Browns trade for BROCK OSWEILER
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NFL stunner: Texans trade QB Brock Osweiler AND a 2018 second-round pick to Cleveland for the Browns to take Osweiler’s $16M salary of Houston’s books, per league sources. The move clears out millions in salary-cap space for Houston to intensify efforts to sign former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, per sources. To be exact, Houston saves $16 million in cash and $10 million against their cap this season. The Texans also will get the Browns’ fourth-round pick this year in exchange for their own 6th-round pick. So Cleveland gets Osweiler’s contract, a 2018 second-round pick and a 2017 sixth-round pick, and Houston gets Cleveland’s 2017 fourth-round pick, saves $10 million in salary-cap space and $16 million in cash. Cleveland is not committed to keeping Osweiler and is likely to try to trade him, per sources. If so, it would turn into a basketball-like trade in which NBA teams routinely trade contracts to get them off their books; only it rarely, if ever, happens in the NFL. It’s hard to remember in the salary-cap era another team when a team traded a contract to get it off its books. But Houston was so anxious to rid itself of Osweiler and move on to its next quarterbacking chapter that it is giving Cleveland extra picks to take him and his contract. The Browns headed into this free-agent signing period with over $100 million worth of salary-cap space and would struggle to spend it all. Now they can devote some of it to Osweiler’s contract and acquiring extra draft picks from Houston. But this is one of the most, if not the most, creative trade in NFL history.
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2nd round 2018
EDIT: So what is that worth in terms of 2017 levels?
And do we see him as a better QB than anyone in this weak class or are we planing to then trade him elsewhere?
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Dump him and trade for JG
Dump him and trade for JG
Dump? Trade him to Denver...
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Money ball at its finest
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Don't hate it get a 2nd rounder for him. Maybe Hue can develop him.
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Brilliant!
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There's speculation on Twitter that BO & the picks were acquired to swap for Jimmy G.
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Michael SilverVerified account @MikeSilver 2m2 minutes ago
Take the player out of it for a second: the Browns just got a 2 for a 4. I'm no analytics genius but... good move, Sashi. -
There's speculation on Twitter that BO & the picks were acquired to swap for Jimmy G.
There's speculation on Twitter that BO & the picks were acquired to swap for Jimmy G.
I do honestly get the vibe this was a chess move to set up the checkmate they envision in their head and it could be something like this.
As long as the goal isn't to actually keep Brock as more than a back-up, this could be a genius stroke.
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Michael SilverVerified account @MikeSilver 2m2 minutes ago
Take the player out of it for a second: the Browns just got a 2 for a 4. I'm no analytics genius but... good move, Sashi.Michael SilverVerified account @MikeSilver 2m2 minutes ago
Take the player out of it for a second: the Browns just got a 2 for a 4. I'm no analytics genius but... good move, Sashi.
Sashi is The Shit.
Zombo
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Now they're saying we are straight up going to release him !
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HAHAHAHAHAHA! I love it. hell, the browns may keep osweiler and see how he does. part of the problem in HOU was they had a terrible offensive line. Not a problem in cleveland
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