If your goal is to win a championship, why are you going to start the season with Josh McCown at quarterback. Hasn't he proven for many years that he is not a championship quarterback. Jim Plunkett is almost universally seen as the worst quarterback to ever win multiple Super Bowls (the only qb who did this and is not in the Hall of Fame). So I think the Browns should implement the Plunkett Rule. Nobody should ever start the season at quarterback who has no chance to ever be as good as Jim Plunkett.
By the way, this is another Combine guy. Never draft a quarterback higher than you considered drafting him at the end of his senior season. If you want a quarterback to win something, it shouldn't be the 40-yard dash in shorts. It should be things like Rose Bowls. Even at the low point of Plunkett's career, you knew he had passed Stanford to its first Rose Bowl win since 1952 (18 years at the time). If he could catch lightning in a bottle, it might happen again. McCown had his best season at Sam Houston State, after quitting on his SMU teammates.
Johnny Manziel is the better Plunkett comparison. Maybe he could eventually play like he did when Texas A&M went 11-2 in their first SEC season. If you want to win, play winners. Maybe Manziel isn't one, but he could be. Nine teams in 13 years are probably not worse at talent evaluation than the Cleveland Browns.
Apply this to your favorite NFL team as necessary.
By the way, this is another Combine guy. Never draft a quarterback higher than you considered drafting him at the end of his senior season. If you want a quarterback to win something, it shouldn't be the 40-yard dash in shorts. It should be things like Rose Bowls. Even at the low point of Plunkett's career, you knew he had passed Stanford to its first Rose Bowl win since 1952 (18 years at the time). If he could catch lightning in a bottle, it might happen again. McCown had his best season at Sam Houston State, after quitting on his SMU teammates.
Johnny Manziel is the better Plunkett comparison. Maybe he could eventually play like he did when Texas A&M went 11-2 in their first SEC season. If you want to win, play winners. Maybe Manziel isn't one, but he could be. Nine teams in 13 years are probably not worse at talent evaluation than the Cleveland Browns.
Apply this to your favorite NFL team as necessary.
