DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum Browns Sign WR Jaelen Strong

Forgot to mention Taylor Gabriel and Willie Snead.

I suspect that he's just another guy Dorsey feels can help. We are going to pile up bodies of varying ability, and he is just one more player in the WR room.

I would also be curious to see just what kind of contract he signed.

I believe that Louis is still on the roster, having spent last year on IR.

Well, Dorsey was with the Chiefs then so maybe he saw something he liked in college..

Here's the thing, I really trust Dorsey,, Look no further than Perriman as an example of plucking someone that nobody thought was worth anything. Or how he somehow found a way to look past the domestic violence issues with Tyreek Hill and how that worked out. He's doing it again with Hunt.

He seems to do this very well,, picking guys up that have issues or have had issues.... Then they seem to play well and stay clean..

Like I said, I trust him

LOL. Facts.

I sincerely doubt it. My money is on it being completely unrelated. I think it is simply scouring the depths of what is out there in the way of young players with upside that are currently out of work; guys that we can bring in now, before the real free agency begins.

Good lottery ticket signing.

We are a team full of slot WR types and Strong has the size/speed for the outside. He's been constantly injured and hasn't been able to develop because of it. WR's typically take a couple of years at least and he hasn't been healthy for an entire season. Dorsey could also be hedging his bets just in case he can't sign Perriman. If he comes to camp at anything close to that 4.4 speed at his size, it's then just a matter of figuring out how coach-able he is to stash on the roster.

Agreed.

I don't know that the signing of Strong is in any way associated with Perriman. The two are certainly totally different types of WR's. While they both have some size, Strong is a much more physical style of WR. The 50/50 jump ball style of WR that is a dimension we lack. Perriman is faster and from a speed perspective they are very different.

I'm not sure that Strong will even work out. But some of us have been saying for a while that the physical WR is the one dimension we lack. I've never advocated we spend a high draft pick to address that but that we certainly need to. To me Strong may end up adding that dimension and really doesn't impact the role that a WR like Perriman serves.

j/c:

How that dude has a job doing this is beyond me ... he stunk for well over a decade at least ...

I really liked Strong coming out of college.. I have to admit to not knowing a whole lot of his career since he got into the NFL, other than I watch a fair amount of football and haven't heard anything about him, so I'll assume that's not good.

There's a receiver on the Bears who was talked up around here several years ago, Kevin White. Man, his career has turned into a big nothing thus far .... 2 leg fractures and a shoulder injury .... followed by being a healthy scratch late this season.

I know that several guys here really liked him in the 2015 draft. He's a guy I might be interested in as an injury reclamation.

I am not saying this is true, but it seems to me that Grossi made that comment because he would be able to talk members of the Browns staff directly and listen to why they brought Strong in.

Think about it for a minute.

Wow! That is pathetic!

It's so bad, I didn't believe it at first because I thought no one is that dumb.

Grossi makes Stephen A look like the Schwab.

That was actually what I thought as well.

To be fair, I thought it was a sick burn on how he doesn't have any sources left in Berea.

I like the signing - there is only upside at little to no cost.

The Grosi bashing ... meh - You have to take him for what he's worth. It's like going to watch Ghost Busters at the movies and complaining it's not Shakespeare. And I don't believe for a second he doesn't know who Jalen Strong is.