{"id":15723,"date":"2017-03-09T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=15723"},"modified":"2017-03-09T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:47:10","slug":"houston-texans-trade-brock-osweiler-cleveland-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/03\/09\/houston-texans-trade-brock-osweiler-cleveland-browns\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Texans Trade Brock Osweiler to Cleveland Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After one year in Houston, quarterback\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/O\/OsweBr00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Osweiler<\/a><\/strong> is on his way out. The Cleveland Browns have received Osweiler and a second round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. The teams are also swapping compensatory selections with Cleveland getting a sixth round pick and Houston a fourth round pick. Surely, this deal can be mutually beneficial, but what does it mean for both teams? What are the implications for both the Houston Texans and the Cleveland Browns?<\/p>\n<p>Update: The Browns are looking to\u00a0cut or trade Osweiler.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Browns<\/a> are planning on cutting Brock Osweiler, source said. Of course, if someone will trade for him\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/839951319431589889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Houston Texans Trade Brock Osweiler to Cleveland Browns<\/h2>\n<h3>Houston Texans<\/h3>\n<p>This deal is incredibly beneficial for the Houston Texans. First of all, Brock Osweiler heavily underperformed in 2016. Osweiler was a failure in Houston after his promising 2015 campaign. While filling in for\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MannPe00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peyton Manning<\/a><\/strong> in 2015, Osweiler shined with a great Denver defense. But without that defense, he became a total letdown.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2015-16 offseason, the Texans signed Osweiler to a massive contract. The Texans went all-in on him with a four-year, $72 million deal. Needless to say, Osweiler did\u00a0<em>not<\/em> live up to that money. So what gives? What are the Texans trying to do here? Simply put, the Texans are allowing the Cleveland Browns to eat Osweiler&#8217;s contract. They\u00a0are the only ones that could really do that, and in the end, this trade greatly benefits the Texans.<\/p>\n<h3>Cleveland Browns<\/h3>\n<p>In a weird way, this could be a great move for the Browns. As far as trades go, the Browns clearly did not want to lose any current players. Additionally, this deal might just be coming back to head coach\u00a0<strong>Hue Jackson<\/strong>. Maybe Jackson sees something in Osweiler. Now, is Osweiler&#8217;s contracted\u00a0<em>definitely<\/em> inflated? Perhaps, but the Browns, as mentioned before, have the most cap space in the league. If Coach Jackson really wants Osweiler\u00a0<em>that<\/em> badly, he is more than willing to take on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>As a final thought, let&#8217;s go back to Hue Jackson. He&#8217;s a known quarterback wizard, having worked with the likes of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/P\/PalmCa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carson Palmer<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DaltAn00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Dalton<\/a><\/strong>. Maybe he sees something in Brock Osweiler. And if that&#8217;s the case, maybe the Cleveland Browns have\u00a0<em>finally<\/em> found their quarterback.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/631713812\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/631713812?et=V6ps1gmWQL5rDqeYnlXHIA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=FuZARyhTtS4HBWjZEv4dljqQBxVuwNz95rwND-GGRT4=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the more stunning moves of the day, the Houston Texans traded quarterback Brock Osweiler to the Cleveland Browns, per ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1787,"featured_media":15731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,14,36],"tags":[39,175,50,269,264,61,114,40],"class_list":["post-15723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-browns","category-featured","category-texans","category-nfl-news","tag-afc","tag-afc-north","tag-afc-south","tag-brock-osweiler","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-football","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}