I'm Starting to Not Care About the Browns Anymore

ballpeen

I can understand people losing interest. Teams can't go decades of losing and expect fans to be diehard...especially the younger ones who don't have a championship or two lingering in their memory from when they were young.

jpeay

This story line is getting old. We continually draft players that do not pan out. Weeden, Richardson and Little are just the tip of the iceberg. Buster Skrine is the worst player in the NFL and we continually start him. I have to be honest, I think it has been 3yrs since I actually watched a complete Browns game and typically spend my 1pm game time doing something outside in the yard, playing with the kids or ironing clothes to prepare for work on Monday. Those activities are more fun or productive. I can't believe I just wrote that and it breaks my heart.

jpeay

^{We could have waited and drafted Lacey. Richardson is a bust.}

Zombo

@soju said:
You pussy, who said I was jumping ship? I just don't care AS MUCH as I did about the Browns. Does that mean "jump ship" to your Retarded ass? Probably does. Moron.

Yes, when you say "Browns suck. Bunch of inept, beta faggots." that sounds like someone who has already jumped ship.

Go root for the Cowboys, you aren't tough enough to be a Browns fan.

You, yourself said you are disinterested. It was probably right after you got disinterested in pussy that you started sucking dick.

Zombo

djdawg2010

@ballpeen said:
I can understand people losing interest. Teams can't go decades of losing and expect fans to be diehard...especially the younger ones who don't have a championship or two lingering in their memory from when they were young.

I agree. I'm 40, and the last good memories about the Browns were in the 80s! I have a 10 year old son, who has a ton of friends that are Steelers fans! Luckily I've been able to sell him on the history, and the tradition of the team, otherwise he may actually be cheering for that team from Western PA! Then again........not in my house! At any rate other than 2007 when they went 10-6, he has absolutely NO memories of the Browns being good! Somehow, this cycle of losing needs to end! I do like this front office, and coaching staff, but they have their work cut out for them in changing the culture of losing that has been with this team since they've returned in 1999!

CLEVELANDwantsPLAYOFFS

Its like Deja Vu every year after the opener

Shep

Browns should've done more at corner... but a top 10 pick for a #1 is tough for value/return. For a #2? Nuts. Should've gone way harder for one of the free agents or a better one in the draft. Or both.

Our pass rush did okay but not as well as theirs. They have decent corners (not great) but it was really all about the pressure. Always is. That's the league... not investing heavily in corners.

We don't get to see it much on TV but Sobo says Little was really struggling to get separation from anybody. Ouch. Sounds like a buffed up Robiskie.

Flyin J

Bammer

Zombo said:

Yes, when you say "Browns suck. Bunch of inept, beta faggots." that sounds like someone who has already jumped ship.

Go root for the Cowboys, you aren't tough enough to be a Browns fan.

You, yourself said you are disinterested. It was probably right after you got disinterested in pussy that you started sucking dick.

Zombo

Right on !

Browns149

@d-bone said:
Our "best offensive player" is so over rated by some of us it isn't even funny. Any undrafted free agent could do what our #3 pick has done. Flame me all you want, but it's true. Our best RB broke his league in the pre-season.

I didn't say Trent was great, I just said he's the best player on the Browns offense.

Browns149

@cuwoohio said:

Here's a couple of thoughts on the game. The crowd did their part. Most were seated by kick off and had good energy until it was sucked out of them.

Ditch the drumline. If you have to have entertainment, maybe cheerleaders would be better

The secondary seemed confused in the second half.

On offense, not only was it poorly executed, they didn't adjust to the defense.

And that brings me to the most important observation. The team didn't look prepared. The coaches were too slow getting plays in. Too many players on both sides of the ball just didn't know where to be.

I'm not saying the season is a washout, but I didn't see one reason to be optimistic, unless you take into account that the whole division is 0-1.

I agree about the drum line. You can't even hear what they are playing. The stadium is way to big. Unless they put microphones near them, it won't work. Even when they have had The Ohio State marching band there, it's hard to hear them

Shep

Trent was over-drafted, to say the least. He can be a good back but... where was Shane Vereen drafted? Only back over 100 yesterday. Bernard Pierce could give us 1,000 yards, I bet, and he was round 3. Drafting a RB at #3 makes precious little sense. I'm guessing Heck was drunk and on top of a stripper at the time.

calfoxwc

No, it's the offensive line. The backup guards backup two guys who could play, but aren't real solid.

Let's face it, the defense is a kickbutt defense, so Owens and Skine disappointed big....

and backup, and the ROG got run over like a 315 lb sack of potatoes, and made big mistakes to boot.

Miami has an excellent defense, and the Browns moved the ball. It's the first game. I expect a rebound

next week. Without solid oline play, a coach is hampered in play calling, and that's all there is to it.

DieHardBrownsFan

Thomas looked like shit also, but Cousins should be sent packing.

bringbackbrownie2

@diehardbrownsfan said:
Thomas looked like shit also, but Cousins should be sent packing.

Let's not go overboard. Thomas is a top 3 lineman if not the best. The right side of the line was non-existent..

cuwoohio

This game is history. We'll see what happens on the road and hopefully they won't be 0-3 when Cincy comes to town a couple of weeks. Chud said they won't collapse.

djdawg2010

@cuwoohio said:
This game is history. We'll see what happens on the road and hopefully they won't be 0-3 when Cincy comes to town a couple of weeks. Chud said they won't collapse.

They'd better not collapse, or the atmosphere in that stadium is going to get real ugly!

mohican

@hunt-daddy said:
One step closer to the next quarterback who will disappoint us deeply, leaving room for the "we should have drafted X" and "in two years we can get "Y" if we still suck so bad. .

Deer (archery) season starting at the end of September!!! Stoked!!

Shep

I don't feel any disappointment in somebody saying they're losing interest. It's not quite the same as saying you're giving up forever... although I've said it 50 or 60 times but know I never will.

We're about as "long suffering" as long suffering fans get. I don't count baseball because... seriously, it's baseball. It's like two ticks above soccer in the ZZZZZ department. It's best viewed in the morning paper.

We get worn out, fatigued, over it, etc. But we always come back. That's what makes us such weird, freaky, awesomely cool fans that nobody else understands. We may not have the best team, or anything close, but we're champs as fans.

ballpeen

@djdawg2010 said:

I agree. I'm 40, and the last good memories about the Browns were in the 80s! I have a 10 year old son, who has a ton of friends that are Steelers fans! Luckily I've been able to sell him on the history, and the tradition of the team, otherwise he may actually be cheering for that team from Western PA! Then again........not in my house! At any rate other than 2007 when they went 10-6, he has absolutely NO memories of the Browns being good! Somehow, this cycle of losing needs to end! I do like this front office, and coaching staff, but they have their work cut out for them in changing the culture of losing that has been with this team since they've returned in 1999!

I am going to use you as a prime example.....40 isn't old, but it isn't young either. If life was a football game, you are at halftime.

So 40 years is 1973 when you were born...our record since, according to my figures is 240 wins v 330 losses. Twenty seasons ago, which is more than 20 years ago since we lost 4 seasons, our record was 131 wins v 135 losses.....I didn't count the tie games, where there were several. The point is we were at least competitive. In the last 20 seasons, which also includes the "lost years", our record is 109 win v 195 losses....hardly competitive.

As I see it, people 40 and under are trying to root for one of the worst teams in football. The Browns have sucked for a long time. I can try to be all Rah-Rah, but the fact is the team I grew up on....I am not going back to prove my point on the wins part, but the Browns won as many as anybody. Someone else can look up the numbers if they don't believe me.....so those were the Browns I knew and why I am still a fan.....but if I was a 30 something today and not a 60 something, I would be right there, wondering why I even waste the time.

I, and some others of us do it because we like to walk down memory lane, just as you youngers will at some point.....trust me, you will....but I am not so foggy in the brain to question why you have questions about rooting for a crappy team that has lost about twice as many as thay have won in your lifetime.

I won't do it. I'd be there with you.......but my experience won't allow that....another old man point of wisdom you can take or shrug off.....as you get older, you like to cling to past memories.....you will too...and the Browns are one of mine.....it's why old people stay married....that old chunky woman in bed next to me isn't the woman I married. Just like I....well, I am the same....what did I say about clinging to old memories....