I don’t like Josh Rosen.
I don’t like the UCLA product as a person – he’s way too smug and self-absorbed for my tastes – and I don’t like him as a quarterback because I don’t think he’s bulky enough – strong enough – to take the kind of pounding that’s dished out to NFL quarterbacks. As such, I don’t want the Browns to take him with the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft in a month.
But it doesn’t matter a hill of beans what I think.
Just like it doesn’t matter a hill of beans what Jim Mora Jr. thinks.
All that matters is what Browns General Manager John Dorsey thinks, because he’s the guy doing the picking, and it’s hard to tell what, exactly, he thinks because everything he’s saying right now is a ruse. It has to be taken with a grain of salt. All NFL GMs and other decision-makers are keeping their real opinions to themselves. They always do.
OK, so Mora, who recruited Rosen to UCLA and coached him for all of his time there – Mora has since been fired — said Wednesday on NFL Network that he thinks the Browns should take Sam Darnold from arch rival USC because he will be a better fit in Cleveland than Rosen.
Who knows what that means? Mora has coached extensively in the NFL – he was a head coach twice, with the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks – so he knows all about how the pro guys aren’t totally honest at this time of year. So maybe he’s doing the same, again for whatever reason.
Less is more heading into the draft when it comes to GMs talking. The less they say about something or someone, the more they probably like it, or them.
Dorsey has talked extensively about Darnold, Wyoming’s Josh Allen and Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield, but has said virtually nothing about Rosen. Because of that, it is assumed by those in the know – whomever they are – that Dorsey, and thus the Browns, don’t like him.
With this being silly season, as former Browns GM Phil Savage likes to call it, I would suggest just the opposite.
We’ll soon see what Dorsey really thinks, though.