Brandon Weeden and his eyes: Cleveland Browns Roundtable
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August 27, 2013While We’re Waiting is the daily morning link roundup that WFNY has been serving up for breakfast for the last several years. We hope you enjoy the following recent collection of yummy and nutritious Cleveland sports-related articles. Anything else to add? Email us at tips@waitingfornextyear.com.
A fantastic piece about more than just football. “The first kickoff of the season is always bittersweet for me because it’s the first time many of those guys we’ve seen for years aren’t there. Boren’s farewell has been immortalized in print. That was his goodbye.
Simon limped onto the field with tears and without pads on Senior Day and won’t return. They’re all gone. They’re ghosts. The first kickoff of the season has a way of cruelly reaffirming their permanent absence.
And yes, they’re replaced by young, fresh players [obligatory Dontre Wilson mention] who will also eventually be replaced right around the time we hope they never leave, either. A player never truly owns his jersey number; he simply holds onto it for the next player and tries to make wearing it a bigger deal for that guy.” [Ramzy/Eleven Warriors]
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“The second criticism of Irving, primarily toward the end of last season, revolved around his maturity. After a blowout loss in Detroit in February, he said that he was “disinterested” in the game. Following the final home game of the season, after which players were expected to remain on the court to give their game-worn jerseys and shoes to some lucky fans, Irving skipped the festivities and went straight into the locker room.
Maybe it is unfair to expect someone who is just 21 years old to carry an NBA team. Some players, like Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose, are up to it. Others, like DeMarcus Cousins, are not. But that is the responsibility that comes with being the face of a franchise.” [Mayer/Sheridan Hoops]
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“It began one winter in Southern California at the end of 1960s, with a high-school football coach watching a high-school basketball game. It began, according to Bart Wright’s upcoming book “Football Revolution,” with a man named Jack Neumeier watching an undersized center catch a pass in the paint, and thinking to himself, “This is like us in football — overmatched.” So Neumeier began drawing up plays, studying the vagaries of run-and-shoot offense and inventing something entirely his own, something known as the “spread,” something that would eventually splinter in a dozen different directions and sift through myriad coaching trees once Neumeier put it in the hands of a quarterback named John Elway.
All these decades later, the central complaint about the spread offense is pretty much the same as the central complaint about the forward pass a century ago: It feels cheap and emasculating.” [Weinreb/Sports on Earth]
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“Jack gives the Cavs a reliable, veteran presence at both guard positions off the bench. Although he should see the majority of his minutes at point guard backing up Kyrie, I wouldn’t be surprised if he plays some shooting guard in the 4th quarter. He is a career 45% shooter and 36% from behind the arc, but his performance in the playoffs last year got me really excited.” [Lockwood/Real Cavs Fans]
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Scene podcast about the Lake Erie Crushers. [Lyndall/Scene]
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It’s quiet here.
Too quiet.
“the spread” is such an generic term. they actually do a good job explaining that in the article, but there’s such a big difference between the spread-option (run-first), spread-offense (pass-first evolved from run-n-shoot), and now the college-spread? (not sure what to call it, but it’s mostly a spread-offense that sprinkles in spread-option components to keep the defense honest and includes the Pistol formation).
no baseball yesterday, no real football for 2 weeks, no basketball for 2 months.
we need a barstool debate.
Oh there’s football this week my friend. Real and terrific football.
if you’re not fired up at the prospect of Toledo knocking off Florida then I don’t know what.
Jim, Jim, Jim … had no idea you were going all Oribasi. I remember when we used to wait for the season to start before spraying the woe is me.
Tch, tch Harv. I had no idea you of all people forgot what ‘debate’ means. Oft times, differences of opinion ensue in the course of them but that need not open the door to ad hominems rather than counterpoints. I know I don’t have to tell you this so,, what the hell?
I’m not being ‘woe is me.’ I -in my opinion- am being sober. I have the Browns at 6 wins. I’ve said why. If you want to debate that, have at it. Calling me a name and doing the ‘it’s only pre-season’ thing doesn’t address a word of what I set forth.
proper nouns are ad hominems? You are too sensitive, friend. Here’s my point (with deepest respect, sire!): I’ve never read you making negative preseason conclusions. Maybe you have and I’ve missed it. NFL preseason games provide virtually no facts. I love a thoughtful debate, there’s nothing to debate, pre-facts.
these are bar-table debates. they have meat on them and you need to dig in on them.
bar stool debates are the airy ones that you can digest like a pretzel with your beer. stuff like redesigns of the football uniform, stadium updates, and the current clubhouse leader in “cruddy Browns player we all love anyway”
I disagree, there are always things to debate.
You guys are both wrong… or maybe all three of you.
Somebody write something about attendance at the Indians games.
If we’re looking for topics, how about Josh Willingham placed on waivers in the second year of his three-year contract?
I remember some people here HAMMERING the front office for being too cheap to offer that last third year so we could get that right-handed bat that we needed so desperately to get up to 70 wins last year.
we are ahead of Tampa, Houston, and Miami!!!
if you average out 2012 & 2013, then you get about the expectations for him.
And you’d have to pay him $7M in 2014. So $21M over three years for four wins. Most of which happened in a year when your chances of competing were extremely low.
The Indians front office were worried about signing an aging slugger, played the percentages, and were proving right. Of course, I doubt people will learn from this. Expect more demand short-sighted, feel-good-now deals and criticism of Antonetti and Company when they do the smart thing.