Links: Reactions on Trade From Cleveland Media
Here’s some of the parting words from the media in Cleveland on their reaction to the Braylon Edwards trade.
Mary Kay-Cabot / Cleveland Plain Dealer:
It didn’t take Eric Mangini long to figure out what some of those before him already knew: Braylon Edwards was more trouble than he was worth.
It began on draft day in 2005, when Edwards was visibly upset that the Miami Dolphins picked Ronnie Brown at No. 2 overall instead of him. Edwards admitted he wanted to go to Miami, and lashed out at the Dolphins and then-coach Nick Saban for lying to him and using him.
It was doomed from the start.
Michael Arace / Columbus Dispatch:
If he can stop pouting, punching people, bar hopping, keeping late hours, driving 120 mph, blowing off team meetings, going barefoot at practice, running incorrect pass routes, dropping the ball and so forth, he might be back to haunt Browns fans, with Sanchez.
Jeff Schudel / News-Herald / Morning Journal:
Edwards strikes me as a player who won’t be happy anywhere. He is intelligent, handsome and should have a career in television or Hollywood when his career ends. He is a gifted athlete. He can run, jump and occasionally catch the football.
Yet something is missing between the ears. If it weren’t, he wouldn’t make some of the decisions he has made
Sean McClelland / Dayton Daily News:
Edwards might thrive in New York. He’s savvy enough to deal with the New York media, although for a bright guy he had a habit of saying and doing the wrong thing or, worse, hiding and saying nothing after games. That won’t sit well with the bloodhounds in the Big Apple.
Best advice for Braylon: Catch more than you drop. Whatever else goes on, the fans will love you if that happens.
Patrick McManamon / Akron Beacon Journal:
Apparently one team can never have enough former Jets.
If the Browns set out to put together a roster of more bland, run-of-the-mill players, they probably couldn’t do a better job.
Jeff Schudel / News-Herald / Morning Journal:
Mangini and Edwards talked about the [Monday morning incident] in a one-on-one later Monday. Some close to Edwards believe he might have punched Givens as a calculated way of punching his own ticket out of Cleveland.
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“If the Browns set out to put together a roster of more bland, run-of-the-mill players, they probably couldn’t do a better job.”
I LOLed.
I will take everything a Browns reporter says with a grain of salt….
Edwards has not been a joy to cover the last 2 years and if you go back and look at Moss’s media parting comments…they were much worse than this.
The kid is 26 6′3 220 and runs like a deer. i saw the kid block in college and he will here. Will he drop some balls…yea but I also saw guys like D Clark and S Moss and TO on that leading drop balls list….
TJ, Leon, Cotch, Keller and Edwards can be scary…especially the way our D is playing
Alright, let’s be honest here, every team does this.
Step 1: We love this Player A, he’s gonna be a huge star!
Step 2: Player A is traded away.
Step 3: Player A sucks! Worthless, wasn’t ever gonna make it, over the hill, a headache et al.
Everyone on this planet knows if Braylon performs even 3/4 of what he did in 2007, this is one of the best trades in Jets history. It’s just Cleveland padding the blow of being one of the worst teams in the NFL. Like they can afford NOT to have a guy like Edwards? Please.
“Everyone on this planet knows if Braylon performs even 3/4 of what he did in 2007, this is one of the best trades in Jets history.”
I hope he can get somewhere near the same level of production (especially the 16 TDs), but I believe he only caught 52% of passes thrown his way that year, which is frighteningly low. Sorry to bring the glass half empty viewpoint.
I think Edwards’ behavior could be a problem long-term, but he’s in his final contract year. He’ll act like a choir boy this season.
Bent,
Agreed. That is terribly low. Everyone talks about his dropped passes but does anyone know why he drops these passes?
It can’t just be stone hands. Is he trying to catch off the shoulder too much? Is he worried about getting hit over the middle? Lack of OJ Isotoners? I haven’t seen enough of his game play to see what his issue may be.
It could be any number of factors. Passes slightly off the mark, concentration, maybe he was constantly double covered so they were tougher catches. He does have a high average, so the percentage would usually be lower.
Ultimately, it’s probably mostly down to the fact that he just doesn’t have good hands, though. A guy like that can still be a weapon (as shown by his big numbers in spite of the drops), but you hope he doesn’t hurt you in the clutch. On third down, I’d perhaps be more inclined to look elsewhere.
On a slight tangent, his numbers (10-139) in the first three games don’t look great, but in the opener, this happened:
“Quinn threw deep to Braylon Edwards, who made a tremendous catch for an apparent touchdown. However, Benny Sapp interfered with Edwards and pushed Edwards out of bounds at the six. The Vikings challenged and the touchdown was called back. ”
I saw this game and this was a great catch and the replay could have gone either way (he was pushed out of bounds but then appeared to re-establish himself inbounds before making the catch). 11-178-TD in four games would at least look a little better, although Stuckey himself had 11-120-TD.
nyr2k2
“If the Browns set out to put together a roster of more bland, run-of-the-mill players, they probably couldn’t do a better job.”
I LOLed.
Me too man. I just thought, typical Mangini
Starburied-
In that losing year he was trying to do to much and wasn’t focusing on just catching.
Step 1: We love this Player A, he’s gonna be a huge star!
Step 2: Player A is traded away.
Step 3: Player A sucks! Worthless, wasn’t ever gonna make it, over the hill, a headache et al.
Can’t the same be said about Eric Mangini?
It’s possible between Step 1 and Step 2 that he lost something, like Eric did (his brain)
I love this deal and don’t think Bray lost anything (I think it’s more like Moss in Oakland), but I’m just saying.
I’m from Cleveland and can tell you with some confidence that Edwards will turn out to be a star player for you guys. Starburied is right about the 3 steps of all NFL teams, but don’t forget the Brown’s 5 SPECIAL steps:
Step 1: Draft / get in trade a highly promising player
Step 2: Play that player for a few years and be amazed at how poorly his performance is despite such talent.
Step 3: Trade that player to a better team (ANY NFL team if you’re the Browns) and watch them suddenly play to their potential.
Step 4: Watch in dismay as the traded player wipes the field with you next time you’re playing his new team.
Step 5: Realize that maybe the problem isn’t just one player, maybe it’s the overall awfulness of the organization.
Go Browns! :)
nyr…
that was some funny ****e wasn’t it…
aka drew…
it would be great to see all 5 on the field at the same time…that can cause some real problems for opposing Ds…but then there is SHOTTY calling the plays…
satrburied…
maybe the problem with edwards is he’s wearing cast iron gloves over his stone hands…jk…
wes…
that was hillarious…OMG…
i love this site…blog…whatever you want to call it…its the best…
To be fair, Edwards has been a mess the last 18 months in Cleveland. I do think the Browns were tired of his act and probably unwiling to resign him anyhow.
I don’t think any of the comments were particularly out of line.