Big John Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Osweiler was released by the Browns today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorttynaz Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 And this is why the Browns will always be the Browns. They paid 16 million dollars for a second round pick. not a player just a pick. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdko Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 1 hour ago, Shorttynaz said: And this is why the Browns will always be the Browns. They paid 16 million dollars for a second round pick. not a player just a pick. They had an insane amount of cap space to burn and traded a 4th round pick for a 2nd round pick. The money didn't mean anything to them anyway, and if he somehow had a resurgence in camp and won the starting job they'd have a QB. Otherwise, as they did, dump him and be happy with the pick. Win/Win situation imo. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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loaf Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 he was reliably inaccurate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdko Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 12 hours ago, LordOpie said: but what FA player could they have landed with that $16mil? who has a link to this year's FA group? What player could they have gotten who received $12-13 million guaranteed? I'm guessing that CLE would've had to have paid a little more guaranteed since they're CLE? And they could've had that proven veteran player now instead of an unknown rookie next year. That's true. Although they could spend the $16 on Osweiler, and still spend another $12-13 on a FA, they were swimming in that much cap room lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Brown Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 On 9/1/2017 at 10:31 PM, Shorttynaz said: And this is why the Browns will always be the Browns. They paid 16 million dollars for a second round pick. not a player just a pick. And they had something like 100 million in open cap space and I'd assume not much of a cap hit in following years. This was certainly almost always the plan no? When you are a billionaire owner why does that matter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAUgrad Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 Ugggggg, he needs to just go away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrab Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 On Sunday, September 03, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Bobby Brown said: And they had something like 100 million in open cap space and I'd assume not much of a cap hit in following years. This was certainly almost always the plan no? When you are a billionaire owner why does that matter? Some people cannot see that, and just go along with the "Browns are a horribly run franchise and always will be" line that is heard so often. Its like the burning river people still bring that up thinking its like that. This was definitely part of the plan, give him a chance to contribute, if he cannot do so at a certain level then just let him go. It was an NBA like deal to buy (or trade up for) a 2nd round pick. Now if your feeling is the Browns screw up many of their top picks, hard to argue with that, but jury is still mostly out on the current regime's ability to make draft picks. Was just reading an article asking why they didn't just keep him if they had to pay him anyway, and it mentioend that the Browns never looked at the $16M as Oz salary, it was the cost to get the draft pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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