TACKLING A BIG PROBLEM FOR BROWNS

By STEVE KING

The Browns need a left tackle.

For that matter, they need a right tackle, too.

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None of that is hardly a surprise. Everybody knows it. In fact, everybody has known it since early last season, when quarterback Baker Mayfield kept getting pass-rush pressure – lots of pass-rush pressure — off the edges.

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The Browns thought they had, from left to right across your computer screen as you look at the offensive line, competent tackles in Greg Robinson and Chris Hubbard, respectively. But it certainly wasn’t the case.

As such, then, as I have said for weeks, even months, now and will continue to say, I would be completely stunned if the Browns took anyone other than a tackle with their first pick in the NFL Draft, at No. 10 overall. Actually, they could take tackles with their first two picks, or perhaps a guard instead.

Yeah, the line’s a mess, and the Browns, like the rest of the free world, know it, so they are intent on doing something – likely a lot of something – about it.

The Browns weren’t going to bring Robinson back anyway, but if there were any lingering doubts about sending him packing, they were squelched when he was arrested by Border Patrol agents in Texas after he was found with 157 pounds of marijuana packed away in his car. That’s about half his own size of 330 pounds, so that’s a good amount of weed. Perhaps he had gone to one of those big-box stores like Sam’s Club and bought it in bulk.

Whatever the case, when your left tackle does something really stupid like that, you can’t trust him to protect the blind side of the man you believe is your franchise quarterback.

Robinson looked great as he worked out at the 2014 NFL Combine, the 2020 edition of which has been going on this week in Indianapolis. He seemed to check all the boxes of a future standout pro tackle.

He did, but only physically. Emotionally and in terms of character, he checked none of the boxes.

Hmmm.

How could that be? How in the world could that be?

I’ll explain more on the Browns tackling a big problem in my next post.