Cleveland Browns 2021 Regular Season: RIP

[Vee-Rex]

Let's run down the list...
QB, RB, WR, TE, O-line... all pretty good.
d-line, safeties, CBs... all pretty good.
LB? OMG HOW DID WE NOT ADDRESS THIS

Relax. Injuries happened. We still have some "unknowns" and young players there. Other than an unknown in kicker, I'd say we've done well with managing the talent on this roster, and some positions (like LB) we are more likely to draft players for, rather than trade or give big FA money to.

 

[FrontPageNews]

I hope to god you're not pointing at people when you don't even know their names.

Might want to check those hot takes for a second.

Tony fields whatever mid round pick who was nothing special as a prospect. Getting his name wrong doesn’t make him any better.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Tony fields whatever mid round pick who was nothing special as a prospect. Getting his name wrong doesn’t make him any better.

I'd say getting his name wrong proves that you don't know enough about the player to make a judgment about him.

You're saying "Fifth round pick. He must be crap." I haven't seen you talk about his strengths and weaknesses.

Sorry, but we were three-deep with quality talent at the least important position group. We have two injuries and you're bitching that we should have done more to address the position group.

It's a spoiled kid syndrome and you'd be making fun of any other fanbase if they did the same. If you get multiple injuries to starters in one position group, that position group is going to suffer.

Knock out two tackles and you're starting Hudson. Knock out two RB's and you're starting D'Ernest Johnson. Knock out two QB's and we're starting the 2022 draft.

The fact that injuries occurred doesn't mean that we haven't added Phillips, Walker and JOK as quality pieces over the last two years.

But hey, let's give it a shot--what would you have preferred the Browns do at linebacker? If there was a draft pick we should've made instead of what we drafted, what was it? If there's a specific free agent we should've signed, who was it and who would you have not signed in order to make it work?

 

[Randolphkeys]

I think it's worth mentioning that even after the expected top three - JOK, Anthony Walker, Jacob Phillips - the backups have over 100 career starts combined.

That's a lot of NFL experience for backups. Fields is just the higher ceiling guy on the bench.

Keep dying on this hill though.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

I think it's worth mentioning that even after the expected top three - JOK, Anthony Walker, Jacob Phillips - the backups have over 100 career starts combined.

That's a lot of NFL experience for backups. Fields is just the higher ceiling guy on the bench.

Keep dying on this hill though.

I see Fields more as the JOK backup.

I don't know how the injuries to Walker and Phillips have anything to do with him.

 

[Randolphkeys]

I see Fields more as the JOK backup.

I don't know how the injuries to Walker and Phillips have anything to do with him.

I was referring to claims that the front office ignored linebacker depth. That wasn't your claim, I believe.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

I was referring to claims that the front office ignored linebacker depth. That wasn't your claim, I believe.

Yup, and I was more adding to the conversation rather than bringing up a point contrary to your post.

Probably didn't need to quote the post ahead of mine. Whoops.

 

[Randolphkeys]

Yup, and I was more adding to the conversation rather than bringing up a point contrary to your post.

Probably didn't need to quote the post ahead of mine. Whoops.

No worries! I do want to see how Grant Delpit fits into the void of Anthony Walker.

Week one and the Browns were stuck with MJ Stewart playing 93% of the snaps compared to Harrison playing less than 8%.

Now they need Harrison and Delpit to play a part in replacing Walker, who played 95%.

 

[Lee]

Mike Alstott is what Tommy Vardell was supposed to be.

Mike Alstott is my favorite college player of all time. He was all i had to look forward too on Saturdays when i was a young Boilermaker. Met him twice, but really just briefly although i did wait on him one of those 2 times i met him, lol

 

[adam81king]

Mike Alstott is my favorite college player of all time. He was all i had to look forward too on Saturdays when i was a young Boilermaker. Met him twice, but really just briefly although i did wait on him one of those 2 times i met him, lol

A college kid looked forward to a fullback more than fraternizing on Saturdays?

 

[Lee]

A college kid looked forward to a fullback more than fraternizing on Saturdays?

I used to go to every home game, I get your point but we were a horrible team in the early 90's and all we had was Mike Alstott, and he was more of a RB for us...a 250 pound beast

 

[adam81king]

I used to go to every home game, I get your point but we were a horrible team in the early 90's and all we had was Mike Alstott, and he was more of a RB for us...a 250 pound beast

...but...college girls (or boys?) couldn't catch your eye more than Mike Alstott?

 

[Lee]

...but...college girls (or boys?) couldn't catch your eye more than Mike Alstott?

I am into girls, but if i was into boys, probably not...have you seen Mike Alstott?

 

[adam81king]

I am into girls, but if i was into boys, probably not...have you seen Mike Alstott?


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He wouldn't be my type. Looks a little too "the hills of WV" for me...

 

[bs80]

No worries! I do want to see how Grant Delpit fits into the void of Anthony Walker.

Week one and the Browns were stuck with MJ Stewart playing 93% of the snaps compared to Harrison playing less than 8%.

Now they need Harrison and Delpit to play a part in replacing Walker, who played 95%.

So pardon my ignorance, but if Delpit were a full go and Woods was able to deploy his three safety look on a majority of the snaps, which of the three LB, if we assume that the corps consisted of a healthy Walker, Takitaki, and JOK, would be taken off the field? Or would it be more likely that he pulls a DL off the field instead? Not to mention, who else is pulled off when we go dime with Hill in the slot?

Is it fair to think that for most snaps, Walker could be replaced with a 3rd safety in Delpit? And if Delpit can't go, can we give LeCounte some burn instead of digging deeper into our LB depth?