SOME UNIQUE DOUBLE-TALK

As I mentioned in several posts earlier this month, there is so much talk about the NFL Draft now that it’s almost numbing.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It hurts your ears.

This is not the first time that this has happened, of course. It’s been happening for a long, long time at this time of year, and as the draft has grown exponentially, so, too, has the amount of discussion about it.

So our ears are hurting now worse than they’ve ever hurt at this point, a little less than five weeks away from the draft.

Early Sunday afternoon was just such a time. A co-host on an ESPN Radio talk show was droning on and on about the draft. It was the same, ol’ stuff I had heard seemingly a million times. Mercifully, I had just arrived back at home, so I could turn him off. After all, Sunday is the day of the rest, and I was going to take full advantage of that old, old axiom.

But just before I could hit the “off” button on the radio, he said something different, unique about the draft. Really. It was something I had never heard before – never even considered, or conceived of before – and with the fact I was convinced beyond any shadow of a doubt that I had heard just about everything about the draft that could ever be said, that’s, well … saying something.

“What if the Browns used their two picks in the top 4 in the draft to take two quarterbacks?” he asked – er, no, make that teased, as the show went into a commercial break.

“Yeah, right,” I said to myself. “The Browns are going to take two quarterbacks? No, I don’t think so.”

I still don’t think so, don’t think it will happen. The Browns have way too many areas of need to use two opening-of the-draft picks to select a pair of players at the same position, even if it is at the most important position in team sports.

But still, though, never say never, or always. With that, then, it has at least a small chance of happening.

Think about it, there are four quarterbacks in Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, Josh Rosen and Baker Mayfield who, in the eyes of just about everybody on the planet, have distanced themselves from the rest of the pack. If the Browns can’t decide on any one of them – if there is a decided split among the player-pickers in Berea on who to take that can’t be solved – they could, theoretically, dramatically increase their chances of finding one who could be their franchise guy if they take two quarterbacks.

It’s something to chew on – if only briefly.

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