and then you use Gilbert, Taylor, Weeden and Manziel as the examples of "why" this is a good idea????.....for real?
Do you realize they are ALL the results of trade backs???....exactly the great idea you're saying this FO came up with?.....Mud
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Mud - here's what I don't get - the new criteria that the Browns drafted the last draft with..
they would NEVER HAVE DRAFTED any of those guys. None of them fit the new Browns coaches and fo's criteria.
WTH? It isn't that they also traded back - it's that they draft for LOVE OF THE GAME, INTELLIGENCE, FOOTBALL IQ,
CHARACTER and WORK ETHIC (and THEN physical talent).. along with the limited stupidass criteria that other browns coaches etc have used.
Hue and CO., this FO would never have drafted Gilbert, Taylor, Weeden, or Manziel. They were NOT a fit - to build a lockerroom
and team with.
NOW, dammit, look at the last draft. Every single one of their draft picks met every criteria you can come up with...legimately.
Yet we have several people who wail regardless, just because they haven't started winning yet.
The present is different than all the years previous - poor drafts have killed the Browns chances to be winners.
I've understood the wailing about the past for a while, but now i seems to be in every thread, and every time posters ignore
the difference in the last draft, and the excitement and fun a real TEAM is having.
They just haven't starting winning yet. No reason to raise negative hell on earth. Now, late in the season, I could see
being frustrated to an agonizing point. But this soon - seems like a bunch of baloney to me.
when the Browns had to make a LOT of changes quickly....how the hell are they able to do that without a trade down?
I don't see the negativism about previous trade downs. They wasted those picks - draft players who didn't love the game,
were not smart, and had serious character problems. Some just didn't care. Josh Gordon admitted he was immature
and didn't care much, didn't work much. The new difference is there, for the first time since '99. That's a fact.
