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February 19, 2015
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February 20, 2015One day after Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine spoke to the media at the NFL combine in Indianapolis, general manager Ray Farmer did the same. Farmer didn’t drop any major bombs during the presser, but he did address some of the larger concerns facing the Browns this offseason.
Farmer took responsibility for the sideline texting saga, among other things, and offered apologies to the fans, Pettine, owner Jimmy Haslam, and the rest of the organization. He also said that his emotions played a role in his texting, and that he has resolved to learn from his errors.
“So that everybody hears it from my mouth, it was me,” he said. “To that degree, I have apologized to the people in the building. Coach (Mike) Pettine, Jimmy Haslam, the football staff and everybody that was involved.”1
#Browns Farmer said he apologized to Haslam and everyone in the building. Said he's 'full steam ahead' with Pettine.
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) February 19, 2015
#Browns Farmer said he's owning the texts: "Sometimes your emotions get the best of you.''
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) February 19, 2015
#Browns Farmer: Text-gate has humbled him. "I'm going to make mistakes and I'm going to learn from them.''
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) February 19, 2015
Farmer was asked about the team’s quarterback situation, always a topic of interest in Cleveland. He didn’t commit to any one player, or even any one method of obtaining a quarterback, but he did say that Mike Pettine has said that he wants a starter. Farmer alluded to both the draft and free agency as potential means of acquiring such a player.
#Browns Farmer: "Coach Pettine has articulated that he wants a starter (QB), so we have to find him a starter''
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) February 19, 2015
#Browns on QB pool in free agency: "Just because a player didn't'' succeed in one place doesn't mean he won't succeed in another.
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) February 19, 2015
#Browns Farmer said he's done a cost-benefit analysis on trading up for a QB
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) February 19, 2015
Speaking of the Browns signal-callers from last year, Farmer said that he has not met with Brian Hoyer. He was a bit cryptic, saying that such a meeting would be for Hoyer’s people to share.
#Browns Farmer on why he hasn't met with Hoyer: "If it happened, it would be for his camp to tell you, not me''
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) February 19, 2015
He also chimed in regarding Johnny Manziel, saying that the team understood the risks that came with drafting the notoriously nightlife-friendly quarterback. Again, Farmer shouldered the responsibility for the selection.
#Browns Farmer on Manziel: "We understood the red flags.'' Took responsibility for drafting him regardless.
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) February 19, 2015
The full video, courtesy of Yahoo! Sports:
- From Mary Kay Cabot at Cleveland.com. [↩]
30 Comments
Cost-benefit analysis? Sounds like analytic, business suited mumbo jumbo to me. Find the nearest hobo and see what he thinks.
hobo-analytics > cost-benefit analysis
Yeah, Farmer’s got some pompous corporate-speak in him. Pettine has “articulated” that he wants a starter. Who talks like that?
Sometimes when people try to show off how intelligent they are they sound less intelligent. Oh well, at least he didn’t mispronounce it.
I don’t know if it’s about trying to sound smart or trying to answer questions while actually saying as little as possible. He definitely seems like less of a straight shooter than Pettine. I’m not sure if that bothers me too much though… He can’t be overly blunt about Manziel, Hoyer, etc. so he uses corporate speak to talk around things.
Analytics being applied by hobos or analytics being used to evaluate hobos?
Knowing our luck HOBO would stand for “Husak Over Brady, Of-course!”
Aaaaaannnd, I just checked out Todd Husak and he was on the Browns practice squad in 2004.
You can’t make this stuff up.
I will say that . . . he didn’t say much, but said quite a bit despite it. I will also tell you that . . . reporters really can’t help but ask questions that they know won’t be answered (I’m looking at you, Rapunzel). How many times does a guy have to say “I won’t discuss conversations” or “I’m not going to discuss draft strategy” before you stop asking him to discuss those things. I will say that . . . I know it’s your job, but sheesh, just because you CAN ask a question doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
Well well well, gone is last year’s slightly sneering ex-jock cocksuredness. If he talked any faster we’d have to confiscate the Red Bull. That’s all we’ll hear about the texting. This presser he can’t divulge details due to pending investigation; when he speaks again in training camp he won’t revisit because what’s done is done. I would have liked to know whether he knew he was violating the rules – he made some blow-by about different coaches may interpret different things.
Ok, on one level I’m glad for the org that he took his awkward questions and Berea can try to concentrate about players. Farmer’s clear nervousness did not win this presser. But the only thing that sticks in my craw is his now insinuating that he didn’t mean receivers weren’t important last year, he likes to smoke screen. Dude, you didn’t even take one on Day 2 when you knew Gordon was gone. If this presser was, as you say, about you “owning it,” just own it.
Also, Mary Kay (I know I shouldn’t go here again but), Mary Kay, please. There are a finite number of questions. You waste yours on subjects he already said he wouldn’t address. And you got squat back. Do you think he forgot? Were you not listening, or just determined to read the questions you prepared (and could have guessed he wouldn’t answer)? Lord, the PD can do better.
Also wanted to use the word “requisite” but he was scared and kept flubbing it. He’s plenty smart, but guessing he’s breaking out vocab he doesn’t use talking in Berea. He was awfully amped up, and I’m sure that didn’t help his word choice.
could have saved myself typing had I seen this. Accord. Not sure if she’s lacking instincts on how to get info or just dense.
No you can’t, but Husak was drafted after Brady in the 6th round by the Redskins, not the Browns…so there.
P.S. Please ignore what was the 6th round selection of the Browns that year…..Spurgeon Wynn.
Can both be true?
You nailed it with the observation that she’s probably just reading the questions that she had written without listening to the answers. That was my exact impression. It reminds me of the first couple of times I ever did real-life cross-examination. Nothing the witness said was going to get me off of my agenda! (The difference, I hope, is that I have learned from my rookie mistakes; Mary Kay just seems determined to remain a rookie for life.)
yeah, the ol’ reading your notes and checking off the questions …
I’m going to try and stop my MKC vilification bc I’m getting irrational. When I listened to her podcasts became convinced she actually knows very little football, and nothing’s seeped in just from proximity to the game. And so now she could actually write something incisive but all I can hear is her breathless Johnny Crush voice and her starting every spoken sentence with “Ya know …”
I’m just a little giddy with the prospect – however remote – that WFNY’s newest writer, mgbode, might one day find himself in the press pool, shoulder to shoulder with MKC, humming music from “Tangled” whilst imagining dodging a flailing frying pan should she ever make the connection (since we all know she’s a huge WFNY fan). Hey, it could happen.
Yeah, liberties had to be taken to make it fit the acronym.
Bode undercover. In a JFF bodysuit and money phone. Hidden body camera with audio.
Rep us proud, Bode. Do this, for us. The swooning footage, the girlish cougar panting, will be MKC’s new gif. Forever.
[Now I’m stopping,. Really. Stop egging me on]
Jut curious, there are so many much more respectable reporters available to quote/screen grab why do you continue to rape my eyeballs with MKCisms?
He seems fairly nervous on stage. I think his mind is a bit of a jumble while under those bright lights and his entire speech/thought pattern isn’t what it is otherwise. Not everybody has that particular ability. He can still be a really good GM just not an orator. Perhaps if he has some success in FA and the draft along with more practice he’ll smooth out a bit.
It’s a crime of power more than anything. And she does just fine relaying quotes
On a similar note I got quite a chuckle listening to Grossi on RBS following Farmer’s mea culpa. His indignation at Farmer for not willingly revealing all his negotiating or pre-draft strategies is comically absurd.
Last year he was measured, in control and somewhat better spoken. Clearly today was hard for him and he probably dreaded having to face the media about his mess.
Yes, yes but damn you, my eyes!
The fact that Pettine had to tell Farmer he needed a starting QB…SMFH
That is why the …hmmm nevermind
Picture Farmer getting ready for his presser.
• In the ready room, gets down on one knee and says prayer.
• Goes to bathroom and pukes.
• Cinches belt nice and tight.
• Slaps on Beats by Dre and cranks it while walking down hall.
• Rips off headphones at entrance to press room.
• Cinches belt again.
• Grips lectern so tight it cracks.
wait a gosh darn second here.
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which tangled song? I will not sing “now when my life begins”. I don’t have the chops for it. I can definitely pull off the bar guys in “I have a dream”
http://31.media.tumblr.com/e803b14b1f5606c6e0138cadb6b4f210/tumblr_n66adkpaAC1rgphwzo1_500.gif
When do we find out the outcome of this garbage scandal? There is a good chance we lose draft picks, which obviously have some effect on how we setup our draft board and potential draft-day trades. There also is the Hoyer angle in that he wants to know what was said before deciding to resign with the Browns or move on.
That’ll do.