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Cleveland Browns 2018 Season Thread

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Randolphkeys said:
I saw Drew Stanton pulling Mayfield aside on the sidelines often in the preseason and again on Thursday night. McCown is being covered as a storyline, but Stanton is quietly mentoring as well.
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Right. I thought it was made pretty clear during the preseason that Taylor was not mentoring Baker -- that was Stanton's job. I wouldn't expect Taylor to start playing a major mentoring role for Mayfield given that Stanton already has taken on that role.
 
The entire interior of the offensive line has been huge this year. They have taken 912 total snaps, 420 on passing downs, and only allowed nine QB pressures.

That is amazing.
 
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jking948 said:
The entire interior of the offensive line has been huge this year. They have taken 231 total snaps, 135 on passing downs, and only allowed four QB pressures.

That is amazing.
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To add to this, when Bitonio is Carlos Hyde's main blocker, Hyde is averaging 6.6 yards per attempt.
 
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I was wondering, how prevalent is tanking in the NFL? It doesn't seem like it is as big a part of the sport as in basketball, which is somewhat surprising to me as the draft scouting process seems way more accurate than in the NBA. Like, say the Browns decide that come hell or high water they are looking to draft in the top 3 to get a shot at Ed Oliver, but because of how much better we look with Baker, that becomes a big issue. Is there any precedent for teams taking their foot off the gas to snipe a high draft pick?
 
blommen said:
I was wondering, how prevalent is tanking in the NFL? It doesn't seem like it is as big a part of the sport as in basketball, which is somewhat surprising to me as the draft scouting process seems way more accurate than in the NBA. Like, say the Browns decide that come hell or high water they are looking to draft in the top 3 to get a shot at Ed Oliver, but because of how much better we look with Baker, that becomes a big issue. Is there any precedent for teams taking their foot off the gas to snipe a high draft pick?
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The Cowboys definitely did a one year tank when they traded Hershel Walker for draft capital, then dominated the next half decade. Indianapolis definitely tanked for Andrew Luck because it looked like Peyton Manning was finished. Because of the way the NFL set up compensatory picks for free agents leaving and salary cap roll over, there are teams that take one year to reload. Doing what the Browns did and "take it down to the studs" with few if any vets for three seasons was unprecedented. So yes, there had been tank jobs for a season in the past, but rarely if ever a multi-year tank before the Browns did it.
 
Lee said:
Holy shit, we released on TE named Pharaoh for another TE named Pharaoh. How is that not the headline.
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Actually, we released Pharoah McKever to sign Pharaoh Brown. And the first guy is listed as 6'6, 260, the second as 6'6, 258. WTF is going on here?

Listen dude, whoever the fuck you are, you're not fooling anyone with that "I'll just flip two letters in my first name nobody will notice it's still me" shit.
 
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Nice that Burgess is listed as healthy as well. TT still under concussion protocol, apparently.
 
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