Trade Ranking Between Odell Beckham Jr. Giants at Browns

Category Browns: A
Note of the giants: D +
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Something dramatic and inexplicable must have happened during these 13 days to make sense of this trade, because it reads as if the giants had been hacked. A few months after paying him a $ 20 million signing bonus, they traded one of the best young players in the league to any position to the Browns for the type of offer that the computer would reject in a video game.

This could be a trade that will redefine the franchises, the kind of deal that will get everyone fired and let the fans mumble for decades about what could have been. The Giants have never had a player like OBJ before. Now they do not have it – or a lot of it – at all.

How to start a reconstruction

It is fair to say that Gettleman did not inherit much when he took office as General Manager of the Giants in December 2017. Jerry Reese left the team after a series of tests While the Giants were able to fill those holes by spending a lot on agency fees to make the playoffs 2016, the regression then took hold, and they dropped to 3-13.

Even though Reese left little in the closet at Gettleman, there is little credence of what Gettleman has done since:

• His free shot in 2018 was a disaster. Nate Solder, for whom Gettleman made the highest paid tackle in football, had the worst year of his career. Patrick Omameh, who signed a $ 15 million three-year contract to play guard, was interrupted mid-season. Halfback Jonathan Stewart, who signed a one-year, $ 3.5-million contract, touched the ball six times in three games before ending up in the casualty pool.

• The Giants used the second overall pick on attacking midfielder Saquon Barkley, ignoring the simple concept of scarcity in position and transmitting punchy players to larger positions such as Sam Darnold, Denzel Ward and Bradley Chubb. Barkley looked bright with the ball in his hands and made decisive runs, but he was ineffective and accumulated yards in the lost time. The Giants took 18th place in DVOA with the return of their new star, but found themselves with holes or players below average at most critical positions in their lineup.

• In October, Gettleman traded his former first-round pick, Eli Apple, to the Saints against fourth and seventh-round picks. Apple almost immediately joined the starting lineup for New Orleans and helped turn up a struggling defense, which improved considerably in the second half. New York finished the season with the minimum B.W. Webb corner starting at Apple's place.

• Earlier this month, Gettleman refused to place the franchise etiquette for safety on Collins, who reportedly held the rights of the triple Pro Bowler for an additional season at $ 11.2 million. Collins quickly signed a $ 84 million, six-year deal with Washington, which more realistically equates to a $ 45 million, three-year, options-based deal. The $ 15 million annual figure and the rest of the free agency security market suggest that Collins would have had significant commercial value if the Giants had had their rights.

The most bizarre way of all, however, is the one that Gettleman followed with his wide receiver. After rumors that they would consider an exchange with Beckham for the final season, Gettleman signed a massive extension of OBJ in August. Beckham has been awarded a $ 90 million five-year contract with New York, with a $ 20 million signing bonus and a $ 41 million signature guarantee. The average annual salary of $ 18 million is the largest ever recorded in league history.

Less than a year after deciding to want Beckham, the Giants decided that it was not part of their future. In doing so, they burned all sorts of cash and space ceilings. Let's look at two scenarios. Scenario 1 would be what would have happened if they had not made it a long-term contract and had not franchised it in 2019. (Do not forget that the Giants do not have it. have not used their franchise label this off season.) Scenario 2 is what really happened.

• Scenario 1: $ 8.5 million paid to Beckham in cash, $ 8.5 million on the 2019 ceiling of the Giants, 0 dollar without money on the 2019 cap

• Scenario 2: $ 21.5 million paid to Beckham in cash, $ 5.5 million on the Giants cap in 2019, $ 16 million of money stuck on the 2019 cap

This is not a typo. Because Gettleman (or his owner) has temporarily decided to keep Beckham, the Giants have paid an additional $ 13 million on their coffers and will eat 16 million dollars of dead money on this year's cape for the privilege of doing so. It's not really a big competition problem, because the Giants do not seem particularly competitive in 2019, but it's a sign of the myopia of the franchise by signing OBJ before giving up things eight months later.

The same trends apply to New York's performance overall, without Beckham in training. There is certainly a subgroup of Giants fans who will suggest that Beckham was cancerous for the team's chances of victory. This is not corroborated by reality. When he played the last five seasons, the Giants went from 25 to 34 (.424). They averaged 22.6 points and allowed 23.8 points per game.

Now, the Browns can start the season with Nick Chubb half. Kareem Hunt will surely be suspended for a good part of the 2019 season, and the decision to return the former leaders after his break for assaulting a woman at the Cleveland hotel where Hunt was living was abominable, but his talent is undeniable. The Browns also received Duke Johnson, although there are rumors that he might be available in trade negotiations.

At the receiver, the Browns are suddenly blessed with Beckham and Landry. You may prefer the Vikings couple, Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs, and the Rams are deeper between one and three, but nobody will fight you if you suggest that the Browns have the best duo to start in football. Second-year receiver Antonio Callaway has a third role in the selection, and he will spend the entire year 2019 facing a unique coverage. The Browns appeared to sign a one-year contract again with Breshad Perriman, but after the signing of the agreement with Beckham, Perriman asked to be suspended from his contract and signed a one-year contract with the Buccaneers. In the tight match, David Njoku, who has accumulated 639 yards and four touchdowns in the second row, and the Browns have explosive receivers at each location of the formation.

This is the official end of the Browns reconstruction period. For the first time in ten years, they will be forced to win regularly. The Ravens have lost four defensive starters, including linebacker C.J. Mosley. The Steelers traded Antonio Brown for a pair of picks and are about to lose The Veon Bell. The Bengals almost went to the combine before they could find a defensive coordinator. After adding OBJ, negotiated for Olivier Vernon and signed Sheldon Richardson, the Browns have spent too much money and have too much talent to be happy to find a season 7-8-1. No matter how short in the playoffs next season could be described as disappointment.

The expectations are totally new and, while I'm sure Mayfield is happy to take on this challenge, the teams do not always respond well. Watch the Jaguars, who advanced to the playoffs in 2017, brought back their entire young core, eliminated the Patriots in the second week of the season, and then collapsed completely. New coach Freddie Kitchens will have a lot of personalities to handle in his first season as a head coach.

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This is a further reminder of the interest in finding an effective quarterback in the rookie contract cheat code to unlock a playoff team under the current CBA since 2011. The Browns can afford to devote close $ 30 million of their capitalization. Beckham and Landry in 2019 because Mayfield reached a cap of $ 7.4 million, which is less than a third of the $ 23.2 million that Manning will spend on the Giants cap this season. Manning's base salary of $ 11.5 million will earn him $ 718,750 per game this season, which is higher than Mayfield's base salary for the season, at $ 570,000. $.

Dorsey will rightly earn the credit for doing this trade, but one of the reasons why Browns can do such a trade and send back two draft picks is that they have amassed a huge amount of capital project from 2016 to 17 under Sashi Brown. Brown has certainly made a lot of mistakes, and comparisons between the former Jaguar leader and the tank mogul, Sam Hinkie, are doomed to overbidding, but if you want to make Comparisons between sports, the Browns come to exchange their Jimmy Butler.

Can this work for giants?

When there are such movements in which the vast majority of the public opinion seems to fall to the correct side, I at least like to consider the scenario in which the trade might work for the unpopular side. I'm not doing this to go against the grain – the Browns have won this job, and it's not particularly tight – but I want to at least try to figure out how the Giants might think they can win. In the case of the Amari Cooper trade, while the Cowboys were initially outraged by the media for giving up a first-round pick, their ideal scenario quickly came true.

Assuming there is no significant incident off the field that the Giants cover, they will advance with a short list. The addition of Peppers allows them to replace Collins, although Peppers' struggles in the space where he was playing free security as a rookie were more extreme than Collins's coverage problems. As a professional, Peppers was not a big comeback and did not demonstrate Collins' talent for the takeaway. While Collins has forced 11 takeaways in four seasons, Peppers has only two choices to show in two seasons with the Browns. Giants fans will enjoy the return of a high school neo-high school student from New Jersey to the area. The Peppers will only receive $ 3.2 million over the next two seasons, but it would only have gotten a mid-way pick if the Browns had made Peppers available. via the trade this offseason.

Whatever the case may be, the Giants have an additional first-round pick in the top half of this year's draft, and they are recovering from a third fight after losing their pick to take cornerback Sam Beal in the extra draft. from last season. (Beal missed the entire season due to an injury to the shoulder.) He turned his fourth round choice of additional Apple trade into a fifth highest in the Olivier Vernon trade. .

The Giants do not have exactly leavers like the Browns or Colts of last season, but the first two players give them a lot of flexibility to progress. If they want to hire Dwayne Haskins before the Raiders are ranked # 4, they can move from # 6 to # 2 without having to touch future choices. The sixth and fifteenth selections form an almost perfect exchange on the Johnson chart for the second overall selection. Although the 49ers were able to position Nick Bosa with this selection, they are not as desperate to add talent after the negotiation. for Dee Ford on Tuesday. The OBJ trade could also indicate that the property has decided to restore the list, a decision that would make Manning even less indispensable.

If the Giants landed from Haskins, and that's a superstar, Giants fans will eventually lose Beckham, in the same way that Browns fans no longer complain about missing Carson Wentz or Deshaun Watson. It is also possible that Haskins simply falls to the Giants in 6th place, which would give them a chance to add immediate starters to both sides of the ball. Of course, even if they hire a quarter, the Giants will not have a superstar receiver to make Haskins' life easier as it will grow. (Gettleman and his coach Pat Shurmur have publicly stated that they prefer larger quarterbacks, which would seem to exclude Kyler Murray, but given what Gettleman said about Beckham's exchange, it seems that we should not treat his public speech as a gospel.)

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Adam Schefter reports that the Giants traded Odell Beckham Jr. to the Browns for a first-round pick, a third-round pick and safety Jabrill Peppers.

In contrast, while Gettleman's defense finished 24th in the DVOA for the second consecutive season and is essentially devoid of young talent, the Giants now have three of the top 37 picks in a repechage full of potential defensive stars. If he wants to build his team around the ball with Barkley and a strong defense, it is an opportunity for him to add a large influx of talent to the defensive side of the ball. .

It's hard to feel good about this job if you're a fan of the Giants. Even in the best of cases, it will take the Giants years to recover from this agreement and reap the benefits of their selection. The Giants were often a frustrating team to watch with Beckham, who apparently had to take the offensive a few weeks ahead. They will be an even more frustrating team to watch without him.

In a dead season full of big bets, no one made it bigger than Dave Gettleman on Tuesday. I do not think it will pay.