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Originally Posted by RealSNR

Oh, and this is my last comment.

Another draft strategy the Browns have tried a lot is when they get a top 5 or 10 pick in the 1st round and they need a QB, they trade DOWN and acquire lots of picks. It seems somewhat decent at first. If you have needs everywhere on the team, get some more spins at the wheel and try to find more quality players. It makes sense on paper.

But the Browns have used this strategy MULTIPLE times and whiffed on all of the times they've employed it.

What's interesting is that while they've diversified their QB strategies very well in that span, there is ONE QB draft strategy they seem to like more than the others. They tend to love the idea of trading down for picks, and then using picks to trade back into the first round to take the leftovers of the 1st rounders in a given QB draft class. That's how ALL THREE of their bust 1st round QBs were acquired in the last 8 years.

Guess what they haven't tried much of? Standing your ground when you get a high pick, and just ****ing drafting the best QB that comes to you with that selection.

They're the Browns, so I'm not saying that's going to be the solution to all of their problems. But it's something they haven't tried at all since Tim Couch. That's the only instance of them drafting a QB with a top 5 pick.

And the Browns have had PLENTY of top 5 picks since that 1999 draft.

Or, you know, they could also sign shitty free agent QBs and trade for backups like they've been doing for a long time as well. It hasn't been entirely all about the bust QBs.

Shitty free agents and trade for backups

That sounds familiar...