Skip Bayless piece
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Does anyone remember Shurmur declaring Weeden the starter the day he was drafted? It's bullshit to anoint JF the starter until he earns it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with making it very clear he is the BACKUP until proven otherwise.
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If the Browns wanted a backup they shouldn't have drafted Manziel. He may not start from day one, but he is either going to be a huge star or a complete bust... nothing in between.
If the Browns wanted a backup they shouldn't have drafted Manziel. He may not start from day one, but he is either going to be a huge star or a complete bust... nothing in between.
Their is a difference between wanting a backup and telling someone with a chip on their shoulder to act like one. How does a backup with a chip on their soldier act? Like someone who wants to earn the starting job. C'mon people, read between the lines.
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too many drama queens can't take the backup statement for it's true meaning.
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I don't have a problem with telling the kids to get ready to be a backup. I don't think the front office thinks he is a career backup and sending any other message would be a slap in the face to Brian Hoyer.
Until he sets the world on fire in training camp or wins a game or even take a snap in the NFL I think he should be a backup. The starting job is his to take, not a present.
WSS
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I don't have a problem with telling the kids to get ready to be a backup. I don't think the front office thinks he is a career backup and sending any other message would be a slap in the face to Brian Hoyer.
Until he sets the world on fire in training camp or wins a game or even take a snap in the NFL I think he should be a backup. The starting job is his to take, not a present.
WSS
I don't have a problem with telling the kids to get ready to be a backup. I don't think the front office thinks he is a career backup and sending any other message would be a slap in the face to Brian Hoyer.
Until he sets the world on fire in training camp or wins a game or even take a snap in the NFL I think he should be a backup. The starting job is his to take, not a present.
WSS
Which is exactly as it should be & why I despise the media. They take everything & distort the hell out of it.
Mike
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Does anyone remember Shurmur declaring Weeden the starter the day he was drafted? It's bullshit to anoint JF the starter until he earns it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with making it very clear he is the BACKUP until proven otherwise.
Does anyone remember Shurmur declaring Weeden the starter the day he was drafted? It's bullshit to anoint JF the starter until he earns it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with making it very clear he is the BACKUP until proven otherwise.
I didn't even remember Shurmur until I read your post
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I don't have a problem with telling the kids to get ready to be a backup. I don't think the front office thinks he is a career backup and sending any other message would be a slap in the face to Brian Hoyer.
Until he sets the world on fire in training camp or wins a game or even take a snap in the NFL I think he should be a backup. The starting job is his to take, not a present.
WSS
Which is exactly as it should be & why I despise the media. They take everything & distort the hell out of it.
Mike
Which is exactly as it should be & why I despise the media. They take everything & distort the hell out of it.
Mike
Well I guess they have to make a big commotion about something. To be honest I'm glad it's the Browns finally. I'm about sick of the Andrew Luck and rg3 hype. Time for some Cleveland Browns hype.
WSS
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Which is exactly as it should be & why I despise the media. They take everything & distort the hell out of it.
Mike
Well I guess they have to make a big commotion about something. To be honest I'm glad it's the Browns finally. I'm about sick of the Andrew Luck and rg3 hype. Time for some Cleveland Browns hype.
WSS
Well I guess they have to make a big commotion about something. To be honest I'm glad it's the Browns finally. I'm about sick of the Andrew Luck and rg3 hype. Time for some Cleveland Browns hype.
WSS
That's a good point Steve.
Mike
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I read it. Used to be called YELLOW JOURNALISM. All the more reason to BAN ESPN.
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@everlastingxxx said:
I have mixed feelings on how everything is being handled and i do fear that the coaching staff/gm is divided on Manziel. I dont have a problem with how the Browns are trying to slow things down a little but i dont like how they seem to be trying to embarrass him in public. The Browns owner is very vocal...i thought Jerry Jones only did stuff like that. The way everything has gone down has been messy and feels weird to me.
Please tell me how they are embarrassing him. Act like a backup?
They wouldn't have traded up in the draft if they were divided on him.
Actions speak louder than words.
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Some of you newbs make me laugh. Manziel is a rookie, ROOKIE. He hasn't proven anything in the NFL yet. You all act like he has A god given right to be starter. And how dare the owner say he has to earn the position. This isn't college. This is PROFESSIONAL. Big, big difference.
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@everlastingxxx said:
I dont have a problem telling him in private but coming out and saying it openly was a little too much. I think they obviously are divided on him. Why he was passed up twice, tried to trade for Cousins, wrote Bridgewater on the card (that one might be untrue), QB coaching having to text owner to draft him, homeless man giving advice to owner, lol! I mean really, this needs to be made into a movie. All that matters is Manziel is on board and i think he is.
I guess you don't understand what actions speak louder than words means. You're getting caught up in media speculation and accepting it as fact. Actions are all that matter.
As has been said and discussed ad nauseum, Haslem's statement was more about tempering the fans expectations of seeing JM start right off the bat than anything else, hence the need for it to be public.
Your boy seems to believe he needs to earn his spot as well.
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I also think it's a good idea to say something like that public.
Kinda get the naysayers off your back.
As far as Kirk Cousins I'm not positive The Brass is all that secure with Brian Hoyer's knee.
Also if something like that is enough to shatter Johnny's fragile psyche he's probably not going to last long in the National Football League. I'm sure he's cool with it
WSS
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@everlastingxxx said:
I dont have a problem telling him in private but coming out and saying it openly was a little too much. I think they obviously are divided on him. Why he was passed up twice, tried to trade for Cousins, wrote Bridgewater on the card (that one might be untrue), QB coaching having to text owner to draft him, homeless man giving advice to owner, lol! I mean really, this needs to be made into a movie. All that matters is Manziel is on board and i think he is.
I don't understand what you are trying to say here. Every team in the league will entertain any trade offer that will make their team better and I must have missed where we "tried to trade for Cousins." Sure there was talk about both here and on various media sites, but I never heard any offers thrown out. Now on to the QB coach "having" to text the owner to draft Manziel, he may have sent a text message to them, but that doesn't mean that the text message was the reason they drafted Johnny Manziel. If you think that, then the Browns are in a lot of trouble, because they value the opinion of a QB coach more than anyone else in the organization. Now on to the most ridiculous thing that you said and the media has been reporting, about the homeless man giving advice to Haslam. So what that someone that is homeless told him to draft Manziel and we drafted him, I can bet you that someone somewhere else told him to draft Sammy Watkins, and someone somewhere else told him to draft Blake Bortles. This is so stupid. This media stuff that is making people say things exactly like this is beyond ridiculous.
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Some of you newbs make me laugh. Manziel is a rookie, ROOKIE. He hasn't proven anything in the NFL yet. You all act like he has A god given right to be starter. And how dare the owner say he has to earn the position. This isn't college. This is PROFESSIONAL. Big, big difference.
Some of you newbs make me laugh. Manziel is a rookie, ROOKIE. He hasn't proven anything in the NFL yet. You all act like he has A god given right to be starter. And how dare the owner say he has to earn the position. This isn't college. This is PROFESSIONAL. Big, big difference.
Of course he needs to earn the job, but lets be real here for a moment, he isn't competing with Peyton Manning... he is competing with a guy who is a former undrafted free agent, who has been cut by New England, Pittsburgh, and Arizona, has only started four games in his career... and that was before he blew his knee out.
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Some of you newbs make me laugh. Manziel is a rookie, ROOKIE. He hasn't proven anything in the NFL yet. You all act like he has A god given right to be starter. And how dare the owner say he has to earn the position. This isn't college. This is PROFESSIONAL. Big, big difference.
Of course he needs to earn the job, but lets be real here for a moment, he isn't competing with Peyton Manning... he is competing with a guy who is a former undrafted free agent, who has been cut by New England, Pittsburgh, and Arizona, has only started four games in his career... and that was before he blew his knee out.
Of course he needs to earn the job, but lets be real here for a moment, he isn't competing with Peyton Manning... he is competing with a guy who is a former undrafted free agent, who has been cut by New England, Pittsburgh, and Arizona, has only started four games in his career... and that was before he blew his knee out.
There are many bronze bust's in Canton that were undrafted free agents. Brian Hoyer may be on the verge of becoming a very talented QB, our offense was in quicksand when he was not in there and appeared to move fluidly with him. How many remember fans in Mich couldn't wait to get rid of Brady most people probably think he was good before he got to the NFL.
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Imagine the amount of pressure this kid will be under? More then any quarterback in recent history I'd say.
The good news is that it isn't new to him. He was already "Johnny Football" (or JFF) back in high school when he was something of a local/state legend.
He has been on Sportscenter seemingly every night since he took his first snap at A&M, both during the season and the off season... you could make an argument that he has drawn more media scrutiny than any college player in recent years, perhaps ever. He hasn't always handled it well, but the spotlight is more than a little familiar to him.
The good news is that it isn't new to him. He was already "Johnny Football" (or JFF) back in high school when he was something of a local/state legend.
He has been on Sportscenter seemingly every night since he took his first snap at A&M, both during the season and the off season... you could make an argument that he has drawn more media scrutiny than any college player in recent years, perhaps ever. He hasn't always handled it well, but the spotlight is more than a little familiar to him.
Yup, but this is THE REALLY BIG spotlight. Sure us Browns fans are well aware of JF's college abilities, I hate to be crude, come training camp, ESPN is going to be all over him like stink on shit. With Truck Stop Haslam's flair, I wouldn't be the least surprised if the Browns get the Hard Knocks gig. I'd hope Pettine overrules him on that one.
miktoxic-"hmmmmmm. wasn't the kid falling into the 2nd round?"
Not really. The Browns realized several teams were trying to maneuver into that #22 spot to take him. They just made a better offer. They didn't go up there just because Johnny asked them to. It makes for a good story, but no one makes that choice because a player asks. They make it to help their team win and to not let him slip away to someone else. Minn. made the same decision to beat Houston to Bridgewater before he went to them at the top of the second round.
That we can agree on- if not the Browns, some team would certainly have taken Manziel somewhere in the first.
Well I guess they have to make a big commotion about something. To be honest I'm glad it's the Browns finally. I'm about sick of the Andrew Luck and rg3 hype. Time for some Cleveland Browns hype.
WSS
Ah, Mr. Steve you and Russ agree- and I don't. It was one of the primary reasons I didn't want Manziel. The ESPN circus tents are already going up in Berea.
I read it. Used to be called YELLOW JOURNALISM. All the more reason to BAN ESPN.
See above. Now that RGIII is coming off an off year, they need a new media darling to give 24\7 coverage to.
Of course he needs to earn the job, but lets be real here for a moment, he isn't competing with Peyton Manning... he is competing with a guy who is a former undrafted free agent, who has been cut by New England, Pittsburgh, and Arizona, has only started four games in his career... and that was before he blew his knee out.
LOL, ever hear of a grocery bagger named Kurt Warner? Incidentally, the Browns could have had him in the expansion draft of 1999. But I have to give you the Cleveland perspective on Hoyer. The guy is 100% Cleveland- west side St. Ignatius, went to the same school as LeCharles Bentley (who unfortunately blew his knee out and never actually got to play for the Browns)- another in a long line of our tragedies. I can tell you this- every kid who's ever strapped on a football helmet in Cleveland has dreams of playing for the Browns one day. Brian is living the dream- and he's not going to just roll over and play dead for JF. Farmer texted him before they drafted JF- and Hoyer's response was "Bring it on." So there's a substantial local kid makes good undercurrent going on here. Us Clevelanders love a good underdog story, and Hoyer sat on the sidelines for years learning from one in the best in the biz- Brady. And finally Hoyer did not look too shabby in the limited action he saw before he took a crummy slide attempt against the Bills. I'm sure the training staff has taught him how do do a dive to not get hurt.
PS- you know who else the Steelers cut? Johnny Unitas- just sayin'.
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Of course he needs to earn the job, but lets be real here for a moment, he isn't competing with Peyton Manning... he is competing with a guy who is a former undrafted free agent, who has been cut by New England, Pittsburgh, and Arizona, has only started four games in his career... and that was before he blew his knee out.
There are many bronze bust's in Canton that were undrafted free agents. Brian Hoyer may be on the verge of becoming a very talented QB, our offense was in quicksand when he was not in there and appeared to move fluidly with him. How many remember fans in Mich couldn't wait to get rid of Brady most people probably think he was good before he got to the NFL.
There are many bronze bust's in Canton that were undrafted free agents. Brian Hoyer may be on the verge of becoming a very talented QB, our offense was in quicksand when he was not in there and appeared to move fluidly with him. How many remember fans in Mich couldn't wait to get rid of Brady most people probably think he was good before he got to the NFL.
There have certainly been undrafted free agents that have turned into excellent pros, no question at all about that. I am just saying that Hoyer is hardly an established starter.
He has started four games in his 5 year career.
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