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I don't know what to make of the Jeremiah love discussion Darryl and coach Riz was on earlier today
And he's been advocating for Jeremiah love for a while. Here's what I can tell you. I know
The draft community believes he is an all-time prospect
They have put him up there as higher than Aston Gentee from last year, which is astounding all things considered because
Aston Gentee was one of the highest rated running back prospects in years
And then they're putting up in the sake one Barclay category as well
Where's sake one is legitimately one of the highest rated running back prospects I've ever seen and so like to put him up in that
Rarified air like it does it makes you stop and pay attention to the point where it's like all right
I could have maybe used some of you guys gassing them up this way
I don't know maybe like four or five months ago
But the point is is that we've gotten there with Jeremiah love to the to the idea that enough people now have watched the tape
They've talked to enough NFL people there of the belief that Jeremiah love is a once in a generation type running back prospect
Okay, so now that that's all said the question then becomes will the Browns take him at number six overall and
I it juttkins has to factor into this, but I don't think juttkins should factor into all of this Darrell
Well, yeah, he has to they drafted two running backs last year
So you'd be talking about
drafting three running backs in two years and two of them with a first and a second-round pit
So I'll tell you right now. I'm not pro Jeremiah love. I need to make this known in the uprise
I just I'm laying out the situation. I can't the way you described it right there
I can't let Samson get in the way of whether or not I take Jeremiah love
Well, no, I'm no junkens was the second pick. Okay, the second-round pick. Yeah, I know that kids was taking I'm saying
But I think but aren't you a you're equating for both the two of them already being there, right? Is that correct? Yeah
You took two guys last year you'd be taking in this year and that means on in a position
In a league that's not a running league. It's a passing league
You will have invested three draft picks on that room and two of those picks are in the top two rounds
It's none of this by the way screams anything analytical at all
Like for being the analytical world that they live in none of the screams analytical that screams bad roster building
Well, I mean, yeah, I mean just in general six overall and running back doesn't scream analytical if Quinch on Judkins was not on this roster
Yeah, we wouldn't have an argument. I'd be all four. I'd be down
Oh, because it does bring up like an interesting little like a recent years
We've moved away it used to for a couple of years stretch
It was like don't take a running back on the first round at all then Jumir Gibbs happened then Bijan happened and all of a sudden we started having these
These kind of those where it was like all right
You can take a running back again in the first round. It's not crazy
Just you don't do it in the top five you just don't do it typically in the top five and then last year happened with
Ashton genty and a number five overall right he got taken now
But ashton genty didn't have some break out year
Then a miserable offensive line nobody is blaming ashton genty
It's not his fault Vegas screwed him over in many respects the same way the Browns didn't help out
Judkins when it came to an offensive line same thing happened with genty
But what's interesting is that we're right back to that same convo and now I do think we have to talk about how it works within
Judkins and coach Riz says it works perfect
Well, because you can't because you can line him out wide
He can he can put him in the slot
But are you willing to spend that much of your capital and your resources towards a running back position?
That is not as valuable as it once was and especially in today's NFL
They just don't we just don't look at running backs the same one running back
I would I would phrase it as a running back wide receiver combo
Like you're getting two players in one if you're looking for a justification my concern is
That they have so many other holes that they need to fill and needs they they must address it
It's like the quarterback thing right should the Browns whether it's draft high Simpson whether it's draft
You know drew out or later or one of these other quarterbacks later in the draft now you're at three quarterbacks drafted in two years
You'll probably draft the quarterback in the first round next year
So now you're talking about drafting four quarterbacks over a three-year period again
That's just bad roster planning and bad roster building like you just I understand you got to keep taking swings
But also at the same time there's other positions that you need to address on your roster
I think that Jeremiah love would be a fantastic pick at six if the Browns didn't have so many other problems
The issue is they have so many other problems. It becomes a luxury pick
It's almost yeah like if they make a defensive selection. Okay, whether you know like whatever right
It becomes a luxury pick right now what they need to do is they need to come away in the first round
with a receiver or
And I should say they're starting left tackle a I don't care about the order
I don't care how you do it
But that's how you need to come out of that first round of the draft then you don't know
But is Jeremiah is he different because of what he does you mentioned what he does in the past game and I think about a
Screen game in particular and then even and they put him in the slot like 60 times last year another game like
Well, that's why I call them a running back wide receiver combo because you he can he is such a versatile player
And he's also an explosive player with that versatility. Yeah
And it's not thanks that the Browns don't have the luxury of being able to take him this year
But I do almost wonder they could justify it from that perspective of like he would help out as much in the past game
As he would in the run game and then you have this Batman Robin type thing between him and Jutkins
It's kind of like you dead probably be your new
Nick Chubb Kareem Hunt combo
That's exactly what it would try to be yeah, or even like what the Lions just recently had with Jamir Gibbs
And they're like one two punch combo. It was like Sonic and Hedgehog or something whatever that was called
He would be a weapon Sonic and Knuckles. So Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic is a Hedgehog
If his body is not Sonic the Hedgehog. Yes, I had played Sonic in a very long time
And I was thinking to myself. I'm like, what the hell is that other guy's name? What was Knuckles?
Yes, exactly David Montgomery is Knuckles also a Hedgehog
Don't look at me. I have no idea. I stumped you there first. No, I know
I'll I'll look it up and double check. Okay, don't go away for it. Yeah, that's what we need you on today
That's what we need Jack too much affordable on any two and I think in a Jamir Gibbs because basically Jeremiah love is
Comped out as a bigger version of Jamir Gibbs
That's his comp and so like if you're trying to do this this Sonic and Knuckles type thing that Detroit had
Like it is setting up in many ways like this does work
It makes your offense better. This is not what it was when we're talking defense and defense only where I I think they're shifting so much to the
Offensive side of the ball and they're trying to make sure you have a competent offense
What Jeremiah love is what he does is so different than most backs or at least half the backs that you talk about
And then he does have a past catching ability that is a borderline elite like it matters. Here's the good news for us
Here's the good news for us. What's that? I don't
necessarily think that
Jeremiah loves even going to be on the board
There
That brings another thing to the equation that we have to talk about if if we're talking about taking Jeremiah love
It's six that then presumes that he's there at six for you to take right and if he's there at six for you to take
And you will have a team that will trade up to go ahead and get him. I know he's the one guy that people would trade up for in this draft
And if he's there at six somebody will bite now for the longest time
I thought that would be the chiefs right but the chiefs have they've addressed their running back situation this off season
They got Kenneth Walker now. They're good. They're happy
But like there are enough teams that if Andrew Berry is trying to cash some chips for the next year's draft
This is how you would do it
And so you got to weigh that in this equation as well. I will concede there are three players that the Browns could pick at six
That I have no argument against and I will not be angry about all right. What are there? Okay
Uh
Carnell Tate from Ohio State
Okay
Caleb Downs from Ohio State. Okay. Yeah sense of theme here
Arville Reese Ohio State and Jeremiah Love. Okay, like it
The those three players if the Browns end up with any of those three players Jonathan there's
It's it it would be almost impossible for me to
argue against those selections. Well Nick Bumgarner was on the morning show today
His coach raised it was Ken and he seems to think at six Jeremiah Love is a great pick
I think Jeremiah Love is the best player in this draft. I think he is
In the category or the tier of a B. John Robinson, Jameer Gibbs
I think possibly even in a in a sake one category at some point someday
I think he's one of those guys that can change the tenor of a franchise on offense can be an immediate impact player
I think he's better than us in Gen T
I don't know if Jeremiah in love necessarily needs a you know amazing offense to come in and and really
I I think he could come in and help raise a team
I think he could come in and work with a young quarterback to move him around
You don't have to get rid of Judkins
Maybe Dylan Samson doesn't have quite as much of a role
But you can play him with another guy at works, you know, there's a lot you can do with him
The other thing I think that could justify it more also in theory would be you have the other pick in the first round
You could you know
You're a team right now that is trying to acquire as many young talented players as possible to me
It doesn't matter what position they play. So at number six. I'm trying to get the absolute best player
I can get period end of story and if that's Jeremiah love that's Jeremiah love and if I have to get my tackle at 26
And that's what I'll do

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