QB's and other draft odds and ends.

I think they got it right more than once recently.

 

howard
rudolph
thompson

 

But he hasn't looked better than Rodgers. Aaron had to come back in the game with a broken nose and broken bones in his wrist because the 2 balls that Rudolph threw were a ground ball and the other one picked off. If Rodgers gets hurt again then Will Howard should be the backup, he might be as bad as Rudolph but he might actually play well. We don't know until he plays.

 

We need to invest starting snaps in young worthy quarterbacks. Rudolph is next in line. I like Howard but he is not next in line.
We have drafted good worthy quarterbacks but have not given them the starts. Including Pickett whose career here was cut short after a year and a half. That is serious mismanagement of the quarterback position by Tomlin.

 

Right now, I'd take Skylar Thompson over Mason or Howard.

 

why safeties ? We have 3 good ones on the roster

 

Rudolph isn't a young worthy QB. He's 30 freaking years old in his 8th year in the league. He's a lot closer to the end of his career than the beginning.

 

And those Safeties are geriatric with contracts expiring sans Ramsey. None of them are the future.

 

But Daniel Jones and Sam Darnold are okay as new starters in Indy and Seattle, or Baker in Tampa?

Tomlin has passed on in-house talented quarterbacks deserving of starting that the scouting department gave him. He passed on that opportunity because he did not want to go through rebuild seasons with a new rookie starter.
Well, he failed two years in a row and wasted those two seasons.
He may quit, he knows he fkd up.

 

Jones, Darnold and Mayfield were all high first round draft picks whose pedigrees out of college were much higher than Mason's. QB's with their talent are always going to get more chances than a backup journeyman like Rudolph.

 

how old are dugger and elliot ? Anyway i would take best players available we have holes everywhere

 

I'm hanging my hat on Will Howard at QB.

That said, before we signed Asante Samuel Jr, I was hoping by some miracle that Mansoor Delane would fall to us....
But as Bill Cowher used to say... you can't have too many good cb's

 

Mac Jones can make a decent bridge qb, but we need to draft a QB in round one of the 2026 draft.

That would be addressing the position!

We currently pick 14th!

Use our draft capital to trade up in round one? ( For Simpson ? )

Draft Mateer after trading down in round one?

 

I'm not for taking a QB in round 1 this year. Keep building the OL and defensive secondary with first round picks. Get more LBs, DL, and WRs in round 2&3. We are not ready to start a rookie at QB.

 

Because Tomlin wants smaller faster ILB that can cover. Well our scheme doesnt play out that way, they arent covering and they are too small to fill the hole and prevent a decent gain on running plays. In other words, bad scheme bad design, same common denominator.

 

Trade for Watson in 2026? (still on the books through 2029, the gift that keeps on giving )

In March, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam called the team’s 2022 trade for Watson “a big swing and miss.” The Browns gave Watson $230 million guaranteed and traded three first-round picks to Houston to acquire him, but the results haven’t come close to matching the investment.

While Sanders had some moments, the loss to the 49ers was a crash back to reality after the Browns feasted on the Raiders in Week 12.
Watson has started 19 games over three seasons with the Browns. He was limited to six games in 2023 after serving an 11-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, and each of his last two seasons has been ended by injury and subsequent surgeries. Watson has completed 61 percent of his passes in a Cleveland uniform, and the Browns are 9-10 in games he’s started.

The Browns still have a huge financial commitment to Watson, who counts just under $36 million on the team’s 2025 salary cap and is currently scheduled to count for just over $80 million in 2026. The Browns have re-worked Watson’s contract multiple times to lower his cap numbers and could do so again after this season.