Mind Character

Philly remembers well that pre-season game when Genard wrecked and took over the game. This is one of the dumbest trades I can remember of a young talented prospect. Genard Avery flashed star potential. Not situational rusher talent or good rusher talent but star quality. Bull rushes, speed rushes, and he played well at LB last year off the ball. I will not be surprised at all if he becomes a 9 sack a year guy, but honestly I could see him being a 14-sack a year guy. Ridiculous. You don't trade talent like that away for peanuts.a year from now just because he's not a "coaches fit." The coaches might not even be here in a few years. Genard Avery was a special young talent with an elite skill set. Even if it's a 5th in 2021, you're not going to find a situational rusher in the 5th with the skill of Avery. This makes ZERO sense.

On every day of the week I'd trade a 3rd for Williams. Put him in the 43 and move him inside next to Larry O. Missed opportunity. I don't care if he needs to be paid. Young and special talent under-utilzed in the 34.

1.) Gregg Williams, 2.) Brian Flores, 3.) Matt Eberflus, 4.) Jim Caldwell, 5.) Kevin Stefanski, 6.) Dan Campbell, 7.) Freddie Kitchens, 8.) Requested to interview but did not formally interview Nick Sirianni I said it at the the time so it's not hindsight bias, "Setting aside the college HC candidates, I just find it really really hard to believe that given the massive resources of the Haslams, the expertise within the personnel department, as well as the early start that we got on this coaching search that the above 7 men were the only and best qualified candidates for what is the most important coaching hire decision for this ascending team/organization in." It made no sense to me at the time. The only way to make sense of the less than impressive candidate pool was by realizing 2 things: 1.) John Dorsey likely wanted to hire a first time coach who couldn't challenge his power and/or gain leverage to fire him like Andy Reid in KC, AND 2.) Key decision makers saw Freddie as their guy early and sought to interview candidates closer to his level of recent coordinator experience. I was hoping for Eberflus and Stefanski at the time, but even they were unimpressive given the type of next level Program leader this team needed. -------------------------------- Freddie's job will be saved by the cakewalk schedule in the 2nd half of the season so we could possibly be going into next season with a Coach the fanbase and potentially players don't believe in. Or maybe the wins against cakewalk teams gives Freddie the momentum and buy-in from the players necessary to elevate his coaching our perception of his coaching. Maybe he'll morph into a great coach in time. Only time will tell; however, it was true then and it is true now imo that the "coaching search" was beyond lackluster in terms of finding a true Program leader with elite football intelligence/creativity/genius.

If there's a problem with a leaky roof but there is no rain to expose such issues it can be easy to lulled into the false belief that the roof is in order and all is well. I guess at the end of the day because I never believed this was the year where we compete for it all I'd rather it rain so at least we can figure out who exactly are the "leaky roofs" on this team be they coaches or players. Ultimately, I'm afraid that wins against some of the top 6 worst teams in the league will serve as the "Scoreboard.. Scoreboard" whitewash over the justified scrutiny and hyper-awareness that should remain on the coaching and player performance. I believe that you find out about a team more when they are up against sound and/or good teams as opposed to cake-walk teams. Even if we lost to some of the harder teams we've played against, the way we executed and performed against them if we did so at a high level would be indicative and diagnostic of something about our team. To this point, we've been a complete mess and I'm not sure that the "with a win against Denver we're back on track" type of sentiments that will come from winning against such teams will be false confidence in an operation whose weaknesses won't be tested or exposed. You're right in that ineptness can show up against lesser teams but it's harder at least to me to really take-away diagnostic information about a team when they aren't tested.

I can't believe we had a 13 penalty game and looked that bad after a bye week. Part of me wishes we didn't have cake-walk teams in the 2nd half of the season so we could truly see how inept we are along with the coaching.

Sometimes after a bad game it's good to watch great offensive football played by other teams. Andy Reid and Bienemy's offensive play design and flow in the play-calling is a thing of beauty. The puzzles pieces all fit together from one down to the next. When there are gadget plays they are meaningful mis-direction called at times in response or anticipation to the defenses moves/reaction. They're not just calling gadgets just to call them. Even with Matt LaFleur in this game I've counted 8 plays between GB and KC's offenses where they scheme favorable match-ups be it WR on LBs or RBs on LBs on the outside and then took advantage of that match-up and the numbers game. Reid/Bienemy are on another level as they then run false looks off those play designs and keep the defense on their heels. It's a different brand of football and it's not disjointed like ours. Football can be beautiful to watch offense-wise when there is purpose and flow to playcalls and execution.

I rebuke thee..

I was never disappointed with the talentless Hue teams all that much. More frustrated then anything. This team disappoints me unlike any other Browns team in recent memory

Only thing I can think is that if we didn't have the right personnel or something was off it was either take the delay of game or call the timeout. Other than that.. I'm at a loss for words.

Wait .. what did I miss? He did what when? On that 4th and 11?

All ills and pain will soon be forgotten.. The memory of this loss too shall pass... He who "gets us" shall soon be heralded as king..

I rebuke thee satan... and all your works...

Nigh...

Need to respond coming out of the half..

one on one on outside

Throw the ball away...

Absolutely Truth, but what we do from here on out decides the game going forward and it won't have anything to do with the fumbles. Mistakes from here on out have nothing to do with the fumble.. we can control our fate for the rest of the game. Let's gooo..

Make a play.. and go SCORE.. get that MO back..

Brady threw that spooked seeing ghost...

It's a certainty given how the refs officiate and the rules that it will stand as called.. the very definition... It's all risk no worth

Terrible challenge.. the guy in the booth helping freddie has to know there's no evidence to not "stand with the call" if they milk time and score we needed that timeout to answer

You can't challenge that... wasted

you can't have a man uncovered

That play is a staple Lincoln Riley Oklahoma; Chip Kelly Oregon clear out play