The Browns blew it again – badly. Two first rounders, and a second, third and fourth in the next three drafts is a lot to give up for two picks this year.
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Although the Oklahoma product is likely the favorite to start in 2016 regardless of what the Eagles do with the second pick, he may not be given a particularly long leash. All of that just for a simple trade up in picks.
The Philadelphia Eagles executive vice president for football operations Howie Roseman said that the organization planned to select a quarterback – presumably either the University of California’s Jared Goff or North Dakota State’s Carson Wentz – with the No. 2 overall pick. “We felt like the offer to move back just six spots for the picks we were able to acquire was the better bet”. It sounds like a head coach that so badly wanted to retrace his mentor Andy Reid’s steps that he convinced himself one of these two quarterbacks is the answer. Nobody really knows that.
Maybe it won’t happen this year, but a trade – at least at some point – seems imminent. First, the Eagles GM said he was confident he was going to get a specific player. “Obviously, this is what we’ve done, and this is what we feel very, very comfortable – and I feel very comfortable – about what we did and where we’re headed”. However, if they strike gold at the quarterback position, then it will all be worth it.
If McShay is correct, the Browns will have their choice of Paxton Lynch from Memphis or Connor Cook of Michigan State with the first pick of the second round – pick 32 overall. They all would have gone ahead of Goff and Wentz.
“The problem I see right now in Philadelphia is they have too many quarterbacks to be friendly with”, Gruden said on Thursday, via ESPN.com. This will allow the Browns to build the offense over the next few years around a mobile quarterback, and when Watson is ready the rest of the offense will be as well. We’ve taken first-round quarterbacks previously.
Also, the expectations are high enough when you’re the No. 2 pick, let alone what the Birds surrendered to Cleveland in the trade. They could try to trade him before the draft and rack up extra picks, or they could hang onto him for one more season. There’s no guarantees even if you take a guy at one or two. “We went out to eat, and we were sitting on a patio between 8 and 10 at night in shorts and a T-shirt”.
Griffin’s competitors are Josh McCown, Austin Davis and Connor Shaw.
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“The way you do that is you practice hard every single day, every throw, every rep is a Super Bowl”. For us, it was a bigger risk of all those factors going forward. If Bradford does that, he will prove that the two ACL surgeries that kept him out from the middle of the 2013 season until last season are well behind him.
