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  • Cousins, McCarron, Bridgewater, Rosen, Darnold, Mayfield, Allen, Rudolph, Jackson.... on and on and on the list of QBs goes...

    And the first time one of these guys have a bad start (ala Hogan) you will bash and trash and cry to high heaven that we have to take the next QB #1 overall in the 2019 Draft...

  • Cousins, McCarron, Bridgewater, Rosen, Darnold, Mayfield, Allen, Rudolph, Jackson.... on and on and on the list of QBs goes...

    And the first time one of these guys have a bad start (ala Hogan) you will bash and trash and cry to high heaven that we have to take the next QB #1 overall in the 2019 Draft...

    @poeticg said:

    Cousins, McCarron, Bridgewater, Rosen, Darnold, Mayfield, Allen, Rudolph, Jackson.... on and on and on the list of QBs goes...

    And the first time one of these guys have a bad start (ala Hogan) you will bash and trash and cry to high heaven that we have to take the next QB #1 overall in the 2019 Draft...

    Your opinion is invalid because you were born with an extra chromosome. 

  • But I really do hope we get either Cousins or McCarron just so we can put to rest the QB at #1 talk and go with what makes sense. Maybe you'll concede to picking a backup QB at #4. 

    I'm confident that Hogan will beat them out if given a fair chance anyways. 

  • @poeticg said:

    Cousins, McCarron, Bridgewater, Rosen, Darnold, Mayfield, Allen, Rudolph, Jackson.... on and on and on the list of QBs goes...

    And the first time one of these guys have a bad start (ala Hogan) you will bash and trash and cry to high heaven that we have to take the next QB #1 overall in the 2019 Draft...

    Your opinion is invalid because you were born with an extra chromosome. 

    @logicisforsquares said:

    Your opinion is invalid because you were born with an extra chromosome. 

    ew, feisty. 

  • But I really do hope we get either Cousins or McCarron just so we can put to rest the QB at #1 talk and go with what makes sense. Maybe you'll concede to picking a backup QB at #4. 

    I'm confident that Hogan will beat them out if given a fair chance anyways. 

    @poeticg said:

    But I really do hope we get either Cousins or McCarron just so we can put to rest the QB at #1 talk and go with what makes sense. Maybe you'll concede to picking a backup QB at #4. 

    I'm confident that Hogan will beat them out if given a fair chance anyways. 

    Cousins might put to rest the QB at 1 talk.  McCarron would definitely guarantee a QB at 1 overall.  Hogan will be looking for work elsewhere and that what will you do?

    Honest question...will you stop being a fan when your boyfriend Hogan is given his release and signs elsewhere?

  • I'll always be a fan of the Browns. I'll always be rooting for Crazy Kev, he's a baller. He just hasn't been given a fair shot yet. He'll be on the team next year. He's better than Kizer and Kessler. He will most likely be the 2nd string. 

  • Acquiring McCarron would be a step backwards for the Browns.  He's not a significant upgrade over what is currently in the Browns QB room - he wasn't even good enough to beat out Andy Dalton, the poster child for QB mediocrity.  He's no bridge QB - he doesn't have enough in-game experience to draw upon if asked to mentor a rookie.

    Settling for McCarron is exactly what the Browns shouldn't do.  Spend the cash and get the best QB available - Kirk Cousins.  Pay what it takes.  The money is only gathering dust.

  • Cousins, McCarron, Bridgewater, Rosen, Darnold, Mayfield, Allen, Rudolph, Jackson.... on and on and on the list of QBs goes...

    And the first time one of these guys have a bad start (ala Hogan) you will bash and trash and cry to high heaven that we have to take the next QB #1 overall in the 2019 Draft...

    @poeticg said:

    Cousins, McCarron, Bridgewater, Rosen, Darnold, Mayfield, Allen, Rudolph, Jackson.... on and on and on the list of QBs goes...

    And the first time one of these guys have a bad start (ala Hogan) you will bash and trash and cry to high heaven that we have to take the next QB #1 overall in the 2019 Draft...

    And when Barkley has a bad game, expect the same. Your chatter on Saquon is around 50% of all the other prospects- any position combined. 

    @poeticg said:

    But I really do hope we get either Cousins or McCarron just so we can put to rest the QB at #1 talk and go with what makes sense. Maybe you'll concede to picking a backup QB at #4. 

    I'm confident that Hogan will beat them out if given a fair chance anyways. 

    LALALALA give it up- odds of Hogan even being on the roster are remote. 

    This thread is about McCarron, not your man crush or a third string QB that only you love.  You're close to thread hijacking, and if I see any more of it, I'm going to start deleting it. 

  • There are two kinds of men in the world. There are leaders, and there are coffee fetchers. You cannot judge a man by his failures, but instead by the manner in which he fails. leader don't fear failure, they loathe it, and swing both fists, all out, balls to the wall to conquer the universe as they see fit. A coffee fetcher, on the other hands, also hates failure but from the very first day he is put on center stage, begins positioning himself for longevity and position to lay blame elsewhere.

    Dorsey is a coffee fetcher, and I urge you all, especially those most irritated by me, to earmark this post. Copy it as pdf,  do whatever homo-millennial-digital queer thing you idiots do nowadays to archive something. That he came to Cleveland with the call from all of us to be a hero, a leader, a conqueror, he instead chose to position himself in a no-lose situation. By acquiescing to Haslam's committment to Hue, Dorsey risks nothing and picks up his first "get out of jail free" card. After Hue gets fired, Dorsey can say, "after a year observing, I am ready to get the right guy". Everyone is happy, and nobody expects him to turn it around for a few years..............because of sins of the past.

    I will bet dollars to donuts that Dorkey buys his second "get out of jail free" card by backing off and letting Hue take McCarron. Regardless how McCarron does, Dorkey looks good. 

    We will see what happens but my bet is on McCarron. 

  • A.J. McCarron is going to the Vikings, that's my guess. They're a playoff team, McCarron knows their head coach quite well from Cincinnati, and they aren't 1-31 in their last 2 seasons. 

    The Browns aren't getting Kirk Cousins, so let's not engage in any further fantasy nonsense. I already had my fantasy moment by hoping Alex Smith would come here, and that's enough hope for one offseason. Who are we going to get? Obviously, we're going to get the same crap we've always gotten. The cast off, washed up, oft-injured, has-been, looking for money QB that always go to bad teams, and that's not going to suddenly change for the worst team in NFL history. 

    In other words, welcome to the Cleveland Browns Josh McCown, Sam Bradford, Chase Daniels, or whoever the rest of the league DOESN'T want. That's how it works. We're likely to sign an older veteran with an injury history, and I'm guessing this guy gets injured around week 4 or 5. That's when the REAL fun starts. Why? Because that's the exact moment our coaches will have to determine whether they want to play our shiny new 1st round QB, or if they want to play Deshone Kizer. Won't THAT just be a joy to witness? Play the human turnover machine or ruin our shiny new QB? Fun times. Our only chance for finally fixing the QB quandary is to somehow, some way, by the grace of God, draft the right guy. Lord knows we're due, but suffice to say I have no confidence in it actually happening. We're going to trade the #1 pick and take whichever QB is left at 4...watch. 

  • OK Ghoolie, exactly how do we tell if McCarron comes to the Browns that Dorsey really didn't want him? What if  he comes because Dorsey DOES want him and isn't just fetching coffee? Get my drift? No way to prove whether or not he likes him, especially if we are in a bidding  war now for his services with other teams that also want him. So your claim has no way of being proven or disproven if he shows in Cleveland.

  • Why do people debate any point that Ghoolie makes? He is a self admitted troll. 

  • Why do people debate any point that Ghoolie makes? He is a self admitted troll. 

    @logicisforsquares said:

    Why do people debate any point that Ghoolie makes? He is a self admitted troll. 

    Passes the time after 1-31 and waiting for the combine/draft.😁

  • 1+1 really seems to equal 2 based on this development. Honestly, I'd be totally fine with it as long as we still draft a top guy this year too. Chicago showed a good example of just because you bring in a FA QB doesn't mean he has to be your guy. If he ends up being elite, even better.

    I think AJ is also a very logical piece of the puzzle too. Cousins is a pipe dream and other guys (keenum, bradford, etc) will be more attractive than AJ will.

  • Hue just got hard for AJ. Expect a deal to be done immediately unless you believe that Ghoolie's theory of Dorsey being a yes-man and coffee fetcher to be incorrect.

    @stillmotion said:

    Hue just got hard for AJ. Expect a deal to be done immediately unless you believe that Ghoolie's theory of Dorsey being a yes-man and coffee fetcher to be incorrect.

    Can't be done immediately....not officially.    

    Under the rules they cannot even talk until like March 12.

  • There are two kinds of men in the world. There are leaders, and there are coffee fetchers. You cannot judge a man by his failures, but instead by the manner in which he fails. leader don't fear failure, they loathe it, and swing both fists, all out, balls to the wall to conquer the universe as they see fit. A coffee fetcher, on the other hands, also hates failure but from the very first day he is put on center stage, begins positioning himself for longevity and position to lay blame elsewhere.

    Dorsey is a coffee fetcher, and I urge you all, especially those most irritated by me, to earmark this post. Copy it as pdf,  do whatever homo-millennial-digital queer thing you idiots do nowadays to archive something. That he came to Cleveland with the call from all of us to be a hero, a leader, a conqueror, he instead chose to position himself in a no-lose situation. By acquiescing to Haslam's committment to Hue, Dorsey risks nothing and picks up his first "get out of jail free" card. After Hue gets fired, Dorsey can say, "after a year observing, I am ready to get the right guy". Everyone is happy, and nobody expects him to turn it around for a few years..............because of sins of the past.

    I will bet dollars to donuts that Dorkey buys his second "get out of jail free" card by backing off and letting Hue take McCarron. Regardless how McCarron does, Dorkey looks good. 

    We will see what happens but my bet is on McCarron. 

    @ghoolie said:

    There are two kinds of men in the world. There are leaders, and there are coffee fetchers. You cannot judge a man by his failures, but instead by the manner in which he fails. leader don't fear failure, they loathe it, and swing both fists, all out, balls to the wall to conquer the universe as they see fit. A coffee fetcher, on the other hands, also hates failure but from the very first day he is put on center stage, begins positioning himself for longevity and position to lay blame elsewhere.

    Dorsey is a coffee fetcher, and I urge you all, especially those most irritated by me, to earmark this post. Copy it as pdf,  do whatever homo-millennial-digital queer thing you idiots do nowadays to archive something. That he came to Cleveland with the call from all of us to be a hero, a leader, a conqueror, he instead chose to position himself in a no-lose situation. By acquiescing to Haslam's committment to Hue, Dorsey risks nothing and picks up his first "get out of jail free" card. After Hue gets fired, Dorsey can say, "after a year observing, I am ready to get the right guy". Everyone is happy, and nobody expects him to turn it around for a few years..............because of sins of the past.

    I will bet dollars to donuts that Dorkey buys his second "get out of jail free" card by backing off and letting Hue take McCarron. Regardless how McCarron does, Dorkey looks good. 

    We will see what happens but my bet is on McCarron. 

    Actually....there are 3 types:    Leaders, coffee fetchers, and guys that do neither but just sit back and bitch, whine, moan and complain and make pontifications about stuff they know nothing about.

  • There are two kinds of men in the world. There are leaders, and there are coffee fetchers. You cannot judge a man by his failures, but instead by the manner in which he fails. leader don't fear failure, they loathe it, and swing both fists, all out, balls to the wall to conquer the universe as they see fit. A coffee fetcher, on the other hands, also hates failure but from the very first day he is put on center stage, begins positioning himself for longevity and position to lay blame elsewhere.

    Dorsey is a coffee fetcher, and I urge you all, especially those most irritated by me, to earmark this post. Copy it as pdf,  do whatever homo-millennial-digital queer thing you idiots do nowadays to archive something. That he came to Cleveland with the call from all of us to be a hero, a leader, a conqueror, he instead chose to position himself in a no-lose situation. By acquiescing to Haslam's committment to Hue, Dorsey risks nothing and picks up his first "get out of jail free" card. After Hue gets fired, Dorsey can say, "after a year observing, I am ready to get the right guy". Everyone is happy, and nobody expects him to turn it around for a few years..............because of sins of the past.

    I will bet dollars to donuts that Dorkey buys his second "get out of jail free" card by backing off and letting Hue take McCarron. Regardless how McCarron does, Dorkey looks good. 

    We will see what happens but my bet is on McCarron. 

    @ghoolie said:

    There are two kinds of men in the world. There are leaders, and there are coffee fetchers. You cannot judge a man by his failures, but instead by the manner in which he fails. leader don't fear failure, they loathe it, and swing both fists, all out, balls to the wall to conquer the universe as they see fit. A coffee fetcher, on the other hands, also hates failure but from the very first day he is put on center stage, begins positioning himself for longevity and position to lay blame elsewhere.

    Dorsey is a coffee fetcher, and I urge you all, especially those most irritated by me, to earmark this post. Copy it as pdf,  do whatever homo-millennial-digital queer thing you idiots do nowadays to archive something. That he came to Cleveland with the call from all of us to be a hero, a leader, a conqueror, he instead chose to position himself in a no-lose situation. By acquiescing to Haslam's committment to Hue, Dorsey risks nothing and picks up his first "get out of jail free" card. After Hue gets fired, Dorsey can say, "after a year observing, I am ready to get the right guy". Everyone is happy, and nobody expects him to turn it around for a few years..............because of sins of the past.

    I will bet dollars to donuts that Dorkey buys his second "get out of jail free" card by backing off and letting Hue take McCarron. Regardless how McCarron does, Dorkey looks good. 

    We will see what happens but my bet is on McCarron. 

    My bet is probably on McCarron too- but not because Dorsey is sucking up to Hue. Take a look at who else is out there. Cousins? If Smith didn't want to go to the Browns you think Kirk will? He's going to a team like the Vikings, Bills, or Broncos. Drew Brees is going nowhere, and will finish his career out with the Saints. I wouldn't mind bringing back Helicopter McCown after the decent season he had with the Jets, but would he want to come back? Everything else is assorted versions of garbage. Glassman Bradford, Fitzpatrick, I could keep going. Eagles won't part with Foles short of a first round pick. 

    Here's an unbiased view Tom- take the time to read it.   https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-aj-mccarron-landing-spots-browns-get-a-second-chance-at-quarterback/

    So sure, if it's only a quick fix you're after, you make Cousins the richest QB in NFL history- after I've been telling you Redskins fans don't think he's worth it, draft Barkley and overdraft Ridley. I want the Browns to return to the Glory Days of the 60s when they were in the mix every year for a decade, not a flash in the pan one and done. 

    So, if the Browns play their cards right in the draft and nail at least 3 out of the top five picks, pick up a quality positional FA or two, like Jarvis Landry WR. Hue could save his job by going at least 7-9.  If Jackson stinks right out of the gate with improved talent- Dorsey will have no qualms canning Hue before the bye- don't forget both the OC and DC were head coaches in the past. 

  • @ghoolie said:

    There are two kinds of men in the world. There are leaders, and there are coffee fetchers. You cannot judge a man by his failures, but instead by the manner in which he fails. leader don't fear failure, they loathe it, and swing both fists, all out, balls to the wall to conquer the universe as they see fit. A coffee fetcher, on the other hands, also hates failure but from the very first day he is put on center stage, begins positioning himself for longevity and position to lay blame elsewhere.

    Dorsey is a coffee fetcher, and I urge you all, especially those most irritated by me, to earmark this post. Copy it as pdf,  do whatever homo-millennial-digital queer thing you idiots do nowadays to archive something. That he came to Cleveland with the call from all of us to be a hero, a leader, a conqueror, he instead chose to position himself in a no-lose situation. By acquiescing to Haslam's committment to Hue, Dorsey risks nothing and picks up his first "get out of jail free" card. After Hue gets fired, Dorsey can say, "after a year observing, I am ready to get the right guy". Everyone is happy, and nobody expects him to turn it around for a few years..............because of sins of the past.

    I will bet dollars to donuts that Dorkey buys his second "get out of jail free" card by backing off and letting Hue take McCarron. Regardless how McCarron does, Dorkey looks good. 

    We will see what happens but my bet is on McCarron. 

    My bet is probably on McCarron too- but not because Dorsey is sucking up to Hue. Take a look at who else is out there. Cousins? If Smith didn't want to go to the Browns you think Kirk will? He's going to a team like the Vikings, Bills, or Broncos. Drew Brees is going nowhere, and will finish his career out with the Saints. I wouldn't mind bringing back Helicopter McCown after the decent season he had with the Jets, but would he want to come back? Everything else is assorted versions of garbage. Glassman Bradford, Fitzpatrick, I could keep going. Eagles won't part with Foles short of a first round pick. 

    Here's an unbiased view Tom- take the time to read it.   https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-aj-mccarron-landing-spots-browns-get-a-second-chance-at-quarterback/

    So sure, if it's only a quick fix you're after, you make Cousins the richest QB in NFL history- after I've been telling you Redskins fans don't think he's worth it, draft Barkley and overdraft Ridley. I want the Browns to return to the Glory Days of the 60s when they were in the mix every year for a decade, not a flash in the pan one and done. 

    So, if the Browns play their cards right in the draft and nail at least 3 out of the top five picks, pick up a quality positional FA or two, like Jarvis Landry WR. Hue could save his job by going at least 7-9.  If Jackson stinks right out of the gate with improved talent- Dorsey will have no qualms canning Hue before the bye- don't forget both the OC and DC were head coaches in the past. 

    @hoorta said:

    So sure, if it's only a quick fix you're after, you make Cousins the richest QB in NFL history- after I've been telling you Redskins fans don't think he's worth it, draft Barkley and overdraft Ridley. I want the Browns to return to the Glory Days of the 60s when they were in the mix every year for a decade, not a flash in the pan one and done. 

    I don't really care what Redskins fans say, Kirk is objectively worth it. If Jimmy G. got what he got, a QB like Cousins who has been top 15 in QBR (including being 6th both in 2015 and 2016) for three years deserves it too. Heck, you can even justify his down year a good bit seeing as they lost something like 6 OL last season. Cousins by about any metric you can choose is a top 10-12 QB in the NFL right now.

     The day we ink Cousins would instantly make him the best QB Cleveland has had since 1999. I just think it's a pipe dream he'd pick Cleveland over several other teams with as much of a QB need as we do.

  • A.J. McCarron is going to the Vikings, that's my guess. They're a playoff team, McCarron knows their head coach quite well from Cincinnati, and they aren't 1-31 in their last 2 seasons. 

    The Browns aren't getting Kirk Cousins, so let's not engage in any further fantasy nonsense. I already had my fantasy moment by hoping Alex Smith would come here, and that's enough hope for one offseason. Who are we going to get? Obviously, we're going to get the same crap we've always gotten. The cast off, washed up, oft-injured, has-been, looking for money QB that always go to bad teams, and that's not going to suddenly change for the worst team in NFL history. 

    In other words, welcome to the Cleveland Browns Josh McCown, Sam Bradford, Chase Daniels, or whoever the rest of the league DOESN'T want. That's how it works. We're likely to sign an older veteran with an injury history, and I'm guessing this guy gets injured around week 4 or 5. That's when the REAL fun starts. Why? Because that's the exact moment our coaches will have to determine whether they want to play our shiny new 1st round QB, or if they want to play Deshone Kizer. Won't THAT just be a joy to witness? Play the human turnover machine or ruin our shiny new QB? Fun times. Our only chance for finally fixing the QB quandary is to somehow, some way, by the grace of God, draft the right guy. Lord knows we're due, but suffice to say I have no confidence in it actually happening. We're going to trade the #1 pick and take whichever QB is left at 4...watch. 

    @jiggins7919 said:

    A.J. McCarron is going to the Vikings, that's my guess. They're a playoff team, McCarron knows their head coach quite well from Cincinnati, and they aren't 1-31 in their last 2 seasons. 

    The Browns aren't getting Kirk Cousins, so let's not engage in any further fantasy nonsense. I already had my fantasy moment by hoping Alex Smith would come here, and that's enough hope for one offseason. Who are we going to get? Obviously, we're going to get the same crap we've always gotten. The cast off, washed up, oft-injured, has-been, looking for money QB that always go to bad teams, and that's not going to suddenly change for the worst team in NFL history. 

    In other words, welcome to the Cleveland Browns Josh McCown, Sam Bradford, Chase Daniels, or whoever the rest of the league DOESN'T want. That's how it works. We're likely to sign an older veteran with an injury history, and I'm guessing this guy gets injured around week 4 or 5. That's when the REAL fun starts. Why? Because that's the exact moment our coaches will have to determine whether they want to play our shiny new 1st round QB, or if they want to play Deshone Kizer. Won't THAT just be a joy to witness? Play the human turnover machine or ruin our shiny new QB? Fun times. Our only chance for finally fixing the QB quandary is to somehow, some way, by the grace of God, draft the right guy. Lord knows we're due, but suffice to say I have no confidence in it actually happening. We're going to trade the #1 pick and take whichever QB is left at 4...watch. 

    I guess Anything is Possible but I'm wondering why the Vikings would rather have a completely untested guy like AJ McCarron in place of one of their three actual quarterbacks? Bilgewater and Bradford have got health issues but aside from that should be quality players. 

    I still think there's a chance that Kizer could step up at some point

    WSS

  • Cousins, McCarron, Bridgewater, Rosen, Darnold, Mayfield, Allen, Rudolph, Jackson.... on and on and on the list of QBs goes...

    And the first time one of these guys have a bad start (ala Hogan) you will bash and trash and cry to high heaven that we have to take the next QB #1 overall in the 2019 Draft...

    @poeticg said:

    Cousins, McCarron, Bridgewater, Rosen, Darnold, Mayfield, Allen, Rudolph, Jackson.... on and on and on the list of QBs goes...

    And the first time one of these guys have a bad start (ala Hogan) you will bash and trash and cry to high heaven that we have to take the next QB #1 overall in the 2019 Draft...

    I don't always agree with you PoeticG, but you are absolutely correct.  I'm at the point that I won't even talk about our QBs anymore.  I'll accept whomever falls our way.