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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
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.
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Sounds like you are describing the Browns as a bad football team which they were. They were going to have a bad record with or without Richardson. Which proves they did not intend to tank by trading mediocre running back - As you stated he did not make a difference to the team.
A tank job would be if Richardson was good enough to improve the Browns record by a few games (you stated he did not make a difference) and they had to play a lesser player in his place.
no tank job just a good football trade that any team regardless of record would have made.