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August 25, 2016I’m not sure if this officially closes the book on Joe Banner and Mike Lombardi’s time in Cleveland, but it sure feels like it. Barkevious Mingo has been traded to the New England Patriots for a fifth-round selection in the 2017 NFL draft according to multiple media heavy hitters including Adam Schefter. He was the signature draft pick of the short-lived Joe Banner / Mike Lombardi era of the Cleveland Browns after Jimmy Haslam purchased the team from Randy Lerner.
Trade now official: Browns say they got a 2017 fifth-round pick from Patriots in return for Barkevious Mingo.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 25, 2016
2017 draft: Cleveland now has Philadelphia's 1st-round pick, Tennessee’s 2nd-round pick, New England’s 5th-round pick.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 25, 2016
When the trade went down, I was just beginning a podcast with Bleacher Report’s Ben Axelrod, so we discussed it first.
Barkevious Mingo is one of the more interesting draft picks in recent Cleveland Browns history. He wasn’t an issue off the field like Johnny Manziel or Justin Gilbert. His work ethic was never questioned either. He always seemed like a nice, hard-working kid who just wasn’t ever able to put it together completely. He seemed like an odd fit in a Cleveland Browns 3-4 scheme when he might have been better off as a 4-3 defensive end. Mingo also struggled with injuries and many Browns fans leapt to his defense for his down sophomore season in 2014 because, as they said, “he was playing with one arm!”
Also, in fairness to Barkevious Mingo – and other Browns players since 2013 – it’s difficult to start your career with so much upheaval. Mingo knows more executives and coaches in his Browns career than many Steelers who’ve had decade-long careers. That’s not to say Barkevious Mingo is a victim and that he would have been an All-Pro otherwise, but when it comes to maximizing the outcomes for players that you draft, the Browns certainly have done their share to get in their own way.
So Mingo heads to New England, where Lombardi landed and Belichick has already turned another former Brown – Jabaal Sheard – into a minor star. Sheard put up an 8-sack season in his first year with New England. Of course, Sheard had been more productive as a Browns second-round pick even before departing in free agency, so Mingo isn’t a mortal lock to turn it all around. And maybe Ben Axelrod had it right on our podcast when he said that it kind of feels like a coup that the Browns got anything for Mingo. He’s played a whole lot of special teams so far in the pre-season, so it saved them the trouble of cutting him and not getting anything at all.
If nothing else, at least we got the Barkevious Mingo jersey rip – Hulkamania Style – after the Browns got beat in the 2015 season.
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Future Pro Bowl Alternate
Good luck, Mingo, I’ll always remember you as the most uneventful player I’ve ever watched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsEep3KVHo
Upon hearing the news, Mingo immediately sprinted out to the airport and quickly hopped on the first flight to Orlando.
Winner.
Week 5… over under 2.5 sacks for the Mingo/Sheard combo
bye-bye … https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1cf600e75a727a0f40f41948838b990bdac1705c8ad32bb7ba0263c87cf57cbd.gif
under on all 3 … Brady is rusty in his first game back & the Browns win 23-17.
The HBT already has 13 picks stockpiled…
1st: 2
2nd: 2
3rd: 1
4th: 3
5th: 3
6th: 1
7th: 1
Accuracy through quantity.
So, in Week 5, what happens if Care Bear is ever matched up against Wrong Way?
oh come on… where’s your faith in Browns karma?
this…
Hmmm…that’s a tough one. I imagine the play somehow ends with Erving looking up at a cumulus, and Mingo sacking McCown (on the sideline).
Browns FO has been more about high precision and low accuracy
http://cdn.antarcticglaciers.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/precision_accuracy.png
I agree with Ben – get a pick you can parlay into a back-up something/special teamer or you’ll subject a good kid to the infamy of being cut by the team that intended to change their identity around the disruptive force it touted him to be.
Not Mingo’s fault that he didn’t have the strength to bullrush or ability to develop a countermove to his solitary beat-you-to-the-edge sprint. It is amazing that after his 3rd pro game he did virtually nothing, that his sacks were of guys flushed back to him. I hope Belichik masterminds a way to free up his explosive speed in wide open space where no one can step in front. Because while so many of his teammates were sullen, lazy or actually drunk, his failure never appeared for lack of effort. That may be Berea’s laughably low bar, but he’s one of the few recent acquisitions who didn’t trip over it.
Over/under: 5 super-fast missed sacks.
http://i.imgur.com/1dM4xf8.gif
Good luck, Bill.
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/032015/1425317282_dog_runs_into_pole_during_agility_event.gif
He played half of one season with a dead shoulder. Will always respect him for it.
He overran his seat in 3F and wound up in 27A.
He did many admirable things that didn’t show up in the stat sheet… or factor positively into the outcome of a game.
Yeah in all fairness, I feel badly for the guy a bit. I mean it’s a little like expecting a donkey to win the Preakness. Yeah he was drafted at the top of the first round and should have been a 3rd or 4th rounder, but that’s not his fault. He seemed like a good dude. And didn’t cost the team a lot in terms of food allowance. Farewell, dear Mingo.
Goodnight, Mingo Starr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0TaiHr3tc
Clearly, in his scenario Mingo runs an interception back the wrong way in a legendary “Pick-2”
I think it’s more that we’ve been target practice for the rest of the league…
You made me think about the famous article where Chuck Klosterman(?) was granted access to the Browns “war room” and observed an otherwise empty white board with the word “Mingo” circled. My god, the hubris…
ugh
Bonus image from that anecdote: Lombardi hastily erasing the whiteboard to ensure that the IT guy walking into the room does catch a glimpse of their genius.
In my mind’s eye: Mingo as OJ in the famous Hertz commercial; ends up at Avis kiosk.
I’ll miss the honest surprise I’d feel any time he did something, along with the overenthusiastic clapping that would invariably follow.
That’s what I’ll think of when I think of Mingo and his time with the Browns: the innocent, pathetic belief that merely existing is an achievement in itself.
We should have some supplemental picks too
I’m starting to do that overenthusiastic clapping when Shelton emerges from the bottom of a pile, even when it ran over him.
The works of Ionesco, Sartre, and Camus do not compare to those of Mingo, Shelton, and Gilbert.
He froze deciding which plane was his. They all left.
And the whole thing is being recorded on Ray Farmer’s iPhone, who used bogus credentials to get sideline access. Which oddly enough, is how he must have got here in the first place.
Was that the same offseason where they filmed a PR interview in a room with some of their draft boards in the background?
Kiki Mingo was the reason we discontinued our season tickets. We still have 52 other reasons not to reup them but he was a biggie.
Mingo was the Anthony Bennett of the Browns. He was a good dude, and you wanted him to do well. And he tried to do well really hard. But he did nothing well…ever.
And as for the fan base?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-toIwiMUUzKY/VfaZTo3wNTI/AAAAAAAAD7o/S38v8MKySbg/s1600/a2a2e22344a7c3dac541d55f4622f326.jpg
So it really was just like the movie Draft Day?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HSxyJcK3L.jpg
My god, looks like we have a serious Da Vinci Code situation on our hands right now…
10 yard penalty for holding…
Upvote on Pick-2 for sure.