Post by Funkytown on Mar 31, 2018 11:06:43 GMT -6
What do you guys think of this advice? I think it's pretty ridiculous.
Link: brownswire.usatoday.com/2018/03/30/ryan-leaf-sam-darnold-should-eli-manning-the-browns-to-avoid-being-bust/
Here is some better advice:
Link: www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000923708/article/johnny-manziels-advice-to-baker-mayfield-be-a-homebody
If Ryan Leaf isn’t the biggest quarterback bust in NFL history, he’s certainly on the inglorious Mt. Rushmore of draft flops. The No. 2 overall pick in 1998 holds the belief that no matter who the Cleveland Browns choose with the No. 1 pick, it will be a terrible situation for that quarterback.
“I don’t want anybody to be a bust, I want them to be successful,” Leaf said knowingly on “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd. With the pleasantry out of the way, Leaf dug in.
“There is no evidence to show me that Cleveland is going to be successful. It’s a place where quarterbacks go to die.” He and Cowherd then proceeded to list off some prominent Browns busts, including Tim Couch and Brady Quinn.
Leaf’s advice to Darnold:
“If I were Sam Darnold and I have this leverage right now and I know I’m going to be the first pick in the NFL Draft, I’m going to my agent and saying, ‘figure out a way for me to not to go Cleveland. Eli Manning this for me.'”
“I don’t want anybody to be a bust, I want them to be successful,” Leaf said knowingly on “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd. With the pleasantry out of the way, Leaf dug in.
“There is no evidence to show me that Cleveland is going to be successful. It’s a place where quarterbacks go to die.” He and Cowherd then proceeded to list off some prominent Browns busts, including Tim Couch and Brady Quinn.
Leaf’s advice to Darnold:
“If I were Sam Darnold and I have this leverage right now and I know I’m going to be the first pick in the NFL Draft, I’m going to my agent and saying, ‘figure out a way for me to not to go Cleveland. Eli Manning this for me.'”
Here is some better advice:
Manziel, the quarterback everyone loves to compare Mayfield to -- mostly for all the wrong reasons -- and the one Mayfield himself has publicly tried to distance himself from, was asked what guidance he would offer if the Heisman winnner from Oklahoma ever asked.
"Quiet the noise," Manziel told NFL.com on Tuesday, following Texas A&M's pro day, in which he took part in. "The more you can do to stay quiet, the better. He's already a lightning rod, just like I was.
"If I could go back and change things, I would be the biggest homebody, the biggest football-only guy and not do much of anything else off the field because everything else already comes with huge publicity and huge talk. He doesn't have to do anything. If he can do that for a couple of years, then the whole narrative around him completely shifts from a guy who is outspoken and wild and cocky to a guy who's about his business and a guy who cares about his craft and what he's doing."
"Quiet the noise," Manziel told NFL.com on Tuesday, following Texas A&M's pro day, in which he took part in. "The more you can do to stay quiet, the better. He's already a lightning rod, just like I was.
"If I could go back and change things, I would be the biggest homebody, the biggest football-only guy and not do much of anything else off the field because everything else already comes with huge publicity and huge talk. He doesn't have to do anything. If he can do that for a couple of years, then the whole narrative around him completely shifts from a guy who is outspoken and wild and cocky to a guy who's about his business and a guy who cares about his craft and what he's doing."
... and neither is this Chris guy.