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  • I guess if the Browns can't work out a deal with Mack then Irving it is?

    *puts gun in mouth*

  • Put down the gun...

    It ain't over plus there are good alternatives.

  • Put down the gun...

    It ain't over plus there are good alternatives.

    @tour2ma said:

    Put down the gun...

    It ain't over plus there are good alternatives.

    I wouldn't squirt any tears over Mack leaving. I don't think he played all that well and wants a nice pay day. However, Erving is none too good.

  • Time to get on the phone to the Wiz I guess.

  • Browns are sort of stuck. We're already paying Joe Thomas top money. Can we afford to do the same with Mack and Schwartz? Alex obviously wants to be the highest paid center, and The Schwartz is looking for left tackle money to play right tackle.

  • Browns are sort of stuck. We're already paying Joe Thomas top money. Can we afford to do the same with Mack and Schwartz? Alex obviously wants to be the highest paid center, and The Schwartz is looking for left tackle money to play right tackle.

    @hoorta said:

    Browns are sort of stuck. We're already paying Joe Thomas top money. Can we afford to do the same with Mack and Schwartz? Alex obviously wants to be the highest paid center, and The Schwartz is looking for left tackle money to play right tackle.

    I would like to see Schwartz back but he wants a lot for sure. Mack...meh.

  • Browns are sort of stuck. We're already paying Joe Thomas top money. Can we afford to do the same with Mack and Schwartz? Alex obviously wants to be the highest paid center, and The Schwartz is looking for left tackle money to play right tackle.

    @hoorta said:

    Browns are sort of stuck. We're already paying Joe Thomas top money. Can we afford to do the same with Mack and Schwartz? Alex obviously wants to be the highest paid center, and The Schwartz is looking for left tackle money to play right tackle.

    We're not really paying him top money - he's on about $8m per year, top tackles in the league are getting $12m. Either way, if you have a long term, top tier left tackle, you're paying him that much. If you don't, you're not likely to be competing.

  • Actually Joe is right at $10mm/yr... Here are his cap numbers for the last 3-years of his contract.

    2016 $9,500,000

    2017 $10,000,000

    2018 $10,000,000

    Extension time in 2017?

  • Actually Joe is right at $10mm/yr... Here are his cap numbers for the last 3-years of his contract.

    2016 $9,500,000

    2017 $10,000,000

    2018 $10,000,000

    Extension time in 2017?

    @tour2ma said:

    Actually Joe is right at $10mm/yr... Here are his cap numbers for the last 3-years of his contract.

    2016 $9,500,000

    2017 $10,000,000

    2018 $10,000,000

    Extension time in 2017?

    Probably. Or even this year. Offer him $10m for five years, fully guaranteed, he retires a brown, doesn't cost loads, everyone's happy. Except ghoolie.

  • Cam Erving...........

    Maybe we can trade cam for a first, and draft that C kelly?

  • Watching NFL Network this morning they indicated that Benjamin was the top wide receiver FA though their list had him around he 31st best FA overall. But they also rate this draftable WR class as a "C" compared to the back to back "A+" classes the last 2 years. Analytics is gonna kill us off if it's not tempered with common sense.

  • Watching NFL Network this morning they indicated that Benjamin was the top wide receiver FA though their list had him around he 31st best FA overall. But they also rate this draftable WR class as a "C" compared to the back to back "A+" classes the last 2 years. Analytics is gonna kill us off if it's not tempered with common sense.

    @texasag1969 said:

    Watching NFL Network this morning they indicated that Benjamin was the top wide receiver FA though their list had him around he 31st best FA overall. But they also rate this draftable WR class as a "C" compared to the back to back "A+" classes the last 2 years. Analytics is gonna kill us off if it's not tempered with common sense.

    Analytics generally tends to confirm common sense in my experience as a bioinformatics analyst. One of the reasons the Browns have sucked at drafting in the past is because a disregard for analytics by the previous regimes. Manziel was not an analytics decision, that was an emotional one (Bridgewater would've been the analytics decision). What analytics won't help you much with is understanding a player's character and mental fortitude. Analytics can also mislead you if you aren't asking the right questions with it. That's why smart teams use analytics as one of many important tools in the eval process along with tape, interviews, the combine, and pro days (and that's in order of importance).

  • @texasag1969 said:

    Watching NFL Network this morning they indicated that Benjamin was the top wide receiver FA though their list had him around he 31st best FA overall. But they also rate this draftable WR class as a "C" compared to the back to back "A+" classes the last 2 years. Analytics is gonna kill us off if it's not tempered with common sense.

    Analytics generally tends to confirm common sense in my experience as a bioinformatics analyst. One of the reasons the Browns have sucked at drafting in the past is because a disregard for analytics by the previous regimes. Manziel was not an analytics decision, that was an emotional one (Bridgewater would've been the analytics decision). What analytics won't help you much with is understanding a player's character and mental fortitude. Analytics can also mislead you if you aren't asking the right questions with it. That's why smart teams use analytics as one of many important tools in the eval process along with tape, interviews, the combine, and pro days (and that's in order of importance).

    @osiris said:

    Analytics generally tends to confirm common sense in my experience as a bioinformatics analyst. One of the reasons the Browns have sucked at drafting in the past is because a disregard for analytics by the previous regimes. Manziel was not an analytics decision, that was an emotional one (Bridgewater would've been the analytics decision). What analytics won't help you much with is understanding a player's character and mental fortitude. Analytics can also mislead you if you aren't asking the right questions with it. That's why smart teams use analytics as one of many important tools in the eval process along with tape, interviews, the combine, and pro days (and that's in order of importance).

    So in hindsight Bilgewater is the number 1 quarterback you would want out of that draft? If you could go back in time and take one?

    WSS

  • @osiris said:

    Analytics generally tends to confirm common sense in my experience as a bioinformatics analyst. One of the reasons the Browns have sucked at drafting in the past is because a disregard for analytics by the previous regimes. Manziel was not an analytics decision, that was an emotional one (Bridgewater would've been the analytics decision). What analytics won't help you much with is understanding a player's character and mental fortitude. Analytics can also mislead you if you aren't asking the right questions with it. That's why smart teams use analytics as one of many important tools in the eval process along with tape, interviews, the combine, and pro days (and that's in order of importance).

    So in hindsight Bilgewater is the number 1 quarterback you would want out of that draft? If you could go back in time and take one?

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    So in hindsight Bilgewater is the number 1 quarterback you would want out of that draft? If you could go back in time and take one?

    WSS

    If memory serves, Haslem paid for an analytics report that said Bridgewater was the best pick available in that 22nd spot. He opted to listen to the advice of a guy who lives in a shopping cart over said report.

  • @westside-steve said:

    So in hindsight Bilgewater is the number 1 quarterback you would want out of that draft? If you could go back in time and take one?

    WSS

    If memory serves, Haslem paid for an analytics report that said Bridgewater was the best pick available in that 22nd spot. He opted to listen to the advice of a guy who lives in a shopping cart over said report.

    @logicisforsquares said:

    If memory serves, Haslem paid for an analytics report that said Bridgewater was the best pick available in that 22nd spot. He opted to listen to the advice of a guy who lives in a shopping cart over said report.

    That has nothing to do with my question pal. In our newfound zeal over analytics I'm asking that if that study was as it has been reported is Bilgewater the best quarterback of that draft or not? In hindsight.

    You'd rather have him than any other?

    WSS

  • @osiris said:

    Analytics generally tends to confirm common sense in my experience as a bioinformatics analyst. One of the reasons the Browns have sucked at drafting in the past is because a disregard for analytics by the previous regimes. Manziel was not an analytics decision, that was an emotional one (Bridgewater would've been the analytics decision). What analytics won't help you much with is understanding a player's character and mental fortitude. Analytics can also mislead you if you aren't asking the right questions with it. That's why smart teams use analytics as one of many important tools in the eval process along with tape, interviews, the combine, and pro days (and that's in order of importance).

    So in hindsight Bilgewater is the number 1 quarterback you would want out of that draft? If you could go back in time and take one?

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    So in hindsight Bilgewater is the number 1 quarterback you would want out of that draft? If you could go back in time and take one?

    WSS

    I'd certainly have taken him over Manziel. Their were four first-round QBs available and the Browns managed to pick the only that turned out to be a bust. Knowing what we know now, maybe I go back and take Carr over Bridgewater, but I don't think many people would complain about any of the other three QBs from that draft.

    If you sentiment is that we shouldn't all be bowing to the analytics gods and using analytics as the sole piece of evidence for composing a draft board, I agree with you 100%. But nobody is doing that anyway. It's the Cleveland media that is making it out that analytics is the end-all-be-all, not the team itself. Listen to how the team talks about it, it's very different than how the media does.

  • @westside-steve said:

    So in hindsight Bilgewater is the number 1 quarterback you would want out of that draft? If you could go back in time and take one?

    WSS

    I'd certainly have taken him over Manziel. Their were four first-round QBs available and the Browns managed to pick the only that turned out to be a bust. Knowing what we know now, maybe I go back and take Carr over Bridgewater, but I don't think many people would complain about any of the other three QBs from that draft.

    If you sentiment is that we shouldn't all be bowing to the analytics gods and using analytics as the sole piece of evidence for composing a draft board, I agree with you 100%. But nobody is doing that anyway. It's the Cleveland media that is making it out that analytics is the end-all-be-all, not the team itself. Listen to how the team talks about it, it's very different than how the media does.

    @osiris said:

    I'd certainly have taken him over Manziel. Their were four first-round QBs available and the Browns managed to pick the only that turned out to be a bust. Knowing what we know now, maybe I go back and take Carr over Bridgewater, but I don't think many people would complain about any of the other three QBs from that draft.

    So in hindsight the analytical report, at least in your opinion, was bullshit?

    (sorry, let me rephrase that not quite as accurate as it should have been for the money. 🙂 )

    WSS

  • I think you're missing the point of the report....it wasnt intented to predict who would be the best quarterback...it was to predict the least likely to fail....big difference...

  • I think you're missing the point of the report....it wasnt intented to predict who would be the best quarterback...it was to predict the least likely to fail....big difference...

    @mudfly said:

    I think you're missing the point of the report....it wasnt intented to predict who would be the best quarterback...it was to predict the least likely to fail....big difference...

    OK-then why hasn't analytics and common sense kept Benjamin when we know this is a weak FA and draft when to comes to WR? The question is for everyone, not just you Mud.

  • @osiris said:

    I'd certainly have taken him over Manziel. Their were four first-round QBs available and the Browns managed to pick the only that turned out to be a bust. Knowing what we know now, maybe I go back and take Carr over Bridgewater, but I don't think many people would complain about any of the other three QBs from that draft.

    So in hindsight the analytical report, at least in your opinion, was bullshit?

    (sorry, let me rephrase that not quite as accurate as it should have been for the money. 🙂 )

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    So in hindsight the analytical report, at least in your opinion, was bullshit?

    (sorry, let me rephrase that not quite as accurate as it should have been for the money. 🙂 )

    WSS

    I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion other than deciding that's what I meant based on your dislike for him. He's a very good quarterback. If a report tells me he is the best choice and he turns out to be very good, I'm not going to feel too bad that in hindsight that he didn't get turn out to be the best QB available.

    He has, in my opinion, the highest floor but also the lowest ceiling of the four available QBs. I'm pretty sure that's what the analytics said, too. He has it when it comes to the most important skill of a QB: the ability to quickly process a defense and make the correct decision with the ball.

    The reason we have the FO we have today is to correct the poor process that was in place with Farmer and Pettine: a process that disregarded analytics, disregarded the character issues of Manziel and Gilbert, and bought into the Manziel hype train. When people talk about Sashi's primary trait being a consensus-builder, that tells you all you need to know about Farmer and Pettine's regime. They were not about building a consensus, they were about taking their flavor of the week.