As accurate as a lot of the depictions of Cleveland were (in fact the sports radio hosts are real hosts from ESPNCleveland) the one thing they got wrong saying they had to move up to make a splash. Cleveland is such a homer town either Mack or Jennings at #7 would have generated a huge buzz. They will take anyone from Ohio State so the crowd would have loved Mack.
shareI agree but the movie was trying to portray (and did not do that great of a job with it) that Bo was a "once in a lifetime" draft pick according to the experts. Passing up on him would been the equivalent of passing up on John Elway who many consider to be the best QB prospect ever.
sharecbfan41, I completely disagree with you. Passing on Bo was the equivalent of passing on Ryan Leaf, not John Elway. Bo Callahan was a bust. He panicked under pressure, he was a liar, and he was not capable of being the leader of an NFL team. Bo lost his *beep* when he didn't get picked right away. The dude is a poser. Brian Drew is the John Elway here.
shareExcept nobody else knew that Bo was likely to panic, or that he wasn't respected or liked by his teammates, and only Washington knew that he was prone to lying. Yeah, in 3-4 years the fans and media might finally realized it, but by that time the Seattle GM would have already been fired.
shareThey should have ended the movie with an end note: "After this historic draft, the Cleveland Browns finished the season 1-15 and G.M. Sonny Weaver Jr. was fired and thereafter divorced"......LOL....wouldn't be too hard to believe, either.
shareAnd Bo Callahan would win the Superbowl 5 times in a row.
shareI watched it again recently. In the "war room" when they had both Mack and Jennings on the white board one of the "pros" for Mack was that he was a local boy.
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