Mind Character Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Free agency couldn't be any more important for a team than our team this year. We have tons of picks to add tons of rookies, but we need impact veteran talent to uplift our roster and give us a chance at winning. Here's a look at the FA talent pool based on our Team Needs ----------------------------------------------- Our FS Room: One of the biggest detriments to the team was having two strong safeties starting at the same time 1 with only in box skills (Derrick Kindred) and another rookie player unfamiliar with his position often played too far off the ball. We need a serious upgrade. FA Targets FSs Tier 1 Tre Boston FS Chargers Lamarcus Joyner FS Rams Eric Reid FS/SS 49ers Tier 2 N/a -------------------------------------------------------------------- Our WR Room: Ricardo Louis will not be on a 53 man roster next year. Higgins is a number 4/5 receiver with ultra competitiveness and fight. Josh Gordon may smoke his life away. Corey Coleman can't stay healthy. This room must be upgraded. FA Targets WRs Tier 1 Terrelle Pryor WR Washington Paul Richardson WR Seattle Jordan Matthews WR Buffalo Allen Robinson WR Jags Jarvis Landry WR Miami Tier 2 Cody Lattimer WR Broncos -------------------------- Our CB Room: The main issue with our CB room is that they cannot play man coverage. Mccourty is too slow, Jamar Taylor is too trash, and BBC was too hurt/not good enough. PFF makes fans believe Jason Mccourty is a football god rating him their #23 CB in the league after having him ranked #1/#2 after the first few games. He was exposed in man coverage over and over the last 10 games. To be fair, it was a career year as he's been one of the worst rated CBs in the league the past 3 years. He's a number 3 CB at best on a good team and still has enough in the tank to impact winning in a supporting role. Jamar Taylor is toilet water. He played the wrong assignments all year and needed to be covered up by the safeties. He's a 4th or 5th CB at best. Briean Boddy-Calhoun is a great nickel CB with the toughness to compete and play on the boundary. He's not a star although PFF also makes fans think he's a god. Injury hurt his play toward the end of the season. FA Targets CBs Tier 1 Trumaine Johnson CB Rams Kyle Fuller CB Bears Rashaan Melvin CB Colts Patrick Robinson CB Eagles Tier 2 Prince Amukamara CB Bears Morris Claiborne CB Jets Brent Grimes CB Bucs Malcolm Butler CB Patriots ----------------------------- Our DE Room: A lot of great young talent whose positional impact can be put over into a serious force by adding a supremely talented player through the draft or FA. FA Targets DEs Tier 1 Ezekial Ansah DE Detroit -------------------------------------- Our QB Room: Nothing needs to be said. FA Targets QBs AJ Mccaron QB Bengals (UFA pending Arbitration) Sam Bradford QB Vikings Case Keenum QB Vikings ------------------------------------- My Hopeful FA Signings: Lamarcus Joyner FS Rams -OR- Tre Boston FS Chargers - 5yrs/52Mil/22GTD Ezekeil Ansah DE Detroit - 4yrs/40Mil/14GTD Terrelle Pryor WR Washington - 4 yrs/ 25Mil/ 8GTD Paul Richardson WR Seattle - 4 yrs/ 18Mil/ 5 GTD AJ Mccaron QB Bengals - 3 yrs/ 45 Mil/ 18 GTD Kyle Fuller CB Bears -OR- Trumaine Johnson CB Rams - 4 yrs/42Mil/11GTD Rashaan Melvin CB Colts -OR- Patrick Robinson CB Eagles - 3yrs/ 20Mil/7GTD **even with all that money spent we'd still be top 24 in Salary cap available the next year. So, we could structure teh contracts such that cutting a player here or there could put us back in the top 15 available cap space going forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttoGrahamsGhost Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Mind Character said: Our FS Room: One of the biggest detriments to the team was having two strong safeties starting at the same time 1 with only in box skills (Derrick Kindred) and another rookie player unfamiliar with his position often played too far off the ball. We need a serious upgrade. FA Targets FSs Tier 1 Tre Boston FS Chargers Lamarcus Joyner FS Rams Eric Reid FS/SS 49ers Tier 2 N/a I could see either Joyner or Boston. I don’t know how much interest Reid is going to have based off of personal choices. But he is a good player. 1 hour ago, Mind Character said: Our WR Room: Ricardo Louis will not be on a 53 man roster next year. Higgins is a number 4/5 receiver with ultra competitiveness and fight. Josh Gordon may smoke his life away. Corey Coleman can't stay healthy. This room must be upgraded. FA Targets WRs Tier 1 Terrelle Pryor WR Washington Paul Richardson WR Seattle Jordan Matthews WR Buffalo Allen Robinson WR Jags Jarvis Landry WR Miami Tier 2 Cody Lattimer WR Broncos My favorites from this group is Matthews, Robinson, and Landry. I would love to bring in Landry. I think he is the best of the group. 1 hour ago, Mind Character said: Our CB Room: The main issue with our CB room is that they cannot play man coverage. Mccourty is too slow, Jamar Taylor is too trash, and BBC was too hurt/not good enough. PFF makes fans believe Jason Mccourty is a football god rating him their #23 CB in the league after having him ranked #1/#2 after the first few games. He was exposed in man coverage over and over the last 10 games. To be fair, it was a career year as he's been one of the worst rated CBs in the league the past 3 years. He's a number 3 CB at best on a good team and still has enough in the tank to impact winning in a supporting role. Jamar Taylor is toilet water. He played the wrong assignments all year and needed to be covered up by the safeties. He's a 4th or 5th CB at best. Briean Boddy-Calhoun is a great nickel CB with the toughness to compete and play on the boundary. He's not a star although PFF also makes fans think he's a god. Injury hurt his play toward the end of the season. FA Targets CBs Tier 1 Trumaine Johnson CB Rams Kyle Fuller CB Bears Rashaan Melvin CB Colts Patrick Robinson CB Eagles Tier 2 Prince Amukamara CB Bears Morris Claiborne CB Jets Brent Grimes CB Bucs Malcolm Butler CB Patriots I think BBC has the most positives going forward but I don’t think Mccourty was a bad signing. Taylor’s play improved from when he was in Miami. Not sure our 1/2 cbs are as good as we would like them though. I still hold hope for Howard Wilson to be a good player. I would love them to bring in Fuller or Butler or both. I like Melvin and Johnson but thought Johnson played more FS than CB. Im not a big Prince, Claiborne, or Grimes fan. Grimes mostly because of his wife. 1 hour ago, Mind Character said: Our DE Room: A lot of great young talent whose positional impact can be put over into a serious force by adding a supremely talented player through the draft or FA. FA Targets DEs Tier 1 Ezekial Ansah DE Detroit Ansah would be nice. But hopefully Dallas can’t resign Demarcus Lawerence and we can win him over with all of our monies. 1 hour ago, Mind Character said: Our QB Room: Nothing needs to be said. FA Targets QBs AJ Mccaron QB Bengals (UFA pending Arbitration) Sam Bradford QB Vikings Case Keenum QB Vikings Our QB room is pretty sorry. My preference is Keenum and QB at 1 overall. Or Mccaron and going QB at 1. If we gran Cousins I would have a hard time thinking they take a QB at 1. 1 hour ago, Mind Character said: My Hopeful FA Signings: Lamarcus Joyner FS Rams -OR- Tre Boston FS Chargers - 5yrs/52Mil/22GTD Ezekeil Ansah DE Detroit - 4yrs/40Mil/14GTD Terrelle Pryor WR Washington - 4 yrs/ 25Mil/ 8GTD Paul Richardson WR Seattle - 4 yrs/ 18Mil/ 5 GTD AJ Mccaron QB Bengals - 3 yrs/ 45 Mil/ 18 GTD Kyle Fuller CB Bears -OR- Trumaine Johnson CB Rams - 4 yrs/42Mil/11GTD Rashaan Melvin CB Colts -OR- Patrick Robinson CB Eagles - 3yrs/ 20Mil/7GTD **even with all that money spent we'd still be top 24 in Salary cap available the next year. So, we could structure teh contracts such that cutting a player here or there could put us back in the top 15 available cap space going forward. My Hopeful FA Signings: FS: Same as you but I think my preference is Boston ~ 10 per yr (back loaded 6 in 18) WR: I want Landry 4 yrs/52 Mil/23 GTD ~ 13 per yr (16 in 18) CB: Fuller 5 yrs/60 Mil/28 GTD or ~ 12 per yr (10 in 18) Butler 3 yrs/27 Mil/15 GTD ~ 9 per yr DE: Lawrence 4 yrs/50 Mil/27 GTD ~ 12.5 per yr (7 in 18, back loaded) QB: Keenum 3 yrs/42 Mil/22 GTD ~ 14 per yr (20 in yr one) *BONUS* RB: Bell 4 yrs/62 Mil/30 GTD (not gonna happen)~ 15.5 per yr (18 yr one) Money spent is free agency 2018- 77 Mil There is almost $109 Mil in cap space with no impending FA this year. That would leave $32 Million to sign Rookies. Which should be more than enough. This is just a wish list. Nothing more. Not a projection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NudeTayne Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 Nice write-up, @Mind Character. Joyner would make a lot of sense, and Gregg has familiarity. Boston is a nice piece as well. That said, what about Kai? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NudeTayne Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 What do you think about Shon Coleman going forward? Have we seen enough positives to consider RT as being taken care of? What about Trotter? He's seemed meh to me though not especially bad. In a deeper center class, do we upgrade there? I ask this because our pass blocking was not good this last year, despite the free pass the offensive line continues to receive. My eyeballs say our run blocking is decent/pretty good. I'd like to be great at least at run blocking OR pass blocking. Which lineman needs upgrading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mind Character Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 52 minutes ago, NudeTayne said: Nice write-up, @Mind Character. Joyner would make a lot of sense, and Gregg has familiarity. Boston is a nice piece as well. That said, what about Kai? He gone. Will be signed by the Steelers. You know what happens after that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mind Character Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 43 minutes ago, NudeTayne said: What do you think about Shon Coleman going forward? Have we seen enough positives to consider RT as being taken care of? What about Trotter? He's seemed meh to me though not especially bad. In a deeper center class, do we upgrade there? I ask this because our pass blocking was not good this last year, despite the free pass the offensive line continues to receive. My eyeballs say our run blocking is decent/pretty good. I'd like to be great at least at run blocking OR pass blocking. Which lineman needs upgrading? We need an OT in case Joe has arm issues. And another just in case Coleman regresses.he can be upgraded. I think Tretter played well despite early struggles. Coleman was really bad in pass pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LETSGOBROWNIES Posted January 1, 2018 Share Posted January 1, 2018 I’d be looking to extend Duke and Shelton too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnies20 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 3 hours ago, NudeTayne said: Nice write-up, @Mind Character. Joyner would make a lot of sense, and Gregg has familiarity. Boston is a nice piece as well. That said, what about Kai? Joyner going to get PAID. He was rated top 5 S by PFF in 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnies20 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 My dream FA would be Joyner Amukamara - underrated and has really developed into a solid perimeter corner. McCarron Landry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie man Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 We arent' going to get anybody honestly we ******* suck I'd hope for Allen Robinson or Davante Adams, but it aint gonna happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttoGrahamsGhost Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 2 minutes ago, brownie man said: We arent' going to get anybody honestly we ******* suck I'd hope for Allen Robinson or Davante Adams, but it aint gonna happen Adams resigned for something like 14 M a year already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LETSGOBROWNIES Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Just now, brownie man said: We arent' going to get anybody honestly we ******* suck I'd hope for Allen Robinson or Davante Adams, but it aint gonna happen Idk man, I was listening to Joe Thomas’s podcast and Kirksey was talking about how he still likes Hue and such, so maybe players have a different view. He was always well liked before he came here. Plus, money talks and bulltish walks and we have all the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LETSGOBROWNIES Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 1 minute ago, OttoGrahamsGhost said: Adams resigned for something like 14 M a year already. That too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosko1616 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 You don’t have to like the browns history to like being paid top 10 at your position. We’re going to have to over pay to get ppl. Fine. We might want to try and get some guys to buy into being apart of a legacy if we were to turn it around. Whatever we’re going to have to do we’re going to do to get our guys. McCarron - starter, familiarity with hue, was successful with you. Carlos Hyde - starter, from Cleveland,money Allen Robinson - Starter, 1 year prove it deal and top 5 money for WR, extend early if successful. Joyner doesn’t like Gregg Williams. Gregg benched him. Trumaine Johnson - was better with Gregg Williams, starter top 5 corner money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawgX Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 I'd definitely like Johnson, and he obviously has a connection to Williams. What's LA's cap situation? I doubt they'd want to let him leave. I'd also really like to get Jarvis Landry. He'd be an excellent compliment to Gordon and Coleman. But like @LETSGOBROWNIES said, we absolutely need to extend Duke, and ideally Shelton as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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