Quote:Taking Bortles with Clowney still on the board is a scary notion if true. 

 

This whole Cleveland was going to take Bortles at 4 thing is starting to reak a little bit like the excuses Gene & co gave for not trading down because they thought Miami was going to take Alualu at 12. I don't need to hear about Caldwell's conviction for Bortles and him being the pick all along as some sort of justification of the pick because that kind of stuff should be obvious. And as said the previous staff acted the same way when the Alualu pick was made. "Oh we truly believe in Bortles".....well, no [BAD WORD REMOVED].... 

 

Everything I've read, the 2 QB that Cleveland wanted from this draft were either Manziel or Bridgewater. It seems people are trying hard to manufacture a case that Cleveland was going to take Bortles, but I just don't see it. 

 

There are significant differences between these two situations.

 

1)  DTs can be found anywhere in the draft.  Franchise QBs...not so much.

 

2)  At no point in time was Tyson Alualu believed to be a top ten caliber pick by ANYBODY other than Gene Smith.  Not even Alualu himself.  Since at least the combine, Bortles has consistently been deemed a top ten pick at least, and according to some projections was seen as the top overall pick.

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