“He still looks the exact same and it’s just insane, ” cornerback Joe Haden told Cleveland.com.
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“No. you can’t look at it that way”, Griffin said.
“They’re showing me the love and respect back to me by allowing me to stay here up to this point”. “It’s important for him to be with the ones because I think he’s going to be one of our better players”. Harrison expects the same to happen to him. He can participate in training camp and the preseason, but he will sit the first four games of the season.
There’s a chance the price will go up, and it’s clear that the Browns (despite what they say) would like nothing more than to turn current assets into future draft picks, since they surely realize that it makes more sense to build for a brighter future than to tilt at windmills in the present. “This is not an easy thing and I think we all know that”.
This was Gordon’s first game since December 21, 2014, the penultimate game of the regular season.
A Browns team source had told Schefter that the team was not looking to trade Gordon, but Brown’s comments Thursday were the first public comments from the organization on trade speculation around Gordon. “Hopefully, I can pick up where we left off at practice out here and things will go smoothly on Friday”.
Gordon, 25, set a franchise record and led the league with 1,646 receiving yards in 14 games that season, earning All-Pro honors. This is nearly certainly his last chance in the league.
As such, Cleveland has approached the past week of practice with a sense of urgency ahead of Friday night’s game. “We’ll see how it all shakes out”. We talk to him regularly and he’s doing well. RGIII wasn’t guaranteed the starting job right away, but he did enough to earn it pretty quickly and through a couple preseason games he’s looking pretty good. Our coaches are telling us everything right.
“He’s working hard. He’s in with his teammates”, Brown continued. Adam Humphries added a 73-yard punt return for a touchdown, the Bucs’ first in a preseason game since 2008. The story is straight now though, the Browns have no intention of trading him.
So yes, Andy, you get a pass on this one.
This is something that will continue as the Browns are turning down trade offers for Gordon. “It’s about time we put units together and let them play and get these guys ready for the opener”.
The game also saw the professional debut of Corey Coleman, who finished with zero catches.
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The Browns will have the chance to do that again with a new scheme and new faces, including rookie defensive end Carl Nassib, who is tied for second in the National Football League in sacks and tied for first among fellow rookies. Defense, unsurprisingly, has been the team’s weakest suit but there are still flashes of talent ranging from the play of rookies Carl Nassib and Emmanuel Ogbah to the promotion of Jamar Taylor to the team’s No. 2 cornerback. We’ve said all we needed to say about it.
