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April 9, 2014
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports the Jacksonville Jaguars will sign highly-discussed transition-tagged center Alex Mack to a five-year offer sheet by Friday.
By Friday, Jacksonville will sign Cleveland's transition-tagged C Alex Mack to a 5-year offer sheet the Browns will have five days to match.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 9, 2014
Per Schefter, Mack badly wants to play the five-year contract with the Jaguars and doesn’t want to return to Cleveland—this, of course, despite all of the posturing being done on the side of the Browns and their “feelings” about the situtation. As promised, Mack’s agent and the Jaguars will likely structure the deal in a way that will make it as difficult as possible for the Browns to match it, even though Cleveland is rife with cap space and possess the desire to retain Mack who is arguably the game’s best center.
For the Browns to pass, the Jaguars would allegedly have to make the first three years of any offer pay out somewhere between $22 and $25 million guaranteed loaded with roster and workout bonuses. While Cleveland has plenty of cap space, he issue for the Browns begin in 2015 and 2016, when some other players (Phil Taylor, Jabaal Sheard, etc.) are in line for new deals.
The Browns will have five days to make a decision if and when a deal is officially signed.
[Related: Alex Mack may have missed the free agent party]
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http://espn.go.com/nfl/attendance
Jacksonville – 28th in attendance
Cleveland – 11th in attendance
Maybe so, but those 59,940 people are maniacs! Rawr!
I think attendance figures are a poor barometer for passion. Jaguars twitter is pretty ruthless. That’s where you can see how crazy and passionate those guys get.
Perhaps that #4 pick better be an OL now after all.
When you’re up by 5 late in the 4th quarter and the other team is driving, you really want that ruthless twittering to be your 12th man.
+1. There doesn’t appear to be a franchise QB here. Best available all the way.
12,000 less fans per game. I don’t really care if they are more whiny on twitter than we are.
top10 tailgate for us not them (I picked one, but we are in pretty much all of the lists I could find, they were not in any):
http://www.rsvlts.com/2013/09/06/best-nfl-tailgate-cities/
http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Cleveland-Browns-630×549.jpg
the NFL has spoken. top tier NFL fans include Cleveland Browns. bottom rung includes JAX. and there you go.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000079329/article/fan-base-power-rankings-packers-bills-on-top
So only people attending games are passionate about their team?
I never compared them to another team, I said they are passionate, a small number of people can be very passionate about their team. This is where Twitter is a valuable resource, not many teams have a loud voice on it. Cleveland, Buffalo, and Jacksonville are on that list.
From that article: “Jacksonville’s ticket problems have improved. The next step is improving the product on the field. The fans they have are passionate; they just need more.”
Hurtface…Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
yep, the Jags have a few passionate fans who need more on the field to be truly passionate and get out of the bottom rung for fans.
the Browns have a city full of passionate fans who fill the stadium and the tailgate lots and that is despite a worse recent (20yrs of recent) history than the Jags.
ah, okay. I will just disagree here then. I believe you need the numbers with the passion to consider yourself a passionate fanbase.
you can have passionate fans, but to be a passionate fanbase you need the numbers.
they are certainly speaking with their wallets and time more. those season ticket holders who show up at 6am and stay the entire day for the game are certainly more passionate about the Browns than I am. and, I love the Browns.
I declare you the winner. Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings is granted.
So you’re saying size is important to you.
Now I’m getting excited for the opener.
she might tell you that size doesn’t matter, but everyone knows that it does.
only 5 months away!!!!
http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/cookie_monster_waiting.gif
*ahem* if it so please the court, I would direct you to the difference in terminology between “passionate fans” and “passionate fanbase” the article depicts that they have passionate fans but they don’t have enough fans, therefore they cannot be considered a passionate fanbase compared to other cities.
I’m the sandwich guy for our tailgates.
It doesn’t please the court. In fact, it draws the court’s ire.
Despite your clever attempt to turn the discussion from the question of whether the Jaguars have a passionate fanbase into one of whether the Jaguars’ fans are as passionate as the Browns, this late attempt to now redefine the question as one pertaining to the meaning of “fanbase” is without merit.
It is settled precedent and law that size doesn’t matter. See “That’s What She Said,” p. 5.
Appeal is denied. Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings is affirmed. Sanctions against attorney mgbode are hereby granted.
(You should have stuck with analyzing the Ravens’ draft.)
Object! he is trying to define “fanbase”. One person can technically be a fanbase.
and great, now I’m hungry AND longing for the NFL season to start.
that looks delicious – what meats are on there? it looks like some type of beef and perhaps a layer of turkey?
Please see the court’s rulling issued “a minute ago” below.
Yeah stick to analytics, nerd. Let me deal with the petty stuff.
They do have cheerleaders!!!!
No there isn’t which is why I always advocated for anything but a QB at #4. I’ve waffled on what that anything should be though since. I’ve gone from Watkins to a little Mack to a little Robinson to a little Matthews the OL.
The top one is my baby. It;s the Super Cuban. I smoked a pork loin roast, baked ham, swiss, pickles, and topped it off with some Bertman’s stadium mustard.
The others are various cold cuts and amish cheeses.
ah, I see. well, I will allow you and SnC to live in a fairytale land where you believe that size does not matter. just, for your sanity, don’t ask Pluto about that one.
This case has already been decided.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh9a4p15U81qcuhr9o1_500.gif
So does Michigan. And Michigan still sucks.
The dog?
let’s just say there’s a reason that Walt allowed Goofy to be able to talk but made Pluto mute.
if you add a fried egg to that top one, then it’s my favorite sandwhich. dangit, I need to go eat now 🙂
I can’t up-tick this enough. Cinematic masterpiece.
To be honest I prefer the Dolphins cheerleaders anyways. But if Denver can have them so can Cleveland! To clarify I’m speaking of female cheerleaders not male I know how some of you roll.
Literally or figuratively or both?