Cavaliers Preview #38: Cavs at Nuggets
January 8, 2010Cavs Fall Apart Late in Loss to Nuggets. Troubling Sign or One Bad Game?
January 9, 2010
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Seattle keeps on pouring over to Cleveland with that organization expected to hire Pete Carroll as the face of their franchise. Keep an eye out over the weekend to see if is Lewis or Heckert as the new GM: “Browns president Mike Holmgren interviewed Seattle director of pro personnel Will Lewis for the Browns general manager job Friday and said through Browns spokesman Neal Gulkis ‘it went very well.'” [Mary Kay Cabot/Cleveland Plain Dealer]
How much would you pay Josh Cribbs? This post questions what is worth the price: “With the recent contract of Devin Hester getting top dollar, is not paying Josh Cribbs top dollar smart? I believe so, I think Cribbs needs to get paid more money then what he is currently. Cribbs is a Return man but also did help the offense this year move the football the last part of the season.” [Randy Ward/Browns Gab]
Not going to steal any of the awesome work done over by Vince Grzegorek, but I definitely should put the link here for this Q&A with Cavaliers assistant Chris Jent. A must-read for sure. [’64 and Counting]
Another national article on Jamison with Cleveland and this one has been getting a lot of publicity already: “Antawn Jamison on the Cavs? Antawn Jamison, shipped from the Wizards to the Cavaliers? Why wouldn’t that work? What are the percentages? Why can’t we make that happen? It would work. It would truly fit. Both sides have a need, so why shouldn’t this thing go down?” [Kelly Dwyer/Ball Don’t Lie]
Buckeyes finished the year #5 this season leaving hopes for an uplifting 2010 campaign: “For the fourth time in the past five years, the Buckeyes have finished in the AP top five (behind Alabama, Texas, Florida and Boise State). To end here after the events of Purdue Harbor is nothing short of amazing and a testament to the staff and the growth of the team. Congratulations, gents.” [Jason/Eleven Warriors]
Some more solid off-season articles about the Tribe, picking up with the superstars of the past decade: “There’s not a lot of argument as to who the Cleveland Indians’ superstar position players of the last decade were: Grady Sizemore and Victor Martinez. The first half of the decade was dominated by the last gasps of the 1990s, the final exhale coming with Jim Thome’s explosive and, as near as I can tell, rarely mentioned 2002 season.” [Let’s Go Tribe]
Keeping it local, nice to see another nationally recognized award going to a Zip: “University of Akron sophomore forward Teal Bunbury concluded his collegiate men’s soccer career by winning the sport’s most prestigious award Friday night in St. Louis. Bunbury won the Hermann Trophy, a crystal soccer ball that is college soccer’s version of football’s Heisman Trophy, at the Missouri Athletic Club.” [Michael Beaven/Akron Beacon Journal]
To conclude this morning, just a note to check out Mark Titus’ awesome blog at Club Trillion. His post from yesterday is being dubbed by us here at WFNY as one of his best ever so go give it a shot: [“Talkin’ the Talk”]
(Photo above via Joshua Gunter/Cleveland Plain Dealer)
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One of the biggest ironies of all this talk of Cribbs as “just a kick returner” is that he’s only a kick returner because he’s so valuable at that position. He could step in tomorrow as both our #2 RB and our #2 QB and our #3 wideout. The Browns have been slow to give him more touches on offense precisely because the team has been afraid that more touches on offense will lower his S/T production. In that regard his “low worth” is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
He should only make K/R money because he mostly returns kicks, but you can’t give him more touches on offense because it might affect his return game.
EZ,
I love the Cribbs discussion. It is truly an employee-management saga.
The Browns may be smart to wait for a few more front office types to sign on before they start reconfiguring player contracts, and they would be smart to BUY that time, e.g., call Cribbs regularly, keep him in the “you matter” loop.
I have an uneasy impression that they are giving him the “learn your place” treatment.
Cribbs could be the Browns #2 RB because they didn’t have anything close to a #1 RB until Jerome Harrison and even then I’m not sure if Harrison is as impressive as his stats. Don’t forget the teams he faced. As for the #3 WR that is saying even less then the RB situation because I think just about anyone could step in and be the Browns #3 WR right now.
Cribbs and his people are blowing it. His play spoke for itself everyone even Stevie Wonder knew this guy deserved to make more money but I’m sorry his “act” and the fact that he signed a contract that has three more years left on it can’t just be dismissed. Also lets not overlook the fact that his new agent doesn’t receive a dime if his client Cribbs doesn’t receive a new deal. All Cribbs and his crew had to do was wait for Holmgren to come to them, he has no choice given he said he would in his first press conference, but instead they all had to get pissy and throw media driven tantrums. I’m sorry I’m tired of these athletes and all of their “problems” I wish I could trade places with them just for a day so they could see what real problems look like!
boogeyman
why all the disdain for athletes who have “problems”?
couldn’t someone always say to you, “why don’t you go to somalia and see what real problems are.”
The Cribba saga has less to do with money at this juncture than it does communication. Why couldn’t the browns wrote back and just tell Cribbs that they wanted to settlethe front office first? It is because they don’t give a crap about redoing his contract. I hope he holds pit and goes to the CFL where they’ll pay him 2-3 mil a year.