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Originally Posted by hummdeedoo
Trading Richardson was not a sign that they were tanking... guy is just not a great football player. This was a good trade for the Browns. Fact is they played better without him... for a while. Doubt the Browns would have had a better record had they kept Richardson.
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They won 5 games with him the season before and 4 games without him so lets not exaggerate here that they were a better team without him. They were a bad team without a quality starting QB. The deal turned out to be fantastic for them as a 1st round pick in the NFL usually turns into a starter and you can see in the NFL thread here the day the trade was made I said the Browns won the deal because I felt Richardson was overrated but making that trade just two games into the season isn't trying to win that season end of story.
Total tank job. The Browns realized that Weeden was a bust after two bad starts and decided they were going to get into the Teddy Bridgewater sweepstakes and the easiest way to do that was trade their starting running back for a 1st round pick that enables them to use another 1st round pick (they wasted a 1st round pick on Weeden the year earlier) on another QB with their pick and another position of need with the other 1st round pick. The fact that they released both Weeden and Campbell pretty well tells you they are taking a QB with the 4th pick whether that be Bridgewater, Manziel, or Bortles. It's very clear what they did last year.