Browns Sign Miles Austin and Earl Bennett

Miles Austin & Dez Bryant | Dallas Cowboys (Photo credit: Football Schedule)

With the pending suspension and cloudy future of one Josh Gordon the Cleveland Browns surveyed the market and found two of the best remaining wide receivers out there.   Personally, I would have placed a call to the Houston Texans just to see if they had any interest in dealing Andre Johnson.  Granted  they may have but the next step was to look over the market and bring in some proven commodities like Miles Austin and Earl Bennett. 

It was wise not to go down the Santonio Holmes road as he is not exactly what a rookie quarterback needs.   Austin and Bennett both come with their own issues but neither is a QB or team killer which is the last thing the Browns need.  Miles Austin, if healthy still has some good years left and could certainly recapture his Pro Bowl level form if his

Interview with Bloomsburg WR Kyle Fisher

I wonder how many people were interested in talking to Miles Austin when he was coming out into the NFL from Monmouth University in 2006, and I wonder how many draft experts would want to talk to him now.   Amazing the money spent on scouting yet every year there are small school players who go later in the process than they should but always end up with the better career than those who go ahead of them.    A name people might not know now, but will very soon, is Bloomsburg University wide receiver, Kyle Fisher.

Footballdialogue:  What is your official height, weight and forty yard dash?

KF:  I am 5’11 7/8, 195 pounds and I run a 4.41

Footballdialogue:  What other sports did you play in high school? 

KF: I played basketball my freshman year and ran track all through high school.

Footballdialogue:  I saw you had extensive experience running track in high school, do you miss running track? (league champ in the 100, 200 & 400, finished 4th in the state in the 200).

KF:  I miss competing as it is a very individual based sport so that type of competition is rare and I miss that.

Grading the draft …Seriously?

Someone needs to explain to me why the “experts” bother with grading the NFL draft especially seconds after it’s over.  Come on just because a team doesn’t grab the guy that specific expert thinks it needed the team gets bad press and their fans are depressed as their team is singled out as having a bad draft.  Let’s be honest unless you are in the war-room, work for the team or have spent time working for a team you can’t say with 100% certainty if a player will or won’t work for a team and even those people make countless mistakes.  

 Those of us that have a great passion for all things football can certainly do our due diligence and give our best educated guess but to say this team gets a D but this team gets a B because they took guys the “expert” liked over other guys the “expert” might not know is simply stupid.     I’d much rather see the experts come out and say for each team I like this pick because XYZ and I didn’t like this pick because of ABC.   No team picked all guys that are bad so a true draftnik should be able to find the value of a good picks and simply question the other picks.  

Being a Cowboys fan I don’t remember anyone giving them an A for signing Miles Austin and Tony Romo years ago and that turned out pretty well.    That’s because you don’t know how a player will adjust to the NFL.   For all the “franchise” QBs taken in round one like Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, Patrick Ramsey,  there are undrafted quarterbacks like Tony Romo, Jake Delhomme and Kurt Warner who come out of nowhere to lead there teams to the playoffs and sometimes the Super Bowl.  

Grading the draft…really?