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ESPN Power Ranking - Week 5

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  • N neohionative

    @theclevelandsound said:

    I was just thinking about this today. Teams with the same record as us get a lot more publicity because they are bigger markets and are "expected" to do well every year. I can't imagine a world where teams like that go 1-3 and get ignored like us.

    Let me take a stab at this w/o the Steeler bias. The Cowboys and Vikings have pro-bowl caliber players at QB, WR, and RB. Our QB is a third string rookie, our punt returner is our most productive WR, and while our RB is a beast, he still hasn't put the numbers up consistently (like a full season if not two). Beyond that, the Vikings nearly beat the Jets this past Monday. The only team we have beaten were the Bengals, and they're falling apart faster than a Chinese necklace from WalMart. That and the national media has a hard on for Dallas, even though it's obvious they won't be playing the SB in their new stadium come February.

    @neohionative said:

    That and the national media has a hard on for Dallas, even though it's obvious they won't be playing the SB in their new stadium come February.

    Amen to that!

    Now for the Browns to rank higher, start winning some games- close don't count even though the teams the Browns have lost to have a combined record of 14-4.

    ❤

  • We can't complain where we are in the power rankings. The well, if we didn't fumble, or he didn't throw an int, or this or that and we would have won...

    This year a ton of games have been won/lost like that. It's the NFL and close doesn't count nor does it matter. We cannot complain about our spot on some "power rankings" where some guy who knows a little about a lot of the teams makes the list. We have to start winning if we want a decent spot on someone's power rankings (which should be taken with a grain of salt).

  • Formerly Stone said:

    You just don't get it! It's not "The Browns" It's the disillusion caged monkeys, otherwise known as "Browns Fans", that provide the comic relief that attracts us!

    Actually this guy thinks we're hot.

    And he lacks awareness of the fact that it is actually he who is part of an ethnological exposition.

  • Formerly Stone said:

    Exactly.....on both counts!

    The bottom line is that the teams listed as below the Cowboys and Vikings, yet have the same record, simply don't have the talent and coaching to be ranked above them.

    Talent? Perhaps. Coaching? I am not sure too many are singing the praises of the superior coaching qualities of Wade Phillips and Brad Childress.

  • Formerly Stone said:

    As compared to Mangini? Absolutely!

    Plus there is a slight love affair with the Cowboys and Vikings. The Browns haven't done anything to earn that love affair.

    Of course your feeling about Mangini would be biased. I don't know how a neutral group of evaluators would rate them.

    Is there a "love affair" with the Cowboys? Yea, they probably attract even more FRAKs than the Steelers do, Maybe 2d or 3rd in all of sports to the Yankees.

    The Vikings? Perhaps temporarily what with Brett Faaaaaarrrrvvve on that team.

    Have the Browns done anything to earn that love affair? Only with whom really counts...their true fans. Have they attracted all the FRAKs that the Cowboys and Steelers have gotten? No. Only winning does that (though the Cowboys haven't won shit in many years).

    Would they if they were to win? Probably.

  • On the coaching angle ask yourself these questions:

    1. Has Wade Phillips done as well as he should with the talent he has had?

    2. Has Brad Childress done as well as he should with the talent he has had?

    3. Has Eric Mangini done as well as he should with the talent he has had?

    4. Marvin Lewis?

    5. Ask it for any of the other NFL coaches? Who has overachieved? Who has underachieved? Who has been Goldilocks and done just right?

  • Formerly Stone said:

    You just don't get it! It's not "The Browns" It's the disillusion caged monkeys, otherwise known as "Browns Fans", that provide the comic relief that attracts us!

    Formerly Stone said:

    Not biased, just realistic. Unlike you Browns fans who ride the suicide/superbowl roller coaster on a week by week basis most people are able to look at it objectively and say there is some good and some bad.....time will tell what the overall grade will be.

    i love when someone sums something up so perfectly that there is no need to expand upon it.

    half the chuckles i get a week come from you brownies that are either lost in delusions of grandure or desperately trying to find a razor to open up a vein...........or the battles you guys have between yourselves of "the browns suck, i'm through with them".......and......."well you're a crap fan, you should just jump of a bridge".

    you can't PAY for something this comical.

    with all i've heard about Big Ben being a rapist and i go to a online sex offender registry and look up cleveland and Pittsburgh and what do i find? cleveland has a CRAP load more sex offenders (and expecially child molesters) than Pittsburgh.......over 4X as many over all. 2055 of them to Pittsburgh's 421. www.familywatchdog.us better never hear one of you date raping, can't get a woman with my tiny peep unless i hold her down, child molesting hypocrits say anything else about Ben.
  • G Gafreleets

    Formerly Stone said:

    You just don't get it! It's not "The Browns" It's the disillusion caged monkeys, otherwise known as "Browns Fans", that provide the comic relief that attracts us!

    Formerly Stone said:

    Not biased, just realistic. Unlike you Browns fans who ride the suicide/superbowl roller coaster on a week by week basis most people are able to look at it objectively and say there is some good and some bad.....time will tell what the overall grade will be.

    i love when someone sums something up so perfectly that there is no need to expand upon it.

    half the chuckles i get a week come from you brownies that are either lost in delusions of grandure or desperately trying to find a razor to open up a vein...........or the battles you guys have between yourselves of "the browns suck, i'm through with them".......and......."well you're a crap fan, you should just jump of a bridge".

    you can't PAY for something this comical.

    @gafreleets said:

    i love when someone sums something up so perfectly that there is no need to expand upon it.

    Then why don't you STFU?

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @gafreleets said:

    i love when someone sums something up so perfectly that there is no need to expand upon it.

    Then why don't you STFU?

    @the-gipper said:

    Then why don't you STFU?

    UH OH! i smell a hissy fit it the making.

    with all i've heard about Big Ben being a rapist and i go to a online sex offender registry and look up cleveland and Pittsburgh and what do i find? cleveland has a CRAP load more sex offenders (and expecially child molesters) than Pittsburgh.......over 4X as many over all. 2055 of them to Pittsburgh's 421. www.familywatchdog.us better never hear one of you date raping, can't get a woman with my tiny peep unless i hold her down, child molesting hypocrits say anything else about Ben.
    The GipperT 1 Reply

  • Formerly Stone said:

    This is funny!

    Tell me what teams, ranked below the Cowboys and Vikings, do you think are better?

    The Chargers and the Bengals. They both have good talent and a good coach with a better record. The love affair with the Cowboys and the fact that their roster is star studded is the reason they are still getting higher up in the rankings. Vikings, under-acheivers ! This year has been crazy but i still feel that if a person were to look at the rankings in a non biased way -he will find that some teams are ranked much higher than they ought to be.

  • G Gafreleets

    @the-gipper said:

    Then why don't you STFU?

    UH OH! i smell a hissy fit it the making.

    @gafreleets said:

    UH OH! i smell a hissy fit it the making.

    You are the one that said that the other guy's post needed no expansion.....and then you go and spew pablum all over his post. I was simply sticking up for him, defending his honor. You showed total disrespect for your fellow troll. Now don't you feel ashamed?

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