Quote:Do you think the Browns coach has some kind of vendetta against Bortles and the Jaguars?

 

http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ss...nd_br.html

 

<p style="color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">BEREA, Ohio -- Browns coach Mike Pettine praised Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles today, but re-iterated that the Browns had no plans to draft him at No. 4 and was surprised the Jaguars took him at No. 3.

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<p style="color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;">"I think it surprised a lot of people that he went there,'' Pettine said. "I think a lot of the league was surprised when you just kind of looked at the mocks and what was going on, and assessing who was going to take one. I thought they covered their tracks well. We knew that they liked him, thinking maybe, he could've potentially gone to them later in the draft, but he was a kid that was high on our board.''

That comes off more as a face saving move than anything else. 

 

In the end, it's completely irrelevant much like this subject.  Caldwell has said all along that Bortles was the guy they were targeting.  If they felt they could trade down and still get him they would have.  Clearly that didn't happen.  I'm feeling confident in saying it's okay for some folks here to move on from the 2014 draft. It's over. 

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