CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Browns general manager John Dorsey spent a lot of time Thursday talking about consensus and the unified draft idea he hopes to craft from the many minds inside the franchise.

It's an admirable if perhaps impossible goal, especially as it relates to the quarterbacks in the 2018 NFL Draft, from big 'ole Josh Allen to little 'ole Baker Mayfield and two California QBs in Sam Darnold and Josh Rosen who have more differences than similarities.

All four could make sense as the future quarterback of the Browns. So how could Dorsey possibly get everyone in Berea -- from Eliot Wolf to Hue Jackson, from Alonzo Highsmith to Andrew Berry, from Paul DePodesta to Dorsey himself -- to agree on one guy?

Dorsey said in trading up to draft quarterback Patrick Mahomes at No. 10 last year while running the show for Kansas City, he created that agreement. Must not have been any Deshaun Watson stragglers in the Chiefs war room.

"You know what, there was consensus," Dorsey said. "If in fact I go down that route with the quarterback, there will be consensus there. If you are like-minded in thinking, you'll be able to see the same things. Or we can talk things through and see what the actual differences are and go back and say, "Maybe I see that.'

"So that's what you do. You've got to sit and listen and let the process play itself out."

Consensus sounds like it might lead you to the obvious choice, which in this draft appears to be USC's Darnold, who needs time to develop but who can play inside and outside the pocket and generally is good at most things, if not perhaps the best at anything. Maybe Allen throws harder, maybe Rosen is more NFL ready, maybe Mayfield anticipates throws better.

But maybe you can get most NFL people to come around on Darnold, other than former scout and Ourlads NFL Draft analyst Dan Shonka, who called Darnold "a cow on ice," which, although sounding delicious, is most likely a negative.

But forget the Browns front office for a second, which, if you include everyone employed as a full scout or higher, is about 25 people.

Think about fans pining for the first Browns QB picked in the top 10 since Tim Couch in 1999. Think about you and your friends. Put any more than five Browns fans in a room, and I think you are out of the consensus zone when it comes to this draft. That's not even taking into account the people who are going to be angry when the Browns don't take running back Saquon Barkley at No. 1.

So here's a small suggestion that in the big scheme of things really doesn't matter all that much. But it might be nice.

If the player the Browns take at No. 1 isn't your guy, don't boo.

Normally, I'm pro boo when it comes to millionaires, and the minute the Browns draft a player No. 1, he will become that. You take the money, you take the criticism. Some fans thought I was too harsh with Brock Osweiler the first time he spoke to reporters as a Browns quarterback last spring, but I thought a veteran making $16 million should be able to handle questions about why he was bad the year before.

But the Browns are a franchise coming off two seasons of division between the head coach and general manager. They're embarking on the greatest chance in nearly two decades to turn the franchise around, and the guy drafted No. 1 Thursday night will be the most important piece in that.

Once he's picked, he's your quarterback. Maybe he's not your quarterback now, but he will be then.

As the cheers from the night Johnny Manziel was picked in 2014 prove, happy in the moment doesn't mean right.

A Freezing Cold Takes #NationalHighFiveDay tradition:#Browns draft party when they drafted Johnny Manziel (2014) pic.twitter.com/rCls9zVobz — Freezing Cold Takes (@OldTakesExposed) April 19, 2018

Imagine if there was that kind of reaction Thursday night to No. 1?

There isn't a quarterback in this class as tantalizing as Manziel. Mayfield is the most dynamic, but Manziel's flameout would probably lead some fans to instinctually and unfairly boo a Mayfield pick.

Allen, with a compelling underdog backstory, is likely in line for a rough greeting based on how raw he seems and how much of a stretch his selection might be. This whole discussion is aimed at the possible pick of Allen and what might follow from fans.

Rosen could have the perception that he doesn't want to be in Cleveland held against him. And Darnold? Again, he's pretty easy to like, and he's the favorite in a quick unscientific Twitter poll. The results match what I would have guessed, but even as the favorite, Darnold would be entering a situation where 40 percent of fans wanted a different quarterback.

Quick obvious poll to help with a story. Which QB should the Browns draft? — Doug Lesmerises (@DougLesmerises) April 19, 2018

Picks, obviously, have been booed before. For Browns fans, I just want something above that.

Donovan McNabb was famously booed by Philadelphia fans ginned up by a sports talk radio host in 1999 when he was selected at No. 2 behind Couch. The booing became a permanent part of McNabb's legacy in Philly, even as he won 92 games over 11 years and reached a Super Bowl.

Booing the top pick here would fit the pervading national perception of the Browns. Truly, though, you wouldn't be booing the quarterback. You'd be booing Dorsey and the decision makers who picked him because the pick didn't fit with what you and the draft analysts you like thought the Browns should do.

But it would sound like you're booing the quarterback. That would forever be his "Welcome to Cleveland" moment to either overcome or live down to.

So I asked Dorsey how he hopes the Browns picks will be received on Thursday night.

"We all know the Clevleand Browns fanbase is as good as there is in the National Football League," Dorsey said. "All I can tell them is that it won't be from a lack of hard work. We are going to do our due diligence in terms of bringing really good football players here, and awake the sleeping giant."

Dorsey used that phrase before in his introductory news conference - awake the sleeping giant of Cleveland football.

That's the hope. Let's not wake the giant with boos.