“Mea Culpa!” – Rich Eisen Backtracks on His Criticism of Browns’ Rule Change Proposal on Draft Picks

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1. I think they want the rule so they can get Three 1st Rnd pics to turn around and trade Five 1st Rnd pics for a QB … Da Browns is da browns.

2. Its not about getting all 5. Its about spreading 2 or 3 over 5 seasons.

3. No, not a clever play on the Browns part. Their management has NEVER demonstrated judgment that requires a mea culpa, they’re incredibly incompetent, your first take is correct.

4. Rich claiming billionaires need guardrails as he backtracks a silly take because the bosses made a call and told him to apologize to the BROWNs 😂💩😂

5. but like still though… of course it's the Browns

6. Trading multiple 1sts for any player that age.. who is essentially 1 achilles tear away from retirement.. is a wildly risky idea

7. How many 1sr's went to the Raiders for Crosby – I believe it was 3, so maybe t could be this yrs 1st , skip a yr then year after next another 1st, and the last 1st rounder 5 yrs down the road instead of taking them all n a row?

8. The jets can give them 5 1st round picks right now with the current rules…. Allowing pick trades 5 years into the future is a terrible idea, and yes an idea from the Browns……

9. 4:25 MAGA brockman didnt like that

10. Don’t listen to the team that signed Deshaun Watson to a fully guaranteed 5-year, $230 million contract

11. It's not just the possibility of getting 5 firsts for a player.

    It makes getting three firsts easier. A team is much more likely to trade firsts spread over five years than give up three straight or three in four years.

    Three in five means a team can trade three firsts and still have a pick every other year.

12. There is no reason for apology. The browns owner is an imbecile. Worst trade ever for Watson. No one will give that for M Garret as much as I love him no player is worth that kind of fortune. Pick a team any team, who who trade 5 picks for Mahomes, Allen, Jackson, Burrow, Stafford, etc? None because then you do what? you have a QB nothing else. In this example you have pressure.. good thing you have 52 other star players I guess.

13. Here's a rule change. NFL adopts a draft lottery. Not only a draft lottery, but every non-playoff team gets an equal 1/18 chance of earning the top selection. Why should poverty franchises like Arizona, Cleveland and New York (Jets) simply receive top picks based solely on record & continue to derp themselves to stay at the bottom?

    Blatant tanking is almost assuredly finished as there is no incentive, and games could stay competitive all season.

14. You SHOULD apologize, Rich. Name one thing that could possibly lead you to believe that the Browns would be capable of doing something stupid.

15. No one but a franchise QB is worth 5 1st round picks. No one.

16. Mr. Eisen, you are still making the error that made your original take look foolish to start with.

    Let me put it that way: When Jerry Jones shopped Hershel Walker around for a major draft haul, did he have a specific name or a list of names, in mind? No. All he had in mind were numbers : i.e., how many picks, what rounds they were in, and when they were. And I might even be generous on the last 2.

17. Uh is it first round picks straight or is it I want to give “3” first round but at the later year… not the first two year but the 3-4?

18. NFL draft rules clearly superior to NBA rules, and its not even close.

19. Love your show, Rich but how did it take you this long to figure it out? I was yelling at the TV screen when you were ripping on the browns in a different video.

20. I hate the idea of 5 years of picks. However, who do you think is worth the most picks currently in the NFL if there was no cap on picks? And what would that package look like in a potential trade (with the Raiders only because they are first overall)?

21. NFL teams don't need a five year window to trade five first round picks for a player. The Jets currently have five first round picks in the '26 and '27 drafts alone. You give too much credit to the Browns for thinking that far ahead.😛🙃

22. It has nothing to do with trading Garrett. The point is it opens up a ton a creativity beyond first rounds picks in order to enable more trades. I can offer a 2nd next year, a 4th in 3 yrs and and 2nd in 5 yrs. Whatever. I'm not a huge fan of it but it gives GM's the ability to come up with more combos to find deals.

23. Y'all act like Cleveland gave away 20 picks for Watson. They traded afew and swapped some. The picks have passed. The picks had no effect on the team, it was the player that got that crippled them.

24. Still an incredibly terrible idea from the Browns that is a Hail Mary for them to fix their Deshaun screwup, so no

25. I agree that the 5 years thing is stupid but if a team's going to be stupid they're GOING TO BE STUPID! Ask the Vikings about the Herschel Walker trade or the Saints about Mike Ditka trading all his picks for Ricky Williams or Dan Snyder being Dan Snyder…
    Dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things.

26. Still not a good idea to listen to anything the Browns suggest

27. This is just the Browns desperate to make up for the Deshaun Watson debacle, and we all know the bad teams would lose out the most with rules like they want

28. 🤔🏴‍☠️🩶🖤🙏🏽🍾🏆

29. The Miles Garrett example is an extreme and unrealistic example. I also hate the idea of being able to trade picks five years into the future. ESPECIALLY FIRST ROUND PICKS. Surely, there could be a middle ground… Why not three years for day 1 picks, four years for day 2 picks, and finally, five years for day three picks? I would support something like that.

30. No, still completely stupid. And the Browns are the team most likely to ruin themselves for years, cause they already have done it.

31. Is a Jets fan actually insulting another team? Hey Rich your team blows draft picks all the time buddy not sure you should really talk crap about another team

32. Nope, it's a bad idea. We want teams to try and get good now, none of that "trust the process" stuff that this would lead to.

33. It allows you to trade 2 firsts in years 3-5 without shutting down your short term goals

34. No player is worth 5 1st rd picks at 30. Maybe, Peyton, Brady, and Mahomes

35. My argument doesn't change:

    Draft capital becomes currency that can be acquired and sold as teams require

    Three years down that 5th year draft pick is 2 years from becoming real, and its value grows with each year

    It can still be bought, sold, and even re-acquired by the original seller

    I still don't see the problem