CAMP REPORT 2018 NFL Draft: Round 1

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Elmgrovegnome

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Yes. But, the track record of every GM are full of both hits and misses. Most people think yesterday's picks are going to be misses, in other words not worthy of the risk for a #1 and #4 in the draft.

I mentioned I like Mayfield, but what are the chances he becomes the next Manning, Brady, Brees, etc.?

I would have thought they would have went with Barkley, and then Rosen or Allen. I would have liked that much better for the Browns. Would have good possibility for some awesome punching power with those picks.

I agree that I don’t see a Manning Brady or Brees QB in this draft. But it’s a QB. They trump every position of a team thinks they need one. I don’t know why they think that after trading for Taylor but they do. Maybe Mayfield busts. Maybe they all do. But Dorsey thinks Mayfield is the best QB of this group. In that case they couldn’t risk missing out on him.
 

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Cleveland having a great draft IMO, and now they can grab Arden Key or Harold Landry.
Better use up as many Browns suck jokes as we can because I'm seeing those days numbered

We will agree to disagree sir.
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I agree that I don’t see a Manning Brady or Brees QB in this draft. But it’s a QB. They trump every position of a team thinks they need one. I don’t know why they think that after trading for Taylor but they do. Maybe Mayfield busts. Maybe they all do. But Dorsey thinks Mayfield is the best QB of this group. In that case they couldn’t risk missing out on him.

What's funny is nobody saw a Brees when Brees was in the draft. But I agree.

Dorsey surprised me with Mayfield. Even after the leaks came out I disregarded them. I like Mayfield very much, I think he's a good pick too even at one overall simply because of his leadership on top of everything else he does on the field. The guy can ball. But I would not have taken him over Darnold.

The real winners in this draft thus far, IMO, are the Jets and Cards, who had no business getting the players they did where they did. Jets' fortunes are going to rise now, not this year but 2+ years down the road as Darnold settles in. And the Cards same deal, Rosen probably won't do too much right out the gate but they're going to be in the mix with him working under McCoy in that offensive room. I'm still pi$$ed about the Cards getting him man. So irritating.
 

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What's funny is nobody saw a Brees when Brees was in the draft. But I agree.

Dorsey surprised me with Mayfield. Even after the leaks came out I disregarded them. I like Mayfield very much, I think he's a good pick too even at one overall simply because of his leadership on top of everything else he does on the field. The guy can ball. But I would not have taken him over Darnold.

The real winners in this draft thus far, IMO, are the Jets and Cards, who had no business getting the players they did where they did. Jets' fortunes are going to rise now, not this year but 2+ years down the road as Darnold settles in. And the Cards same deal, Rosen probably won't do too much right out the gate but they're going to be in the mix with him working under McCoy in that offensive room. I'm still pi$$ed about the Cards getting him man. So irritating.


Maybe NFL gyms were afraid to take Brees because of his height, but most fans that watcged him in college believed in him becoming a successful NFL QB. He was so good at Purdue. I believe people overthink things and focus so much on the negative that they try to talk themselves out of picks first.

I am not a Darnold guy. The bad decisions scare me off. He has a lot of talent around him. The bad decisions were on him. Does that change with NFL coaching? Or is it his thought process and how quickly he makes decisions?

I think Rosen can be good. But I won’t worry about him being a Cardinal until he proves it.
 

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I agree that I don’t see a Manning Brady or Brees QB in this draft. But it’s a QB. They trump every position of a team thinks they need one. I don’t know why they think that after trading for Taylor but they do. Maybe Mayfield busts. Maybe they all do. But Dorsey thinks Mayfield is the best QB of this group. In that case they couldn’t risk missing out on him.
Ok. If Taylor keeps Mayfield off the field, and the Browns go 2-14 again, then I'll keep piling it on. If Mayfield works out, I'll be happy for the Browns.

This whole subject is a bit irrelevant though, as the Rams will be hoisting the trophy next year anyways!!!
 

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Ok. If Taylor keeps Mayfield off the field, and the Browns go 2-14 again, then I'll keep piling it on. If Mayfield works out, I'll be happy for the Browns.

This whole subject is a bit irrelevant though, as the Rams will be hoisting the trophy next year anyways!!!
I think its just impossible for them to go 2-14.
Certainly isn't possible for them to be 2-14 and Taylor keeping Mayfield on the bench...
Just from a statistical point of view, coming off 1-31, I think they win 7 games just because the universe isn't that cruel
 

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Love Les as our GM and he has been great at what he does.

But man, he is easily the worst speaker I have ever tried to listen to.

One of Mcvay's greatest skills is being able to look cool when Snead speaks and stumbles all over his words.
Let's call it....Les speak
 

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First of all the Cleveland Browns and you don't want to kick a dog when it's down, but I have an Uncle that is a Cleveland Browns fan. He and my Aunt head to Cleveland three times a year (about a 7 hour drive) and watched his beloved Browns and last night I texted him with a shaking head emoji just unbelievable .

Many thought new General Manager John Dorsey would change their fortune, however, on analyst put it best:

John Dorsey, who is one of the more respected front office men in the sport, who worked in Seattle, Green Bay and was the Chiefs general manager, goes to Cleveland and the Browns infect him with the Brownsian Virus, the way a zombie from The Walking Dead spreads zombiness with a bite.

Baker Mayfield is like a Cheap Sweater, that will shrink after every wash. Sorry never thought much of Mayfield and I could be the one who is wrong, but I really believed Sam Danold was the best Quarterback of this class and the New York Jets hit it big because another team chose the wrong Quarterback.

The Cleveland Browns remind me of an old episode of a show called Hogan's Heroes, in it, Colonel Hogan is trying to defuse a bomb and has two wires left a blue one and a red one and he asks Colonel Klink which wire to cut and Klink tells him to cut the Red one and Hogan cuts the blue one and the timer on the bomb stops. Klink than says, why did you ask me, if you knew what wire to cut?

Hogan responds by saying, I didn't know which was the right wire to cut, but I knew who could chose the wrong one....That is the Cleveland Browns in a nutshell. Again their second pick in Ward was shocking too. A very good CB and I'm sure they thought they needed a CB, but Bradley Chubb is special and I realize the Browns have a ton of picks, but if Ward was their guy, they could have traded down IMHO.

Anyway many of us could be wrong and the Browns could be right, but again I feel for my Uncle Ron as he watches his Browns in Cold November mud.

Some clubs actually aren't so high on Bradley Chubb. I didn't like the Mayfield pick, but I've liked every other pick.
 

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So what you're in effect saying is, we don't know what in the hell he meant.
THEN WHY IN THE WORLD DIDN'T YOU SAY, "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IN THE HELL HE MEANT?":neener:

That's not nearly enough words.

It's me. If it's less than a paragraph, you gotta think I've been hacked...
 

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Potatoes are still vegetables, just because they are buried in butter & sour cream and they are more likely to cause hardening of the arteries and heart attacks rather than any real health benefit, ... there is a lot to be said for dying a few days earlier with a smile and no regrets. jmo

My dad once said.... Gotta die from something.