May 24, 2013

2013 Browns draft with a baseball guy, Mad Men, Lost, Iron Man 3, sports strategy and more – WFNY Podcast – 2013-05-01

May 1, 2013 by 4 Comments

WFNY Podcast LogoJon and I ended up not talking at all about the Cleveland Indians offensive explosion tonight, but we had a good conversation just the same.

  • Mad Men, Stan and why they keep Betty Draper around at all
  • Roger Sterling’s likeability and charisma
  • Lost and getting spouses caught up on shows
  • Deadwood and its awful ending
  • Long runs for shows and short shows
  • The end of the Sopranos and the end of Lost
  • Louis CK’s most recent special on HBO
  • Is it time for a break for Louis CK
  • The NFL draft and the baseball guy’s perspective
  • Gauging the reaction to the draft
  • Balancing the draft vs. free agency
  • The opportunity to get a corner and a safety
  • Micro-managing physical attributes
  • Mingo and his lack of sack statistics at LSU his last year
  • The meaninglessness of those college stats
  • Justin Blackmon and his question marks biting the Jacksonville Jaguars
  • From Elway to Marino 30 for 30
  • Jim Kelly’s press conference when he was drafted to Buffalo
  • Randy Moss and how he quit on the Raiders
  • NFL GMs and their enormous egos
  • Setting goals and trying to figure out what success looks like
  • Personal over/unders vs. what Vegas might do
  • Pat Shurmur and whether or not he was actually good at anything as a head coach
  • The summer movie podcast
  • The sinking cultural relevance of movies as more movies get made
  • House of Cards and TV vs. movies [Read more...]

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Jim Brown on Trent Richardson: “I think he’s ordinary.”

April 26, 2012 by 99 Comments

When arguably the greatest running back in the history of the NFL played for your franchise, it only makes sense to ask his opinion when the team is rumored to be leaning toward drafting a new running back.

Most former athletes would give a boring, vanilla, vague nod of approval. But not Jim Brown. In an interview with ESPN radio, Jim Brown made it clear he doesn’t think Trent Richardson is anything special.

“I’m not overwhelmed with it,” Brown said of the idea that the Browns could take Richardson. “The problem is that he’s ordinary. I think he’s ordinary.”

Asked what about him is ordinary, Brown said, “the size, the speed, his moves.”

Asked if any running backs in this year’s draft impress him, Brown said, “Not really. It’s not a good year, obviously.”

Brown would go on to say that today’s NFL is a QB’s game, and if you look at the QBs and RBs on many recent Super Bowl teams, it’s a point hard to argue with. Still, with so many pundits saying Richardson is the best RB prospect since Adrian Peterson, it’s going to be awfully hard for the Browns to pass on a potential franchise RB who can easy some of the offensive burden from Colt McCoy and the WR group.

Perhaps that’s a little counter intuitive to how the best teams do it today, but it just might be the best option the Browns have.

[Related: The Relief of the Arrival of Draft Day]

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