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September 27, 2009Browns Bullet Points – Week #3
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A big year for The Chosen 2: “Anderson Varejao admitted he was feeling a little tired at the end of last week, especially after a long flight from Brazil. He played 13 games with Brazil in August and September as part of the FIBA Americas and a warm-up tournament. Including the training camp, he had the most active summer of any Cav. For that reason, coach Mike Brown may take it a little easy on him early in camp. But Varejao believes working on his game will pay off this season, which he knows could very well be the most important of his career.” [Brian Windhorst]
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Like Randy Lerner, without celebrity friends: “[Tom] Cruise represents to Redskins Owner Dan Snyder exactly what Snyder’s failed forays into the amusement park, movie and radio businesses do. The vertically-challenged one is strangely perplexed over everything except what’s most important to his core, ego-erecting, existence: winning games.” [SportsbyBrooks]
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Big 12, come on down: “Hypothetically, they draft Colt McCoy and he starts next year. Braylon Edwards is gone in free agency. Brian Robiskie and Mohamed Massaquoi aren’t playmakers. Josh Cribbs is not being used correctly and I don’t think he is full-fledged receiver. Jamal Lewis will be another year older and slower. Free agents will be avoiding Cleveland like the plague. Add all this up and you have a rookie quarterback in the absolute worst position imaginable. The Browns have to figure out a way to turn the thing around or they will be in a vicious circle that will never stop.” [No Logo Needed]
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Hand in hand is the updated 2010 NFL mock draft from Chris Steuber [Scout.com]
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Right down to the Red Face: “Yes, you, Indians fans. What? You thought you were absolved of the egregious sins on the field just because you don’t play for the team, own the team, pick the players or in any way support anything called a Dellucci or a Michaels? Sorry, you’re in line to get clipped just like everyone else. […] In 2008, Forbes, in one of their ever-so-scientific rankings, listed Indians fans as one of the ten least loyal in baseball. Turns out when our wife gets fat, we start looking up old girlfriends and checking out the secretary at work.” [Vince G/Let’s Go Tribe]
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15 Comments
Mangini’s three year reputation in NY was one who builds a gameplan and veers not one iota from it on Sundays, typically resulting in a good first half and badly out executed/out-strategized second half due to lack of halftime/in-game coaching adjustments.
Let’s track this week to week, shall we? Mangini’s first half versus second half coaching grade and strategic adjustments:
Week #1 vs. Vikings: Total defensive collapse in second half as Vikings adjust blocking schemes.
Week #2 vs. Broncos: Horrific vanilla offensive gameplan, defense collapses in second half as Broncos make blitz adjustments.
Game #3 vs. Ravens: Was there even a gameplan? Ravens adjusted
out of the locker-room showers. Just who is Brian Daboll? A rookie OC
grooming a rookie QB? HORRIFIC gameplanning on both offense and defense.
Just what type of NFL organization do the Browns have? Let’s take a quick look:
Executive VP: NONE (don’t say Mike Keenan, please).
GM: NONE (don’t say George Kokinis, please-he was hired by the coach to do his wont).
Just who does Eric Mangini REPORT to and who is he ACCOUNTABLE to in this organization?????
(at least Mike Tannenbaum was the GM in NY and also ran the draft….etc.).
-Please don’t say Randy Lerner.
Does this meant that the entire Browns organization has been entrusted TOTALLY and without reporting ACCOUNTABILITY to one Eric Mangini?????? Is there another NFL organization with such a travesty? What type of system is really being built here in Cleveland? Is it akin to the Pittsburgh Steelers organization, processes, and methodology??
Come on Isis….please stop cutting and pasting that thing. Keep your comments to this week.
As for this week……no passion, no gameplan, players quitting and filing grievances against their coach. The Browns are pathetic.
I’ll take rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic for 1000, Alex.
bobby-please tell us AGAIN the nine feasable games the Browns can win? And you’re call me a joke? Laughable indeed.
MacNip-sorry it’s over your head, and it’s taken months for you to write the above. I’ll keep tracking what history shows to be true-whether you like it or not.
That “Big Board” is an absolute joke.
Tebow at 12 and Bradford isn’t even on it.
I think someone has a man crush on a particular Gator.
If the Browns go winless this year, they ought to saw the stadium off at the shoreway, sink it into Erie, and pretend this expansion team never came back in the first place. Talk about a performance to completely dishearten you’re entire fan base. Cinci’s probably going to kick the crap out of us next week too.
@Isis – whether you are ‘tracking history’ or not, this site is for comments on the post above. If you want to take up a bunch of space tracking ‘history’ create your own blog.
Nothing is ‘over my head’, especially coming from a fairweather fan like yourself.
Yesterday illustrated that the QB is not where the Browns problem lies. BQ is still too cautious and DA isn’t cautious enough. Neither is the answer right now. Of course what is the answer when your gameplan is run, run, pass. This is a bad offense. I expect to see Quinn in for the rest of the season.
Isis, your copy and paste rhetoric is altogether tiring. We understand your displeasure with two out of the three pro sports teams in Cleveland. Please, for the love of God, offer something resembling, even slightly, constructive in your criticism. For all the knowledge you claim to have, I have never once seen you offer anything in the way of a solution – besides “fire everyone and start over”.
If you had any sort of plan, I’m sure we’d be willing to hear it. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know where the Browns go from here to get better. If I did, I wouldnt be sitting at my desk typing this.
Jump Randy.
2010 is going to be even worse than 2009. Good Lord, we suck.
@ # 6 – I agree. It’s seniors only, but give me Eric Berry, dammit.
I agree Chris M. Look Isis we all know who you wanted in the draft. It has been posted here at nauseum. Guess what they aren’t here. There is nothing that is going to change that. We also know that Randall hired a guy you don’t like. There wasn’t to many people I knew that did like it. What seperates us from you Isis, is that we love this team for better or worse. Posting the same idiotic crap will not change that. You don’t get a prize for posting the same crap everyday. Posting the same crap will not get rid of the guys that are running, and playing for this team. We get it Isis. Go away, or come up with something better.
Wait, I’m confused. Forbes has rated best cities to live in, best hamburger in the nation (Swenson’s FYI), and now best/worst fans in Baseball. What exactly does that magazine do and how are they any different than that guy at work who knows facts about everything except the stuff that actually matters?
Isis = Romeo. I’m convinced.
Time to rebuild yet?
“With the first pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns select……”