Cleveland Browns center Alex Mack named to AFC Pro Bowl squad

[Enigmatic Evil]

This is awesome news for Alex and I think it shows just how far he's come from his rookie season. The guy really is one of the best Center's in all of football and is a key element to the consistency of our offensive line. Great, great news!

[BernietheKid]

Probing the 2011 Pro Bowl: The undeserving 10

December 30th, 2010 | Author: Khaled Elsayed

10 Worst Pro Bowl Selections

1. Maurkice Pouncey, C, Steelers
No. 23 in our center rankings, Pouncey wasn’t the worst run blocker in the world but had some pretty big struggles in pass protection where he has given up 22 quarterback disruptions. For some reason, with the Steelers offensive line struggling, commentators always found time to lavish praise on Pouncey while ignoring his general play.

Probing the 2011 Pro Bowl: The undeserving 10 | ProFootballFocus.com

[Riffer X]

Originally Posted by BernietheKid

Probing the 2011 Pro Bowl: The undeserving 10

December 30th, 2010 | Author: Khaled Elsayed

10 Worst Pro Bowl Selections

1. Maurkice Pouncey, C, Steelers
No. 23 in our center rankings, Pouncey wasn’t the worst run blocker in the world but had some pretty big struggles in pass protection where he has given up 22 quarterback disruptions. For some reason, with the Steelers offensive line struggling, commentators always found time to lavish praise on Pouncey while ignoring his general play.

Probing the 2011 Pro Bowl: The undeserving 10 | ProFootballFocus.com

Interesting. Christ, by watching the games you would have thunk this guy was Jim Otto, Mike Webster and Dwight Stephenson wrapped into one already. I bought into it too, despite seeing him whiff badly a few times against the rush.

Can people blow Pittspuke more? I think not.

[Legacy Fan]

Originally Posted by Flugel

Here's the Jets you felt compelled to edit out of his drafts. Aside from drafting Mangold, there was David Harris and Darrelle Revis and D'Brickashaw Ferguson and Dustin Keller and alot of those guys you saw playing in the AFC Championship game 3-5 years after he drafted them. He was 10-6 before there was any winning momentum established in NY. Nothing about 10-6 says can't coach good talent surrounding a healthy, decent QB. Aside from that, were you ashamed of what Roth and Benard added in 2009? I think those acquisitions were more than enough to forgive the Veikune thing.

I'll agree that Alex Mack became the only Pro Bowl player ourt of the draft ineritance of 4 picks (thanks Phil Savage - you hooked us up in 08 AND 09). It was NICE to hear 2 different sets of commentators/analysts concluding research without HATE telling us whose perseverence landed Hillis here. Pretty nice OUT from the BQ inheritance right? Where's the love?

Haven't we always grabbed coaches from winning organizations? So is it the coaches or the organization at the top going all the way back to 1990? Have all these HATED Coaches since 1990 hired themselves? Darn it - that would mean placing blame where it belongs in the front office. If you dislike all these head coaches - who put them in front of you? And IF the main reason you don't like Mangini is because of his drafts - WHO was the one who hired him WITHOUT a competant personnel guru already in tact? And just out of curiosity, WHO were the other candidates interviewed?

If people want to think it's as easy as Atlanta - there was no Thomas Dimitroff hired in conjunction with the Head Coach. It was a hollow front office giving Mangini the SAME job that Mike Holmgren got nailed to the cross with in Seattle before he rose from the dead and led them to the Heavens of an AFC Championship. From all I've seen since the 90s, GREAT personnel guys like Bill Polian, Scott Pioli, and whoever does it in Pitt - perpetuates winning for coaches that come from winning organizations. We ALL blamed RAC and he actually went 10-6 in SPITE of Savage and extracting the best football Dumb Ass was ever capable of. This was BEFORE Savage added 2 more dline guys from 4-3 schemes (Rogers & Williams) for his coach that needed 2 gappers. Not saying I want RAC back; but Savage acted like the speed of Reuben Droughns and the panic attacks of Trent Dilfer was to remind RAC of New England from where he saw things. Those 4 years set us back 8 years considering the keepables from the 2008 and 2009 drafts and the age of the team with best work in the rear view mirror.

At least we got Gil Haskell here to advise the coaching staff that rain is wet. Pretty cool shit for a 6-7 figure salary today.

Yeah, but I also withheld the list of Superstars Eric picked up after trading down to get Mack.

Yes Phil Savage left us on the side of the road without a spare tire and our pants around our ankles, but what did Mangini do with the flare gun he found in the glove box? He pointed it at his head and squeezed the trigger as fast as he could. I mean David Veikune? Really? After the Vernon Gholston project?

So, here's the list: MoMass, Robo, Maiava, Coye Francies, James Davis, Don Carey.

Wowsers.

And despite my feelings on this draft (and Mangini at that time), he turned me into a believer (even though he held on to Dbs). I liked him as a coach.