Pontbriand Waived

[Jax Dawg]

Just heard on the Cleveland radio station WKNR he was waived. The man was in a serious slump but was in a couple of Pro Bowls not too long ago. As they said on the radio "no margin for error." The last of the Butchie draft picks is gone.

[BernietheKid]

TonyGrossi Tony Grossi
# Browns have waived snapper Ryan Pontbriand, confirms agent. End of an era on Browns special teams. Details on replacement to come.

[nickers]

Just wow!

[Greythan]

Wow, unreal. He went full-Knoblauch huh?

From Knoblauch's wiki page:

Knoblauch tried various solutions to his problem, but his throwing would not improve. He made an unprecedented number of throwing errors, routinely making abnormal throws out of the reach of the first baseman. (During one game, an errant throw sailed into the crowd and hit sportscaster Keith Olbermann's mother in the face.)^[4] Stumping commentators, fans, and himself, Knoblauch never fully recovered his throwing accuracy. He was reassigned to left field by manager Joe Torre, never to return to his old position.

[Greythan]

By the way, only this organization can take positions of strength and somehow turn them into gaping wounds. Even a position as "ho-hum" as long snapper.

[BernietheKid]

RubioSnapping Rubio Long Snapping
Long time Rubio Long Snapper Christian Yount has just been been signed by the # Cleveland # Browns. Congrats to @ TheYount # NFL # LongSnapper

[hiwaygal]

Damn that was quick!

[nickers]

Pontbriand might be picked up by Jerry Rosburg (ATL special teams coach) Im guessing.

[golfer704u]

or in SF

[nickers]

Originally Posted by golfer704u

or in SF

yup!

[hammertime]

I'm sure he wondering if he should of had this slump earlier in his career he might of been on a winning team.

[King of Kings]

That's kind of a bummer. Really, we couldn't give him the last few games to see if he gets out of the funk and if not let him go in the offseason? Pretty classless how he was cast aside.