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He's the receiver I would take if I took a receiver in round 1..

Bugs,

I agree with you about your meaning of depth. But as with our team, I don't agree with depth was a problem this past season. I believe we just had a stupid amount of injuries this year. The response would be: no crap, that's the point of depth.....but look at the preseason depth chart below




Backups:

QB - Keenum
RB - Hunt / Johnson
WR - Hodge (released) Higgans, Schwartz * this was a weak area*
TE - Njoku, Bryant, Carlson
OL - Hubbard, Harris, Hance, Dunn


DE - Tak, Gustin, Weaver was a hopeful
DT - We hoped Billings would be worth a damn....backups- Day, Square...hoping Elliott and someone else would emerge
LBs - Smith, Phillips, JOK/Wilson
CB - as 4th CB; Greedy, with hope of AJ Green or Stewart
S - Delpit, Redwine

On paper, that's not a bad backup group (meanwhile someone in the back yells: YES, but paper doesn't mean crap that's why we play the games!). I get it. But look at those back ups, we lost a main cog (or more) from each group.

We lose Chubb, well ok, we have Hunt....yes, but Hunt is now out....ok...Johnson, by now we are plucking Kelly off the PS.
Or Offensive line. Willis hurts his ankle first game and we bring in Hubbard our solid swing tackle...btw, he's now out for the year. Then Conklin goes out.

We know what happened with the receivers.

Injuries are a part of the game. You are bound to lose an important piece of the team. So like you said, depth is a major piece in success. We just had an absurd amount of injuries this year in key positions.....or at key times (i.e. both OTs going being out at the same time).

Thats my view/opinion

We're as close as anyone to a SB appearance.
Last season, we were one bad call from being in the AFC Championship, and we definitely could have won that. This year, we were too broken down to be effective.

The only question is How much of this team can we keep together for next year?

we are a consistent QB away. thats literally all it is. watching all the playoff games this season, all we need is baker or whoever to just be consistent. we have the run game and defense already.

consistent QB play and maybe a big body WR and we're good.

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Watching the Super Bowl happenings, video clips and interviews this week...I can't stop thinking with my heart that the Browns should be in their, in Super Bowl...not the Bengals ! I base my viewpoint on the Browns team talent..the Browns had/have the talent to go deep into the playoffs and they may have made it to the Super Bowl had the "Browns decision makers" not made some bonehead decisions that cost the players that chance.

HOW CLOSE ARE THE BROWNS TO A SB APPEARANCE?...it is an "UNKNOWN" ...and I say that because I'm not sure the Browns 'O'wnership, 'A'nalytics, 'M'anagement and 'C'oaching (to be known as ".. OAMC ..". I use the acronym OAMC because the Browns list their current staff (chain of command) in that order...Owner, Analytics, Management, Coaching.

NOW, the #2 issue that OAMC needs to address and correct..


The #1 reason I already posted and referenced above...not playing a healthy Keenum when Baker was hurt.

The #2 reason...OAMC not doing their job in the offseason. Not taking care of their business knowing they might very well be creating a potential "cancer" in the locker room by not addressing the wishes of OBJ. During the off season between 2020 and 2021 the OMAC knew that OBJ wanted to be traded. Beckham was serious about wanting out of Cleveland and for some reason, the Browns OAMC did not get the job done.

Maybe it was because of their inexperience dealing with a veteran player like Beckham who was making a "serious request" or maybe OAMC simply not taking his request seriously and simply brushed it aside. But there was already a book on Beckham concerning his behavior when he isn't happy about "his situation". All the Browns had to do was do a search on OBJ-CANCER-N.Y. GIANTS...and pick a link and read. OBJ had a history concerning his conduct in New York and Berry and Stefanski should have realized how serious OBJ's situation could be if Ownership and Analytics didn't help to resolve the issue.

The OBJ problem did affect the rest of the team and long before OBJs daddy and Lebron got involved. Had the Browns taken care of the OBJ Problem when they first were aware of it, during the off season, the Browns locker room environment might have been better.

Everyone involved, the Owner, Analytics, Management and Coaches need to be on the same page and do their best to identify potential problems before they blow up into 'major problems'. Addressing such a problem starts with the coaches and from their it goes to the GM then up to Analytics and Ownership...ALL FAILED and hopefully they learned something about their responsibilities.

As much as you like to avoid the subject, with a healthy QB this season we may have been there.