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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
The Browns are NOT employing "Moneyball".
NFL teams have to spend within 99% of the Cap Limit over a 4 year period. Baseball has no such rule.
The Browns are NOT going out and getting guys on the cheap, they're loading up on draft picks in order to select the best player that fits there system that's available.
They have SIX picks in the Top 100 in 2018 and they'll probably continue to stockpile talent and move around in the draft.
It won't be very long until they're a contender year in and year out.
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Two years in a row they traded out of a top 15 pick.
And they hit their cap minimum because they traded for osweiler so they can absorb his ridiculous contract in order to hit the cap floor.
Again, nothing wrong with stockpiling picks and giving away veterans in a rebuild. The strategy isn't wrong. I just wonder if there's some arrogance in constantly trading out of high first round picks and believing your entire roster should be built in the later rounds. Especially at the qb position.
And depodesta is a moneyball guy. Its fair to ask if he's trying to prove that he can win on value picks. Maybe he can. But there's clearly an agenda.