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Just leaving this here to contemplate the parallel universe where the Browns made the trade:
Seahawks-Browns' Russell Wilson trade would've removed 49ers' main rival
Russell Wilson has been a thorn in the 49ers’ side ever since the Seattle Seahawks drafted him in 2012. The improvisational playmaker is almost universally seen as the one player fans don’t want to have the ball against the 49ers with the game on the line. Wilson has kept the Seahawks in NFC...www.nbcsports.com
That "Break Glass In Case Of Emergency" style player only comes around so often, and the Seahawks reportedly offered him to the Cleveland Browns in 2018. NBC Sports' Chriss Simms noted on PFT Overtime that he heard the Seahawks tried to trade Wilson to the Browns for the No. 1 overall pick which ended up being Baker Mayfield
"I'll say this and I've told you this before," Simms told Mike Florio. "I had heard a rumor from some people that I trust a couple years ago and Seattle called Cleveland when they had the No. 1 pick and there was this rumor going around the NFL that they offered Russell Wilson to the Browns the year they drafted Baker Mayfield ... but I don't know how serious those discussions were."
Just leaving this here to contemplate the parallel universe where the Browns made the trade:
Seahawks-Browns' Russell Wilson trade would've removed 49ers' main rival
Russell Wilson has been a thorn in the 49ers’ side ever since the Seattle Seahawks drafted him in 2012. The improvisational playmaker is almost universally seen as the one player fans don’t want to have the ball against the 49ers with the game on the line. Wilson has kept the Seahawks in NFC...www.nbcsports.com
That "Break Glass In Case Of Emergency" style player only comes around so often, and the Seahawks reportedly offered him to the Cleveland Browns in 2018. NBC Sports' Chriss Simms noted on PFT Overtime that he heard the Seahawks tried to trade Wilson to the Browns for the No. 1 overall pick which ended up being Baker Mayfield
"I'll say this and I've told you this before," Simms told Mike Florio. "I had heard a rumor from some people that I trust a couple years ago and Seattle called Cleveland when they had the No. 1 pick and there was this rumor going around the NFL that they offered Russell Wilson to the Browns the year they drafted Baker Mayfield ... but I don't know how serious those discussions were."
To play devil's advocate, you know what other scheme would have been a great fit for our personnel in 2019? The scheme Kitchens used in 2018...Just want to say, a large part of what he said in his video, I also commented on in my most recent RBF article. The scheme from 2019 was abysmal and Stefanski's scheme is a great fit for Baker and their personnel.
To play devil's advocate, you know what other scheme would have been a great fit for our personnel in 2019? The scheme Kitchens used in 2018...
I have no reason to believe Stefanski will be as stubborn or incompetent as Kitchens was as HC, but the issues with implementing a new scheme without training camp during this pandemic gives me room for pause.
What makes no sense is that 2018 Kitchens saw the exact problems that Baker had in a vertical passing game and how the line could not handle it, then made that same mistake in 2019 and then his coaching style lost the whole team and they couldn't recover.
Too incompetent to work in Cleveland.