Browns Thread: 'Twas fun while it lasted

I was listening to Joe Thomas talk this morning on his podcast with Andrew Hawkins. He has the OL ranked Becton, Andrew Thomas, Wills just from being on the field and watching them move.

He talked about Wirfs, but said that he might need to play G for his first year to clean up his game, but that he definitely has the athleticism to play OT.

 

understood. like you said, thats his job to pump up everything browns. I just liked it for the use of the word authentic.

 

Welp, that chargers panthers trade prolly just pulled another OT off the board before we pick at 10.

 

Chargers still have no QB

 

They 'claim' they are comfortable with their QB situation. But they could still sign a FA QB.

 

Can’t take anything any team says serious right now. Especially one with the #6 pick.

 

Trent W asking for $20m per year. No thanks.

 

Hard pass

 

Nope

 

Offer something that’s front loaded with no dead money After 2 years.

4 years/$75m - $40m guaranteed in first two years.

 

Not a surprise.

 

smart move imo. hes been such a meh player for a few years now. no way he was worth paying 9m this season.

the move clears 6.676m in cap and leaves 2.4 in dead money.

 

Think that puts us at about $75m in cap space for this upcoming season.

 

Mack Wilson & Simeon Takitaki will be solid, but obviously we need more there.

 

Decent LBs in FA. Cory Littleton, Blake Martinez, De'Vondre Campbell. Going to need to sign a couple.

 

Cory is getting paaaaaid. not touching that deal. Martinez sucks.

Just draft one, and sign a couple of UDFAs

 

Would be fine with paying Littleton around 10-13 mill. Not sure what he is asking for, but we need another proven backer. Don't feel comfortable at all with just Wilson and Takitaki, especially Takittaki. Martinez is more than capable of filling Schobert role. Over 500 tackles in his four years in GB and wouldn't break the bank, plus still relatively young and improving.

 

if the Browns front office isn't comfortable paying Schobert 10m, why would the front office pay Littleton 10-13m?

agree with both of you about Takitaki. he has a lot to prove.

 

Browns nearing a deal with Austin Hooper.

 

Don’t know if I like that.

 

Seems extremely unnecessary.

 

Really like those stats the last two seasons. I don’t think they love having just Njoku, and this class is kind of weak.

 

Exactly what I was thinking. Don’t think we need to overspend on a TE. Like, at all.

 

Stefanski lined up in 12 personnel in 35% of snaps this season. We needed another TE (or two), but yeah, that's a big contract.

 

I don’t mind a solid TE. I just don’t think overpaying for one was the right move.

 

Njoku seemed on a great trajectory before the injury and now he's obviously going to the #2 guy getting less snaps. Kinda sucks.

Although the 12 personal percentage might be a lot higher than 35% with those two guys on the team.

 

I also wonder if the team sees this as a way of compensating for an upcoming loss of a weapon at WR.

 

don't limit it to 12 personnel. 2 TE's is big for Stefanski

 

Nice

 

i also wonder if they are going to move OBJ now. Got more money invested in the TE's and you've just alleviated some pass catching concerns before moving him

 

Not really ever good to have the leagues highest paid TE unless he is Gronk

 

Thanks for being sensitive

 

Hooper > Gronk

 

Damn. Didn’t know the greatest TE of all time was just sitting on the Falcons for the last few years.

 

That seems like a fantastic deal for us, no?

 

YES

 

big fan of both of these deals.