Pre Season 2001
Dale Hellestrae is unhappy, so I'll try to trade him.
Also, KR/PR Adrian Gregory is unhappy too, don't ask why, as he get's a lot of playing time at those two positions.
Well, I promissed to trade unhapy players so...
There was no interest for Hellestrae so I released him before the FA period.
Adrian Gregory was wanted by Jacksonville and Tennessee, but those two teams play in the same division as us, so the Arizona Cardinals seemed to be his new home.
A huge trade, involving 3 of our draft choices and 2 of Arizona's draft choices brought Gregory to his new team.
Looking to the FA pool, the following players were optional for my team:
Tony Hutson, left tackle, age 27, played only 1 game last season for the Jaguars.
Marcellus Wiley, idolized, defensive end, age 27, made 14.5 sacks at Buffalo last year.
Eric Moulds, fan favorite, wide receiver/return specialist, age 28, made 1924yd and 10 TD at Buffalo in last two years.
After a short period of thought, I decieded Marcellus Wiley was the man to sign.
We offered him a 7-year deal including a $49M siging bonus.
After a month, Wiley decided ho would gfo for the money and leave the Buffalo Bills (who finished last in the AFC East that last two seasons.)
On to the draft!
The draft has no future super stars at all, no player has a future of more than 7.7, this might be the worst draft class I have ever seen!
These were the options:
Quarterback Dean Sellers, 7.5 future, age 22, should be the strongest QB of the NFL soon, his passes lack some accuracy though.
Richie Shepherd, 7.3 future, age 21, has an outstanding future potential, but is sad to have a nose for fumbles.
Brock Hardy, 6.8 future, age 22, 6'10" 270 lbs. tackle, has no endurance, but is a talented blocker.
Wade Lomax, 7.5 future, age 21, should make a good run for the NFL's best strong outside linebacker.
After adding Wiley, we now have three anchoring defenders at every line (Chechetts, Sehorn, Wiley).
Also, on offense we still have only 1 talented lineman (Brown) and only 1 scoring player (Jells.)
So, Lomax is out.
Leaves us Sellers, Shepherd and Hardy.
Shepherd might miss the body to get a star player at 6'0" and 170 lbs.
Sellers is an excellent future potetntial player, but I think the OL is even more important and I also think 2002 will bring in an even better QB.
So the Cleveland Browns select:
Brock Hardy from North Carolina.
Hardy will make a good addition for Left tackle.
BTW the highest rated player (CB) got drafted in the 4th round.
The new starting 26 players:
QB Joseph Darrin _/accuracy=FAIR power=FAIR\_
FB Strong, Mack _/runblk=FAIR shortyd=FAIR\_
HB Jells, Morris _/shortyd=EXCL ydcarry=EXCL\_
FL McClurcken, O.J. _/catch=FAIR ydcatch=FAIR\_
TE Rutledge, Rod _/runblk=GOOD catch=GOOD\_
LT
Hardy, Brock _/runblk=FAIR pasblk=FAIR\_
LG Misner, Jeremy_/runblk=FAIR pasblk=FAIR\_
C_ Kreutz, Olin _/runblk=FAIR pasblk=FAIR\_
RG Brown, Ruben _/runblk=EXCL pasblk=VRGD\_
RT Sanders, Donnie _/runblk=GOOD pasblk=POOR\_
SE Brisby, Vincent _/catch=FAIR ydcatch=GOOD\_
P_
German, Jon _/power=FAIR in20=POOR\_
K_
Milner, Dwight _/accuracy=POOR power=VRGD\_
PR
Donovan, Peter _/puntret=EXCL endure=VRGD\_
KR
Donovan, Peter _/kickret=EXCL endure=VRGD\_
LE Wiley, Marcellus _/rundef=EXCL pasrush=EXCL\_
LT Bensen, Terrell _/rundef=FAIR pasrush=POOR\_
RT Horton, Perry _/rundef=FAIR pasrush=FAIR\_
RE Patterson, Willie _/rundef=FAIR pasrush=FAIR\_
WL Harnisch, Robbie _/rundef=POOR pasdef=POOR\_
ML Chechetts, Ernie _/rundef=VRGD pasrush=VRGD\_
SL
West, Tim _/rundef=FAIR passdef=FAIR\_
WC Sehorn, Jason _/pasdef=VRGD inter=EXCL\_
FS Campana, Darnell _/rundef=GOOD pasdef=POOR\_
SS Thompson, Bennie _/rundef=FAIR inter=FAIR\_
SC Griggs, Toby _/pasdef=FAIR inter=VRGD\_