Reports Say Jimmy Garoppolo is Drawing Huge Interest from the Browns, 49ers and Texans

Cleveland Plain Dealer – The Browns will make a pitch for Jimmy Garoppolo.

Sources say the Browns’ interest in Garoppolo is real and that they’ll try to trade for him depending on how their draft evaluations go over the next five weeks or so. …

But they’ll have competition for Garoppolo that will drive up the price. Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan liked him coming out of the draft, and might pursue a deal once he formally becomes the 49ers’ head coach.

The 49ers have the No. 2 pick in the draft, and are also looking for a quarterback.

But the Browns are intrigued, sources say, and they’ll strongly consider it. The cost could be the No. 12 overall pick and more.

I have a dream. One I’ve had for months. And it is *thisclose* to being fully realized. Not to go down the Deflategate rabbit hole, but this dream goes back to the punishments Herr Goodell and his jackbooted goons in the league office handed down. And it is this: That The Fuhrer so overreached on his draconian and downright fascist punishments, that they cancel each other out and blow up in his face like a briefcase bomb. This news out of Cleveland, San Francisco and similar reports about the Houston Texans could be the dream coming true.

It goes like this. Goodell took draft picks away, despite the fact that his own faked, anti-science, totally biased $5 million report said the Patriots ownership and coaching staff did nothing wrong. But he also suspended Brady. Which gave the team the chance to showcase Jimmy Garoppolo and give him value on the trade market he never would’ve had if Brady was playing. Then Jimmy G got hurt, which gave them a look at Jacoby Brissett under live fire and they liked what they saw. Those two combine to go 3-1, a rested Tom Brady goes on to win the Super Bowl. Then you flip Garoppolo for picks that are higher than the ones they robbed you of, but still retain a backup quarterback you trust to develop. It’s the ultimate win-win-win-win scenario.

Of course all this depends on whether they think Jimmy Touchdowns is expendable. That Brady will still be Brady for the foreseeable future and Brissett proves himself in practice, the film room and on the white board. If so, and you’re getting a bidding war going between desperate franchises with really terrible judgment, you absolutely turn Garoppolo into major draft capital. I mean, the opportunity to get one of the top picks in the draft just doesn’t happen to dynasties. This could be the Lakers getting James Worthy with the No. 1 pick or the ’86 Celtics landing Len Bias with the No. 2. And one of those worked out really, really well. And a Garoppolo trade could be exactly what the Pats need to keep this particular dynasty going in perpetuity.

Granted, the league also took a million Kraftbucks away as well. And those aren’t coming back. But you can live with that when Belichick is sitting there on draft day with everything transpiring according to his design.