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good veteran signing

I agree. He has beed a good veteran player. No all-star, but none the less he is a solid player. He improves the lb room.

Casey Dunn, hope he enjoyed his cup of coffee.

Malcolm Smith PFF Grades 2019:
Overall: 66.0
Run Defense: 41.4 (37 snaps)
Pass Rush: 62.1 (5 snaps)
Coverage: 79.5 (41 snaps)
Total Snaps: 83

PFF Grades 2018:
Overall: 62.6
Run Defense: 72.4 (146 snaps)
Pass Rush: 66.1 (34 snaps)
Coverage: 52.5 (156 snaps)
Total Snaps: 336

Not a depth signing in my book. He is a solid player, not elite. Given that our LB room is green, this may help our youngsters' learning curve for the NFL. Decent move.

Wahoo!

J/C. I like the signing, veteran who may work well in our system. Our young players could learn a lot from him, he certainly has seen some highs and lows. Sometimes these type signings are a godsend. Good Luck Mr Smith and welcome to the Dawg Pound!

Probably came with a Callahan recommendation...

Think Tarver was his position coach with the 49ers in 2017 as well.

Was Woods there as well?

No.

Thanks

I like it.

The Saints cut Nigel Bradham. Anyone think he is worth a look?

Eagles cut him in February and now the Saints. I would be weary.

We were rumored to be interested in him all off-season and never signed him (or even had him in for a visit).

Proves what I have been saying, our line-backing core is in the bottom 3 of the league.

You mean 32nd.

I just saw that Nigel Bradham was cut from the Saints. I don't know much about him except that he was solid for the Eagles....The Saints say they are going "Younger"....

Anyone know anything about him??? Possible option????

Does he do anything while on the Browns in a game that counts.
That should be the litmus test for any Browns signing.

Probably not very good, or average ... but not terrible

The purest motorcyclist I’ve ever seen, what a talent. Oh wait, oops wrong Malcolm Smith. Nevermind, as you where.

Browns linebacker Malcolm Smith not keeping secrets from the young players in his group

https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2020/08...-his-group.html

By Dan Labbe, cleveland.com
BEREA, Ohio -- New Browns linebacker Malcolm Smith, a seventh-round pick who wasn’t even invited to the combine, doesn’t forget either of those facts.

“I am obviously a seventh-round draft pick so you never have the comfort of looking forward and being like, ‘Oh, I am planning on doing this, that and the third,’” Smith said in a Zoom call with reporters before practice on Saturday. “You can inside, but that is not how it gets done. It comes from every day. It comes from consistency. That is what I am trying to focus on, and whatever comes of it, comes of it.”

As for not getting a combine invite in 2011 when he was coming out of USC? He thinks about it a lot.

“Every day,” he said. “That is always something that I think about. Since that day, it has been on my mind. I think that was the biggest chip once I got started in the league. That is always going to be with me as a badge of honor at this point.”

It worked out for Smith. Just short of three years after the combine he wasn’t invited to, he won Super Bowl MVP in Seattle’s 43-8 trouncing of the Peyton Manning-led Denver Broncos.

“(The MVP trophy) is at my house,” Smith said. “It is in the office. It is not hidden. You can see it.”

Smith has bounced around after spending his first four years in Seattle. He played two seasons in Oakland in 2015 and 2016. He was with San Francisco for two years, but missed the 2017 season. Last season, he signed with Jacksonville in October and then, after getting released, signed with Dallas in December.

The Browns signed him last Sunday.

“It is a cool opportunity to have, especially with a new coaching staff here and some of the people I am familiar with,” Smith said. “Obviously, the work the coaches have done and some of the players have done throughout the league, a lot of respect for a lot of the people here. I am just trying to add my sauce and bring what I can to the mix.”

“He is a very intelligent player,” head coach Kevin Stefanski said. “He has experience in this scheme, although the terminology is not exactly the same so it is going to take a minute here for him.”

It’s Smith’s knowledge and veteran leadership the Browns are counting on as the 31-year-old linebacker works his way into things late in camp.

“It is not fair for me to keep some of the knowledge that I have,” Smith said. “You have to share what you know for us to be good, for us to compete and for us to operate at our best as a unit. You don’t want to miss any opportunities to share what you know.”

And maybe impart some knowledge about what it’s like to be the MVP of the biggest game in American sports.

“They want to know about the team we had, what it was like,” he said, “and the car you got.”