Hard knocks
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The Browns turn down the show, and it's their right to per league rules with a rookie head coach. Is Pettine overdoing the no Manziel distractions? Good or bad idea to turn it down?
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The Browns turn down the show, and it's their right to per league rules with a rookie head coach. Is Pettine overdoing the no Manziel distractions? Good or bad idea to turn it down?
The Browns turn down the show, and it's their right to per league rules with a rookie head coach. Is Pettine overdoing the no Manziel distractions? Good or bad idea to turn it down?
Very good idea.
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It grabs me as an attention seeking move. I'm happy they declined.
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Personally I would have liked to see it. I like to see the Cleveland Browns make national news. I don't see the downside since Johnny football fever has infected the sports media anyway.
WSS
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i wonder if haslam's wife will pitch another show to the travel channel? i watched the one season of "on the road with the cleveland browns" which showed the logistics of moving the team and their equipment back and forth, but also had glimpses of players and their family life.
i think it's good they declined hard knocks. maybe in two years when we've been to the playoffs and there is a solid foundation set they could do it, but as others have said there is too much going on with position battles that could really screw with the mentality of some of these players. play hard for the cameras and suck wind during the games, seen it many times on that show. guys want to be starring in hollywood and turn out to be sweeping peanut shells at an off-broadway brew ha ha.
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The Browns turn down the show, and it's their right to per league rules with a rookie head coach. Is Pettine overdoing the no Manziel distractions? Good or bad idea to turn it down?
Very good idea.
Very good idea.
I agree. Rookie head coach. No nonsense. Farmer and Pet keep preaching about winning football games ... lets concentrate 100 % on that. If we win, we will get all the attention you ever wanted, and for all the right reasons.
We are the lovable Cubs of the NFL, and Johhny M has the potential to be Pete Rose, Pistol Pete and Broadway Joe all rolled into one.
This thing is going to explode.
But only if we win. So let PetFarm do their thing and set the tone first.
Z
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As a Browns fan I am glad they didn't go through with it, as someone who works in content marketing proffesionaly I wish they would have agreed to it because there are so many big stories to be told.. Johnny Manzel - the rookie media phenom, Brian Hoyer - the hometown batteling to keep his dream alive, Josh Gordon - potential superstar who can't get out of his own way, Pettine- Blunt Force Trauma, Shannahan - coming out of his fathers shadow, Ben Tate - connecting to fans Joe Haden - cusp of star - and on and on and on...
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i wonder if haslam's wife will pitch another show to the travel channel? i watched the one season of "on the road with the cleveland browns" which showed the logistics of moving the team and their equipment back and forth, but also had glimpses of players and their family life.
i think it's good they declined hard knocks. maybe in two years when we've been to the playoffs and there is a solid foundation set they could do it, but as others have said there is too much going on with position battles that could really screw with the mentality of some of these players. play hard for the cameras and suck wind during the games, seen it many times on that show. guys want to be starring in hollywood and turn out to be sweeping peanut shells at an off-broadway brew ha ha.
Yeah I really liked On the road, and that's why I would also selfishly liked to have seen them do it like Utzie and WSS said. But I can definetly see the negative impact on all the young players. I'm actually surprised Halsam didn't come down with an executive decision to do it from the business standpointi wonder if haslam's wife will pitch another show to the travel channel? i watched the one season of "on the road with the cleveland browns" which showed the logistics of moving the team and their equipment back and forth, but also had glimpses of players and their family life.
i think it's good they declined hard knocks. maybe in two years when we've been to the playoffs and there is a solid foundation set they could do it, but as others have said there is too much going on with position battles that could really screw with the mentality of some of these players. play hard for the cameras and suck wind during the games, seen it many times on that show. guys want to be starring in hollywood and turn out to be sweeping peanut shells at an off-broadway brew ha ha.
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Why not bring Hard Knocks in?
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I like the idea of "circling the wagons" to dial in to what needs to be done to make the Browns competitive. Per usual, camp begins without a proven QB leader and there is a rookie coach facing a steep learning curve. Pettine has proved himself on the defensive side of the house and hopefully his competence can translate into an ability to work effectively with his offensive coordinator.
The JFF "distraction" while viewed by some as a negative could ultimately be a positive shot in the arm for the entire squad if he comes into camp and crushes it.
As mentioned above, "hard cocks" or not, the Browns will be closely analyzed
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The Browns' FO has already redone the Browns' website promising to post more vids and pics. If they do a really good job then the Browns' website will be almost as good as Knocks...just not in documentary form.
So far I'm getting a good taste for all things Browns at the site and OTAs just ended. Going from game to game should be killer.
Fuck Knocks. The Browns can do a better job documenting their team if it's done correctly.
Fwiw, the Jets' Knocks showed Wrecks for what he is...a loudmouth with no butt in his drawers.
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I would have loved it. Fuck the baby steps' bullshit. Man up or not, the pressure is there regardless. We aren't the Jets or any other team that has done the show. With the movie that just came out and then Manziel being drafted, with West and Gilbert... Fuck, I can't believe they blew the opportunity to capitalize on that much exposure. Whether or not the die hards that have been here for years on this merry-go-round are ready or not- we're riding the wave right now regardless. Go with the flow and ride the momentum all the way to the promised land. It's fucking lame to turn down HardKnocks. If we suck and Manziel turns out to be the next Quinn, Hardknocks won't even look in our direction again. We should have seized it.
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Hawkins was asked about it at Browns camp. He said when they had the Bengals on,
it was such a distraction, and some players played to the cameras, etc. He laughed, but
said it was the right decision.
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@POG
It shouldn't escape you that a film maker can make a genius look like he has shit for brains. Letting Knocks in the door this year could set the Browns back years depending on the choices of what may be a non Brown fan. Knocks made the Jets look like the joke they are, with Pettine being the exception.
I'm with Pettine and the NFL on this one...first year HCs can opt out. There is good reason for that option and it has nothing to do with manning up. It has to do with giving a new HC a chance to set his style before an outside filmmaker gets a chance to take shots at him.
You just want a wannabe (Manziel) to get some face time. Your boy with get his time in the sun. So far Hoyer is out shinning him according to today's tweets from camp, btw.
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