Do the Browns have reason for optimism?
Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice is joined by Robert Mays of The Athletic to discuss why talented young skill players like KC Concepcion and Denzel Boston should provide long term hope for fans in Cleveland. Check out the full conversation on "Football 301" - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen.
Video Transcript
Let's just stay optimistic here.
What is some stuff that you're excited about with the Cleveland Browns- There's a lot offense this year?
There's a lot.
There is.
That's why I want to stay optimistic about it.
I'm really excited with a lot of the things about the Cleveland Browns.
I am too, Robert.
I- So, good.
My two favorite players in this draft that I watched were Spencer Fano and Casey Concepcion.
Those are my two favorite players in the draft, and the Browns drafted both of them, and so I'm really excited to see what those two guys will look like.
Harold Fanton was such a fun player last year.
Denzel Boston, the reviews in camp have been so good about what he's given them.
I, I just think that the combination of Concepcion and Boston, like those skill sets fit together in a way that I find really interesting.
Yep.
I, I think that there's a lot where you can start building optimism about the multi-year outlook for what this group is until you get to the quarterback.
That, that's what this is all gonna be about.
Can we maintain a level of excitement about the supporting cast and even the play caller?
Do we get to a place by the end of the year where we're like, "Yeah, Todd Monken continues to have the goods.
He's really good at this."
When they get a young quarterback in here, what can this look like?
I think that's the path you want to take if you're the Browns, and there are a lot of ingredients in that overall composition that I actually do think that they're, it's worth having some optimism and enthusiasm for.
I know for a while I was like, "What young quarterback do you want to drop into this situation?"
They got no guys to catch the ball.
The offensive line's all gonna be free agents after this year.
Like, what are you guys building?
And I've totally changed my tune about six months later, and I'm like, "This might be a great situation to drop a young quarterback into."
And we're talking about all this 'cause it is a positive situation because the quarterbacks on this roster aren't gonna be the ones in the future.
And, and that is kind of just how I view it, not how I think how they view it.
I know it's a mess.
I know it takes up all the oxygen.
Do you have just like a one-liner on the quarterback situation?
'Cause to me, it's just like, we know what this is.
I, I think anybody with a rational head brain is g- going, "This " The, there's two not great options right now, and then one, Dillon Gabriel, who's just already DOA essentially, and then Taylor Graham's a project, which everybody knows.
So to me, it's just getting everything else in order to then see, to get with the quarterback of the future hopefully next spring into which should be a pretty interesting quarterback class.
