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Thinking of the season opener with DW starting is not a good feeling.
I am thinking only in regards to him as a football player objectively.
Practice and pre-season games mean little.
When it is go time. I expect him to be what he has been in a Browns uniform. I cannot imagine some wondrous transformation.
What else it means is SS is not good enough to beat him out.
Monken will need some magic sauce.
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I think our best (only?) chance to win is for Monken to create a new offense that doesn't need a QB at all. In that case Green would be our best option, at least assuming the center would have to snap the ball to somebody.
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I think our best (only?) chance to win is for Monken to create a new offense that doesn't need a QB at all. In that case Green would be our best option, at least assuming the center would have to snap the ball to somebody. Apparently, he is going to get some paying time against the Bills this Saturday.
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I'm glad to hear Green will be playing. Maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised. Saying some Prayers might help!
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I think Green's going to play in the 3rd game.
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Honestly, at this point I have resigned myself to accept where we are.
My interest is seeing the young core develop.
My expectations for quarterback play are low. The OL will be improved but that is a low bar. There will need to be more investment in the OL next year.
Hopefully we can run the ball some.
I think KC and Boston add a lot to the receiving room along with Bond.
I think the defense will be fine unless it gets hit with injuries.
IMO when this year ends. DW and SS will be at the bottom of QB rankings.
When the draft order is final IMO we will be picking in the top four.
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Some people run on good old-fashioned coal-fired common sense. Others, fairy-dust and fantasy.  Stop trying to spread your fairy dust around. Trying to neglect that the man responsible for finding and signing talent failed in the watson deal is certainly not the definition of common sense.
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I think we will start the season with Watson. He will get injured or suck and we switch to Super Sanders. After that experiment ends in a disaster... onto taking Green.
Meh.
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I was thinking the same thing. And with injuries we'll probably have to sign someone else even if we can find a way to keep all the QB's we have now. Our yearly revolving door at the QB position.
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I want to see it. "Competition" is this? Posters immediately wrote off half the room immediately to back their favorite. I like DG and Green, and I want to see them live action. The first two have set the bar low, SS especially. A wild cat O might put up more than 10 points. This "competition" is biased, and the set up is suspect.
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I was thinking the same thing. And with injuries we'll probably have to sign someone else even if we can find a way to keep all the QB's we have now. Our yearly revolving door at the QB position. Just to add a little context...................... Since 2021, the Cleveland Browns have started an average of 3.4 different quarterbacks per season, utilizing a total of 17 starting quarterbacks across the 2021 through 2025 seasons.Yearly Breakdown of Starting Quarterbacks 2021 (3): Baker Mayfield, Case Keenum, Nick Mullens 2022 (2): Jacoby Brissett, Deshaun Watson 2023 (5): Deshaun Watson, Joe Flacco, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, P.J. Walker, Jeff Driskel l2024 (4): Jameis Winston, Deshaun Watson, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, Bailey Zappe 2025 (3): Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel, Joe Flacco Just looking at that is enough to make anyone sad.
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Just looking at that is enough to make anyone sad. Or do a little mini sickup in their mouth ... please, lets look forwards not back.
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I want to see it. "Competition" is this? Posters immediately wrote off half the room immediately to back their favorite. I like DG and Green, and I want to see them live action. The first two have set the bar low, SS especially. A wild cat O might put up more than 10 points. This "competition" is biased, and the set up is suspect. No disagreement here.
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This year IMO will be painful for the fans.
DW will likely be the starter. That is bad enough. Monken will have little choice if he does not play well.
It will be a quick hook. The organization knows that come March of 27 DW will be cut. Berry has structured his deal. Haslam is well aware of the deal and how the team is financially structured.
SS will play at some point. Injury or bad play by DW will make SS the starter.
Both DW and SS are faced with an opportunity and also the chance that they may be on another team after the year is over or possibly before the year is over.
Doors open and close in the NFL. Another team could be put into a position that they need a quarterback and another door may open.
IMO the organization is locked into the 27 draft. In 2027 the expectations for the Browns will not be what they are now. The Browns will have three drafts in place building a roster for a new quarterback. In addition they will have more cap space to spend and augment the roster with free agents.
The organization knows this year is a throw away year. They want to see improvement but their plans are in place.
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That's it in a nutshell. We can all see what kind of a year it's going to be. It's a year of development for our young players and look towards the " 27 draft to get our QB of the future. It's sad that this season hasn't even started and we're looking at 2027. Another long painful year for us indeed.
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No doubt we can't trade Watson. It would take a nearly impossible hand of cards to fall, and even then we wouldn't get anything with any value. It might not be all that painful a season. We are all pretty numb to what happens on the field after years of pain and it still isn't written we won't be able to run the ball and get just enough out of the passing game to at least look somewhat credible.
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I don't think the Browns will be embarrassed.
There is talent on the team. They are good enough to look competitive.
If you win 5 games or 8 games who cares other than the impact on the draft order.
The players from the last two drafts will make things interesting. They will become the core of the team along with Verse and a few others.
It really is all about the college quarterbacks and which one we end up drafting.
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Seems every year the last 6 years has been a " throwaway " year
Or a development year .
I mean when was the last time this franchise was picked to win the North ?
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This year IMO will be painful for the fans.
DW will likely be the starter. That is bad enough. Monken will have little choice if he does not play well.
It will be a quick hook. The organization knows that come March of 27 DW will be cut. Berry has structured his deal. Haslam is well aware of the deal and how the team is financially structured.
SS will play at some point. Injury or bad play by DW will make SS the starter.
Both DW and SS are faced with an opportunity and also the chance that they may be on another team after the year is over or possibly before the year is over.
Doors open and close in the NFL. Another team could be put into a position that they need a quarterback and another door may open.
IMO the organization is locked into the 27 draft. In 2027 the expectations for the Browns will not be what they are now. The Browns will have three drafts in place building a roster for a new quarterback. In addition they will have more cap space to spend and augment the roster with free agents.
The organization knows this year is a throw away year. They want to see improvement but their plans are in place. My pie-in-the-sky hope for this year is that we make it to the end before turning to Green to be our savior.
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