Four thoughts on four things concerning your Cleveland Browns:
1) Do the Browns have Air on their schedule this fall?
I see the usual suspects — AFC North rivals Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Baltimore — and a bunch of other teams, but I don’t see Air.
And because I don’t see Air — not even Air Coryell from decades ago — I am not going to be impressed — even in the least bit — when quarterback Deshaun Watson, wearing shorts and no pads, just like everyone else, throws perfect spirals right on target to receivers in Organized Team Practices, or, as former Browns head coach Butch Davis used to call them, “two-hand touch.”
Call me when Watson, if given the opportunity, does it against the Steelers, Bengals and Ravens, and a bunch of other teams on the schedule, all while playing against defensive ends intent on knocking him into the middle of next week.
2) Browns rookie wide receiver/returner KC Concepcion is being plagued by a case of the “dropsies.” That’s shocking, I know, but it’s true. He was plagued by the same malady in college. How anyone thought the virus would somehow just magically disappear when he got to the NFL is mind-boggling. This is, as pointed out just “two-hand touch” they’re playing out there and he can’t catch. We’re not even to the point where a cornerback is collapsing Concepcion’s arms and hands when the ball arrives. The Browns think they’ve got a great young player in Concepcion. I think the chances are better that they wasted a high draft pick on a guy who can’t do the most important thing a receiver is supposed to do, that is, catch the darn ball consistently when it is thrown to him.
3) When you attend a sports event, you want to see something you’ve never seen before. Those at practice on Wednesday got to view such. It occurred as defensive tackle Mike Hall Jr. injured his knee while participating in a walk-through practice. Yes, a WALK-through. This is akin to accidentally brushing against your 92-year-old grandfather while reaching for the potato salad at a family reunion and rupturing your Achilles tendon. Hall is a nice story — he played at Streetsboro High School and Ohio State — but he keeps missing time with injuries and other assorted things. A player’s ability is his availability, and so it just might be that Hall is a draft bust as well. What’s going to happen when he has to go up against a 365-pound guard?
And finally . . . 4) It has been suggested by a national writer that if former Cincinnati Bearcats quarterback Brendan Sorsby becomes available in the NFL Supplemental Draft, the quarterback-challenged Browns are one of the teams that should go after him. The writer has a point. If he came to Cleveland, then the Browns would immediately have two players in Watson and Sorsby who would lead the league in promiscuity and betting, respectively, two categories that have always been indicators of success. This guy is no Bernie Kosar, to be sure. Regardless, the odds are 2:1 that Browns General Manager Andrew Berry, who has never let a little thing like character sway his judgment, will strongly consider it.
Steve King
