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May 13, 2016From the NFL Draft to Berea: Behind the scenes with Browns’ Corey Coleman (video)
May 13, 2016The Denver Broncos, Carolina Panthers, and the Cleveland Browns are grouped together by ESPN’s John Clayton for 2016. Two of those teams were the Superbowl participants from last season, and the other team is the Browns. But, Clayton believes each of these teams are worse off than they were a season ago. While Panther and Bronco fans are apt to expect other teams to have pilfered some of their talent in an attempt to recreate the magic that led them to the NFL’s penultimate game, fans of Browns are a bit more disheartened to see their team listed among those who got worse considering the 2015 season ended with three wins and the second overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft.
Clayton lists the common causes for the Browns taking a step back in 2016 as the team allowed much of their veteran leadership to walk away, while adding a multitude of young, unproven players to the mix.
Coach Hue Jackson calls this season a reboot, and the numbers point to a team moving backward in an effort to go forward. But after a 3-13 season in 2015, how much worse can the Browns possibly become next season?
The Browns are putting everything into the draft. They had 14 draft picks this year, but they created plenty of holes. Among their losses: center Alex Mack, right tackle Mitchell Schwartz, wide receiver Travis Benjamin, linebacker Karlos Dansby and safeties Tashaun Gipson and Donte Whitner. There is no way the draft choices will be equal to the talent that departed.
Linebacker Demario Davis and safety Rahim Moore were the Browns’ only unrestricted free-agent additions because they opted to stock up on 2017 compensatory picks to add more youth to the roster next season. They’ve also pinned their hopes at quarterback on Robert Griffin III and Cody Kessler.
Of all notes, the biggest quote that sticks out is when Clayton says “There is no way the draft choices will be equal to the talent that departed.”
While that statement might ultimately prove true for 2016, if the Browns are ever to pull themselves out of the cycle that has seen them go without a winning record since 2007, and only visit the playoffs once since re-emerging as an expansion team in 1999, then Sashi Brown and the rest of the Browns front office are going to need to make Clayton regret typing that sentence.
Your move, Corey Coleman.
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Damn Humboldt, that tune is going to go thru my head on every one of these posts. Never change TB.
lol. “Can’t get no worse” may be the most Berea-worthy line ever written
NEVER !!!! … in all honesty , i don’t blame any Browns fan that is negative or skeptical … i just don’t have it in me.
Hey now, I was willing to deport him…to Pittsburgh. But, noooooo, he decided he to go all Deer Hunter. Wanted to gamble for his freeeeeedom.
It’s not my fault that a ZPU-4 was the only gun handy.
“oh , CB … you silly boy. i’d go out with you , but i’m not sure you could handle all of this … *smooch* “
… “surely you can see that Justin isn’t getting anything done on the baseball field these days.”
well played …
are you trying to say there is a direct correlation between opposing teams scoring and Justin…ummm, doing the same?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiRp_snXEAA5w-X.jpg:large
something like that … he hasn’t been the same since he met her … i don’t think i’d be either. well , at least he’s got that goin’ for him.
that’s it for me, boys. Like Jim Brown when he was allowed to walk, I’m leaving at this thrilling apex. What is with dem WFNY barristers on Friday – it’s gorgeous out. Go golf or something.
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What’s interesting to me is that to Regress, you have to have room to go backwards. That alone should negate the article, but that’s not fun on a Sunday morning so let’s count them up…
* Instead of having McCown as our Starter, we have RGIII. Instead of Manziel as our backup, we have McCown. UPGRADE. Don’t even have to talk about Kessler.
* Instead of Benjamin as our best receiver, we got arguably the best receiver in the Draft. If you don’t think that’s an upgrade, you are clueless. Heck, we drafter a receiver for the first time in years. That alone is an UPGRADE.
* We went from 10 picks to 14 this year and added a bounty for 2017, UPGRADE.
* Replaced inexperienced coaching staff with poor track record with highly experienced staff with championship caliber experience UPGRADE
* Fired Ray Farmer – If you were to replace him with 1000 monkeys working on typewriters, we could run the front office just as bad – the Braniacs can’t be worse. So even though we have no track record, we can’t be worse – PUSH
If we are basing our grade on what the players did in 2015 and not on potential (what we think vets or rookies COULD do) then I would submit the following:
* We lost a below average safety who was just barely above a DNP. based on 2015, we didn’t lose anything with Gipson was a ghost on the field when he actually played. whatever we use to replace him is a PUSH
* Donte Whitner probably qualifies as a PUSH. Does anyone thing he’s not on the serious downside of his career? He’s certainly not going to start anywhere.
* Alex Mack has a so-so year. Based on Erving’s performance in 2015, it’s a DOWNGRADE, but not a huge one
* Schwartz = DOWNGRADE because we are replacing him with an unknown and by definition that must be a downgrade
* Dansby = DOWNGRADE (see schwartz)
So if you count the UPGRADES and the DOWNGRADES and you start with a 2015 grade of F+, There is no way on God’s green earth that you can say the Browns are substantially regressed. Are the Browns going to be the first team in NFL history to go 0-17 in a 16 game season because we lost a good but not great RT?
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