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Yep, I’m waiting for them to name Gabriel to the Pro Bowl too. Then there can be Flag Football QB drama over who should be higher on the depth chart.

There are 10k comedians out of work and you're on here trying to be funny.

I think the NFL should name Phillip Rivers as his backup.

Hey all I said was Bailey Zappe got the shaft.

Oh…darn…

j/c…

Off to Paris. À Bientôt!

Thanks for the memories (I'm sincere this time around)! And best wishes.

Writing was on the wall for awhile now.....

No reason why he shouldn't have retired a Brown.

Browns is the Browns.

Obviously there are.

I liked Wyatt but sometimes business forces decisions. Sometimes the money paid offers diminished returns.

Across the league, I wonder what the average tenure is for a player staying with the same team? Even if you toss out the guys who flip around for 3 years it isn't all that long. Maybe 5?

I don't really assign blame for player movement. If I did, it's probably about equal. Sometimes players want to move on. It isn't always the teams fault.

We're probably going to have at least 3 new starters on the OL maybe 4. I hope Joel will play one more year as a vet presence on the line will be needed. We could get that with a FA signing but who knows. There is a lot right now that's up in the air. Many important decisions to be made so we can only speculate.

As others have mentioned, the writing was on the wall when he started splitting reps with Jenkins with little (as far as I could tell) drop off.

I like him, but when we talk about that we are mostly drawing from his first 2 years here in Cleveland. It's been a steady decline since then. I hope he can leverage his tape into getting on a winning team and having some more success. He's a good dude.

And often times men that want to compete and win in their profession move on because of the situation they are in. I suppose you could blame that on the team or the player. Sometimes you have to provide an environment that makes people want to stay.

Not surprised. According to PFF his play had slipped a lot the last 2 years, he went from being the #1 rated OG in 2020 and the #5 OG in 2021 to the #43 rated OG in 2024 and the #39 rated OG this past season and when you figure what he was being paid it wasn't likely he would be retained.

And his injuries the past few years didn't help his cause either.

I'm willing to bet his rating slip was influenced quite a bit by the instability in the RT spot. I do hope he has a successful free agency.

We are doing a total rebuild of the offense in terms of talent, age, and offensive system. As much as we like him, he's not a cornerstone player.

I don't disagree. Which at the same time leaves one glaring question.

He is currently ranked 39th at the G position. Which means there are 25 starting G's in the NFL ranked below him. So will his replacement actually mean improvement at the position? Because currently there are only 38 other players in the league who are ranked better. And as you stated, it's very likely that poor RT play has impacted his performance. Playing your own position while having to try and compensate for the guy playing next to you isn't a position anyone wants to be in.