Brinson: "Browns Talking Too Much" This Offseason
From OBJ to Baker Mayfield, the Browns have fired a lot of shots this offseason, and Will Brinson has no idea why
From Odell Beckham Jr. taking shots at his former team, to Baker Mayfield taking shots at Daniel Jones, the Cleveland Browns have done a lot of talking this offseason.
And CBSSports.com senior NFL writer Will Brinson has no idea why.
“It just seems to me that the Browns have made a pretty big habit this offseason of unnecessarily firing shots at the Giants,” Brinson said on Reiter Than You. “I get that Odell Beckham was traded there, but . . . their identity is like this blue-collar, up-and-coming tough team, (and it’s) sort of been cast aside.”
Mayfield, when asked about Daniel Jones, said he “couldn’t believe” the Giants took the Duke product with the sixth overall pick.
“I love Baker Mayfield. He’s great,” Brinson said. “But do you really need two back-to-back GQ issues? Do you really need to be on every single magazine cover? I understand where you’re trying to get the publicity while you can, but it feels to me like the Browns would have been better-served by working through this offseason, getting the new coach in there, trying to get their first winning season in forever, try to get past winning eight games in three years – and it almost feels like a coronation offseason, when there hasn’t been anything that’s really happened to warrant them getting that crown.”
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The more of this stuff I see, the more I want the Browns to do really well. Obviously not too well...
...but grumpy old sports guys just like to suck the fun out of everything.
If the Browns have a fast start and they have not too much adversity, they will be fine
But if they have a slow start, I do not think they'll react well in adversity ... I mean, they've put too much pressure on themselves and OBJ seems not to be happy to have been traded in Cleveland ... He still talks about this trade, 5 months later!
His two teams are different but remember in 2011, when Vince Young called eagles the Dream team! ... It's the worst thing which could happen to the eagles, they had 8-8 in 2011 (they were 4-8 before winning 4 pointless games) and the year after Andy Reid lost his job ... The Eagles had made the playoffs in 9 of 11 years before ... Not easy to play well when the hype is very high and it's even worse when the team puts too much pressure on themselves
I hope the Browns go 3-13. In the past I felt sorry for them, but this is way too much talk for a team that went 7-9 last year.
I'm with DesertSteel above, couldn't have said it better myself