Kids everywhere are running to their "safe" place.

Matt Hasselbeck sure hasn’t been anything to brag about lately either.

Wallace is nothing like Cribbs. Wallace has a stronger arm, is more accurate, and has actually played QB in the NFL.

I was referencing DQ’s twitter ramblings earlier this offseason as “whining”.

And I don’t blame the NFLPA, I blame the owners

Millionaires arguing with Billionaires. Isn’t life sweet?

I can’t crap on the owners too much, because I haven’t heard them complaining yet. On the other hand, DeMaurice Smith is sounding the alarms every freaking day with his “14 out of 10” and telling anyone who will listen that the owners are lying snakes.

I think that there is plenty of blame to go around, but DeMaurice Smith is in way over his head.

I also think that any FA who we’d sign who could come in and play at DQ’s level would be way more expensive than DQ himself.

Bowens did it last year, and I am willing to bet that Fujita could do it this year. I think we are a better team with DQ, just not by that much.

You forget that McCutcheon was until Joe Thomas, the best Brown draft pick since ’99.

McCutcheon was a good bit better than mediocre.

but this point is irrelevant. it is comparing apples to a baseball field.

the only similarity between DQ and these guys is that we could get a third possibly for DQ when healthy and these guys are guys who have been drafted in the third round. This point is irrelevant because:

a) these guys were not drafted by the current browns regime. We cannot say how the current browns regime will do drafting in the third round, especially drafting linebackers…at least from what you have put together.

As an example, here is a list of some of the players the eagles have taken in the third with Heckert: Brian Westbrook, Stewart Bradley, Chris Gocong, Derrick Burgess. Not only is this a more accurate way to analyze the hypothetical of the third round pick but it also makes me feel more confident.

b) none of these players are linebackers! certain positions have certain success rates. like B19K has said, it is hard for a QB out of the first round to make it. WRs bust in every round. Bust rates for RBs after the second tend to be fairly high too. This tells us NOTHING about drafting linebackers because none of these players are linebackers.

c) DQ was a second round pick. He wasn’t taken in the third. The only thing I said is that I believe 50% of ILBs taken in the between the 60th and 120th pick could be at least as good as DQ (who was taken 34th overall). I would say its risky to pick any one guy out of them and say he will be as good, but I think in this draft, there were a fair number of ILBs in the third round that could gve as much of an impact as DQ.

I looked at all LBs drafted in the draft in the third round between 1998 and 2007. I looked at names I recognized, stats, and a bit of tape. There were about 50 linebackers drafted and about 21 ended up being about as good as DQ is. that is 41% of guys drafted A ROUND ahead of him became about as good. I think betting 50/50 in this draft isn’t a huge stretch.

I am saying that I think that 50% of the LBs drafted in this period in the 2010 draft could end up being as good of players as DQ. obviously we are talking about the draft so it could easily not happen. These guys are definitely not better than DQ now, I am saying there is a decent chance they could be someday.

Taking the 2006 draft class as an example, picks 52 (20th in 2nd round) through 117 (#20 in the 4th round) these are the players I put on DQ’s level, and I am being generous:

Greg Jennings
Jeremy Trueblood
Maurice Jones-Drew
Tony Scheffler
Darryl Tapp
Eric Winston
Chris Gocong
Jerious Norwood
Charlie Whitehurst
Freddie Keiaho
Owen Daniels
Max Jean-Gilles
Brad Smith
Gabe Watson
Jahri Evans
Jason Avant
Leon Washington

In other words, 17 out of a possible 65 players, or about one out of four are on DQ’s level.

As for linebackers taken in those slots:
Abdul Hodge
Anthony Schlegel
Jon Alston
Clint Ingram
James Anderson
Keiaho
Darnell Bing
Leon Williams
Stephen Tulloch

true, true.

Bross refuses to admit a number of things.

THANK YOU! Bross refuses to admit that a talented front 3 impacts the average yards per run play

I never refused to admit that the front 3 has any sort of impact. don’t put words into my mouth. I was merely pointing out that when you talk about DQs yards per run play he was involved in, we had starting ILBs next to him that were averaging less with the SAME front 3.