DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum Browns Release LT Desmond Harrison

It seems to me that this version of the Browns--under the direction of Dorsey--are willing to provide chances to guys who have question marks attached to their names.

It also seems to me that they only give you so many chances and will not tolerate continued violations of team rules.

Am I not remembering right, wasn't he put in as the starter then at some point, got injured and pulled out. Never to return?

Yup, pretty much when Hue Jackson got fired

I really don't think this is that much of a loss from what I've read and heard about him. I'm sure we have someone in camp right now or someone we can pickup who will be able to take his place. JMO

Kendall Lamm probably.. anybody know anything about the guy?

Don't tell Memphis the kid had talent and the skill set.

Jake burns disagrees ... *L*

https://247sports.com/nfl/cleveland-browns/Article/Browns-minicamp-Day-2-Takeways-and-QA--132632643/

25. Desmond Harrison’s release was no surprise to those in the building yesterday, and stories of his late arrivals to meetings and poor practice habits became the loud chatter that had been quiet in the past few months. Harrison is talented, but the risk in opportunity wasn’t worth the squeeze and his missed flight sealed his fate. The Browns will rely on swing tackle Kendall Lamm to be the third player there and Drew Forbes, the rookie from SE Missouri, keeps getting work at tackle as well as guard. Harrison was a fringe 53-man roster player as it sat today, and his inactive status for the second half of 2018 was an indication of what was coming if he didn’t earn his keep come 2019. He didn’t keep his end of the bargain.

Were now run by folks with a clue ...

It's always good to set the tone for end of the roster guys. Cut one for being late or falling asleep and u set the stage for camp. Getting the axe was the best thing Harrison could have done for Freddie n the browns.

Great feet and long arms but he sucked. No power and sloppy technique, XFL will do him so.e good.

Great feet and long arms are easy to teach ... way easier to teach than technique and getting stronger ... ...

Bummer ... needle in the haystack didn’t work out ...

We still need one ... Robinson was better than Harrison but he wasn’t any good either ... this position is like the entire team was for the last 20 years ....

Robinson started cause he was stunk less than Harrison ... thank god those days are over at most positions ... look at the argument ya’all are having about Duke now ... thats a good argument to be having ..

Precisely. Not enough talent to justify keeping him around with his other issues.

I don't believe cfrs' comment is true. I think Harrison was injured and Robinson replaced him due to the injury. Once healthy, Robinson could not win back the job.

He had an illness.

The point still stands. The new staff gave him little chance to play for a reason.

Not going to argue w/you. But, opinions are not facts.

The Browns will start veteran Greg Robinson at offensive left tackle for the third consecutive game Sunday when they face the Cincinnati Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium.

Undrafted rookie left tackle Desmond Harrison will be inactive. He’s a healthy scratch, a Browns spokesman said.

Harrison started the first eight games of the season until an illness contributed to him being inactive. Although he has recovered from the illness and was not listed on the injury report last week, Harrison will sit out against the Bengals.

Since replacing Harrison, Robinson has received praise from coaches and teammates, including rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield, for his performance.

https://www.ohio.com/sports/20181125/bro...healthy-scratch

I'm not sure the point of this is as it relates to the Harrison grade from PFF.

Or is this your "spinning suspension jack"? Welcome back, BTW!

Thank you for posting that. I misspoke when I said injury instead of illness, but I knew that one of the very first moves the new coaching staff made wasn't benching Harrison and that he just couldn't win the job back after he was healthy again.

Well that didn’t take long ... much quicker than most of Sashi’s players that got cut .... *L* ...


DESMOND HARRISON
T, ARIZONA CARDINALS

Cardinals claimed OT Desmond Harrison off waivers from the Browns.
Cleveland waived Harrison after he was late to minicamp. The former undrafted free agent opened last season at left tackle for the Browns, but he was terrible before being replaced by Greg Robinson. He is not a lock for Arizona's roster.

RELATED: Cleveland Browns
SOURCE: Ian Rapoport on Twitter
Jun 6, 2019, 11:52 AM ET

There is a reason the ARZ offensive line is so bad.

Plus they had 1st shot at him, and get him at no financial peril.

And they just signed someone they think is good enough to possibly help them.

And like us, will probably find out that the juice is not worth the squeeze.

Your ego is so fragile that you can never admit to being wrong or that you don't know what you are talking about in a certain situation.

It's obvious to almost all who actually know football that Harrision had some rare gifts. Very athletic. Great feet. Excellent agility. Long arms. Some explosion.

What he didn't have was a ton of polish. He wasn't technically sound. He lacked some lower body strength. All of those things could have been developed. The killer is that he apparently is a freaking head case that wasn't dedicated enough to work at is craft. That's a damn shame and I understand why the Browns cut him. But, your uneducated stance that he wasn't "talented" enough is erroneous. You think you are making some kind of point, but you are only making yourself look bad.

He may very well act up and not show up which has been plainly shown as the reason he was cut here. But the raw talent is there. That's why the first team in line to pick him up did.

The kid went to a small school and didn't have top notch coaching. So he is very raw and needs a lot of work. But what can't be denied by anyone rational is that he has the very rare, and needed tools be be a natural fit at the LT position.

It doesn't look like the kid is willing to put in the work and dedication to get to where he needs to be. And that's sad. But trying to deny the talent is there to get to where he needs to be is not being realistic.

It's not like NFL teams don't have film on the kid.

I get it...

You talked him up all last preseason as a player who was going to be good and that clearly ended up not being the case. He was benched because he played poorly. It's pretty much that simple. If you'd like to double down on him in Arizona, go for it.

I don't think he is that good. It's obvious from what we saw on the field and from reputable reports on his performance. If you would like to harkon back to some "raw talent" in your mind that we could very well never see, be my guest.

The sample size we have before us is that he was bad.

Well, he did get thrown out of the University to Texas a JuCo transfer. I really liked Desmond Harrison, but the dude is a bum. He doesn't take the game seriously enough to excel at this level. Who cares now that he's off our team.

You can't see the forest for the trees. He should have never been the starter. He was too raw and not even close to being ready for those duties.

You are too busy trying to win an argument to admit that from a skill set metric, he had the rare skill set to be a natural at the LT position.

Physical skills, but clearly lacking between the ears.

While what you're saying isn't totally inaccurate, I really can't agree with what you're saying.

Yes, it's true... Harrison didn't play well at all, and then got benched. But to leave it at that is extremely misleading.

The guy came into the league from a small school, and came into training camp with an injury, preventing him from doing much work. Hue basically decided he was the best-worst option at LT. I acknowledge this could lead us into another Hue discussion, but I have no interest in that. Harrison faced some brutal opposition straight out of the gate. He was going up against elite NFL pass rushers with very little physical, mental, or technique preparation. He was not prepared for the grind of an NFL season, and also got sick and Robinson took the reins and didn't look back.


Again, you're not wrong or anything when you say that Harrison didn't play well. I'm just saying that there's so much more to the story than that. I'm really disappointed in his getting let go. That's a lot of talent we just booted out of the building at a really tough position. That said, him being a goofball and not working hard and not paying attention is the last thing a guy like him (needs to nail down his technique, and work on his body in addition to fighting a reputation of being a knucklehead) needs to become a legit NFL LT.

Which has been my point all along.

The irony in this is the actual people who are trying to win an argument.


I feel like ya'll are pretty much saying the same thing but everyone's arguing who is saying it better.

2 cent head ...where’d i hear that before ... ...

I don't think he had rare skill by any means, but he did possess skill and upside in that department. He lacked in brain power and determination.

Joe Thomas had rare skill. Harrison has skill enough to be anywhere from decent to good....if he can get his mind right.

Unfortunately at this point it probably isn't going to happen. My guess is the guy is somewhat dim.

I didn't see it coming, but from the reports coming out now, it's obvious there were issues.

I think a lot of us are saying the same thing, but Memphis and the sausage tweeter are trying to act like Harrison didn't have enough talent. Some of us disagree w/that line of thinking and think it is more about his character and behavior.

Hell, we dumped Josh "Freaking" Gordon and it sure as hell wasn't due to his lack of talent.

I go back to what Pete and I were talking about earlier. Dorsey will take chances on guys that have had past problems. T. Hill, Gordon, Callaway, Hunt, Harrison, etc..........but he expects them to toe the line moving forward. If they don't.........he gets rid of them.

What is a sausage tweeter?

someone with really big ... fingers?