LinvilleGorge

In the later rounds? Sure.

Yeah, people talk about the crazy offseason of his rookie year and what he could've done with a normal offseason but I honestly think it kinda helped him and us. Cam was just so different than any other QB in the league at that time that we were kinda able to just take the league by storm offensively early on because in part because of the crazy offseason not allowing our early opponents to prepare for specifically for Cam and we did a good job in the preseason of not showing anything we planned to actually unleash once the games started for real.

I don't honestly know if the record would be any different but I do know that we'd be competing. We wouldn't be going out there and just getting dog walked.

Right now we have a top 10 pick LT who is showing improvement as a pass protector, two top tier guards, an aging but still top shelf RT, a top 10 pick at WR, a proven veteran RB. I mean, the cupboard is far from bare. Drop rookie Cam on this roster and it's probably similar results. 6ish wins and overall competitive but the D usually finds a way to give up more points than we can score.

You add the QB when you can. The 2011 team wasn't ready to drop in a QB either. Virtually no team drafting high is. I mean, we've spent a ton of resources on OL, receivers, a RB. Overall for a highly drafted QB there's been a lot worse situations to walk into.

I honestly think Austin would be more appealing domestically than St. Louis. If they're looking to go international Toronto would probably be the logical first step.

That man looks like he might have gotten 8 hours of sleep in the last week. Combined.

He's probably both dreading possibility of being fired and grappling with the emotions of admitting that he'd be relieved if it happened.

This is basically 16 year old me coming home and getting grilled by my parents trying to convince them that I'm not actually half drunk and high as a giraffe's ass.

It would be a relief if he'd move the team. I'm begging for a reason to quit at this point.

Flip that around. What might we have at WR if we had a legit NFL QB?

The entertainment would come at our expense.

I'll buy one of those smashed racoon asshole sandwiches for him. Maybe the resulting dysentery would be a viable diet plan.

If we can get anything for him ship him off. It's over. Throw in some raccoon taint sandwiches to sweeten the deal.

The guy looked awful except for against our camp bodies. Everyone was ready to crown him when he played well against guys too terrible to make our roster (after looking mediocre against our primary backups). He's not that good. His NFL skill set is very limited. Classic good college QB who didn't project well to the NFL but because of his daddy and the hype people got it all twisted.

Chuba would be cap hit hell to trade. Honestly we don't have much. Thielen was about it. Maybe Moton if we hadn't extended him. If I could get anything for Bryce or XL they'd be gone.

I'm fine with taking late round flyers on athletes. I mean, you get into the 6th and 7th you're basically talking about guys with the measurables minus the production or guys with the production minus the measurables. You're just trying to find guys who can carve out a role to make your roster.

It couldn't look worse. My concern is that if we stick with Bryce it probably means another full reset is coming. We gotta give Canales and Morgan a chance because we're going to be shopping in the garbage bin again if we replace them. Let's give them every chance we can before we go down to the convenience store and buy more scratch off lottery ticket ass hires.

The Panthers are just an afterthought at this point. Just a run of the mill bottom feeder. There's just nothing interesting to cover from a national standpoint.

That's why I'm advocating for looking everywhere for potential upgrades. Free agency, trade market, draft. We have a bust of a starter and an over the hill pushing 40 backup. We need QBs. Multiple QBs. Leave no stone unturned. We got ourselves into this mess going all in on a savior.

Sure looked like it was trending that way and that Browns draft room absolutely did not look like the people in that room made the call to draft him. Rich Eisen even called it out live. LOL

Word is he told both the Ravens and Eagles not to draft him because he didn't want to be a backup.

If I'm the coach I'm going ape poo right now. I'm ready to stomp into the owners office like "Are you happy now? Was the publicity worth it? This kid is putting me in a spot where I HAVE to cut him if I'm going to maintain any respect on the locker room. At the very least he's getting suspended for conduct detrimental to the team. That's the least I can get away with."

And that right there is why he was plummeting down draft boards. If you're evaluated as not likely to be a starter and probably a career backup this is exactly what you DON'T want out of that backup QB role. The near unanimous word out of teams that interviewed him was that he came off as incredibly cocky and entitled and wasn't at all prepared for the interview. This kid really needs to stop sabotaging himself. I thought falling into the late 5th might be a wake up call but doesn't look like it.

I'm not sure why people are surprised. The football people in Cleveland picked Gabriel over Sanders because they thought he was the better prospect for them. They looked like they wanted to crawl under a table as the Sanders pick was being announced because that pick probably wasn't made by them.