<![CDATA[RG3 set to be a Brown ?]]> Mary Kay Cabot ‏@MaryKayCabot 12m12 minutes ago

Free agent QB Robert Griffin III visited the #Browns today, source confirms http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2016/03/robert_griffin_iii_visited_cle.html …

Went well.....doing due diligence

Mary Kay Cabot ‏@MaryKayCabot 26m26 minutes ago

Confirming @MikeGarafolo report that QB Robert Griffin III visited the #Browns today. It went well, #Browns doing due diligence

]]>https://brownsboard.com/topic/39911/rg3-set-to-be-a-brownRSS for NodeThu, 01 Oct 2026 02:33:07 GMTSat, 19 Mar 2016 21:16:52 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to RG3 set to be a Brown ? on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:01:37 GMT]]>Since it's a done deal, Thread Closed guys- hit the new one with your comments.

The Management.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/590418https://brownsboard.com/post/590418Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:01:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to RG3 set to be a Brown ? on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:47:36 GMT]]>Ian Rapoport @RapSheet

This 2-year deal for @RGIII can be worth up to $22M. Which underscores what we knew: Josh McCown will be playing for another team in 2016


]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/590408https://brownsboard.com/post/590408Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:47:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to RG3 set to be a Brown ? on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:43:51 GMT]]>RG gets 2 years, 15$ million with about 6$ million guaranteed.

I think they want him to compete to start, and will re-sign him this offseason if he succeeds. They have the cap room to add their franchise QB.

I'd say this lessens the chance they take Goff or Wentz, but I wouldn't rule them out, or rule out a 4th rounder, or later.

But Schefty disagrees with me:

Signing RGIII not expected to have any impact on what Cleveland does in draft. A QB still expected to be the pick.

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@the-gipper said:

Sure it is relevent to what you wanted to know. You wanted to know if a guy who was given up on by a prior team can resurrect his career and have success. Almost all those SB QBs that I listed had that exact thing happen to them.

Whatever. I could care less about the bullshit. Maybe somebody else can answer the question?

WSS

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@westside-steve said:

And so that list isn't really relevant to what I wanted to know. Reason being? Kaepernick, Pryor and RG3 are faield quarterbacks hoping for a resurrection of their careers.

So how often does that happen? Carson Palmer?

WSS

Sure it is relevent to what you wanted to know. You wanted to know if a guy who was given up on by a prior team can resurrect his career and have success. Almost all those SB QBs that I listed had that exact thing happen to them.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/590385https://brownsboard.com/post/590385Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:24:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to RG3 set to be a Brown ? on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:21:59 GMT]]>http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/browns/2016/03/24/robert-griffin-iii-rg3-cleveland/82210078/

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Welcome Robert! 😆
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@tour2ma said:

Also not the quote...

Paraphrased. Sonny said "I think he's a bust" I said "I think they are busts".

What's more fun is that I take this stance, then watch you guys get into a dither as if I were LeBron James making a tweet.

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@tim-couch-pulls-out said:

And you're about the only one...

So, you can have Bo Callahan, I will take Vontae Mack.

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@d-bone said:

Good pick up. Nothing but ceiling with no risk or huge financial commitment.

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@d-bone said:

Good pick up. Nothing but ceiling with no risk or huge financial commitment.

+1

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/590349https://brownsboard.com/post/590349Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:44:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to RG3 set to be a Brown ? on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:38:57 GMT]]>Good pick up. Nothing but ceiling with no risk or huge financial commitment.

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@mike-h said:

Cleveland is expected to reach agreement with former Redskins' QB Robert Griffin III today, per team source. Griffin III to be a Brown.

Let me go ahead and post what others will say ahead of time:

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]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/590343https://brownsboard.com/post/590343Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:31:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to RG3 set to be a Brown ? on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:27:10 GMT]]>Real Schefter, not Adarn

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/590340https://brownsboard.com/post/590340Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:27:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to RG3 set to be a Brown ? on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:26:56 GMT]]>Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter

Cleveland is expected to reach agreement with former Redskins' QB Robert Griffin III today, per team source. Griffin III to be a Brown.


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@tim-couch-pulls-out said:

And you're about the only one...

Also not the quote...

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@the-gipper said:

I actually documented this a few weeks back. But here are a few examples of Super Bowl starting QBs being on their 2d, maybe third team. Its not that all these guys were "failures" with their first team....but that first team decided for one reason or another not to keep them around:

Len Dawson....original team: Steelers

Darryl Lamonica: Original team: Chargers

Earl Morrall: 49ers

Joe Kapp: (Canada)

Johnny Unitas: Steelers

Craig Morton: made SB with Cowboys that drafted him...but also later with Broncos

Billy Kilmer: 49ers

Fran Tarkenton (started with Vikings....went to Giants, then back to Vikings)

Ron Jaworski: Rams

Jim Plunkett: Patriots

Joe Theisman: Dolphins

Doug Williams: Bucs

Steve Young: Bucs

Chris Chandler: Colts

Brett Favre: Falcons

Stan Humprhies: Redskins

Trent Dilfer: Bucs

Kerry Collins: Panthers

Brad Johnson: Vikings

Rich Gannon: Vikings

Matt Hasselback: Packers

Drew Brees: Chargers

Kurt Warner Rams then Giants then Cardinals.

even Peyton Manning: Colts

even sorta Jim Kelly (drafted by Bills, but played with USFL)

I will say this though: For the past 6 Super Bowls, the starting QBs were drafted by those teams.

And both Elway (Colts) and Eli Manning (Chargers) did not make it with the team that drafted them...but were traded on draft day or shortly thereafter.

And so that list isn't really relevant to what I wanted to know. Reason being? Kaepernick, Pryor and RG3 are faield quarterbacks hoping for a resurrection of their careers.

So how often does that happen? Carson Palmer?

WSS

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@the-gipper said:

Because, to quote Sonny Weaver "I think they are busts".

And you're about the only one...

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/590286https://brownsboard.com/post/590286Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:11:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to RG3 set to be a Brown ? on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:00:55 GMT]]>The following QBs DID make it to the SB with the team that drafted them:

Bart Starr

Joe Namath

Craig Morton #

Bob Griese

Terry Bradshaw

Ken Stabler

Vince Ferragamo

Joe Montana

Ken Anderson

David Woodley

Dan Marino

Jim McMahon

Tony Eason

Phil Simms

Boomer Esiason

Jeff Hostetler

Mark Rypien

Jim Kelly #

Troy Aikman

Neil O'Donnell

Drew Bledsoe

Steve McNair

Tom Brady

Donovan McNabb

Peyton Manning #

Rex Grossman

Ben Roethlisberger

Aaron Rodgers

Joe Flacco

Colin Kaepernick

Russell Wilson

Cam Newton

Thus, 32 QBs went to the Super Bowl with their original team, 27 went with a subsequent team. So it is almost even in this regard.

# see previous post

Bottom line: don't overlook the "secondary market" when getting a Super Starting QB is concerned.

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@westside-steve said:

I was responding to someone mentioning that next year the quarterback crop might be better. Unless we go 0 and 16 we won't be able to get that top guy anyway.

To your point how many of those quarterbacks were failures on their original team or traded quickly?

WSS

I actually documented this a few weeks back. But here are a few examples of Super Bowl starting QBs being on their 2d, maybe third team. Its not that all these guys were "failures" with their first team....but that first team decided for one reason or another not to keep them around:

Len Dawson....original team: Steelers

Darryl Lamonica: Original team: Chargers

Earl Morrall: 49ers

Joe Kapp: (Canada)

Johnny Unitas: Steelers

Craig Morton: made SB with Cowboys that drafted him...but also later with Broncos

Billy Kilmer: 49ers

Fran Tarkenton (started with Vikings....went to Giants, then back to Vikings)

Ron Jaworski: Rams

Jim Plunkett: Patriots

Joe Theisman: Dolphins

Doug Williams: Bucs

Steve Young: Bucs

Chris Chandler: Colts

Brett Favre: Falcons

Stan Humprhies: Redskins

Trent Dilfer: Bucs

Kerry Collins: Panthers

Brad Johnson: Vikings

Rich Gannon: Vikings

Matt Hasselback: Packers

Drew Brees: Chargers

Kurt Warner Rams then Giants then Cardinals.

even Peyton Manning: Colts

even sorta Jim Kelly (drafted by Bills, but played with USFL)

I will say this though: For the past 6 Super Bowls, the starting QBs were drafted by those teams.

And both Elway (Colts) and Eli Manning (Chargers) did not make it with the team that drafted them...but were traded on draft day or shortly thereafter.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/590270https://brownsboard.com/post/590270Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:51:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to RG3 set to be a Brown ? on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:19:28 GMT]]>Not my first choice of free agents but what choices do we realistically have. We keep talking about who we want but who wants to come here is the real question and what do we have to choose from. I think Hue is talking to the higher ups and trying to get the best he can for the 53 man and there just is not as many options as we the fans would like there to be.

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@the-gipper said:

50% of Super Bowl starting QBs did not go their with the team that drafted them. They went with a subsequent team.

Food for thought.

I was responding to someone mentioning that next year the quarterback crop might be better. Unless we go 0 and 16 we won't be able to get that top guy anyway.

To your point how many of those quarterbacks were failures on their original team or traded quickly?

WSS

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@miktoxic said:

as couch replied above, why risk anything when you have the #2 pick with 2 qbs that have been rated higher than any QB that has come out in the last 2 yrs?

make the pick. if the guy busts then we will all know once and for all that god hates the browns (or bernie sold his soul to the devil and this is his payback).

Because, to quote Sonny Weaver "I think they are busts".

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@westside-steve said:

And pray that we go 0 and 16.

WSS

50% of Super Bowl starting QBs did not go their with the team that drafted them. They went with a subsequent team.

Food for thought.

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@hoorta said:

Let's just say I'm not thrilled at the prospect. He was rookie of the year. If Hue brings him in- I'll live with it. You'll also have to. Or you think Hue is an idiot too?

https://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2016/03/the_browns_and_robert_griffin.html#0

Think Jackson isn't totally aware of this stuff?

http://espn.go.com/blog/washington-redskins/post/_/id/24219/jay-gruden-says-browns-might-be-good-fit-for-rg-iii

Or is Gruden just blowing smoke up Hue's ass?

Gruden? You me and the guy who can't wait to get the POS off his hands?

WSS

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