Cleveland Browns: The Ultimate Smoke Screen

With a little less than two weeks to go, trade rumors are a soarin'!

You see, I bleed the Brown and Orange...For some reason this draft feels a little different. Every year we blow picks, it never mattered who called the shots. 

The Browns' hold the cards this year and it feels great.

This is what I know Browns' fans: 

They have orientated every potential top 10 pick to Berea, except the two QB's.

Cleveland is not the initiator of the trade talks: Remember everything is tight lipped, all you here is "what I see on tape", "he looked good on tape" things of that nature. With the pressure to win now a days, there is no way Mangini strips to the level of a talentless ball club.

You keep hearing Orakpo, Orakpo...Browns fans realize this, although under a previous regime yet with the same "core values." Savage traded with Kokonis, allowing him to draft a monster from Oregon while the Browns' draft Bryan Orakpo. My fault...Kameron Wimbley, I am a firm believer that you never sign or draft the "Same Guy."

The Quinn rumors are for real, which brings me to the "Smoke Screen." I really don't want to put this out there but teams wouldn't inquire about either Browns QB if they didn't feel Cleveland might be interested in one. 

Browns fans remove your heart and ask yourself, "Self is Brady Quinn better than Mark Sanchez?"

Does Mark Sanchez have a higher projection than Derek Anderson in year four?

We all know what the answer is, you all know what I'm getting at.  Drafting Sanchez with the 5th overall pick would cripple the draft lowering the value of some decent talent.

For Cleveland, if this were to occur would have the best QB in the draft, trade bait in Edwards, Quinn, Wimbley (Oh yeah!), and potentially DA(if a market exists).

This year's draft is full of Juniors which equals crap shoot.

Mangini and Kokonis might want to add Kenny Rodgers' "The Gambler" to their iPod.