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Browns VP of player personnel Alonzo Highsmith explained the reason they drafted Mayfield over the other QBs and that something about Rosen bothered him after he talked to the UCLA.... volleyball team.

“Here’s the honest to God’s truth,” Highsmith said, via the Canton Repository. “From the start of this college football season to the end of the season, I had Darnold No. 1 and Baker No. 2, [Josh] Rosen No. 3, [Lamar] Jackson No. 4 and [Josh] Allen after that. On our way through everything, you couldn’t tell me Darnold wasn’t the best. I did all my evaluations of the season.”

So what changed?

“[T]he part where you meet them off the field,” Highsmith said. “You watch their workouts. You watch everything. And Baker blew me away. Highly, highly intelligent. Highly competitive.

“And he had a trait that some of the good ones have. I call it efficacy. That includes the power to effect other people. I thought that of all the quarterbacks I watched, he stood out far and above the other guys. When he walked into a room, you knew he was there.”
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...highsmith-on-baker-mayfield-over-sam-darnold/

On Josh Rosen:

“I was at an airport,” Highsmith said Monday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club, via the Canton Repository. “UCLA’s volleyball team was in front of me. You heard so much about Rosen. He’s this or that. We all know how people talk.

“So I asked one of the volleyball coaches, ‘What’s Rosen like?’ He said, ‘Aaaa, you should probably ask his girlfriend. She’s one of the players. She’s over there.’

“I’m like, ‘All right coach. That’s good enough.’ . . . I don’t know what all this means, but there was something about him that bothered me.”
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...n-josh-rosen-something-about-him-bothered-me/

Guessing something bothered Sashi Brown about Carson Wentz and Deshaun Watson too.
 
“I was at an airport,” Highsmith said Monday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club, via the Canton Repository. “UCLA’s volleyball team was in front of me. You heard so much about Rosen. He’s this or that. We all know how people talk.

“So I asked one of the volleyball coaches, ‘What’s Rosen like?’ He said, ‘Aaaa, you should probably ask his girlfriend. She’s one of the players. She’s over there.’

“I’m like, ‘All right coach. That’s good enough.’ . . . I don’t know what all this means, but there was something about him that bothered me.”
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So that is the most bullshit answer I’ve ever heard - his logic is that because one guy said ask someone else that he didn’t need to do that due diligence on Rosen
 
"Aaaa, you should probably ask his girlfriend." - Surely that's the norm when somebody asks you for intimate details about somebody and you don't have a clue?

"I don’t know what all this means." - pretty much sums up the Browns as an organisation!
 
mc_red23 said:
"Aaaa, you should probably ask his girlfriend." - Surely that's the norm when somebody asks you for intimate details about somebody and you don't have a clue?

"I don’t know what all this means." - pretty much sums up the Browns as an organisation!
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Pretty much tells me they keep hiring inept people to run their front office. Basically watch Darnold, Allen and Rosen have better careers than Mayfield and add them to the list of QBs they passed on.
 
More O-Line issues for the Raiders. T/G Vadal Alexander suspended the first four 4 games of the season for PED violation.
 
It looks like the kickoff is set to undergo some changes. Harbs and Rosburg were involved in the meeting yesterday. The owner's will vote on it later in this month.
No wedge blocks by return team; no running start by cover team, a 15-yard non-contact zone from the spot of the kick, with the return team required to have 8 players lined up 15 yards from the ball.

Harbs statement: It's going to give guys a better chance to execute good, solid football technique,So blockers are going to be in position to square up on blockers and make good football blocks. There won't be the awkward angles as much as there were before. There will be fewer on-a-rail-type injuries, too -- and more returns, more cleaner returns. That's good for the game, too. You better get a returner."
 
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The Steelers have converted $8.26M of LB Ryan Shazier’s 2018 base salary into a signing bonus, per source. Shazier, placed on PUP Wednesday, earns that money now. While there are no cap implications, it’s a great gesture by a first rate organization.
 
RavensMania said:
Amazing where contracts have gone, especially the guarantees.
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Everybody was waiting to see what cousins got - and that would be the starting point

Now that Ryan is the first non-free agent domino to fall I think Rodgers is next and I think it’s gonna be big
 
rossihunter2 said:
And so it begins:

Matt Ryan reportedly getting 5 years $150m with 100m guaranteed

Next up Aaron Rodgers methinks
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Rodgers might get $160-$175M at this rate. Looks like our first $200M QB will be closer than we thought. The owners no doubt will look into fixing this in the next CBA.
 
cdp said:
It looks like the kickoff is set to undergo some changes. Harbs and Rosburg were involved in the meeting yesterday. The owner's will vote on it later in this month.
No wedge blocks by return team; no running start by cover team, a 15-yard non-contact zone from the spot of the kick, with the return team required to have 8 players lined up 15 yards from the ball.

Harbs statement: It's going to give guys a better chance to execute good, solid football technique,So blockers are going to be in position to square up on blockers and make good football blocks. There won't be the awkward angles as much as there were before. There will be fewer on-a-rail-type injuries, too -- and more returns, more cleaner returns. That's good for the game, too. You better get a returner."
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Well as long as they don't get rid of the Kickoff, but find ways to make more returns possible then I'm all good for it. Though they should look at moving the Kickoff back to where it was before if they are implementing these changes Harbaugh described.
 
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