Is There Any Upside For The Cleveland Browns This Year?
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00:05 Well, the upside would be that Deshaun Watson recaptures the form that he had
00:10 for Houston, that Amari Cooper proves to be very reliable,
00:13 very dependable as a number one wide receiver.
00:16 Elijah Moore plays as well as he did as a rookie.
00:20 Donovan Peoples-Jones and
00:21 Cedric Tillman are really good rotational wide receivers.
00:25 David Njoku continues what he was able to build on last year.
00:28 I mean, Njoku has had stretches where he has looked like a really good tight end.
00:33 Like sort of your memory of David Njoku is not that his career best
00:37 is 600 yards and four touchdowns.
00:40 He's done that three separate times.
00:43 I don't know, I feel sort of the same way.
00:45 I'm like, David Njoku is a really good tight end.
00:49 The issue is he does just go through those stretches where it's like,
00:52 I don't even remember that this guy played.
00:54 He had no stats.
00:55 He had three for 58.
00:57 He had three for 32.
00:58 He had one for 70 and one for 21.
01:00 I mean, last year in the fantasy football playoffs,
01:03 in the fantasy football championship week, week 17, he had one catch for 21 yards.
01:07 Part of it, and I get so sick of saying it, but
01:11 no team has a worse playoff situation than the Cleveland Browns.
01:15 They play three home games in the playoffs.
01:17 It's gonna be December in Ohio.
01:20 It's gonna be cold.
01:21 It's gonna be windy.
01:23 Their stadium, Craig, is right by a lake.
01:25 The stadium is built to create a windfall.
01:28 I mean, this is a team that needs a dome.
01:30 We've already gotten some of the conversation from Kevin Stefanski and
01:34 from the coaching staff.
01:36 Like, Deshaun Watson, he might be a little bit uncomfortable because this is such
01:40 a run focused scheme.
01:42 I mean, Kevin Stefanski wants to run the ball.
01:44 How is Deshaun Watson, who was the God, the sun, the sky, and
01:49 the air in Houston, it completely, everything ran through him in Houston.
01:55 It's not all gonna run through him in Cleveland.
01:57 So we'll see how that impacts him.
02:00 The guy to feel most excited about, obviously, is Nick Chubb,
02:03 who started out the season all the way back in May, being a late second round
02:06 pick.
02:07 I mean, he's up to a first round pick now.
02:08 He's kinda like the last pick of the first round.
02:12 I don't love taking Nick Chubb there because I don't think he's gonna catch
02:14 very many passes.
02:16 And that's sort of what you want out of a high-end running back.
02:18 Probably the guy I've drafted the most, and the guy I feel most excited to draft
02:22 on the entire roster, is Jerome Ford, the backup to Nick Chubb.
02:27 I mean, the backup to Nick Chubb is a pretty valuable role.
02:29 We saw Kareem Hunt excel in that over the last two years.
02:33 And then Elijah Moore.
02:33 I mean, I'm totally wanting to buy on Elijah Moore.
02:38 I think he's very talented.
02:39 I think his quarterback hated him.
02:41 I think his coach hated him in New York.
02:43 They traded him for nothing.
02:44 They got no return on that investment.
02:47 But I anticipate him being very good for the Browns this season.
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