Browns are making plenty of moves but dont have much to show for them

For a team that wins as infrequently as the , they sure do keep people talking.As executives headed home late Thursday night and began comparing thoughts with their peers, Cleveland was certainly among the teams most talked about. Again.They traded down again, as pretty much everyone in the league I speak to predicted they would, and they ended up taking a receiver (Baylor wideout ), which, again, was widely known.In doing so out of the range of eight players whom were Brandon Ingram Jersey generally considered the true blue-chip prospects in this draft -- the talent drop-off from there is significant and particularly after, say, picks 12-15 -- to take a receiver who some teams did not have a first-round grade on. That doesnt mean that it wont work out. And it doesnt mean theyre not wrong. But lets just say that once again, that skeptics abound.The same franchise that has had a receiver dearth for a long time -- since s career was derailed by substance abuse i sues and that was loaded up on picks in one of the greatest receiver drafts ever (2014, with and ) -- has now, two years later, decided to sacrifice a bona fide top-two talent to take who they hope will be the best out of what evaluators would unanimously say is one of the weakest skill position drafts in recent memory.Good luck.Its one thing to give the benefit of the doubt to the Steelers or Patriots or Seahawks or Broncos. They actually select good players with great frequency. They also have consistency and synergy between the coaches and front office and they win games regularly. But the Browns havent even been able to find decent starters in the first round in years in which they had multiple first-round picks, but now everyone is supposed to think that theyre going to find a bevy of them on Day 2 for the next few years with all the mid Jaxson Hayes Jersey -round picks they are ama sing.OK. Well see how that goes.What I do know is they let a very solid right tackle walk over chump change in free agency for a team with so much cap space. They didnt end up with Michigan State tackle Jack Conklin to replace him and po sibly (who they stubbornly cling to despite dealing Thomas for picks being precisely what their apparent plan of stockpiling future a sets would logically dictate they do first).And much is being made of the fact that their first-round pick, receiver Corey Coleman, played at Baylor and has familiarity with stop-gap Darius Miller Jersey quarterback , and so on. How long will Griffin stay healthy in any scenario, much le s behind this line that lost its starting center and right tackle already? What theyre doing is a set management, its not building a team, said one personnel executive. Even if Coleman is a player -- and thats debatable at that pick -- how are they getting him the ball? What are you going to do with him, if that is your line and this is your quarterback? They have no team. Its a collection of players, but if this is analytics -- its not building a team.Look at the last five teams picking Thursday night. They are picking there because they won the most games. What did they all do? They all took front seven players, and Kansas City probably would have done the same thing if they didnt trade out. And I dont like the guard that San Francisco moved up to take there, but its another lineman. The best teams are usually doing that, and everybody else is chasing receivers.Maybe the Browns will load up on linemen tonight. Heaven knows they have the glaring need, but finding a potential true difference-maker as a tackle or a pa s rusher has pa sed. Youre doing an awful lot of hoping now, having dumped out of the No. 2 and 8 spots. The fact that the two linemen they took in the first round last year showed almost nothing their rookie seasons doesnt help. They have certainly increased their odds by ama sing all the picks -- like holding extra seats at the roulette table -- but the problem is that it becomes exponentially more difficult to find real players the deeper back Sindarius Thornwell Jersey you go, and this franchise has tried this approach like three times in the last five years already.It aint new. And football bo s Sashi Brown aint new, either. He was one of the first hires of former team president Joe Banner all those regimes ago. Hes the ultimate holdover, in fact.Now, Coleman will probably end up being the second-most scrutinized player in this first round moving forward, next to Laremy Tunsil, who plummeted for non-football reasons. Time will tell what impact he'll make, but the fact that the analytics guys at PFF had him rated as the top receiver in the draft probably tells you all you really need to know about the pick. (I heard leading up to the draft some scouts and coaches in the building preferred either Josh Doctson or Laquon Treadwell.) Leading up to the draft, the evaluators I trust did not have a first-round grade on Coleman. Coleman, guard Josh Garnett at pick Ike Anigbogu Jersey 26, lineman Kenny Clark at 27 and tackle Germain Ifedi at 31 were the only players taken Thursday who were not mentioned as going in the first round in my mock, and Clark was the last man out in my scouts mock.Again, none of this matters if he can play and they can provide the infrastructure for him to succeed. But every team I talked to in depth about receivers in the weeks leading to the draft preferred Doctson or Will Fuller to Coleman.We would not have taken Coleman in the first round, said one evaluator who has been very strong on receivers over the years and whose team was in the market for one Thursday. He has some nice qualities, but he doesnt have very good hands going acro s the middle and we Anthony Davis Jersey dont see the upside in him we saw in some of the other receivers. If everything works out for him I think youre looking at . Another personnel executive: How do you do all of that and end up with Coleman, and not someone like (tackle) Jack Conklin to build your team?Hmm.Anyway, look for the Browns to keep trading down Friday, with several executives all but guaranteeing me Cleveland will trade out of pick No. 32. Could be someone moving up for a quarterback or defensive linemen. Plenty of both are still on the board.Well see what Friday holds for the Browns, but one personnel man believed they actually had a chance to make all of the trade downs make sense had they managed to capitalize on what "Moneyball" would dictate you do: pounce on a market inefficiency. No one could have predicted Tunsils slide. He was in play for the top-overall pick before it was dealt and it would've filled and short- and long-term needs. It also would have allowed them to get a blue-chip player at No. 8, prior to dealing down again, or perhaps by moving up a few spots to stop his fall once he got past the Saints at No. 12.Maybe thats who they would have taken at 15. Moot point now either way.If they come out of it with Tunsil, then it makes Jahlil Okafor Jersey sense to me, one exec said. Now you still have one of the top players in this draft and a bunch of picks. Otherwise, theyd better be hitting a lot of home runs tonight.
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