Trade means Browns’ wait for franchise quarterback continues

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Here we go again.

Another year, no quarterback.

Unless you believe someone else’s reclamation project is the solution.

The Cleveland Browns’ trade on Wednesday of the second pick in the NFL draft netted them extra picks, including Philadelphia’s first-round pick in this draft and 2017, and its second-round pick in 2018.

That’s a good amount of picks.

But you can have dozens of picks and if you don’t have a quarterback you still won’t win. The most important position in football is treated like an afterthought by regime after regime in Cleveland, just like the possibility of drafting big-time impact players high.

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Yet the spin will come about how valuable picks are and how it’s a process in building a team and patience is required and the owner is committed to continuity.

Meanwhile, the Browns spin their wheels at the most important position.

The Browns preferred to trade down, which is true to analytics. Clearly they didn’t think that highly of either Jared Goff or Carson Wentz.

But this is the formula that a team can build “around the quarterback.”

If the Browns have proved nothing since 1999, it’s that that formula does not work.

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