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  • was looking around the internet at articles about clevelands new chosen one, and i found this http://lastwordonsports.com/2012/07/04/trentrichardsonchosenone/ after reading i found it interesting that richardson has the right attitude and didnt fire back against jim brown... what do you think?

  • yeah that's why we are all GMs and our prognostication percentages are off the charts. fuck vegas! oh yeah? really? why aren't all you sideline gurus and karnacs there now winning millions?

    exactly.

    yeah TR is a beast and he'll have a good year. but i betcha he's never taken a pounding like he will against our division rivals, SEC or not.

    just hope he can last 3 years while the rest of the team catches up with him.

  • yeah that's why we are all GMs and our prognostication percentages are off the charts. fuck vegas! oh yeah? really? why aren't all you sideline gurus and karnacs there now winning millions?

    exactly.

    yeah TR is a beast and he'll have a good year. but i betcha he's never taken a pounding like he will against our division rivals, SEC or not.

    just hope he can last 3 years while the rest of the team catches up with him.

    @miktoxic said:

    yeah that's why we are all GMs and our prognostication percentages are off the charts. fuck vegas! oh yeah? really? why aren't all you sideline gurus and karnacs there now winning millions?

    exactly.

    yeah TR is a beast and he'll have a good year. but i betcha he's never taken a pounding like he will against our division rivals, SEC or not.

    just hope he can last 3 years while the rest of the team catches up with him.

    No doubt about that Mik. No way of predicting what will happen. RB's have a shorter career because of the pounding they take. Let's hope for the best and expect the worst.

  • diehard reminds me:

    HAPPY 4TH TO EVERYONE! DON'T LET 'REVISIONIST' HISTORY STAND IN THE WAY OF THANKING THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR YOUR INDEPENDENCE.

  • alright! thanks [OG Vets]!! 🙂

    and happy gregorian 4th of July to all and any!!

    may your fireworks be loud, your spirits bright, and your celebrations extra arrogant!!

    and Happy Birthday US of A!!!

    p.s. Dear Earth, sorry about all the firework pollution in the air, lakes, and rivers tonight. hope u can get over it.

  • alright! thanks [OG Vets]!! 🙂

    and happy gregorian 4th of July to all and any!!

    may your fireworks be loud, your spirits bright, and your celebrations extra arrogant!!

    and Happy Birthday US of A!!!

    p.s. Dear Earth, sorry about all the firework pollution in the air, lakes, and rivers tonight. hope u can get over it.

    @sisky-fringo said:

    alright! thanks [OG Vets]!! 🙂

    and happy gregorian 4th of July to all and any!!

    may your fireworks be loud, your spirits bright, and your celebrations extra arrogant!!

    and Happy Birthday US of A!!!

    p.s. Dear Earth, sorry about all the firework pollution in the air, lakes, and rivers tonight. hope u can get over it.

    man. i love that avatar! 😆 :lol:

  • alright! thanks [OG Vets]!! 🙂

    and happy gregorian 4th of July to all and any!!

    may your fireworks be loud, your spirits bright, and your celebrations extra arrogant!!

    and Happy Birthday US of A!!!

    p.s. Dear Earth, sorry about all the firework pollution in the air, lakes, and rivers tonight. hope u can get over it.

    @sisky-fringo said:

    alright! thanks [OG Vets]!! 🙂

    and happy gregorian 4th of July to all and any!!

    may your fireworks be loud, your spirits bright, and your celebrations extra arrogant!!

    and Happy Birthday US of A!!!

    p.s. Dear Earth, sorry about all the firework pollution in the air, lakes, and rivers tonight. hope u can get over it.

    Hippy

  • was looking around the internet at articles about clevelands new chosen one, and i found this http://lastwordonsports.com/2012/07/04/trentrichardsonchosenone/ after reading i found it interesting that richardson has the right attitude and didnt fire back against jim brown... what do you think?

    @brother-disco said:

    was looking around the internet at articles about clevelands new chosen one, and i found this http://lastwordonsports.com/2012/07/04/trentrichardsonchosenone/ after reading i found it interesting that richardson has the right attitude and didnt fire back against jim brown... what do you think?

    Why does shitty internet writers come on here and pretend that they are normal posters only to pedal their crappy articles? At least try to be honest about it, not "Oh I totally just found this fantastic article about xxxx, maybe you guys should check it out!" If I wanted the opinion of some dipshit working as a writer for some crappy $.10 for a dozen sports site just so he can gain enough experience to get an unpaid internship at some low level backwoods honky tonk news paper then I would read your article. But I prefer to read articles from professional journalist and competent analysts so I won't waste my time.

  • yeah that's why we are all GMs and our prognostication percentages are off the charts. fuck vegas! oh yeah? really? why aren't all you sideline gurus and karnacs there now winning millions?

    exactly.

    yeah TR is a beast and he'll have a good year. but i betcha he's never taken a pounding like he will against our division rivals, SEC or not.

    just hope he can last 3 years while the rest of the team catches up with him.

    @miktoxic said:

    yeah that's why we are all GMs and our prognostication percentages are off the charts. fuck vegas! oh yeah? really? why aren't all you sideline gurus and karnacs there now winning millions?

    exactly.

    yeah TR is a beast and he'll have a good year. but i betcha he's never taken a pounding like he will against our division rivals, SEC or not.

    just hope he can last 3 years while the rest of the team catches up with him.

    Yea I hope we spell TR with Hardesty and Jackson, maybe Ogbonnayya for the next couple of years so he still has plenty of tread on the tires when we will be competing for the playoffs (hopefully..)

  • @king-ghoolie-lives said:

    VEGAS? Dude, guys like me are a LOT SHARPER than most GMS and Vegas experts. The only reason the Vegas guys make so much money is that they take bets from de-evolved pig fuckers like you.

    Says the man who calls himself Big and Bad on an internet forum.

  • http://sports.espn.go.com/fantasy/football/ffl/story?page=nfldk2k12_decisionstrich

    How high should rookie Trent Richardson be drafted in fantasy leagues?

    Shortly after the Cleveland Browns drafted Trent Richardson with the third overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft, Jim Brown was quoted as saying he thought the running back was "ordinary" and that he saw nothing outstanding about him.

    While you don't have to agree with the Hall of Fame legend's assessment, you would do well to understand well before you select Richardson in your fantasy football draft that the odds of the rookie doing something extraordinary are not that great.

    Deciding to hang your hat on a newcomer to the NFL -- even one who rushed for 1,679 yards and scored 24 total touchdowns in his final season at Alabama -- is an incredible risk. Why? Because in order to be considered worthy of being a top-10 running back selection you need to be counted on for about 80 yards per game and a touchdown approximately every other game.

    Over the past several seasons, you can see that's pretty much where the bar has been residing:

    RBs to average 80 or more yards rushing per game

    Minimum 10 games played, Since 2005

    2011: 9

    2010: 7

    2009: 9

    2008: 9

    2007: 10

    2006: 11

    2005: 11

    But regardless of how good Richardson might be, it is a pretty rare occurrence for a rookie running back to reach this plateau. Since 1995, only 14 rookies have managed to accomplish the feat, and not a one has pulled it off in any of the past three seasons. That group of "slow starters" includes a bevy of backs taken in the first round, such as Knowshon Moreno, Donald Brown, Beanie Wells, C.J. Spiller, Ryan Mathews, Jahvid Best and Richardson's former Crimson Tide teammate, Mark Ingram.

    Player

    Team

    Games

    Rush Yds

    TD

    YPG

    Chris Johnson

    2008 TEN

    15

    1,228

    9

    81.9

    Steve Slaton

    2008 HOU

    16

    1,282

    9

    80.1

    Marshawn Lynch

    2007 BUF

    13

    1,115

    7

    85.8

    Adrian Peterson

    2007 MIN

    14

    1,341

    12

    95.8

    Cadillac Williams

    2005 TB

    14

    1,178

    6

    84.1

    Clinton Portis

    2002 DEN

    16

    1,508

    15

    94.3

    Anthony Thomas

    2001 CHI

    14

    1,183

    7

    84.5

    Mike Anderson

    2000 DEN

    16

    1,487

    15

    92.9

    Jamal Lewis

    2000 BAL

    16

    1,364

    6

    85.3

    Edgerrin James

    1999 IND

    16

    1,553

    13

    97.1

    Olandis Gary

    1999 DEN

    12

    1,159

    7

    96.9

    Fred Taylor

    1998 JAC

    15

    1,223

    14

    81.5

    Eddie George

    1996 HOU

    16

    1,368

    8

    85.5

    Curtis Martin

    1995 NE

    16

    1,487

    14

    92.9

    Now let's throw another monkey wrench into the mix: Rookie Brandon Weeden is likely to start the majority of games at quarterback for the Browns. So while there likely isn't much in the way of competition for Richardson to get most of the carries with leftover parts such as Montario Hardesty, Brandon Jackson and Chris Ogbonnaya as his only rivals for the rock, there's also not a lot of experience in that huddle.

    Mistakes are bound to be made.

    Traditionally, Cleveland hasn't exactly been the birthplace of breakout backs. Before Jamal Lewis met our "80-10" benchmark in 2007 (in his eighth year in the league, mind you), you have to go back all the way to Mike Pruitt in 1979 to find another Browns runner to reach that goal. Even with the team's three-year "hiatus" in the 1990s, that's not exactly a stellar track record.

    Now nobody is saying that Richardson is going to be a complete bust, and certainly with Brad Childress as the team's new offensive coordinator -- the same man who coached Adrian Peterson when he broke on the scene in 2007 -- there's reason for optimism. Richardson should not only get a ton of handoffs, but will almost certainly be worked into the passing mix as well. He'll be in there on nearly every down.

    That said, playing in a division with three of the returning top-10 defenses against the run certainly makes the margin for error a lot smaller than had Richardson been drafted elsewhere. The Cleveland offensive line has just two members with more than three years of NFL experience (Alex Mack and Joe Thomas) and supplemental draft pick Josh Gordon may not be completely ready to step into the wide receiver mix out of the gate.

    In short, the Cleveland Browns are looking awfully green on offense, which makes me quite yellow when it comes to selecting Richardson any higher than the No. 15-17 running back off the board. Unless you're in a keeper league in which, much like Cleveland, you're already planning ahead for the future, you really can't afford to pick him any sooner.

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    Yeah, this is an article essentially for fantasy buffs and whatnots, but, I found this interesting from a stats perspective...

    I think that counting on Richardson for a TD EVERY OTHER GAME- is just setting your expectations just a tad bit low for the best Runningback to arrive on the scene in a long time. This guy is the exact type of runner you would build if you were building a franchise runningback. The guys is a shoe-in to be the NEXT BIG THING- AND IT'S KIND OF A BIG DEAL! I would safely bet that you can count on him to put up ATLEAST 1 TD PER GAME! I would also add in three to six games where he goes for atleast 2... Thats 22 TDS... I would think, and BET that he goes Beast MODE atleast once and gets an eye bulging 4 TDs in a single game! Mark Richardson down for 25+ TDs.

    It's kind of funny but since we took WEEDEN in the first round as well it's kinda shadowed Richardson thus far. A lot of the controversy has been on the QB(as it always is in Cleveland) and what will be done with Colt. Since Richardson is written in as the starter in INK from day 1 on, he has been, dare I say it- looked past. And 'Oh boy', that's one runningback that you SURELY DON'T WANT TO "LOOK PAST"! But honestly Browns Fans, I actually like it. It's given us some much more that the Defense has to prepare for: An upgraded Offensive Line, a new look QB(Whether it's Weeden or McCoy is moot, as I feel both will be outstanding with this offense surrounding them), A "Moss-Like" Supplemental draft pick, a promising young TE in Jordan Cameron and then our franchise BELL-COW! Wow, like I said Yo, SHOCK AND AWE!