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Browns Stump Mitchell Interview

Baker Mayfield career playoff stats: 64.5% Comp. 267 Yds/Game 12 TD 3 INT 105.9 Rating.

So you're saying it was okay to let Baker go because we don't need a good NFL QB, we need a great one or bust? Well... you got the bust on the big gamble and we're going to be feeling it for a few more years.

Personally, I prefer the San Francisco model. Build a great team and find a good QB, hoping to hit it big with a less expensive QB. I think that's the best model, barring the chance to get Mahomes or Burrow or Allen. Sorry, but here in Texas, I got every Texans game and Watson was really good, but it seemed like their defense was terrible and they were always playing from behind after his first season or so. Watson was never great in the playoffs. Watson was never as good as Burrow or Mahomes or Allen or Lamar.

We mortgaged the future on the belief Watson was a superhero.

If we end up with Sanders, who is no doubt more mature than Baker coming out of college, I hope we don't make the same mistake and dump him because he's not Mahomes or Allen or Burrow or Lamar. If he's only a top 12 NFL QB, let's ride it for a while and not blow everything up again because Sanders is only good.
 
Odds you hit on a QB outside of the top-10 overall picks is at 4.7%.
I posted it elsewhere. In the last 10 years, 85 QB's have been drafted outside of the top-10, and 4 have hit. Lamar, Hurts, Prescott, and Purdy.

So build the team and find a good QB later, is one lonnnnng shot.
 
OconRecon said:
Odds you hit on a QB outside of the top-10 overall picks is at 4.7%.
I posted it elsewhere. In the last 10 years, 85 QB's have been drafted outside of the top-10, and 4 have hit. Lamar, Hurts, Prescott, and Purdy.

So build the team and find a good QB later, is one lonnnnng shot.
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You misunderstand. While building a good team, you're constantly looking for a QB. If you get the chance to draft a Mahomes or such, you do it. If you get the chance to draft a potential top 15 QB (Sanders, Ward), you do it. If you get the chance to draft a potential good back-up QB, you do it.

The point is, your chance of getting a generational QB is slim to none, so you can't base your franchise on the hope for a Burrow.
 
Martin Eden said:
100%. But it seems a few people on this forum only want to draft generational QBs or nothing.
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OMG that's a concept I do not get!

The "unless you think he's THE guy" stuff. What a bunch of crap. Outside of the last name Manning, every drafted QB had a knock, and or, didn't fulfill the Super Bowl expectation.

None of the first QB's off the board in the last decade have won a Super Bowl. But, top-10 drafted QB's have.

Draft one you think who can be successful, and if it turns in to more, then great. Otherwise, you'll wait around and guess forever with decades of misery while doing so.

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Addendum - the Browns have drafted two generational edges with the first overall pick. Courtney Brown - flop, and Myles Garrett - HOF. Neither resulted in more wins. Which is why Myles is basically saying "trade me to someone with a quarterback". He knows. And if our response is to attempt to draft his replacement? I'll go bonkers lol. And frankly, will do nothing but prove Myles to be right, in that, this organization sees him leave for a QB because without it you have nothing, and what do the Browns do? Skip the position AGAIN.
 
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