Another good lesson in roster management

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That's so Browns: Super Bowl overflows with ex-Cleveland guys

The Cleveland Browns have not been to a Super Bowl.

But they will be represented in this year's game.

Elias reports the Browns have set a Super Bowl standard before the game is even played. Five of their former players are on the 53-man rosters of Atlanta and New England, which is tied for the highest in the league (with the Redskins).

Every season, we see back of the roster churn as BB and the FO work hard to find diamonds in the rough. And usually, they're met with snarky threads from some in the forum. It usually goes something like, "Why did we (sign/trade for) (insert name)? Even the awful (insert terrible team) didn't want him!"

But there are a lot of reasons bad teams are bad, and one is they're terrible at assessing talent.

The Browns cut Dion Lewis. The Bucs gave us Blount for next to nothing. The Bears didn't want Bennett. Or McLellin. The Bills didn't value Chris Hogan. The Lions gave up on Van Noy. None of those guys are All Pros, but they have become key contributors on a Super Bowl contender, while many of them came from teams who didn't even adequately replace them.

That's not to say every personnel move works. Sometimes it's Jabaal Sheard, sometimes it's Barkevious Mingo. But we shouldn't be so dismissive of a move just because a bad team didn't want a certain player. Bad teams make mistakes all the time.