I'm in between KoK's pessimism and Shep's optimism.
I don't have any grave problems with letting most of the guys leave that we've let leave; save Schwartz. However, I'm not dazzled by anything this new regime has done because so far they haven't done anything new or innovative. I don't believe there is a magic plan that they can hatch. What they appear to be implementing is nothing more than the traditional approach to fixing a failed franchise. The same catch-phrases are being tossed around as we've seen countless times before: build through the draft, don't overspend in FA, "its a multi-year" process, etc.
My reason for lacking great optimism is my concern regarding this inexperienced front office's ability to actually execute. I don't have any real reason to damn their ability as yet, but conversely there isn't much to hang one's hat on to believe they can.
As we've said every year for the past 17.... time will tell.
Aside from Shemp trying to suck them off because they are wannabes to the NFL....
I was excited. Go back and read and I was one of the very first on here promoting Radio Jackson and that if we could get him paired with a GM we would be in great shape. Mistakenly I believed he would go the proven time after time after time method of building a winner: Evaluate what you have and build around those pieces. If they are old but you can buy a few years or even a year you keep the player for that long and fix it once it becomes a hole. Ask Belicheat up in New England. Dude has made a career of taking older talent and milking that last little bit from them. But no, the Browns yet again have hired "the smart people" who have decided its not worth it to sign some really good FA's and keep young talent here that WAS drafted by us. Fuck this brainless "they cut guys from a 3-13 team" parroting bullshit. Everyone is quick to kiss Marvin Lewis ass all a sudden the fact is he took over a "garbage" 3-13 team and took largely the same roster 7-9, 8-8 and 11-5 his first three years.
When I was pimping Hue Jackson I thought he was one who gets it finally. I admit I was wrong. He is a pushover letting the supposed "high IQ" geek squad set the Browns back five more fucking years trying to play Moneyball in the NFL. The reality some refuse to see is the Offense was three or four pieces and one Off season from being a legit top 10 Offense. QB, WR, RB and Guard. The smart thing to do is keep Schwartz at all cost and try to keep Mack but if unable quickly replacing him with a FA. The smart move is use FA to make a statement and to fill some holes. The smart move is to see where the holes are on the D(Hint: They weren't Whitener and Dansby despite some people spinning bullshit) and fill some of those holes via FA. Fill the rest as best as possible with the draft and utilize what older talent you have to mentor some young draft picks. Fucking ask Pittsburgh, Cinci or Baltimore about that. It is how the good teams do it.
Stupidity is on day one of FA ignoring the holes at QB, RB, WR and Guard and in turn creating additional holes at C, RT and Safety. Stupidity is to then start slashing the few quality players on D creating yet more holes at LB and Safety. Stupidity is bringing in a glorified RB to pretend play QB on a team that now has a patch work Oline and a Defense now so bereft of ANY talent it won't be able to do shit to help your team.
Its a joke, a huge fucking joke and these clowns are in over their heads. That's not just me talking, REAL NFL personnel, people who HAVE been a part of rebuilds are laughing their asses off at the Browns. Really guys? So you're going to cut the head off everyone you deem old and just draft a bunch of 20 year olds and have them somehow mesh into a winning program? Won't work. Hasnt worked at any point in time of it being attempted. You have to have good vets to install your system and a will to win. Since these fucming morons don't understand that or can't fucking grasp that this isn't Baseball then Haslam needs to admit he fucked up YET AGAIN and get rid of them NOW before they trade JT for peanuts and have this team bereft of talent on a 0-16 Detroit Lions level.
Funny, articles are calling Goff the Tim Couch in a "good way." With the 3 Stooges trying to pretend they are NFL Execs it appears if we draft him he will be Tim Couched in the bad way, exactly like Couch.
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I'm in between KoK's pessimism and Shep's optimism.
I don't have any grave problems with letting most of the guys leave that we've let leave; save Schwartz. However, I'm not dazzled by anything this new regime has done because so far they haven't done anything new or innovative. I don't believe there is a magic plan that they can hatch. What they appear to be implementing is nothing more than the traditional approach to fixing a failed franchise. The same catch-phrases are being tossed around as we've seen countless times before: build through the draft, don't overspend in FA, "its a multi-year" process, etc.
My reason for lacking great optimism is my concern regarding this inexperienced front office's ability to actually execute. I don't have any real reason to damn their ability as yet, but conversely there isn't much to hang one's hat on to believe they can.
As we've said every year for the past 17.... time will tell.
Aside from Shemp trying to suck them off because they are wannabes to the NFL....
I was excited. Go back and read and I was one of the very first on here promoting Radio Jackson and that if we could get him paired with a GM we would be in great shape. Mistakenly I believed he would go the proven time after time after time method of building a winner: Evaluate what you have and build around those pieces. If they are old but you can buy a few years or even a year you keep the player for that long and fix it once it becomes a hole. Ask Belicheat up in New England. Dude has made a career of taking older talent and milking that last little bit from them. But no, the Browns yet again have hired "the smart people" who have decided its not worth it to sign some really good FA's and keep young talent here that WAS drafted by us. Fuck this brainless "they cut guys from a 3-13 team" parroting bullshit. Everyone is quick to kiss Marvin Lewis ass all a sudden the fact is he took over a "garbage" 3-13 team and took largely the same roster 7-9, 8-8 and 11-5 his first three years.
When I was pimping Hue Jackson I thought he was one who gets it finally. I admit I was wrong. He is a pushover letting the supposed "high IQ" geek squad set the Browns back five more fucking years trying to play Moneyball in the NFL. The reality some refuse to see is the Offense was three or four pieces and one Off season from being a legit top 10 Offense. QB, WR, RB and Guard. The smart thing to do is keep Schwartz at all cost and try to keep Mack but if unable quickly replacing him with a FA. The smart move is use FA to make a statement and to fill some holes. The smart move is to see where the holes are on the D(Hint: They weren't Whitener and Dansby despite some people spinning bullshit) and fill some of those holes via FA. Fill the rest as best as possible with the draft and utilize what older talent you have to mentor some young draft picks. Fucking ask Pittsburgh, Cinci or Baltimore about that. It is how the good teams do it.
Stupidity is on day one of FA ignoring the holes at QB, RB, WR and Guard and in turn creating additional holes at C, RT and Safety. Stupidity is to then start slashing the few quality players on D creating yet more holes at LB and Safety. Stupidity is bringing in a glorified RB to pretend play QB on a team that now has a patch work Oline and a Defense now so bereft of ANY talent it won't be able to do shit to help your team.
Its a joke, a huge fucking joke and these clowns are in over their heads. That's not just me talking, REAL NFL personnel, people who HAVE been a part of rebuilds are laughing their asses off at the Browns. Really guys? So you're going to cut the head off everyone you deem old and just draft a bunch of 20 year olds and have them somehow mesh into a winning program? Won't work. Hasnt worked at any point in time of it being attempted. You have to have good vets to install your system and a will to win. Since these fucming morons don't understand that or can't fucking grasp that this isn't Baseball then Haslam needs to admit he fucked up YET AGAIN and get rid of them NOW before they trade JT for peanuts and have this team bereft of talent on a 0-16 Detroit Lions level.
Funny, articles are calling Goff the Tim Couch in a "good way." With the 3 Stooges trying to pretend they are NFL Execs it appears if we draft him he will be Tim Couched in the bad way, exactly like Couch.