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That’s what my point was tho. The coach didn’t tailor a game plan to put his rookie in the best possible light. He didn’t utilize a ground game and he didn’t put in a pass game that could cater to his young QB like say McCarthy at least tried to do with Hundley ?We've got a solid offensive line, one good RB, two potentially good to great WRs, a TE who looks like a future stud, and a solid second TE. Our main issues this year offensively were coaching and shit QB play. You add Smith and that addresses one of those issues. It won't make Hue a good coach, but it will patch a lot of the holes. Add in a stud RB early in the second and maybe another WR as well and you're looking at what could be a potent offense with a decent or better QB.
I don't think we're far off defensively, either, at least from a talent standpoint. We have quite a few good players on our defense. What killed us this year was that we didn't really have a number one DB and our general depth wasn't great. A couple of injuries just killed us because of that lack of depth.
I know the team went 0-16, but there is quite a bit of NFL-caliber talent on this squad, which isn't normally the case for an historically bad team. They just didn't have a QB and the coaching was terrible. And I still think it's possible that Hue wasn't going out of his way to win games because he wanted to get Sashi fired.
And there’s 2 years worth of that cause that’s what he was killing Kessler about a year ago. He wanted a vertical attack and Kessler was not providing it.
I think Smith is a perfect veteran QB for the team. I’m just curious as to where he fits with what Hue does in terms of gameplan ? Hue is gonna Hue...
Totally agree the Browns aren’t far off. But adding a stud running back as you say (who won’t get used) and a QB who doesn’t challenge a defense vertically just seems like a disaster with Hue Jackson coaching them..