Why the Browns Should Not Trade Joe Thomas or Alex Mack

So what can the Browns do right? Pretty much nothing is the answer. It gets real bad when you read articles like this. When I first saw it I laughed as a joke. The more I thought about it the more I thought this could really happen. Why would it not surprise me that the Browns would trade away an every year Pro Bowler who is signed through 2018 and is responsible for protecting your franchise QB’s blind side for a guy who has yet to play this year because he blew off some of his fingers and we will throw a 5th round pick in there for laughs and giggles.

That would be a trade the Browns would make and it saddens me that I could even begin to accept that as a possibility. It is mind boggling that you would consider trading away your best player for something like that. As I pointed out earlier, you win by keeping your key guys not letting them go. TJ Ward, Jordan Cameron, and Jabaal Sheard have been among the most important building blocks from our recent drafts and we just want to let them walk.

Let’s give Joe Thomas or Alex Mack away and let’s continue to frustrate our already irate fan base. This takes its toll on the players too because they know this and they want to win. You need to get your building blocks in here so that veterans want to join your team.

I would not be one bit surprised to see players signing with Jacksonville and Oakland because of their cap space and they are putting talent on their roster with guys like Khalil Mack, Amari Cooper, Blake Bortles, and Allen Robinson to name a few. We already saw Alex Mack do this two years ago with Jacksonville and he may do it again because they have a need at center.

Going back to my other point for reasons that players leave a team is the constant switch in GMs and coaches and therefore philosophy and scheme. Oh Sheard doesn’t fit in a 3-4 we’re going to let him walk.

Oh TJ Ward is coming off a Pro Bowl season and is only in his fourth year in the league, let’s pay Donte Whitner more. These things bother me. I understand each person wants their own kind of players, but you have to adapt.

Life in general doesn’t adapt to you, you have to adapt to it and the Browns can’t accept that. The players are the ones out there every week busting their ass off to try and win. They are the ones getting paid the big bucks and there’s a reason for that. The real talent in this league doesn’t grow on trees and it’s important to keep what you have and work with it not against it. Head coaches are getting paid millions of dollars to do this, not to take three timeouts into halftime.

It seems so often especially when watching the Browns that they continually try to put square pegs in circle holes. Let’s move our leading sacker Paul Kruger into pass coverage. Let’s switch to a 3-4 defense from a 4-3 and anybody who doesn’t fit won’t be resigned. We are going to run a West Coast offense so we need a QB who can throw quickly and WRs that can catch. The amount of excuses made each year for reasons like this is stupid.

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