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It's Cleveland, they would have messed it up somehow. Just think, Cleveland has had 42 QBs since 1999, and several of them first overall. The Cleveland Browns gave up three first-round picks (2022, 2023, and 2024), a third-round pick in 2023, and a fourth-round pick in 2022 and 2024 to acquire Deshaun Watson from the Houston Texans. Additionally, they signed Watson to a fully guaranteed five-year contract worth $230 million.

I’m not saying not surviving, more what could have been. He looked amazing.

Josh Allen (and his durability) are the reason. Baltimore has had better rosters but Lamar has had injuries and chokes in the playoffs. Joe Burrow’s injury issues are the biggest reason the Bengals haven’t been consistent. You can say it’s because they’ve invested too heavily in WR’s at the expense of OL, which has perhaps led to his injury problems. Stroud and Herbert aren’t in the convo with the above 3.

Buddy’s still searching for that WR who’s “open when he's covered.”

That would’ve been sick. Cleveland would’ve already had a SB with a competent coach

This, IMO is not a bad look for Beane at all. A player was on waivers and he claimed him. He can't help that Slay had his heart set on Philadelphia. And from what I see, a team can't contact the player or agent and tamper while a guy is on waivers. Y'all would have lost it if Beane did that and it cost the Bills a day two pick. Slay wanted to play the system and got played. And even if his agent tries to play hardball and not deal with the Bills next year as "punishment"...it's a poor look on the agent. If the Bills are high bidder for a player he represents, he would be leaving money for himself and his client on the table. Dumb move. If the Eagles wanted Slay bad enough, they should have given something up at the deadline for him. Maybe they tried and he wasn't available then. But in any event he can report to Buffalo and play ball ..or sit home. Bills should easily be able to recoup his pay if he doesn't report.

Quinn is right about as much as a broken clock I’m not happy either, but that’s not because Ingram is anything but a roster filling JAG. He’s had his chances and has done pretty much nothing with them

Good lord. ...you say you lived through the drought? How, and I do mean how, can you compare the GM lunacy that we had from THAT period to Beane's tenure? The merry-go-round of inconsistency was crazy during that 17 years. We had individual players who were great, or very good. We even had some pretty good sides of the ball. But never for very long, and no consistency. We've had a long period of both with Beane. (And McD) We were the 2nd winningest team and I believe we will become the team with the most number of regular season wins by passing a struggling KC this year. You can say that Josh Allen is the reason, but there is a lot more to team building than that. Look at all the other "franchise" qbs and with the exception of KC, they all have terrible support from a teambuilding perspective. Joe Burrow, Stroud, Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert. Those teams are sometimes very good, but often not. Beane's been better. Beane sure as H- doesn't walk on water. He's made and will continue to make mistakes. Especially on free agent contracts IMO. But to say Beane is comparable to the drought or not a good GM is just absolutely bonkers.

The what if in that scenario is pretty wild. I think they end up with Baker still or Darnold. Supposedly the Giants were Barkley, then Allen. I think it would have gone like this Barkley Allen Darnold Mayfield

No, it's cool. Just dissing the Browns and their stupidity in thankfully not drafting Josh Allen 2x. There was word that they really liked him at the #1 overall until someone made mention of Allen's sort of racial tweets when he was in high school....Brandon!

The good thing for the Browns is that they know Deshaun is a finisher. Always gets a job done until completion

Hoecht played what? Two games max and we can’t survive his loss?

@leh-nerd skin-erd still won't touch this...

Imagine if Cleveland just kept Baker lol

We’ve been going back and forth but this is a good post - thanks. My issue is I hate how this defense is built. You point to injuries, which is valid, and I simply think our philosophy is a factor in that. I hate, so much, how small the spine of our defense is .. and it’s by design. Smaller players get beat up more.. and it’s amplified, somehow even more, by our offense wanting to be ball control - which allows the other team to continue pounding the spine of our defense with runs. Nothing about any of this makes sense. Small DT’s. Small LB’s. Injury prone DE. Hoecht off PED’s, which are notorious in leading to tendon/ligament tears. I’m not surprised. While it’s a great OL, the weapons are so poorly reflective on our GM. You can’t miss twice on B level receivers, because they’re expensive if you sign them in FA, and he did it with Samuel and Palmer. He strapped us with the Knox contract and then doubled down by drafting a finesse TE.. who, I’m not shocked, is hurt all the time. Busted on a WR hardly anyone in the NFL community thought could play outside at a high level. Thats a lot of poor asset allocation on a roster for a contender. And this year seems to be getting worse with his recent extensions and signings. Now this Slay issue is just comical. It was clear he wanted to go to Philly.. this was in the realm of possibilities when Beane decided to block that.

Hasn’t been good in five years but was a starter on a SB defense last year … that guy?