(11-02-2017, 07:56 PM)D6 Wrote: If the Bengals organization, either the Brown Family, Marvin Lewis, or the key football in the front office thought A.J. McCarron realistically could be a Franchise QB, I don't think they would have traded him unless another team offered them the moon.That much more to a divisional opponent.  

A major reason why I thought this was a bad trade for the Browns is they likely would have passed on a QB in the 1st Round unless the value was through the roof. The impression the Browns give is they are accumulating and then throwing darts hoping to finally hit the target.

Yet Marvin Lewis sounded happy the Clowns botched the trade. Go figure. That to me indicates Mike Brown made an arbitrary decision without listening to Lewis.

I agree 100% on your second point. If the Browns had any level of competence, their QB would be Carson Wentz. Shasi Brown said during the draft process his strategy of collecting picks is to throw darts. If he misses, he can try again. That is a horrible draft strategy, as we have seen over and over again with the later picks they collect. To me if you need a guy who has been widely projected as a top five pick and have a top five pick, passing on him intentionally to keep trading down is asking for failure. Imagine what our defense would be like without Jalen Ramsey and Dante Fowler.

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