Daily Dawg Tags: The Cleveland Browns and the AFC North
By Thomas Moore
Spanning the virtual globe to bring you the latest news about the Cleveland Browns and the NFL – these are your Daily Dawg Tags for Thursday, June 2.
Cleveland Browns:
Have the Browns closed the gap in the AFC North?
"The Cleveland Browns need to stop being a speed bump for the other teams in the AFC North Division before they can think about being a playoff contender."
Hue Jackson is the Browns best hire since 1999
"The Cleveland Browns made in a great decision by choosing Hue Jackson to lead this team in 2016 and beyond."
Hue Jackson not ready to name a QB1
"Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson sees no reason to rush to name Robert Griffin III the starting quarterback, which isn’t a bad idea."
Cleveland Browns sign Seth DeValve
"The Cleveland Browns announced the signing of rookie tight end Seth DeValve Wednesday afternoon."
Cleveland Browns sign Ricardo Louis
"Cleveland Browns wide receiver Ricardo Louis became the 10th of the team’s 14 draft picks to sign his rookie contract, agreeing to a reported four-year deal."
A major challenge facing the Browns offensive line (NFL Spin Zone)
"The offense the Cleveland Browns will employ this season utilizes space to create opportunities for their athletic skill players. This scheme has a number of advantages but it also puts a lot of pressure on the offensive line, which presents a problem."
Baylor wide receivers find steep learning curve in NFL (ESPN)
"Baylor is proud of the fact that it has had receivers taken within the first three rounds of three of the past five drafts. The receivers, while talented, are also a product of former coach Art Briles’ spread offense, a system based on getting to the line quickly and getting the play off with fast reads and quick throws. Spread receivers don’t enter the NFL with a full knowledge of the “route tree” or a full knowledge of read-and-react routes based on coverage. While Briles’ system leads to big numbers for receivers and quarterbacks, it also leads to an NFL learning curve."
NFL News:
Rams Nick Foles skipes start of OTAs (ESPN)
"Veteran quarterback Nick Foles, a regular when offseason workouts began April 18, has not participated in a team-run training session since the Rams took Goff first overall. The fifth-year pro even skipped the start of organized team activities on Tuesday, and multiple sources told ESPN.com it is because the Rams drafted a quarterback."
NFL’s corruption has reached epic proportions (MMQB)
"Put simply, the NFL has forfeited its credibility on just about any issue within an area code of morals and ethics. Its sense of civic responsibility has atrophied to almost nothing, and its public conscience is largely vestigial. The simple act of playing the game has been revealed as being so fundamentally destructive to the human organism that it now is impossible to believe that, if we knew then what we know now, the game ever would have been invented at all, let alone that children ever would have been allowed to play it."
Why are the Jets playing hardball with Ryan Fitzpatrick? (Yahoo Sports)
"Nearly four years ago, New York Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan had a front-row seat for a franchise-changing quarterback mistake."
Thousands of NFL players’ medical records stolen (Deadspin)
"In late April, the NFL recently informed its players, a Skins athletic trainer’s car was broken into. The thief took a backpack, and inside that backpack was a cache of electronic and paper medical records for thousands of players, including NFL Combine attendees from the last 13 years. That would encompass the vast majority of NFL players, and for them, it’s a worrying breach of privacy; for the NFL, it’s potentially a costly violation of medical privacy laws."