Peter King Thinks

By Steve King

How did the Browns do in free agency?

 

How did they do in last week’s NFL Draft?

 

How did they do in free agency and the draft together?

 

That remains to be seen, of course. We don’t know the answers to those questions now, nor will we know those answers for some time. We just need to let it all play out.

 

But this much we do already know, and it that with the Browns having finished 0-16 last season and just 1-31 over the last two years, they have a lot – a whole heckuva lot – of work to do.

Wondering about how the Browns did is what everybody in these parts is doing, and wondering how the rest of the NFL’s teams did is what everybody in those particular cities is doing. It’s natural. It’s human nature. You can’t help but to wonder, for what the Browns have done – and will continue to do – during the offseason, and what these other clubs have done, and will continue to do, will determine to a great extent what the season will look like this fall.

 

Sports Illustrated’s Peter King tried to answer those questions of what the teams have done. You know what I think of him. He is the best pro football writer, bar none, and has been for some time. When he says something, I listen. I take it to heart.

 

With that in mind, then, here’s what he said on Wednesday on sportsillustrated.com about the Browns’ offseason:

 

“As I said in my stories about the Browns this week, if you hire John Dorsey, and you put faith in him to assemble a staff, and you ask them to pick your quarterback of the future, and he has been part of two teams with good-to-Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks, and they think Baker Mayfield is the clear choice, well, you’ve got to let it play out. And Denzel Ward is going to spend the next couple of years blanketing Antonio Brown and A.J. Green. If he fails, that defense will fail. No pressure or anything.”

 

There you have it. I think all that is very true, and very fair.