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I'd say the chances are slim. However, Watson could beat out Shedufus, so who knows? If he played well, I wouldn't be against it.

Meanwhile...

There will never be another 3 term president.

The fear mongering never stops.

The bare minimum trade for Myles should be three number 1 picks. Myles wants to be traded to a contender not a loser. 3 first round picks from say Seattle are pretty much garbage vs say 3 from the jets. Myles can block any trade to a team that sucks and has picks worth taking. I just can't see ANY team offering what it would take to get Myles that Myles would agree to go to. Thus he is untradeable.

You know ... it's ALWAYS a possibility that the Watson was bad because he didn't fit Kevin's very strict system. The one who lit it up with Kevin were the ones who ignored him like Flacco and Winston. What if we discover that the problem wasn't Watson but Kevin? We might find out if they keep the competition TRUE and let the best QB win. What if Monken returns Watson to his original glory?

I admit I would rather Sanders rise to the top after a brutally tough competition. Sanders has potential if he can speed up his game. Can he even learn the playbook in time though? I am not sure. He is a media darling who seem to know all the right things to say but he seems a bit slow in learning the playbook and reading defenses. He needs to focus more on improving his craft than paying attention to his public image. I would love to see him refocus and explode this year and lay all doubt to rest.

If Watson gets an extension without winning a Super Bowl, I am done with this team.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profo...roposal-to-expand-trading-of-draft-picks

Looks like Browns are withdrawing the proposal.

All is right in the world, now.

This coming just after Berry spoke with reporters and said the Garrett contract and this rule were totally unrelated, but didn't mention they withdrew the rule change.

Looks like they knew they didn't have the 24 votes needed, so they withdrew it instead of having a failed change on the record.

Well, that's that...until it isn't. I don't think we should waste any more energy on it though.

He's too busy playing with Mounds at Lois Lane's house. He doesn't understand that she's an Almond Joy bar. Sometimes she feels like a nut and sometimes she don't.

Sounds like we need "Clark" Kent to get to the bottom of this.

Andrew Berry confirms the Browns aren’t trading Myles Garrett, ‘a career Brown,’ in the wake of contract tweak

PHOENIX — General manager Andrew Berry confirmed at the NFL owners meeting Sunday that the Browns aren’t trading reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett in the wake of contract modifications last week.

In fact, Berry seemed a little irked by the question during an interview with a small group of Browns beat writers covering the meetings.

Cleveland.com broke the news last Wednesday after the restructure was reported that the Browns have no plans to trade him. It’s the corollary to last year, when Berry steadfastly refused to trade Garrett despite his contentious demand to go elsewhere to win a Super Bowl.

“Myles is a career Brown,” Berry said. “He’s one of the faces of our organization. I think we’ve been very clear both past and present in terms of our goals. I understand all the questions. I’ll be honest, I don’t really want to waste a ton more breath on the topic.”

Pressed on why he wouldn’t trade such a valuable asset when it could help the Browns dig out of their hole, Berry indicated that the Browns don’t want to part with the best defensive player in the NFL when they’re on the cusp of contending.

They fielded a championship-caliber defense in 2025, and are upgrading their offense this offseason under new coach Todd Monken.

“We’ll always do what we think is in the best interest of the organization,” Berry said. “We really like our core. I think as we look at the team, we have an elite young defense. We have a really rebuilt offensive line. We have nine picks this upcoming draft and I think seven are in the top 150. Three in the top 40.

“We have a good offensive young core that we brought in last year. And honestly, as we saw last year, there are more than one way to generate assets in the NFL. So we’ll always do what’s best for the organization, but we feel really good about our roster right now before the draft.”



As for why he revised the contract — which among other things delayed Garrett’s option bonuses over the next three seasons from March to September — he declined to say.

The revisions give the Browns cap flexibility, and also make him easier to trade, even though they’re not moving him.

“Standard practice, I don’t comment on player contracts,” he said. “I guess probably the easiest thing to say is, if we wanted to trade Myles, we wouldn’t need to make a contract adjustment, so it doesn’t have anything to do with that.”

Asked if he feels they’re in a good spot with Garrett, he said, “We do.”

He indicated, however, that Garrett probably won’t participate much in the Browns offseason program, which begins April 7, two weeks earlier for teams with a new head coach. The Browns not only have a new coach in Monken, but Garrett also has a new defensive coordinator in Mike Rutenberg.

“It’s a voluntary program, so I’d imagine he’d do his same schedule, that type of thing,” Berry said of Garrett.

Garrett, who agreed to a four-year contract extension last March through 2030 worth $40 million a year, secured a no-trade clause in his contract along with that extension, and had to agree to these changes, which were finalized on Tuesday.

In essence, Garrett’s options bonuses in 2026, 2027 and 2028 have been pushed back from March to September, giving the Browns a six-month break on the cap in each of those years.

Previously, the Browns would’ve had to exercise the options by the 15th day of the league year, which was March 25 this year.

Now, they have until seven days before the regular season in each of those seasons to do so.

Garrett would’ve been paid $10 million in 2026, $13 million in 2027, and $7 million in 2028 within a month of the option being exercised in March. Now, he’ll wait six months for the bonuses, but the Browns have also modified the payout in a way that benefits Garrett.

In addition, the Browns converted $8 million of Garrett’s $30 million base salaries in 2029 and 2030 to roster bonuses to be paid out early in the league year.

Speculation that the revisions signaled a possible trade stemmed from the fact that Garrett said toward the end of the season that he wasn’t up for more rebuilding and that he wants to win now.

“I quote Maxx (Crosby),” he said of the Raiders All-Pro edge rusher the Thursday before the season finale in Cincinnati. “I’m committed to winning and as long as the team and the organization are doing so — they’re committed to that same thing — then I’m all on board. But if we’re thinking anything other than winning -- tanking or rebuilding -- it’s not me.”

When his beloved defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz quit after being passed over for the head coach job in favor of Monken, Garrett posted a photo of a fast-food worker sitting on a bench with her head down.

But the Browns were in close contact with Garrett during the coaching search, and at the start of free agency two weeks ago, and he remains committed to the team.

The restructure also comes less than a week after the Browns submitted a proposal to the NFL to enable trades of draft picks to extend five years instead of three. Some are connecting the dots between that move and the Garrett news.

But Berry explained that the two events are not connected, and that the proposal is designed to foster more flexibility and creativity in the NFL trade market.

https://www.cleveland.com/browns/20...ycl3zkgQm8tbv_aem_jEay7dCY1w9-pGTMwNDlRA

Updates today-none of this reported in our news

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2188084/dubai-explosions-live-flights-diverted

LOL 😂

That's what husbands say while they're out looking for a hooker.

Well Pit, at least we're keeping all our options open!!

PHOENIX — Just when the Browns are close to digging out from under Deshaun Watson’s fully-guaranteed $230 million contract, Browns GM Andrew Berry revealed Sunday that it might not be over just yet.

By Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com

If Watson wins the quarterback battle and plays well, the Browns could always bring him back for more.

In fact, when Berry first traded three first-round picks and more in 2022 for Watson, he said he hoped it would be a 10-year proposition and not just the original five.

So when it comes to Watson vs. Shedeur Sanders and whoever else is in the quarterback room this offseason, his expiring contract -- worth $46 million a year — won’t be a factor.

“We’re probably just more focused on performance and best players,” Berry told a small group of Browns beat writers at the NFL owners meetings here. “Certainly time horizon factors into that, but just with any veteran player, there’s no rule against extending the player’s contract if they perform and they do well. So I wouldn’t necessarily box it into any one approach. It really will be performance-based.”

Berry also re-iterated that no one has a leg up in the competition at this point. All three quarterbacks currently on the roster — including 2025 third-round pick Dillon Gabriel — are on equal footing heading into the start of the offseason program on April 7.

“I’d say as we sit here on March 29th, and nobody has touched the grass, nobody has really worked with our coaching staff, I wouldn’t handicap it for anyone,” Berry said. “I think everyone in that room deserves opportunity. And so we’ll certainly know a lot more as we get to the spring. We’ll know even more as we get to camp. But I think honestly, we wouldn’t be doing the right thing for the team, we wouldn’t be doing the right thing for that position if we didn’t go in with it eyes wide open.”

What’s more, he acknowledged that it’s “wholly realistic” for the Browns to add another quarterback to the mix, most likely a younger one. The Browns have hosted Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson for a top 30 pre-draft visit and will spend more time on him. They’ll also consider other QBs in the draft and elsewhere, and Berry won’t “rule out any method of acquisition.”

But the Browns seem eager to see what Sanders can do in his second season with an upgraded supporting cast, a new scheme and a new head coach in Todd Monken, who cited his elite playmaking ability last month at the NFL Combine. With Berry and Monken both noting that Sanders has a long way to go, can he make up that ground by the opener?

“That’s a little bit TBD (to be determined), because all of our guys coming in, they’re going to learn a new offensive system,” Berry said. “We’re going to have a fair amount of turnover on that side of the ball. They’ll have new teammates to learn, which is why the spring will be really important for the guys that are at the offseason program for us to really, really get a sense of their progress year over year.”

He noted that Sanders has been “working really hard. I would expect him to take a step forward and we’ll deal with that kind of week-by-week and month-by-month.”

The quarterback competition will get underway at Browns headquarters in just over a week, and if Watson lives up to his vow to be better than ever, it might not be his last season in Browns uniform after all.

https://www.cleveland.com/browns/20...ract-qb-battle-is-performance-based.html

I can get to the point where I would say it's highly unlikely. But with trump, I've learned that "isn't going to happen" is a bridge too far.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/msnbcnewsjunkies/posts/3374520519376468/

Many a true word spoken in jest....

If it were up to me, I'd NOT trade MG for one and only one reason...because Andrew Berry would be the one making the picks.