Orion

Since he has some time, perhaps he should hit the books and draw up some more QB run plays for himself. You know, one's where he takes on tacklers and stuff...to show his love for the game.

Higgins....wasn't he the one that almost scored a TD one time? Congrats and thanks to both!

So when will he be ready to go? Well, that depends, as Watson explained (quotes via a team-provided transcript😞 For those keeping score at home, “they” is referring to the Browns training staff, Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the Los Angeles-based surgeon who operated on Watson, and Watson’s group, which includes his quarterback coach Quincy Avery. --------- Clear as mud...

On the Draft Value Chart, our 7th round pick #127 is worth 1.4 points. And pick 243 is worth 1 point. The #1 overall is 3000 points. In order to move to the top of the 6th round we'd have to trade about 20 seventh round picks. I guess we could say that the math doesn't work at the quantum level.

...truth be told, I view 7th rounders as glorified free agents. But they're free agents that have to come to your team. - A week and a half 'til we're on the clock!

Wait. The LT led the team to championships? We gotta get this guy!

I was a fan back when there were no domes. But this is a very different time. There ARE teams with domes. AND there's free agency which they didn't have in pre dome times. - I wonder how many Minnesota Vikings privately dreamed of taking Bud Grant behind the stadium and knocking some sense into him for not allowing them to use sideline heaters while the opponents, on the same sideline, could thaw themselves out while on the sidelines. "Make them suffer! It makes them tougher!" Some fans had to have amputations after the Chiefs playoff game this year. The game was not invented / intended as a winter sport. But games are being played practically into mid-winter.

It would be easier to attract players to the organization. Believe it or not, there are players that don't like playing in the freezing wind, rain and/or snow. Like Anthony Walker who just told his agent to find someplace warm and that he's sick of the cold. Or Deshaun Watson who doesn't like the cold such that it took a quarter billion guaranteed to get him here.

Similar to what I said in February. Once we got through the bulk of free agency our more crucial needs became more in focus. Now one can take a look at a few Big Boards and see what players are ranked in the area of pick 54...or 85. Then one can take a cursory look at players at positions that you think are in need of help. ( the Browns home page did a segment on Ricky Pearson. I've not read it...but I'll probably get around to it )

My son had one of those games. It was 2 on 2 basketball. Big heads. I laughed so hard playing that game with him.

Cleveland pockets a seventh-round selection in 2024 from the Tennessee Titans in exchange for OT Leroy Watson IV. --------- 7th pick in the 7th round (227). So, with less than two weeks until the draft we now have: Round 2 (No. 54 overall) Round 3 (No. 85 overall) Round 5 (No. 156 overall) Round 6 (No. 206 overall) Round 7 (No. 227 overall) Round 7 (No. 243 overall)

Ya know those padded bonnets for the helmets that some of the players use in practice and/or scrimmages. Some day those will be mandatory.

That's more or less the 64k question. (the 'less' being that we don't think he'd be Charlie Frye bad) But there does exist the possibility that all of the missed time and all of the pressure to perform up to the standard of a 3 first round pick traded player...negativity towards him from part of the Browns fan base...lingering legal issues, etc. might weigh on him to the extant that he never returns to his previous level of play. I wouldn't bet $ either way.

Yeah, but it's been so long that I think that the When has become If.

And yet he made the decision to try and run for the 1st down instead of simply tossing it to a wide open Demetric Felton standing just beyond the sticks at the sideline...while trailing in the 4th qtr of a late season game. We had to punt. We lost the game and wound up missing the playoffs. He looked right at wide open Felton...and decided to outrun guys that are much faster than cops. That pissed me off. From that point on I no longer felt that he was the QB that we needed....but that we'd be stuck with him. And this is why I've never been able to bash Haslem, Berry, DePo and/or Stef for the trade for Watson because some, or all of them, must have felt the same way that I did. I'll sometimes bash the fact that we spent all of the draft picks and $$ for something that we've really got virtually nothing out of so far...but I can't bash them for doing what they did.