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[QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 1998076, member: 668"]
I've been a lifelong Brown's fan and it has just been a nightmare ever since getting a team back in '99.  The Brown's have struck out immensely over the past decade with pretty much all of their top picks, not just at QB.  You mention Couch possibly being the biggest bust in NFL history, but I recall all the so-called gurus saying how he was by far the best pick in the draft for the Browns.

These alleged gurus also have had many of the Brown's top draft choices highly rated as well.  It's not like these guys are saying immediately afterwards, [I]'what were the Brown's thinking?'   [/I]However, as with so many other of the Brown's high picks, they're either no longer on the team or out of the league altogether after just a short time.  The ones that are still playing on some other team, are not high producers, certainly not at the level that their respective draft slot would've projected them to be.  It's truly astounding and so very frustrating and heartbreaking.

The draft is in a lot of instances, a crap shoot, where hindsight is always 20-20.  Similar to how some employers use extensive testing, etc. as a tool, in addition to interviewing, only to find out that many top "scorers" don't produce at levels they think based on the specifically structured and believed relatively "objective" material, whereas lower "scorers" often out shine them.
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