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Cleveland Browns (Finally drafting Buckeyes)

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Bucklion said:
, or adapting his scheme to the awful line play. He just expects he’s so smart it’s going to work.
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There is no offense in football, past, present, or future that works without a functional OL, regardless of design.

exhawg said:
. How do they let Dawand Jones come into the year to bigger and more out of shape than he was last year?
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Dawand is now a professional football player. They can't hold his hand during the off season. He's an adult and needs to conduct himself, including taking proper care of his body to be ready for an NFL season, as an adult would. What you're asking essentially amounts to why didn't the Browns hire him a babysitter.



Again; four phase issue.

OL is bad
QB is bad
RBs are average at best.

None of those position groups are in a place to help make the other better, most importantly of all the QB spot.

Coaches can only do so much to alleviate this problem. That said, they also haven't gotten the most out of his offense, from a design standpoint, that they could be doing. They won't get a pass from me. Which I'll have more on later.
 
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Buckeneye said:
There is no offense in football, past, present, or future that works without a functional OL, regardless of design.



Dawand is now a professional football player. They can't hold his hand during the off season. He's an adult and needs to conduct himself, including taking proper care of his body to be ready for an NFL season, as an adult would. What you're asking essentially amounts to why didn't the Browns hire him a babysitter.



Again; four phase issue.

OL is bad
QB is bad
RBs are average at best.

None of those position groups are in a place to help make the other better, most importantly of all the QB spot.

Coaches can only do so much to alleviate this problem. That said, they also haven't gotten the most out of his offense, from a design standpoint, that they could be doing. They won't get a pass from me. Which I'll have more on later.
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If I'm running a professional team and I see a player that I have expectations for not doing what he needs to do to be ready for the season I'm going to work out a plan to get him on track. Some people don't have the motivation to put in the work on their own so you need to find out how to motivate them. In the case of Dawand I'm making him come in every week to get a Zepbound shot until he gets to the weight I want him to play at.
 
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exhawg said:
. Some people don't have the motivation to put in the work on their own so you need to find out how to motivate them.
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You only affirmed my point with this line.

Again, Dawand is a professional football player now. Can and should the front office set a standard, offer their resources to get DJ to said standard and help guide him there? Absolutely.

But if it's an issue of motivation? There isn't enough help in the world to put that into someones mind. You got it or you don't.

Organizations that strive to be competitive take a no bullshit approach. That means making tough decisions. If Dawand is struggling with his weight because he doesn't want to properly manage it, then he'll be cut, rightfully so, at the appropriate time.

This franchise has taken four steps back with the Watson saga. Only way to fix that is to begin with small steps forward. But I don't see this ownership and GM pairing being the type necessary to such fixes.
 
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