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Footballguy
Ah, preseason...where fairy tales come true...
...until the nasty regular season rears it's ugly head, where the games start to count, and Teams take them seriously...
...it's highly likely there's a reality check coming. Saturday night he'll be on the road vs a dress rehearsal for the Bucs D, a unit on the rise. A guy like Lavonte David, schemed correctly, could really cause him some trouble. I expect to see some regression.
The surrounding cast of skill position players is a big plus, for sure. I have nothing bad to say about Crowell/Duke and Gordon/Pryor. I think Barnidge is overrated, and I'm on record prognosticating that, when the dust settles on his career, Coleman will be remembered more as a return man than as a WR, but on the field with Gordon/Pryor and Duke, he'll be in a position to take advantage of personnel and coverages. The absence of a starter-caliber right offensive tackle is going to be a big problem once live bullets start flying...
...and the defense flat-out stinks. They aren't going to do Griffin any favors, and that's going to give opposing D's the advantage of defending a 1-dimensional offense for most of the game, when the run is abandoned and the play-action is useless. The Browns aren't getting RG2012. RG2016 is nowhere near as dynamic.That player is physically finished, and while early reports are optimistic, there's little proof yet that Griffin has improved at diagnosing schemes/identifying coverages/blitz packages, making pre-snap adjustments at the LOS to counter these things, and being able to work through a progression when the running lanes are closed and he's forced to throw, which he will be. It's great that he's learned to throw the ball out of bounds, and how to slide. Coincidentally, I'm currently coaching my 12-year-old and his Pop Warner teammates to do the same thing. It's the football intelligence/IQ stuff where he struggles the most, and there's no reason to believe that can be corrected. If you read between the lines of all the press coming out of Browns camp, you have to see that Jackson is doing the same thing that Kyle Shanahan was forced to do - dumb things down so that Griffin doesn't have to think. When things go live, and without the athleticism to act as a counterpunch, that's only going to get him so far. As the weeks go by, and the game tape builds, it's likely to get worse.
He throws an absolutely beautiful deep ball, and when Gordon gets back, he's got 2 WR who can go up and get it, but until he shows otherwise, that's pretty much it.
Browns fans, I feel for you. It's been so long. I think this team has some promise, but would be better served with a conventional QB at the helm, like McCown. If there's an implosion, let's hope it comes early enough that there's still time to salvage the season. Strange as it seems, I think the ANorth is pretty wide open this year, and 8-8 could win the Division...
...as for Griffin, I'll believe it when I see it, and see it consistently. I'd advise taking him as a flyer only, nowhere before the 17th Round in 20-Round Drafts.
...until the nasty regular season rears it's ugly head, where the games start to count, and Teams take them seriously...
...it's highly likely there's a reality check coming. Saturday night he'll be on the road vs a dress rehearsal for the Bucs D, a unit on the rise. A guy like Lavonte David, schemed correctly, could really cause him some trouble. I expect to see some regression.
The surrounding cast of skill position players is a big plus, for sure. I have nothing bad to say about Crowell/Duke and Gordon/Pryor. I think Barnidge is overrated, and I'm on record prognosticating that, when the dust settles on his career, Coleman will be remembered more as a return man than as a WR, but on the field with Gordon/Pryor and Duke, he'll be in a position to take advantage of personnel and coverages. The absence of a starter-caliber right offensive tackle is going to be a big problem once live bullets start flying...
...and the defense flat-out stinks. They aren't going to do Griffin any favors, and that's going to give opposing D's the advantage of defending a 1-dimensional offense for most of the game, when the run is abandoned and the play-action is useless. The Browns aren't getting RG2012. RG2016 is nowhere near as dynamic.That player is physically finished, and while early reports are optimistic, there's little proof yet that Griffin has improved at diagnosing schemes/identifying coverages/blitz packages, making pre-snap adjustments at the LOS to counter these things, and being able to work through a progression when the running lanes are closed and he's forced to throw, which he will be. It's great that he's learned to throw the ball out of bounds, and how to slide. Coincidentally, I'm currently coaching my 12-year-old and his Pop Warner teammates to do the same thing. It's the football intelligence/IQ stuff where he struggles the most, and there's no reason to believe that can be corrected. If you read between the lines of all the press coming out of Browns camp, you have to see that Jackson is doing the same thing that Kyle Shanahan was forced to do - dumb things down so that Griffin doesn't have to think. When things go live, and without the athleticism to act as a counterpunch, that's only going to get him so far. As the weeks go by, and the game tape builds, it's likely to get worse.
He throws an absolutely beautiful deep ball, and when Gordon gets back, he's got 2 WR who can go up and get it, but until he shows otherwise, that's pretty much it.
Browns fans, I feel for you. It's been so long. I think this team has some promise, but would be better served with a conventional QB at the helm, like McCown. If there's an implosion, let's hope it comes early enough that there's still time to salvage the season. Strange as it seems, I think the ANorth is pretty wide open this year, and 8-8 could win the Division...
...as for Griffin, I'll believe it when I see it, and see it consistently. I'd advise taking him as a flyer only, nowhere before the 17th Round in 20-Round Drafts.
If you take away all his TDs his TD to INT ratio is terrible. Plus get rid of all the completions and we'll see that he didn't complete a single pass that wasn't a completion. 
