QB Decision For Browns Shows A Clear Lack Of Direction

The Cleveland Browns continue to be a weird organization. It seems they are set up with a bunch of department heads all trying to show the boss who is the best and worthy of promotion, but in reality, they have no true leader, not true direction.

They have a new head coach in Todd Monken, who is 60 years old and getting his first chance to be the top guy of an NFL team. He, of course, wants to win now and show he deserved to have this job sooner in his career.

That means he is going to start the best players at each position, which is the way it should be, but the question is, what does the front office think about certain players?

We are of course talking about the starting quarterback spot where the Browns are leaking through the media that Deshaun Watson has a leg up on Shedeur Sanders for the job.

This is something we just don’t understand.

The entire organization should be saying this is Sanders’ opportunity to see if he can claim the job. If he shows he can be an above average NFL QB, then the Browns are in a good spot with two first round picks in next year’s draft.

As for Watson, we keep hearing from certain members of the media about his “body of work”. We will simply say the last time he was an effective NFL quarterback was six years ago. We can’t think of anyone in league history who played at a high level, was largely ineffective or not available for that long of a time period and then returned to play at that same tier of performance.

Basically, the Browns are asking Watson to do something that has never been done before. Seems plausible.

How should the Browns be handling this? A few different scenarios come to mind.

First, don’t hire a 60-year-old first time head coach who wants to win immediately. If you hire a younger guy than you can tell him the plan is to not have Watson play again and let him leave the team at the end of the season quietly.

Or you could have told Monken that was the plan all along and he should devote all of his time getting the best of Sanders, and if it doesn’t work, he will be part of the development on whoever the Browns draft in the first round in 2027.

Many national pundits can’t believe Cleveland is even considering starting Watson. After all, his contract ends after this season, and as we have pointed out before, if you are going with him, you have to make the playoffs, correct? Going 7-10 or 8-9 with him aces the team out of a high draft pick and also, they didn’t find out if Sanders can play.

Note we’ve only mentioned Sanders, but remember the Browns used a top 100 pick a year ago on another quarterback in Dillon Gabriel who is barely talked about and probably is a longshot to make the roster.

That pick was another example of not having a singular direction, a lone voice, making decisions.

We fear until that is fixed, the Browns will continue to run around in circles, never making progress.

If You Have No QB, Why Not Run The Ball More?

Recently, we mused on social media about what team in what sport would be the first team to go with an “old school” approach in building a team and in terms of style of play.

One of the reasons behind the thought was the Cleveland Browns and their constant search for a quarterback and using that need as the reason they cannot put together a winning team.

If you don’t have a “franchise QB”, why not just become highly proficient at running the football? We understand that would present its own set of challenges, such as what do you do if you fall behind, especially in the second half. That’s when a team needs to throw the ball and if you can’t do it, the team is essentially screwed.

Last year, the Baltimore Ravens threw the least number of passes in the NFL at 422, 24.8 per game, and they actually ran more than they threw, averaging 29.8 running attempts per game. That figure was almost three passes fewer than the next team, the Washington Commanders. The Ravens also ranked second in the league in rushing yards.

Buffalo and the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks also run more than they threw, but again, that might be a product of being ahead late in games and running the ball to keep the clock moving.

They did have Derrick Henry, who was second in the league in rushing behind Buffalo’s James Cook. The Bills led the NFL in rushing yards as a team.

Buffalo finished the season 12-5 while the Ravens were 8-9.

We thought back to when the Browns had Nick Chubb and in their playoff season of 2020, they ranked third in the league in rushing. In that year, they still threw the ball over 30 times per game. They also had Kareem Hunt on the roster, who led the league in rushing his rookie season for Kansas City. So, they had two great runners and threw the ball as much as they ran.

They were fourth in running the ball the following season and QB Baker Mayfield was battling a shoulder injury for most of the year.

They threw the ball 30.6 times per game that season and ran it just 28.5 times.

We get that it is never been easier to throw the ball in football than it is today. When the Miami Dolphins went undefeated in 1972, they ran the football 617 times and threw just 259 passes. For the season. Of course, wide receivers were allowed to be held up by cornerbacks at the line of scrimmage. And the Dolphins had two 1000 yards rushers in Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris.

In 1985, just 13 years later, the Browns had two 1000 yards runners in Kevin Mack and Earnest Byner and ran the ball 533 times. But that was in a 16-game schedule. Miami was running it 44 times per game. Cleveland ran it 33 times per contest and threw it 25.8 times.

We guess our question is if you don’t have a solid quarterback, why do NFL teams keep throwing the ball all over the place? The answer is they probably can’t help themselves. That’s how the game is played today, much like basketball players who keep firing up three pointers even though their team is ahead late in games.

That’s how they played coming up and they can’t change it.

You would think if you don’t have a good QB, you would put less emphasis on the position. Maybe that’s just using logic.

Wins? Seems Like Making Good Trades And Drafting Well Is A Victory For Berry

For us, you can tell a lot about a leader by the way they act when things are going bad. Since this is Cleveland Sports Perspective, we are talking about the guys in charge of the professional sports teams in northeast Ohio.

With the Guardians, when they aren’t playing well, president Chris Antonetti and GM Mike Chernoff, usually Antonetti, make themselves available to talk to the media and by proxy, the fans.

Cavs president of basketball operations Koby Altman doesn’t talk to the media very much whether the team is going good or bad.

Which brings us to the Browns. GM Andrew Berry has been very visible lately appearing on both national and local sports shows. Last year, when the Browns were struggling through a 5-12 season, he was mostly silent.

Even when he traded the team’s opening day starting quarterback, Joe Flacco, it was left to coach Kevin Stefanski to talk about the move to the press.

So, why the change? Our guess is Berry thinks he made some tremendous move in trading the best defensive player in franchise history and so he is out there front and center to answer questions about his “master stroke”.

Plus he oversaw a good draft last year and is getting kudos for his selections in April.

But this is the best time of the year for the Browns, because actual games haven’t been played yet. Berry can talk about the great plans and vision he has for the team, but the games don’t start for three months.

What is troubling though is there seems to still be a division in the ranks, and it showed itself in the way coach Todd Monken and Berry had different thoughts about Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby.

Sorsby has admitted to betting on games involving the team he was on, a no-no for most in sports. Pete Rose isn’t in the Baseball Hall of Fame because he did it

In his comments to the media, Monken wanted no part of Sorsby, and frankly, we wouldn’t want him on the team either. Berry was open to having him on the Browns, saying in essence, everyone should be forgiven for making a mistake.

While that’s true, gambling and professional sports are different.

But the rub for us is why aren’t Monken and Berry on the same page here? We would guess for many of the successful franchises in the NFL, the GM and the coach are in lock step, and maybe Monken and Berry are in most matters.

In the past, we have felt the Browns don’t put a big value on character, opted for talent above all else. How’s that working out for them?

The message from the Browns this whole off-season has been talking up Deshaun Watson who is a free agent after the season, so the only real positive result in playing him would really be a season winning at least 10 games.

If they go 7-10 with him, they don’t have a top ten draft pick in all likelihood unless they make a trade, and they haven’t found out anything about Shedeur Sanders, who they should be seeing if he has anything.

And if Sanders is a colossal failure, like many think, playing him probably gives the Browns a top five pick in the ’27 draft, which is what most of their fans want.

As for Berry, shouldn’t another bad season cost him his job? If the Browns start off, say 1-3 or 0-4, will Berry be doing interviews all over the place?

Our guess is he will let Monken explain to the fans why they are suffering through another season of mediocrity.

Trading Garrett Just Another Typical Browns Move

Just when you think it can’t be any tougher to be a Cleveland Browns’ fan, they give you another reason to be irritated.

Of course, they will still monopolize the sports media in northeast Ohio because people in this area can’t help themselves. We don’t have a solution except to stop talking about them or stop buying tickets and merchandise, but as we know, both of the sports talk stations in the area are “Home of the Browns”, so there’s that.

The team traded the best defensive player in the history of the franchise in Myles Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams for Jared Verse, a first round pick in 2027, a second rounder in 2028, and a third round choice in ’29. Likely, all of those picks will be lower because unlike the Browns, the Rams are a successful organization. They actually win football games.

For the Browns and their ownership, it’s yet another excuse to not win in 2026. No one expects a playoff appearance after trading a two-time Defensive Player of the Year and a surefire Hall of Fame player.

Verse is a good player, getting 4.5 sacks as a rookie, winning Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2024 and followed that up with another 7.5 sacks last season. He’ll be 26 years old this upcoming season and along with Carson Schwesinger, gives Cleveland the last two best rookie defenders.

But really, we are of the belief that trying to improve by dealing your best player, particularly a great player such as Garrett, is never a good idea. We know the “draft choices are everything” folks will disagree, but what are the odds that Verse or any of the draft picks involved becomes anywhere near the player Garrett is? Slim if not zero. How exactly does that make you better?

It always comes back to the Browns’ quarterback obsession. They are convinced the only way to get a great quarterback is to stink and get a high draft pick, even though if you look at the best QBs in the NFL, there aren’t many who came into the league that way.

They had the first pick in the draft in 2018 and took Baker Mayfield, who has been a solid starter and if entering his ninth year as the Browns’ starter. Oh, that’s right, they traded him after four seasons.

Let’s remember how many people spoke glowingly of the quarterbacks who were to be available in the 2026 draft, and in the end, only two were taken in the first round. What’s to say that won’t happen again in next spring’s draft?

And we would add, why not get to the point where you are a good QB away from being a playoff team and then go out and trade future picks to get the guy?

So, over the last six years, in order to find the QB they so desperately want, they have made probably the worst trade in NFL history and traded the best defender in Browns’ history. We have written about the other successful teams around the league and the path they’ve taken to contend for and win Super Bowls.

Find another story that mirrors the Browns.

As for the argument that the Browns had to deal Garrett because he didn’t want to play here, whose fault is that? The front office has put together mostly mediocre teams and in the past few seasons had a top of the league defense accompanied by an offense that couldn’t score more than 17 points per game.

Maybe the Browns will surprise people and contend for a playoff spot this year. A more likely scenario is they will come up with a new reason (we have a rookie QB?) for not being able to win in 2027.

On Paper, The Browns’ Draft Leaves Little To Complain About.

The Cleveland Browns participated in the NFL Draft over the weekend and this year there was no weirdness like drafting two quarterbacks or two running backs. It seemed to be a sound sensible draft and if you believe the draft pundits, GM Andrew Berry had a real good weekend.

It was a given going in the Browns were going to look for a left tackle early in the selection process and after a trade down with Kansas City, they took Spencer Fano out of Utah, and coach Todd Monken said he will play the position. Fano played right tackle the past couple of years in college but did play on the left side during his freshman season.

We will say this with all of the picks, that no one knows for sure until these guys take the field, but Fano seems like a guy who can be an NFL starter. He was highly rated by the “draftniks”, with the only negative being his arms were short.

With their second pick in the first round, they went with KC Concepcion from Texas A & M. We would have preferred a bigger wide receiver, since the majority of the wideouts the Browns have are smaller. And the rap on Concepcion is he has questionable hands.

The Browns have a type. They love receivers who struggle catching the football, which would seem to be the prerequisite for the job. We understand he’s dynamic in the open field, but if you don’t hang on to the ball…

They remedied that on the second round, taking Denzel Boston, listed a 6’4″ and 209 pounds. You have to wonder with Concepcion and Boston now on the roster, how that affects Jerry Jeudy. We don’t see Jeudy being happy with his role if he’s suddenly the third or fourth wide receiver in the pecking order.

Cleveland also added S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren from Toledo in the third round (58th overall). We saw several draft experts projecting him as a late first round pick, so the value is there. With Grant Delpit being a potential free agent after the year and Ronnie Hickman on a one-year tender, this selection makes a lot of sense.

They built depth with the rest of the draft, especially on the offensive line and at tight end, with after the last couple of years, having extra players at those spots, that is definitely needed. The Browns have had to play linemen just signed or activated off the practice squad over the last couple of seasons.

We know we asked the Browns not to take a QB, but really, Taylen Green is the perfect 6th round pick, a ton of upside and an elite athlete. Now, we would still move one of the three quarterbacks currently on the roster, but not the one the team will choose, we are sure. At least having him on the field will make the exhibition games worth watching.

Pretty much everything about the draft made sense and Berry picked a lot of players ranked highly by the draft experts. That’s the reason they received high marks.

The truth of the matter is no one will really know until these players take the field against a different team. But there isn’t a lot to complain about right now.

It’s Draft Day. Here Are Our Hopes (And Fears?)

Tonight’s the night for all of the draftniks out there, the people who worship the draft above anything else. And the Cleveland Browns currently have two selections in the first round.

There are those upset by that because it is not two selections in the 2027 Draft, where supposedly the next round of great quarterbacks will be available. That’s because the Browns have convinced their fan base that the only way to be a perennial playoff team is to get a top five pick in a QB rich year and get their man.

We just want to remind you of one thing. They did that in the last 10 years when they took Baker Mayfield with the first overall pick in 2018. They were victorious just once in the playoffs with Mayfield.

We know what the Browns’ needs are. They need a left tackle for sure, and they need a wide receiver, a go to guy who can get open and catch the football. The latter tool seems like a no brainer, but have you seen the players at that position for Cleveland recently?

However, what they really need is an offensive dynamo, someone who puts fear into defenses. Think about it, who is currently the biggest weapon at new coach Todd Monken’s disposal?

Harold Fannin? He’s a good player, but he’s a tight end. Quinshon Judkins? He looks like a solid running back, but he’s coming off a dislocated ankle and he’s a reliable back, but is he a threat to go all the way on any carry?

That’s the argument for taking Jeremiyah Love from Notre Dame. The analytics crowd will tell you #6 is too high to pick a runner, but what if Love turns out to be Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, or Emmitt Smith? We aren’t suggesting he is, but having a great runner is a big offensive weapon.

On the other hand, taking Carnell Tate from Ohio State would seem to give the Browns the #1 wide out they’ve coveted since Josh Gordon. Tate has good hands, speed, and ability to get open. Again, something the team sorely needs.

And wouldn’t getting some weapons around him make it easier to evaluate Shedeur Sanders as a quarterback?

We also wouldn’t have a huge problem drafting another edge rusher or a impact defender like Caleb Downs or Sonny Styles. Playmakers don’t have to be only on the offensive side of the ball.

Being we are talking about the Browns, one thing we hope they resist doing is drafting another quarterback, albeit with a caveat. We do not want another four-passer competition, particularly if three of the quartet are first- and second-year players.

If they make a deal involving one of the current QBs, mostly likely Dillon Gabriel, then draft another rookie, but we are sure that Monken will quickly identify who he wants to play (please, not Deshaun Watson) and then go about the job of getting that choice ready for the season.

We also hope there is synergy between GM Andrew Berry and Monken, because the coach and general manager should have a shared vision on what kind of football team the Cleveland Browns should be. That’s how good organizations do it.

We just aren’t sure that’s how it works in Berea.

Browns Need A Lot Of Help In Draft. Do They Have The Right Formula For Picking?

The NFL Draft is now less than three weeks away and as we do in northeast Ohio, there is obsession about who the Cleveland Browns will take in the selection process, but particularly what they will do with their two picks in the first round.

The draft obsessed fans and media alike would surely love a trade down because more picks!!! And to be fair, it would make sense if the organization really liked someone and were sure said player would be available say four or five picks later.

But, you can’t mess that up.

As stated before, we have no confidence in anything that happens in Berea, so until proven otherwise, we will assume whatever they do probably won’t work or will be done with the idea of winning three years from now.

Yes, we know last year’s draft looks to be very good, but time will tell, and if a baseball player hit .220 four years in a row, then hit .300 in a season, what would you predict he will hit next season?

The logical needs for the Browns would seem to be wide receiver and offensive line, but the Cleveland Browns are also a bad football team. They’ve won eight games over the last two seasons. To say if they only had a couple of good pass catchers and two solid offensive linemen, they would be Super Bowl contenders would seem insane.

What we are trying to say here is the Browns need talent, another draft like last year, where they bring in say, four quality starters (Mason Graham, Carson Schwesinger, Quinshon Judkins, and Harold Fannin Jr.) would be a good start to getting better.

We know the Browns have the best defensive player in the NFL in Myles Garrett (no, we don’t care if he skips OTAs), but if you can get a player like David Bailey, DE from Texas Tech, to pair with Garrett, it is something to think about.

Remember what former Browns (when they were good) executive Ernie Accorsi said. The two most important players on the field are quarterback and the guy who can get to the quarterback. Having a pair of edge rushers to terrorize opposing passers wouldn’t be the worst thing.

We also know the analytics people say not to draft a running back high, but let’s say you added Jim Brown to the Browns, you don’t think he would make a huge impact?

We aren’t saying Jeremiyah Love from Notre Dame is the next Jim Brown, the greatest of them all, but let’s face it, the Cleveland offense struggles to score 17 points, so adding someone who will touch the ball 15-20 times per game is a bad thing?

A tandem of Love and Judkins would seem to work, no?

Getting a franchise left tackle would be a great get and so would a reliable wide receiver to help out Shedeur Sanders. Unfortunately, the problem is the people in charge who make the picks. Maybe GM Andrew Berry has another good draft and sets the foundation for future success.

Or maybe they dump half of this year’s picks in trade for picks in 2027 under the guise of getting their “franchise QB”. You never know with the Cleveland Browns.

Do You Trust Anyone In Berea?

The NFL Draft is about a month away and as usual Browns’ fans are both excited and showing their undying loyalty. It’s the tanking crowd, and one radio talk show host even recently said it is becoming irresponsible for the Browns not to trade Myles Garrett because he’s making the Browns too good to get one of the top three picks in the draft.

First of all, if you trade Garrett for say four first round picks, the odds of one of those players being even close to Garrett as a player is slim. The two-time defensive player of the year is headed to Canton when his playing days are over. And since 1999, the Browns have drafted two such players.

The Browns believe and have sold their fan base on the idea that there is one way to build a winning football team. Be bad enough to get a very high draft pick, let’s say top five, and draft a franchise quarterback. It seems like that is their only plan. They are always talking about “kicking the can down the road” until the following year to see if that can happen.

Apparently, that’s how other NFL teams have done it.

Oh, no they don’t.

The current NFL champion Seattle Seahawks worst season since 2010 has been a 7-10 record in 2021. The previous champ, the Eagles, have had two four win seasons in that same time span, but after their most recent poor season, they drafted a wide receiver in the first round.

Kansas City, who has won three Super Bowls since 2019, had one terrible season since 2010, a 2-14 record in ’12, following which they drafted Eric Fisher, an offensive tackle with their first selection in the next draft.

To be fair, the Rams won in ’21 and kind of did get their QB that way. Following a 4-12 season in 2016, the drafted Jared Goff with the first overall pick, and traded him for Matthew Stafford, a former first overall pick, who led them to their Super Bowl triumph.

So surely, getting a quarterback with a top three pick guarantees success. Three of the four QBs taken first overall did make the playoffs last season (Caleb Williams, Bryce Young, and Trevor Lawrence).

On the other hand, here are quarterbacks taken in the top three from 2020 to 2024: Joe Burrow, Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Young, C.J. Stroud, Williams, Jaden Daniels, and Drake Maye.

Of those nine passers, four of them are hits, two would be considered huge mistakes, and the others it is too soon to tell. But the way the Browns’ front office talks, it would be a 100% thing and it simply is not.

Add in the Browns’ factor.

They did tank 10 years ago and did get the first overall pick in Baker Mayfield, who at the very least can be considered a serviceable NFL passer. And then they screwed it up.

They either didn’t put a good support system around him which didn’t force him to mature, or they allowed him to play hurt and/or the coaching staff or front office soured on him, and they were distracted by the shiny keys that is Deshaun Watson.

Either way, they mortgaged the future to make the ill-fated Watson deal.

We guess this is just our way of saying we don’t trust anything that comes out of 76 Lou Groza Boulevard and neither should the fans or media.

The reality is that group doesn’t know how to build a winning football team. They are just throwing crap at a wall and seeing if it will stick. Unfortunately, that’s what Cleveland football fans have gotten. Crap.

Browns Being Stubborn On Certain Players

Over our years in following sports, there are things that we admire from winning organizations. One of those traits is the discussion of stubbornness vs. patience. Good organizations aren’t beholden to poor decisions. Meaning, they make a move, it doesn’t work out the way it was intended, and they move on.

A great example occurred at the NBA trading deadline last month. Cavs’ GM Koby Altman traded Isaac Okoro for Lonzo Ball, a deal we liked at the time. However, Ball’s shooting fell off a cliff, he didn’t seem to fit what the Cavaliers were doing, and Altman moved him at the trade deadline.

He did the same with De’Andre Hunter, who contributed to Cleveland’s 64 regular season wins a year ago, but was struggling with his shot this season despite coach Kenny Atkinson trying him in different roles. He was also moved at the deadline.

Now, consider the Cleveland Browns.

In the last week, people in the media have said Shedeur Sanders was a winner the first week of free agency because the Browns’ did not sign a veteran QB to compete with him. There is plenty of time before the draft and the mini camps start, but it looks like the team is going with a quarterback room of Sanders, Deshaun Watson, and Dillon Gabriel.

Yeah, good luck with that.

We would like to see more of Sanders for sure. We believe he should be better with more experience (most people are) and a better offensive line in front of him. But don’t you have to have a better option behind him if he doesn’t show progress?

And thinking it could be Watson is a ridiculous stretch of any imagination. This is where the stubbornness comes in. Whoever made the call, it was a horrible trade by the organization. Now, it looks like they are trying to get a little justification for the bad deal instead of just moving on.

We are well aware of the salary cap hit involved, but that don’t mean you have to put him on the field. The cap hit is what it is. Putting a player out there who hasn’t played well for six years because of it is just a reach.

And the fans don’t want him playing either.

Another case in our opinion is Jerry Jeudy. The Browns traded a 5th round pick to Denver for him after the organization coveted him for a couple of years. His best year in Denver was his third after being a first round pick, catching 67 passes for 972 yards.

He caught 90 passes in his first year as a Brown, and the organization patted itself on the back quite a bit.

Of those receptions, 44 were when Jameis Winston was a QB, and last season, he fell to 50 receptions, more in line with his production with the Broncos.

Now, the Browns are selling him as a possible #2 receiver, pairing him with whomever Cleveland takes early in the draft.

Our question is this: Do people think Jeudy is going to be happy in that role? Because we do not. But someone in the Browns’ front office thinks highly of him, so they are giving him another chance. Stubbornness.

The Browns haven’t earned any benefit of any doubt. When you have been largely irrelevant in your sport for pretty much 25 years, that’s the way it is.

Just more joys of being a fan of The Browns.

Browns Address The Offensive Line. No Brainer.

Doing something that so obviously needs to be done isn’t something that deserves credit. For example, if the garbage is piling up in our house and we take it out, we don’t expect our wife to be effusive in praise.

Ignoring it looks real bad.

It’s akin to having the Brooklyn Nets calling the Cavs with a proposition that the Cavaliers give them a second-round pick for Jarrett Allen to facilitate the James Harden (ironic) deal. Even the worst GM says yes to that.

That’s the way we look at the Cleveland Browns’ opening salvo in the early stages of the off-season. They closed the season with no starting offensive linemen under contract for 2026, and GM Andrew Berry’s first moves where to get some linemen who should compete for starting jobs come training camp.

First, he traded for G/T Tytus Howard from the Houston Texans and signed him to a three-year contract. Then as free agency started, the Browns inked G Zion Johnson, formerly of the Los Angeles Chargers and C Elgton Jenkins from Green Bay, who was released.

Jenkins was a starter last season until his broke his leg, while Johnson started in 16 of the 17 games last year for the Chargers.

So now the Browns have three experienced starters on the offensive line, and still have Luke Wypler, who started five games at center for Cleveland after Ethan Pocic was injured.

Right now, you can project Wypler at center, Johnson and Jenkins at guard, and Howard at RT, leaving left tackle still up in the air.

We don’t know the ins and outs of offensive line play in football, but we do like what we hear about Georgia tackle Monroe Freeling, who is a left tackle, and is 6’7″, 315 pounds and is reported to be very athletic, and with long arms. Left tackle is a skill position in the NFL, and we would rather take a chance on athleticism.

Based on recent history, the Browns still need depth in this area, and they still have Dawand Jones, who has shown potential on the field, but has battled injuries in each of his three seasons in the pros, and they also resigned Teven Jenkins in the mix. Still, in addition to drafting a LT, we would also be looking for more depth on the line in the draft.

Cleveland also replaced LB Devin Bush, who signed with the Bears by signing Quincy Williams from the Jets. Williams played for new defensive coordinator Mike Rutenberg when he was in New York and Jacksonville.

We aren’t upset about the Bush departure. He signed with the Browns after being a first round pick for the Steelers, and he had some injury issues there. He blossomed last year, but he’s really had one very good season out of seven in the pros, and to pay him based on that one year? He might have been a product of Jim Schwartz’ defense and playing next to Carson Schwesinger.

We understand the Browns don’t think this way, but they still need a QB to compete or back up Shedeur Sanders. Thinking that guy is Deshaun Watson, six years removed from being a good NFL quarterback is kind of insane.

Good for the Browns’ front office. They did the logical thing. They shouldn’t be criticized for addressing the offensive line, but really, they shouldn’t be praised either.