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Cleveland Browns: 3 reasons to stay far away from Cardale Jones

By Thomas Moore

Oct 10, 2015; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Cardale Jones (12) prior to the game versus the Maryland Terrapins at Ohio Stadium. Ohio State won the game 49-28. Mandatory Credit: Joe Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 10, 2015; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Cardale Jones (12) prior to the game versus the Maryland Terrapins at Ohio Stadium. Ohio State won the game 49-28. Mandatory Credit: Joe Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports /
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Sep 12, 2015; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Cardale Jones (12) is sacked by Hawaii Warriors defensive lineman Luke Shawley (93) at Ohio Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Greg Bartram-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 12, 2015; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Cardale Jones (12) is sacked by Hawaii Warriors defensive lineman Luke Shawley (93) at Ohio Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Greg Bartram-USA TODAY Sports /

Not only is Cardale Jones inexperienced – he only started 11 games and played in 23 in three years with the Buckeyes – his game needs to be rebuilt almost from scratch. Most estimates say it will take two to three years for Jones to be ready, maybe, to be a viable quarterback at the pro level.

For the past few months Browns fans debated whether or not North Dakota State quarterback Carson Wentz should be on the Browns radar, in large part because Wentz might have to sit for a year (part of the same argument against picking Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch).

NFL fans are a notoriously impatient lot when it comes to quarterbacks, and there is no fanbase that loves the backup quarterback more than in Cleveland, where patience is a four-letter word. So fans who are not willing to wait a year for a player like Wentz or Lynch, widely expected to be actual starting quarterbacks, but will sit quietly for possibly three years on the off chance that Jones could be in consideration for the starter’s role?

The chants will start at the first incompletion thrown by Robert Griffin III or Josh McCown.

There is also the real question of whether or not Jones is willing to have his game rebuilt, something that Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer alluded to in a recent interview.

“I think it’s the situation he’s going to get put in,” Meyer told the Beacon Journal in a phone interview this month. “I think there’s going to have to be patience, an excellent quarterback coach that’s going to have to earn his trust. There’s going to have to be a great relationship there; he’s a relationship-type guy. He and [former OSU offensive coordinator] Tom Herman were very close and that took three years.”

Head coach Hue Jackson and the rest of the offensive staff is going to have their hands full as it is working with the players who will actually see the field, now they are supposed to also devote time to holding the hand of a third-string quarterback as well?

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