Browns Players wondering What If with Teddy Bridgewater

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From the article:

Browns players -- they're just like us! How do we know? Because one anonymous Cleveland football player is curious what the Browns would look like if they had Teddy Bridgewater instead of Johnny Manziel.

Recalling a conversation following Manziel's first start in the Browns-Bengals game, an anonymous Browns player told Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report he questioned to a teammate at the time what life would be like with Teddy.

"Think about where we'd be now," the player told Freeman he said at the time. "If we had drafted Teddy Bridgewater."


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Big_Tasty_Muffin

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Add the Texans, Rams, Jaguars, Bills, Jets, Buccaneers, Titans, Bears to this list.

Everyone passed on Teddy and they will regret it for many years.
 

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When Tom Brady retires in the next couple of years (or just misses time due to injury) I guarantee Patriots fans will be asking the same question.

This post was edited on 2/16 9:24 PM by beantowncard
 

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Thanks for letting me know in the header when a thread is about pro sports.

No sarcasm, I'm serious...
 

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Originally posted by Big_Tasty_Muffin:
Add the Texans, Rams, Jaguars, Bills, Jets, Buccaneers, Titans, Bears to this list.

Everyone passed on Teddy and they will regret it for many years.
Great compliment that his peers at the highest level recognize his talent...with him the Browns would have likely been a Playoff Team...they still ended up 7-9-(at one point last season they had a record of 6-3) with basically no QB...

This post was edited on 2/16 4:46 PM by The Public Enemy
 

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"When Tom Brady retires in the next couple of years (or just misses time due to injury) I guarantee Patriots fans will be asking the same question."

It's not like the Patriots took another QB with their pick. No way they should have taken a QB in the 1st round with Brady's history. As much as I would have loved him being in a NE uniform, NE made the correct decision. Teddy isn't a guy you pick and sit on the bench for a few years. He is good enough to start for at least half the teams in the NFL. That just wasn't a good fit for Teddy or NE in my opinion.
 

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Originally posted by cardfan1569:

"When Tom Brady retires in the next couple of years (or just misses time due to injury) I guarantee Patriots fans will be asking the same question."

It's not like the Patriots took another QB with their pick. No way they should have taken a QB in the 1st round with Brady's history. As much as I would have loved him being in a NE uniform, NE made the correct decision. Teddy isn't a guy you pick and sit on the bench for a few years. He is good enough to start for at least half the teams in the NFL. That just wasn't a good fit for Teddy or NE in my opinion.
The Patriots took Jimmy Garoppolo in the second round, a very valuable pick by NFL standards. He looked pretty good in limited action. But he's a perfect fit for a guy you would bench for a few years and develop. I don't see Brady retiring in a couple of years I see him as the Bret Favre type that will want to play until he is 50.

Teddy landed with a good franchise that will build around him. The Raiders, Jaguars and Browns have historically been poorly run from a front office standpoint.

This post was edited on 2/17 10:10 PM by Big_Tasty_Muffin
 

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But, but, but Mike Mayock said Bridgewater sucked before the draft.
 

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The browns paid a consultant 6 figures to study which QB
they should take. He suggested Teddy5 and those chose
the party boy. Thank you Cleveland!
 

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There was a story that the Browns owner was walking in to the draft and done homeless guy told him to pick Manziel. Almost surely not true, but would anybody be shocked if it was?