Which is why I'm all for trading Thomas for a high draft pick because our OLine isn't good anymore and wasn't since that Mack injury. Our line was boss back then.
I don't get this. The line is bad, but you want to trade maybe the best left tackle in football? If you can get value, and feel his head just isn't here anymore. Not saying you don't. But Thomas can still be pretty productive going forward. I don't know if it's a good idea to make a weakness, even more of a one trading him away.
He's shown no signs of dropping off. It's really hard getting very good, to great left tackles. Trade him, the wheels really come off on this line. At this point I'm keeping him, unless someone blows us away with an offer. Or he tells the Browns he wants out.
It's rebuilding time anyways. Hopefully there's a 5 year plan in place. I'm sick of coaching changes. I like Hue, players like Hue, the league respects Hue.
Rebuilding time can be two years in football. But, it's probably going to be worse before it gets better. It never helps when you strike out on almost all your draft picks. The previous regime, again, set us back. But Hue can be off and running fast if he has good drafts and good player development.
I'm also curious about this running game, it'll help everything if we can run.
The running game is going to be terrible. No surprises there.
You're also not worried about this LB corp? It might be one of the worst. It's definitely unproven to the max. They will be tested.
There's a lot of parts to this team that's going to be bad and inconsistent this season.
I don't take much away from preseason. But my gut feeling right away was Mike Pettine was going to not be a good head coach. I feel the opposite with Hue though.
I think we are going to be bad, and things will get real ugly. Fans will be calling for his head. But I really think this guy will eventually turn this program around. I've never really felt that way with any Browns head coach, outside Chud. But they never gave Chud a chance. Chud saw how absolutely stupid our front office was too. Told them off, and got shit canned for it.
