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Having thought about it yea it sucks to lose Myles but Verse is pretty good and younger. Also, the Browns could use the 1st round pick they got from the Rams, and their own, to try and move up and take one of the top QBs, or another top prospect, in the 2027 draft.

The last couple of drafts have been good. Many NFL pundits like what the Browns did and are saying they are a team on the rise. I hope they are right.

Myles Garrett traded: Making sense of the Rams-Browns deal
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...d-verse-rams-browns-draft-picks-barnwell

Isn't it ridiculous. We as Browns fans have already pretty much written off the next 2 seasons. Kind of pathetic but it is the reality. I am hoping that our O-Line gels quickly and we get some decent QB and WR play so we can compete but that may be wishful thinking. The reality of being a Browns fan.

Maybe you should ask yourself if they could have gotten more why would they have taken less? Myles had a no trade clause giving him control over what teams he could be traded to. That alone limits the teams Myles could be traded to. I'm not a huge fan of Berry but I am pretty certain he wouldn't have taken less if he could have gotten more.

Two decisions that look almost identical on paper can lead to completely different outcomes depending on when they’re made and how they’re executed. The ability to accurately assess consequences and understand when the timing is right is often what separates success from failure.

Andrew Berry has probably made plenty of decisions that were logical in isolation. The problem is that his timing has often been catastrophically bad. When you stack that many poorly timed decisions on top of each other over six years, eventually you end up with the Cleveland Browns.

Trading for Deshaun Watson would have been 100% the right move sometime between 2017 and 2020. After that? Every decision connected to acquiring him was wrong. Not just wrong — spectacularly, historically, “future documentary episode” wrong.

Not extending Baker Mayfield was both right and wrong. There were valid football reasons to hesitate. But failing to support him through the 2021 season while he was playing through injury was both morally questionable and economically shortsighted. It showed a complete inability to evaluate the broader consequences of the decision.

What message did that send to the locker room? To the fanbase? To the media?

If Baker had struggled in 2020, the decision would have been much easier to justify. Instead, Berry and Stefanski essentially watched their most important offensive player limp through an entire season and then acted surprised when things got messy. That’s not strategy. That’s timing malpractice.

Now we get to Myles Garrett. Could trading him be justified from a pure asset-management perspective? Maybe. But is the timing right? I have serious doubts. If you’re going to tear down a roster, it usually helps if you’ve already built something worth tearing down first.

Since Berry became GM in 2020, the roster has steadily declined and the results have followed the same trajectory. Today we’re sitting at an all-time low. After six years, the excuses have run out.

A general manager has the ultimate responsibility for the direction of the franchise. At the end of the day, the scoreboard doesn’t care about process, spreadsheets, analytics models, or PowerPoint presentations. Results are the measuring stick.

So here’s the simple question:

How many years are we talking before the Browns are truly competitive again?

One?

Two?


Because if the answer is anything longer than that, we’re basically asking Browns fans to trust a GPS that’s been driving us straight into Lake Erie for six years.

Great read. Pretty long so I clipped a few parts:


Where we're at...

And that roster simply wasn't close to competing for a title, even with Garrett on the field. The Browns were another great draft away from being another great draft away. Berry had five top-90 picks in 2026 and added four offensive players, including receivers KC Concepcion and Denzel Boston and left tackle Spencer Fano, but the Browns still don't have any quarterback of note. Watson is a free agent after the season and coming off a season lost to an Achilles injury, and Shedeur Sanders' 18.9 Total QBR was the second-worst mark of any signal-caller in the NFL who threw at least 100 passes last season.


What we got in Verse...

Verse, meanwhile, still has three years of cost control, with two years left on his rookie contract before a potential fifth-year option in 2028. After winning Defensive Rookie of the Year amid a weak class during his debut season with the Rams, Verse was devastating during their brief playoff run in 2024, racking up two sacks and a 57-yard fumble return for a score.

I was one of the many who had hopes that Verse could take a leap and challenge to be among the league's most impactful pass rushers in 2025. That sort of season never really came together. Verse was named to the Pro Bowl for the second time and produced 7.5 sacks, but he was overshadowed at times by Young and Turner. He did lead the team with three tackles for loss and seven quarterback hits during the postseason run, but at first glance, it felt as if Verse left some meat on the bone in his sophomore season.

Under the hood, I'm not sure those concerns are warranted. Verse's 27 quarterback knockdowns were just two short of Young's team-leading 29. Verse matched his fellow edge rusher in terms of pressure rate (just under 14%) and quick pressure rate (4%). And he did that while being double-teamed twice as often as Young. Verse's 4% quarterback pressure over expectation rate (QBPOE) led the team, per Next Gen Stats.

Verse has already been very good, and I'm still quite optimistic that he can be the best player on an elite defense. Garrett's athleticism makes other NFL players look as if they're stuck in quicksand. Verse isn't quite that devastating, but he has to have some of the heaviest hands and rates as one of the most physical edges in the league. He's a hammer on twists, to which Mekhi Becton can attest, and he has the physical strength to manhandle even elite linemen like Tristan Wirfs and Joe Thuney on snaps. (Verse driving Thuney backward is what got Caleb Williams running backward on the Bears' tying Hail Mary touchdown in the fourth quarter of the divisional round classic.)

Verse also has the athleticism to beat linemen into gaps or rush around them. Last season, the Rams even used Verse lined up over the center and saw him destroy Colts pivot Tanor Bortolini. The play was reminiscent, of course, of how Jim Schwartz and the Browns used Garrett as a stand-up rusher to torment interior linemen in years past. Verse was the best player on the field in that game against Indy, soundly beating both Bortolini and left tackle Bernhard Raimann.

In a league in which great pass rushers are going to be commanding a minimum of $30 million per season moving forward, Verse will make just $5 million over the next two years combined before an eventual 2028 fifth-year option, where he probably still will be undervalued. Surplus value doesn't mean quite as much when the Browns don't expect to compete over the next couple of seasons, but Verse represents a building block who projects to be in his peak when the Browns are out from under their cap mess and presumably have a quarterback around whom to build. There's a non-zero chance he's more productive than Garrett over the next three to five years at a fraction of the cost, which would make this an enormous victory for Cleveland.

If the Rams had decided to make Verse available, I believe they would have been able to land a first-round pick and a significant additional selection, potentially a second-round pick, for their young edge rusher. Factor all that in and this return looks pretty strong for the Browns, who land the equivalent of two first-round picks, two second-round picks and a third-round selection for Garrett. If the organization had decided that it was going to trade Garrett, I'm not sure the return was ever going to be richer than this.


Why this was probably a win-win for both teams...

The Browns realized a significant and logical return for a player whose best remaining seasons were going to be wasted alongside a hopeless roster, and they'll be in a better position to build a winner two years from now. The Rams can't guarantee a title by adding Garrett, and it hurts to lose Verse, but this was a chance to bring in what might potentially be the most talented and productive peak player acquired in any trade during most of our lifetimes.