Getting Dez Bryant would be huge

By Steve King

Normally on a day like this, there would be all kinds of focus on the Browns’ 20-10 win over the host New York Giants on Thursday night in the preseason opener.

The victory was driven by good quarterback play, something that has pretty much eluded the Browns in the expansion era. That veteran starter Tyrod Taylor and rookie Baker Mayfield both performed so well is a big deal – a really big deal.

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But as good – as cool, as hopeful – as all that is to a team that is in desperate need of all the good, cool and hopeful things it get, that situation is taking a backseat to something else.

And it is that free-agent wide receiver Dez Bryant is going to be visiting the Browns to see what they have to say regarding their interest in him. Bryant has had a great career, is the top free agent still on the market at any position and plays a spot at which the Browns need a lot of help.

Yeah, other than all that, he’s just another guy.

Certainly, he is not quite the player he one was, but, just as certainly, he can still play, and as such getting Dez Bryant could take the Browns to a whole new level – one they haven’t been at in a long, long time.

That is, only if Browns General Manager Dorsey can lure Bryant here, and also only if Bryant is a good fit.

This reminds me of when the Browns in 1979 traded with the Denver Broncos to get defensive end Lyle Alzado, who was involved in a contract dispute with the club. The outspoken Alzado, who had already played eight years in the NFL but still had a good amount of tread still left on his tires, greatly helped the Browns – and at a position of great need — in the three years he played for them, especially during that 1980 Kardiac Kids season when they won their first AFC Central in nine years and made the playoffs for the first time in eight seasons.

Could Bryant do something like that for these current Browns?

That’s an interesting – and electric – question, which is why it’s the talk of Brownstown.