Let’s do something. Let’s play a game where we guess a) the team Garrett gets traded to, and b) the compensation. Point system:
Correct team: 15 points
Correct division of team: 5 points
Correct # of draft picks given up: 4 points
Correct round of draft picks: 4 points
Number of players given up: 3 points
I’ll start:
-Chicago
-NFC North
-2 draft picks
-1 first, 1 second
-1 player
My guess- Garrett traded to Chicago Bears for 2025 1st, 2026 2nd, and CB Kyler Gordon.
I was hesitant to put a player in there, but trying to spice it up. (-3) points if you guess a player and none are sent to Browns.
Of course, Cleveland could find it near impossible to trade Garrett thus making this moot.
After reading a few articles on the cap ramifications for the browns I really can’t see Cleveland moving him. Financially it makes zero sense for them. But would he sit out? Is this all a ploy to get a long term deal done with the browns?
While Garrett is known to be difficult to move I will stick with him getting the extension with the Browns and highest paid edge. The difference between this situation and the Watson situation is that Garrett will be worth the first part of his contract.
I wonder honestly if he is going to the RAMS. Its a big market, and the NFL REALLY wants this market to bounce back. They get rid of Kupp and I think his ultimate asking price will not be two first round picks. Just because of his age. I just can’t see a team sacrificing two firsts or more on a player turning 30 this season and then paying his astronomical top dollar on his next contract. Its too risky and leaves you nowhere to go if he doesn’t work out. maybe one first and a third or something. He’d be paired with Jared Verse and the rookie 24 DT from Florida St (blanking on the name). That would be a very nice DLine…
After further review I’d put the pop% at the following:
Stays a Brown 93%
Commanders 1.5%
Bears 1.5%
Rams 1%
Detroit 1%
Philly 0.5%
KC 0.5%
Bills 0.5%
Packers 0.5%
I’m not sure I agree with that. The cap is expected to increase 25% or so over next few years. There’s ways to work these things out. Been saying for years “how the hell can *team x afford player x”? It’s because nfl teams operate like the Bluth family. There’s always money in the banana stand. The Lions are incredibly healthy cap wise, and with the expected growth in revenue and cap it won’t be money (on the Lions side) preventing this trade. It might be money on Cleveland side. Trading Garrett would absolutely cripple their already bunged up cap. I’m going to dream on this for the next bit because that pairing would be lethal, assuming Hutch returns to normal self. But I really really doubt he gets moved now. Thus making my little game here pointless. But let’s face it the next 2.5 months are brutal outside of a flurry in March when tampering starts.
I’m thinking the Cardinals would love to take advantage of Kupp not being in LA, anymore.
I would adjust the Detroit # to .01%.
Sorry, but, this is not the way we do business. We build through the draft. Fantasies are all good and fine, but, they are fantasy.
Then they’ll never win it all most likely. KC is a rare example of a team built mostly through the draft. But they had to make a big trade up AND catch lightning in a bottle by getting a generational QB. We do not have that. But their GM also makes pretty massive trades. We need as much top end talent to compete with KC, hell even Philadelphia in the NFC. Roseman is great at draft AND spends big in FA and trades. And lo and behold these two teams have been in the Super Bowl 2 of last 3. We can clutch our nuts and grasp onto the beans and Sheila’s cap savings all we want if that makes you feel better. But if Brad can’t sit at the big boy table and add top end talent that he didn’t draft we’ll be stuck in another form of purgatory-the almost did it club. Holmes has been excellent. But guess what we don’t have high end draft picks anymore. We’re going to be picking in the mid to high 20’s for a bit. We’re very very likely not getting anymore hutch’s and sewell’s via the draft. I have faith that Holmes sees what we all should see. It’s time to strike and be an actual villain.
And I’m not saying they must get Myles Garrett but he needs to add top end players to this D. They need multiple DL adds. Allim likely out til November, hutch coming off a shattered leg, reader not quite what we hoped for. As for t stands now the DL is not looking good at all for September
I have no problem adding DL, but this is a very pessimistic view of things. Hutch might have been able to come back this week, he’ll be 100% ready to go for the season. Sure he might be a little rusty, but by then everyone will be.
Reader was always a complementary piece meant to play next to elite talent. He’s never gonna be the guy who makes plays on his own. He’s the guy who stuffs the run and takes up blockers so the other guys can make plays. Once we get those guys back, we’ll see why we paid what we paid for him.
Zadarius is similar. Having Hutch back will be huge for him. He’s an excellent #2 but not a top guy. He’ll thrive from all the attention Hutch gets. I wouldn’t be surprised by ten sacks.
Yes, losing Alim hurts. That will hurt us the most, probably all year (even when he gets back he’s not likely to be himself, probably not until 2026). So for me that 3T spot is the most important for this year. However if we bring Levi back - and unlike others I think that’s highly possible - I think he can give us a decent percentage of what Alim gives us. Maybe 75-80%. To me that would be a good starting unit in the league.
Now it would still be thin which is why I’m still 100% for adding pieces, I just don’t think the picture’s quite as dire as you’re painting it.
I was admittedly being dramatic get my point across. But after what happened to the D this year I will, and probably rightfully so, think worst case scenario. I think Brad should too. I think 97 will be fine but our interior and DE2 spots are very dicey at the moment. Nowhere near what the eagles are fielding.
See I think we have to keep in mind what an anomaly this past season was. Brad didn’t leave us thin at the beginning of the season - if the season had been a normal damn season. If we overreact and pump an unreasonable amount of resources into it, we’ll weaken ourselves somewhere else. And with our luck you can bet that’s where the injuries would hit us next year lol.
I mean could you imagine if those injuries had occurred on the OL instead? If we lost Sewell, Ragnow, Decker and Glasgow for all/most of the season, and new signing Zeitler was trying to hold it all together in the Reader role? That would have been a real catastrophe. No way we finish 15-2, hell we would have been lucky to make the playoffs.
And everyone on here would be crucifying Brad for our lack of OL depth, and proposing we draft at least 3 new OL with our first 3 picks. That’s what I think is happening right now on the DL. I don’t think it’s in as bad a shape as it seemed last year.