Cleveland Browns: 3 main takeaways from the trade deadline

2. The Browns have ruined DeShone Kizer

This is a vastly different headline than I thought I would be writing after Week 8 if you asked me in the preseason. DeShone Kizer has struggled so far this year to say the least, and he hasn’t had much help around him, but the way the coaching staff has managed Kizer this season is baffling.

I understand the need to pull him out after too many red zone turnovers and resetting him. I agreed with it. It’s a good thing to reflect on mistakes and improve upon them. But then Hue Jackson pulls Kizer again in his next start after giving him a vote of confidence, furthering the descent of DeShone’s already low confidence.

Kizer is desperately missing a veteran mentor to bounce questions off of and talk to about the peaks and valleys of being an NFL quarterback. Multiple players have said as such, and again it shows the complete lack of awareness by the front office.

There were even opportunities on Tuesday to add a solid wide receiver to this team and the team couldn’t make anything happen. Draft capital should be used to acquire established players, and the Browns missed out.

Not to mention the fact that the Browns aggressively pursued and couldn’t get McCarron in the last 24 hours so I’m sure that was the final blow in this failed experiment of a regime.

Kizer may be great down the road, but this coaching staff has now shown what they truly think of him and it’s going to be a tough conversation with Kizer as to why they wanted to get McCarron so bad. I feel for him, I really do.