the other losers - although the other losers also say that Goff is the best, so it's virtually unanimous.

    Greg Cosell has as much credibility as Howard Cosell reporting on the assasination of the President of San Marcos.

  • @bbedward said:

    Greg Cosell says Goff is a better prospect than Winston (remember that I said it first though right)

    http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000626040/article/cosell-jared-goff-a-better-qb-prospect-than-jameis-winston

    I like Cosell a lot more than some of the other losers - although the other losers also say that Goff is the best, so it's virtually unanimous.

    Greg Cosell has as much credibility as Howard Cosell reporting on the assasination of the President of San Marcos.

    @the-gipper said:

    Greg Cosell has as much credibility as Howard Cosell reporting on the assasination of the President of San Marcos.

    Hey...he's pretty good. He does a nice job breaking down film compared to the other NFL analyst schleps.

    But then again it's not just him saying it 🙂

    We don't really know the real professional opinions, but maybe the Browns will commission another $100,000 study

  • @the-gipper said:

    Greg Cosell has as much credibility as Howard Cosell reporting on the assasination of the President of San Marcos.

    Hey...he's pretty good. He does a nice job breaking down film compared to the other NFL analyst schleps.

    But then again it's not just him saying it 🙂

    We don't really know the real professional opinions, but maybe the Browns will commission another $100,000 study

    @bbedward said:

    Hey...he's pretty good. He does a nice job breaking down film compared to the other NFL analyst schleps.

    But then again it's not just him saying it 🙂

    We don't really know the real professional opinions, but maybe the Browns will commission another $100,000 study

    Well, BB8, we know you have a man crush on Goff. So any and every thing out there in the world that has some positivity toward him, you are going to reference here.

    So, don't think unkind of us if we take it all with a grain of salt.