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of the Josh Gordon trade Denzel Ward Jersey , but the team added another wide receiver to the roster on Monday. The club signed Rod Streater, who originally entered the league as an undrafted free agent in 2012 with the Oakland Raiders. The team announced the transaction on its website.Streater had two respectable seasons his first two years with the Raiders, catching a total of99 passes for 1,472 yards and seven touchdowns, while appearing in all 32 games. Things went downhill from there, however, as Streater landed on injured reserve with a broken foot after two games in 2014, then missed training camp in 2015 with an undisclosed illness. That limited his production for his final two years in Oakland to just 10 receptions for 94 yards.The Raiders let Streater leave in free agency and he landed with the San Francisco 49ers for the 2016 season. He appeared in 16 games for the 49ers, but only recorded 18 receptions for 191 yards and two touchdowns. It was just a one-year stop in San Francisco for Streater as he then moved onto the Buffalo Bills as a free agent. It appeared that Streater had a roster spot locked up for 2017, but a toe injury suffered in the preseason wiped out the campaign for Streater. The Bills brought him back this summer, but Streater was unable to win a roster spot among one of the league’s worst wider receiver groups, as Streater could not beat out the likes of Ray-Ray McCloud III, Robert Foster, Andre Holmes, Zay Jones and the since-released Jeremy Kerley. When we last saw Streater, he was catching a touchdown pass from Josh Allen against the Cleveland Browns in the preseason.Streater’s role with the Browns is unclear at this point as Jarvis Landry, Antonio Callaway and Rashard Higgins are the top three wide receivers. Add in tight end David Njoku and running back Duke Johnson Authentic Jabrill Peppers Jersey , once he gets on track, and there may not be enough passes left for Streater. If he wants playing time, Streater may have to focus on special teams, an area he is more than willing to do, as he told billswire.com over the summer:Streater may not have much to give on the field, but showing a team-first attitude will at least help set him apart from the player whose roster spot he is replacing. Amos Jones has been around football longer than many reading this have been alive. He’s earned respect amongst the football community while working over the last 35 years in the industry.But how many special teams coordinators have a website dedicated to having them fired?This is an unfortunate reality, but given the Cleveland Browns’ defensive and offensive improvements, the team’s currently being hindered by its special teams play. And it’s really unclear how they’re going to make any improvements.If you’re looking for any kind of visible remedial action by head coach Hue Jackson, you’re probably going to have to wait for another game-changing miscue before anything happens. Jackson has stuck with the veteran coordinator, at least for another week.What exactly is wrong with the Browns’ special teams, then, and is it Jones’ fault? That’s the key question here that Jackson needs to figure out, and he needs to do it fast before those problems end up costing his team another win.For starters, the shift to Jarvis Landry as punt returner last week at least gives the appearance Jones is able to recognize Jabrill Peppers has had awful decision-making when choosing whether to return punts or fair-catch them. Then again, that might be giving Jones too much credit.“Jabrill at that point in time had gotten to the sideline, and not sure to whether he was injured or whatever, but it was a scenario where it was time for Jarvis to be able to step in Youth David Njoku Jersey ,” said Jones on moving Landry to punt returner in Week 3.“Jabrill needed a break,” he added. “Jarvis was the next man up so to speak in that situation.”Everyone not in Jones’ position can plainly see Peppers needs permanently replaced in the punt return game, so let’s hope he was being kind to his young player’s psyche by coachsplaining around the question.The next, and easily most concerning issue for the 2018 Browns so far, is the special teams’ protection schemes. Jones’ units have had a history with poor protection leading to missed field goals, blocked kicks, and poor coverage.“When you take away your five best cover guys and your kicker doesn’t have his best year and your punter doesn’t have the year he is capable of having, it ain’t got a damn thing to do with coaching,” then Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians said in Jones’ defense before the 2017 season.Well, the Cardinals got those five key players back, then they added veteran kicker Phil Dawson, and they still struggled in 2017 with one of the worst special teams unit in the league in nearly every measurable.“The bottom line though is, there’s no excuse. Our special teams, it’s been unacceptable, point blank,” Cardinals general manager Steve Keim said last December. “It’s something that needs to improve and I’ll just leave it at that.”If you want to dive deeper into the wide-stretching special teams problems in Arizona under Jones during his five season there, head over to ESPN to check out Josh Weinfuss’ thorough breakdown. Weinfuss succinctly summed up the problem around the same time Keim expressed his frustrations:Arians never wavered up until his retirement http://www.brownsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-larry-ogunjobi-jersey , continuing to blame his players and not his coordinator. Jones was predictably not retained after Arians retired following five seasons of disastrous special teams performances.Through three weeks in Cleveland, Jones’ unit has had multiple blocked kicks, coverage lapses, missed kicks, and poor returns. The fully monty of futility, we’ve seen it all.The wide-ranging issues and Jones’ history bellows loudly that there’s an underlying and fundamental coaching problem responsible for these lapses. It’s either a wild coincidence or evidence of a real coaching deficiency that these problems seem to follow Jones to every destination. But, unlike in Arizona, the coach may not be getting the same benefit of the doubt in Cleveland.“We have to shore [special teams] up. We can’t have it become the Achilles heel. We know that teams are going to scratch where it itches,” Jackson said following the team’s Week 3 win. “Right now, that is one of the areas that is itching, and we have to fix it. We have to put a Band-Aid on it as fast as we can.”Hopefully Jackson’s added focus on his team’s special teams problems will result in a better overall performance this week in Oakland.If not, you have to wonder how long this goes on before the Browns decide to make a change, whether that’s personnel-wise or in the coaching room. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another loss to shake things up. There’s only so many places to deflect blame before it becomes readily apparent to everyone where the real problem exists. Custom Tampa Bay Buccaneers Jerseys