This tracks: The first quarterback taken after the Jets pick goes on to be a hall of famer.
Baker Mayfield - Round 1, Pick 1 (1st overall) by the Cleveland Browns
Sam Darnold - Round 1, Pick 3 (3rd overall) by the New York Jets
Josh Allen - Round 1, Pick 7 (7th overall) by the Buffalo Bills
Josh Rosen - Round 1, Pick 10 (10th overall) by the Arizona Cardinals
Lamar Jackson - Round 1, Pick 32 (32nd overall) by the Baltimore Ravensu/Conflixxion
6 yr. ago
Browns will screw up either the 1 or the 4. Whichever is not screwed up will be a pro-bowler - which will leave the fanbase exactly where it has been for the last 40 years.
1 Cleveland Browns Baker Mayfield QB Oklahoma
4 Cleveland Browns Denzel Ward CB Ohio State
Mayfield: 0x Pro Bowl
Ward: 2x Pro Bowl
It’s not fair to say Mayfield was a bad pick, but the Browns definitely screwed him up.
That 2020 season was wild for them. 11-5 and 3rd in the division
I’m gonna stand by the fact that Allen or Lamar would’ve been ruined by us. They both went to teams that had far more competent coaching and roster building.
The Bills put Josh Allen into a massively shit situation when they drafted him. It was probably the most talent devoid offense an NFL team has put out.
He had no oline and no skilled players.
On the line were two starting linemen that were out of the league the next year including the center, two of the others lasted another 1-2 yrs as backups and the best player on the line was a rookie Dawkins.
At skilled positions, Kelvin Benjamin was his first option and he was out of the league after the season along with basically every other receiver. They had Zay Jones too but he was a mess and had a manic Spice/PCP incident around his rookie year and they ended up getting rid of him 2.5 years into his tenure. And 30yr old Shady had completely fallen off that year
Baker was given adequate talent around him so I don’t think the Browns did more than the Bills in terms of roster building specifically offensively. Defensively is a different story.
And coaching never interfered too much with Allen’s development. Allen accredits most of his development on private coaching in the offseason with Jordan Palmer and a biomechanics lab
I think Lamar would have probably been wasted anywhere else or at least most places outside of Baltimore. They took a huge gamble in building the offense around a running QB and hoped his passing developed and it did. They went all in and I think few teams would do that.
Andy Reid is just about the only other coach I would trust, to not fuck it up.
Both of them got screwed at first. Denzel just stuck around long enough that he could finally blossom into the Warden of the North that he is.
I think Bake will be all one of the big all-time what ifs. If he had been on a functional team and had proper development as an NFL quarterback, he could be in a very different place now. It’s also possible that he can still be a late bloomer, he still has flashes of brilliance.
Bradley Chubb predictions Weren’t bad
Funny how almost everyone hated josh allen and loved darnold and rosen
“John Elway will make a questionable decision and draft Josh Allen at #5. Allen will sit for two years under Case Keenum, who leads the Broncos to the playoffs both years, and then starts once Keenum signs a nicer deal with the Pat Shurmur-lead Giants. Allen will bust, badly. Broncos fans call for Elway’s head as Keenum goes and wins a ring or two with the Giants.”
I mean, just needed to swap it, Keenum end up being Allen’s backup.
If your going to make a terrible take at least stand on your bullshit. Reddit should take away the delete button.
Top comment: Next qb taken after the jets will be a HOFer
The jets picked Sam Darnold. The next qb taken after him was Josh Allen. That aged well
2018 was 5 years ago??!?!
Unfortunately
/u/mvelocityp saved from eating that jalapeño.
A commenter from that thread mentioned the Steelers having a Top 3 RB and at that moment my brain remembered that Leveon Bell once existed.
RemindMe! 5 years “Repost for easy karma”
Thread winner
Mason Rudolph will be better than josh rosen
That was actually a really good take. It’s not that Rudolph is anything special, but Rosen is that bad.
I like the twist that the Browns actually didn’t mess up picks 1 and 4, but messed up far, far worse later on.
Mostly just bad jokes. Reddit hasn’t changed.
“RemindMe! 5 years “Repost for easy karma”
u/technoviking94 you missed your shot