Pat Shurmur Hired As New Cleveland Browns Head Coach

DieHardBrownsFan

I'm not going to say anything negative. Shurmur could turn into a great coach, be mediocre or be horrible. No one knows yet. No matter who we pick, we have no idea what will happen. Give the guy a chance. And root for his success.

VENOM

@cddbrowns said:
Difference being, the DAY Mangini was hired, the bitching started, and never stopped even though many areas of the team improved despite the lack of depth and talent......

I just wonder if the right move wouldn't have been to give it 1 more year to add players and to give McCoy a full year to develope. If then no progress then pull the trigger.

TheClevelandSound

John Fox just announced as Denver Broncos Head Coach. So we can put that DC stuff to rest for him.

via Twitter:

"I am excited to announce that John Fox has agreed to terms to become the 14th head coach in Denver Broncos history."

http://twitter.com/#!/johnelway

dawgpound3

Daboll is apparently fired.

Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator Brian Daboll has been fired according to Daniel Wolf of The Dawg Scooper. Wolf reports that Daboll was seem taking boxes to his car.
Wolf reports that Daboll never listened to advice from Browns president Mike Holmgren or Browns senior advisor to the president Gil Haskell.

Mary Kay Cabot of The Cleveland Plain-Dealer is reporting that Holmgren has not ruled out adding himself as the Browns head coach.

If Holmgren becomes the head coach, Haskell would probably be named the offensive coordinator. There also have been rumors that Ray Rhodes would be named the defensive coordinator.

Adam Caplan of FOXSports reported that Daboll could replace Charlie Weis in Kansas City. Weis is leaving to become the offensive coordinator of the Florida Gators.

dawgscooperreport

miktoxic

@shepwrite said:
Nah. Life is a case by case endeavor.

so if it's a guy YOU like the timetable can be stretched. shurmur and holmgren get what 3 years/4?

cddbrowns

@miktoxic said:

so if it's a guy YOU like the timetable can be stretched. shurmur and holmgren get what 3 years/4?

No to go all political or anything, but this reminds me of 08. MOAN MOAN MOAN CRY CRY CRY, then when the guy THEY want is put in, "STOP CRYING" LOL! Its double standard and I want what I want all the time or I will stomp my feet and throw a fit till everyone gets sick of hearing it. But you had better not do the same.

longhorn

@clevelandfanforlife said:
thus began the homshert era? what about shmeckho? should we start a contest to name this new regime?

Holmgreckmur Era

LaMonte's Lads

Shurm Hoheck

Holmgren's Homies

cddbrowns

@longhorn said:
Holmgreckmur Era
LaMonte's Lads

Shurm Hoheck

Holmgren's Homies

LaMonte's inferno....

TheClevelandSound

@dawgpound3 said:
Daboll is apparently fired.
dawgscooperreport

Quite an outdated article you've got there. I'll wait till it hits the Plain Dealer to believe it.

nickers

Im just glad we finally hired someone from the offensive side of the ball instead of one of these control freak defensive coordinators that go into a shell on offense.

BrownB499

@clevelandfanforlife said:
The question is: Do you like the hire? Plain and simple. Please answer yes or no only.
My answer is yes.

NO

miktoxic

@hoorta said:
But IMHO it's a little more than coincidence H&H hire another LaMonte guy.

not on the same level but don't politicians that do this draw great scrutiny? wonder how much more is landing in holmgren's pocket?

cddbrowns

@nickers said:
Im just glad we finally hired someone from the offensive side of the ball instead of one of these control freak defensive coordinators that go into a shell on offense.

Policy was an O guy.....

miktoxic

@cddbrowns said:
Policy was an O guy.....

so was chris palmer.

cddbrowns

@miktoxic said:

so was chris palmer.

LOL! Thats what I mean. Sorry, said the fire-er instead of the fire-ee

Mr. T

Well we will see.......

I will say he is a better hire than a Crennel or a Butch.

Meanwhile all of us can continue to wait on a shot at the playoffs

Start the music Mistro.....

cddbrowns

@mr.-t said:
Well we will see.......
I will say he is a better hire than a Crennel or a Butch.

Meanwhile all of us can continue to wait on a shot at the playoffs

Start the music Mistro.....

Butch with a GM would have been dangerous.....IMO of course.

ballpeen

@hoorta said:
I'd say LaMonte's very wealthy. I Haven't heard anything bad about him, so that's a plus. But IMHO it's a little more than coincidence H&H hire another LaMonte guy.

No doubt, but good demands compensation.

http://www.psr-inc.net/

miktoxic

@theclevelandsound said:
People are still overlooking the biggest thing.
Next years combined opponents records is 98-104.

We will have success. Just like in 2007.

and then blow for another 3 years. good reasoning. so let's say 2014 we blow up everything again and start all over because we had the one 'phantom' year (like i'm guessing all these this years' kcs, st. louiss tampa bays etc. will have) because of strength of schedule? yeah o.k.

BTW i don't think our schedule next year is as easy as you make it out to be. if we go 7-9 i'll be surprised.

? Copper

I guess Shurmur is okay, but I still would have preferred Fewell. The Giant's defense is consistently "pretty good/really good." The Rams' offense under Shurmur peaked at 26th in the league. Sure he was only there for 2 years, but we obviously didn't judge Mangini using the "he's only been there two years" logic.