<![CDATA[Watkins was a no brainer.]]>With Gordon's career up in a cloud of smoke, we didn't address the receiver position and should have just drafted Sammy Watkins.

I just hope this isn't another trade down like passing on Julio Jones for average players.

We are literally fucked.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/topic/30060/watkins-was-a-no-brainer.RSS for NodeFri, 02 Oct 2026 10:46:53 GMTWed, 27 Aug 2014 22:11:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:56:47 GMT]]>Gotta wonder if Farmer was playing it safe with not taking a receiver in his first NFL draft on top of taking Manziel. That would be a pretty ballsy first draft to take a receiver which seems to be the most common bust position and a lottery ticket QB. He filled a huge hole on the line without doing it in the first round which was great. All the other guys have potential to be significant contributors especially Kirksey, Gilbert, and West.

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@tim-couch-pulls-out said:

We already had one excellent high rookie...and look where that has gotten us.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/429179https://brownsboard.com/post/429179Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:45:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:41:55 GMT]]>i think watkins has played this preseason, but you'd never know it. he's been the invisible man.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/429157https://brownsboard.com/post/429157Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:41:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:27:26 GMT]]>Just FYI, Watkins is out again with a rib injury. Still thinking it was a no brainer?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/429115https://brownsboard.com/post/429115Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:27:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:44:48 GMT]]>evans is so big, tall and physical that a college QB made his career out of tossing balls his way.

mccown will do the same. he's looked like a beast this preseason while watkins is somewhere shopping for car(s) and house(s).

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@playgroundlegend said:

Sammy Watkins wont be a Dez Bryant/Calvin Johnson/Randy Moss Type Player

Nah... more Larry Fitzgerald-ish...

Were you serious when you said "no ball skills"?

@alkid3 said:

Watkins is... fragile.

Fragile? Really? Missed 3 games in three years and he's fragile?

@tim-couch-pulls-out said:

Evans may be the best WR to come out of this draft...

I think the new "emphasis" on contact reduces even the small chance I gave Evans of being a good WR...

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@texasag1969 said:

This time next year when we are sitting there with two excellent high #1 rookies and a reformed JG, this whole thread will look foolish. (Hopefully).

We already had one excellent high rookie...and look where that has gotten us.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428863https://brownsboard.com/post/428863Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:01:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:36:27 GMT]]>wide receiver needs to be in sync with his quarterback and has to be well versed in running his route it's something that comes with at least some time.

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428841https://brownsboard.com/post/428841Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:36:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:23:50 GMT]]>This time next year when we are sitting there with two excellent high #1 rookies and a reformed JG, this whole thread will look foolish. (Hopefully).

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@miktoxic said:

shoulda woulda coulda.

don't blow the bortles horn just yet even though i agreed with you then that he was the best of the class right next to carr and garoffallo.

evans will be the best rookie receiver, just ask manziel why.

I put the Bortles "mock" just to ruffle some feathers.

Overall, I was happy with our draft - even the Manziel trade. I think we addressed many needs and found solid players. However, and I'll say this until the day I die, I think Kelvin Benjamin would have been a great pickup in the late first. He's a player that we could have paired opposite Gordon, a la Marshall/Jeffery in Chicago, and he's also talented enough to be a #1 on his own.

Evans may be the best WR to come out of this draft, but Benjamin would have been a better fit for us and would have come at a better price.

Either way, the past is past and the future is now. We're in position to grab two solid starters in the first round next season. Depending on how things line up, those two could be big positions of need. We may be saying "Josh Gordon who?" by this time next year.

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@walterwhite said:

The trade down is ONLY good if Gilbert and our acquired Buffalo pick in 2015 pan out.

Or if Watkins doesn't pan out.

If they know they were going to be without Gordon for the year, and not a blow away WR prospect in 2015 why not just draft Watkins for ourselves?

ALSO - if the new NFL rules are WAY TOUGHER on defenses and playing pass defense then why not draft the fast athletic WR instead of the fast athletic DB?

Look, OK, its an argument. But it is water over the dam. We shoulda never traded Bobby Mitchell for Ernie Davis. Damn guy goes and dies on us.

We shoulda never traded Paul Warfield for Mike Phipps.

We got over those, you will get over this.

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@walterwhite said:

With Gordon's career up in a cloud of smoke, we didn't address the receiver position and should have just drafted Sammy Watkins.

I just hope this isn't another trade down like passing on Julio Jones for average players.

We are literally fucked.

So was Braylon Edwards, taken at #3 overall. So, nothing is a no brainer. We really don't know if Watkins is going to be Calvin Johnson.....or Charles Rogers.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428828https://brownsboard.com/post/428828Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:55:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:09:45 GMT]]>Gilbert was a solid pick. Watkins is already injured with preseason pt. Imagine what happens when he actually play games. He's fragile. Gilbert will no be a game changer out the gate but he will be in due time.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428816https://brownsboard.com/post/428816Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:09:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:47:24 GMT]]>shoulda woulda coulda.

don't blow the bortles horn just yet even though i agreed with you then that he was the best of the class right next to carr and garoffallo.

evans will be the best rookie receiver, just ask manziel why.

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@miktoxic said:

i agree BUT

gilbert

manziel

bitonio

kirksey

who's left in the 4th that woulda been a game changer?

they had to ride out one crack in the foundation. now they know where they stand with gordon. wouldn't be surprised if farmer waited until the 2-3 round next year considering the bust average on top ten WR picks.

Gilbert

Benjamin

Bitonio

Kirksey

OR

Bortles

Bitonio

Kirksey

Shaq Evans

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@roycerolls said:

Calvin Johnson has won super bowls just like dez Bryant and AJ green and Larry Fitzgerald and Andre Johnson and Brandon Marshall and josh Gordon.... Oh wait no josh Gordon didn't win the Super Bowl last year.... The browns went 4-12. If only tom Brady had an elite receiver, like randy moss, he would've won a Super Bowl by now. What a shame.

gotta love truth when it is spoken.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428802https://brownsboard.com/post/428802Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:29:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:53:01 GMT]]>Calvin Johnson has won super bowls just like dez Bryant and AJ green and Larry Fitzgerald and Andre Johnson and Brandon Marshall and josh Gordon.... Oh wait no josh Gordon didn't win the Super Bowl last year.... The browns went 4-12. If only tom Brady had an elite receiver, like randy moss, he would've won a Super Bowl by now. What a shame.

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@tiamat63 said:

Based on...what?

what?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428795https://brownsboard.com/post/428795Thu, 28 Aug 2014 06:52:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:38:39 GMT]]>Based on...what? Injury history alone would favor Gilbert. But hey, I'm sure you have a huge pack of straws to grasp at.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428784https://brownsboard.com/post/428784Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:38:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:36:27 GMT]]>Sammy Watkins wont be a Dez Bryant/Calvin Johnson/Randy Moss Type Player

He will be good, no doubt.. but he wont be a franchise changing WR in the NFL (the type you give up 2 picks for)

He doesn't have those type of ball skills.

He's like Percy Harvin.. only bigger.. essentially a big Percy Harvin.. So a Percy Harvin that can play outside essentialy

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@tiamat63 said:

said rookie would not have impacted the potential win total on this team. Rookie WR's hardly ever do.

neither do rookie CB's.

Sammy Watkins is a better WR prospect than Justin Gilbert is CB prospect IMO

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428781https://brownsboard.com/post/428781Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:24:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:21:21 GMT]]>Probably because unless that rookie WR is Randy Moss or AJ Green, said rookie would not have impacted the potential win total on this team. Rookie WR's hardly ever do. I don't even think Detroit had a +win season following the drafting of Megatron.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428780https://brownsboard.com/post/428780Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:21:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:13:28 GMT]]>The trade down is ONLY good if Gilbert and our acquired Buffalo pick in 2015 pan out.

If they know they were going to be without Gordon for the year, and not a blow away WR prospect in 2015 why not just draft Watkins for ourselves?

ALSO - if the new NFL rules are WAY TOUGHER on defenses and playing pass defense then why not draft the fast athletic WR instead of the fast athletic DB?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/428772https://brownsboard.com/post/428772Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:13:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watkins was a no brainer. on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:13:23 GMT]]>i agree BUT

gilbert

manziel

bitonio

kirksey

who's left in the 4th that woulda been a game changer?

they had to ride out one crack in the foundation. now they know where they stand with gordon. wouldn't be surprised if farmer waited until the 2-3 round next year considering the bust average on top ten WR picks.

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