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  • Well BBed today is your day. Pats will only give up today to talk to Matt Patricia. Per bleacherreport it's Browns & Dolphins & with Gase 2nd interview in Miami coming up I say we have a shot..

  • Dude looks like a Cleveland guy

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    @walterwhite said:

    Dude looks like a Cleveland guy

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    Can you imagine if Mike Holmgren drank those same kind of liquids when he was in Cleveland? He might have shown up to the office during daylight at least once in a while. I gotta get another cup of coffee...

  • He did his interview today

  • I'm down with him. He's one of several I'd be happy with. We're going to hire someone many of us will be happy with, and our new process of evaluating players and putting together a roster will be a success. Haslam is a new owner, and he's a guy that wants to get it right. Sure, he's made a multitude of killer mistakes, but he's not used to failing, and I'm sure he hates it. The Browns are going to get it together soon. Laugh all you want, make fun of me all you want, but we're going to get it together soon. I feel it. I know, I know...I'm the optimist that people hate, but I can't stand being a negative jerk. I used to be like that, and I hated it.

    The new roster begins pretty much now. We're going to take the best available player at #2, we're going to sign a competent WR, and Orchard and Shelton are going to take big steps forward next year. I'm not saying we're a playoff team in 2016, but I'm saying we're going to move in the right direction for once.

    @jiggins7919 said:

    I'm down with him. He's one of several I'd be happy with. We're going to hire someone many of us will be happy with, and our new process of evaluating players and putting together a roster will be a success. Haslam is a new owner, and he's a guy that wants to get it right. Sure, he's made a multitude of killer mistakes, but he's not used to failing, and I'm sure he hates it. The Browns are going to get it together soon. Laugh all you want, make fun of me all you want, but we're going to get it together soon. I feel it. I know, I know...I'm the optimist that people hate, but I can't stand being a negative jerk. I used to be like that, and I hated it.

    The new roster begins pretty much now. We're going to take the best available player at #2, we're going to sign a competent WR, and Orchard and Shelton are going to take big steps forward next year. I'm not saying we're a playoff team in 2016, but I'm saying we're going to move in the right direction for once.

    One can only hope.

    @jiggins7919 said:

    From what I read, O'Neil didn't want to change his defense to fit the opponents. He wanted to be like Seattle, who runs pretty much the same defense every week, and for most of the snaps. O'Neil wanted the opposition to adjust to HIM, instead of the other way around. Not sure how true that is, but I know several of the players were frustrated by the lack of flexibility O'Neil provided.

    Problem is O'Neil didn't have Seattle's talent.

    @bbedward said:

    Gotta take what you can get. Beard is the new bald.

    I was 40 years ahead of the trend BB.

    @flugel said:

    Can you imagine if Mike Holmgren drank those same kind of liquids when he was in Cleveland? He might have shown up to the office during daylight at least once in a while. I gotta get another cup of coffee...

    Patricia has a scary resemblance to Ben Rothlisberger, or is that just me?

  • @jiggins7919 said:

    I'm down with him. He's one of several I'd be happy with. We're going to hire someone many of us will be happy with, and our new process of evaluating players and putting together a roster will be a success. Haslam is a new owner, and he's a guy that wants to get it right. Sure, he's made a multitude of killer mistakes, but he's not used to failing, and I'm sure he hates it. The Browns are going to get it together soon. Laugh all you want, make fun of me all you want, but we're going to get it together soon. I feel it. I know, I know...I'm the optimist that people hate, but I can't stand being a negative jerk. I used to be like that, and I hated it.

    The new roster begins pretty much now. We're going to take the best available player at #2, we're going to sign a competent WR, and Orchard and Shelton are going to take big steps forward next year. I'm not saying we're a playoff team in 2016, but I'm saying we're going to move in the right direction for once.

    One can only hope.

    @jiggins7919 said:

    From what I read, O'Neil didn't want to change his defense to fit the opponents. He wanted to be like Seattle, who runs pretty much the same defense every week, and for most of the snaps. O'Neil wanted the opposition to adjust to HIM, instead of the other way around. Not sure how true that is, but I know several of the players were frustrated by the lack of flexibility O'Neil provided.

    Problem is O'Neil didn't have Seattle's talent.

    @bbedward said:

    Gotta take what you can get. Beard is the new bald.

    I was 40 years ahead of the trend BB.

    @flugel said:

    Can you imagine if Mike Holmgren drank those same kind of liquids when he was in Cleveland? He might have shown up to the office during daylight at least once in a while. I gotta get another cup of coffee...

    Patricia has a scary resemblance to Ben Rothlisberger, or is that just me?

    @hoorta said:

    One can only hope.

    Problem is O'Neil didn't have Seattle's talent.

    I was 40 years ahead of the trend BB.

    Patricia has a scary resemblance to Ben Rothlisberger, or is that just me?

    LOL!

    I'll tell you what's scary. The last time we had Pat as a prefix in our Head Coach's name - it was Patty Shurms. One of the last things my dad said about the Browns during Shurmur's gig as he was losing his battle to cancer as we punted on 4th and 1 from the Indy 39 yard line with a 10 point 2nd half deficit: "I can't believe they hired this pussy." He also told me "don't feel bad for me about not being able to see this franchise win another championship - I've already celebrated 8 Pro Football Championships."

    I don't know anything about how Patricia would do outside of the Supervision of BB in terms of will he be able to relate well enough to today's players or is he destined to lose a locker room as fast as Josh McDaniel did in life outside of Tom Brady's and BB's coattails. Chud showed up as a good Coordinator and left here as a guy that lost the team too early.

    I want to hear what specifically makes Patricia hot material for being in charge of all 3 phases here in Cleveland. We don't have NE's personnel and the last 2 NE coaches that came from football utopia to body by Cleveland FO got culture shocked right out of town. Who's out there that's not working with personnel easy street and coaching them up into better football than expected? That's where we're at. Didn't the guy now coaching Jax discover the difference between Seattle's front office and the personnel he has to oversee for all 3 phases now?

    Perhaps the most important intangible of all is what Jim Schwartz told ESPN radio and 2 former Titans hosting the show. The most important thing for a new Head Coach is to get hired early enough to the extent all the good assistants aren't already hired elsewhere. He added that he's hired assistants that he knew he would probably have to upgrade just 1 year later unless he was pleasantly surprised. Well, if NE goes until SB Sunday before Patricia can be named as Head Coach - what's left out there to be hired as assistants for this gig? We've seen what a defense looks like with bad personnel + bad/inexperienced defensive assistant coaches look like.

  • I agree Flugs-the longer the selection of HC and GM, the less we have time to select quality assistant coaches. One thing that impressed me about the Chiefs's staff was how well the assistants were selected by the HC.

  • @hoorta said:

    One can only hope.

    Problem is O'Neil didn't have Seattle's talent.

    I was 40 years ahead of the trend BB.

    Patricia has a scary resemblance to Ben Rothlisberger, or is that just me?

    LOL!

    I'll tell you what's scary. The last time we had Pat as a prefix in our Head Coach's name - it was Patty Shurms. One of the last things my dad said about the Browns during Shurmur's gig as he was losing his battle to cancer as we punted on 4th and 1 from the Indy 39 yard line with a 10 point 2nd half deficit: "I can't believe they hired this pussy." He also told me "don't feel bad for me about not being able to see this franchise win another championship - I've already celebrated 8 Pro Football Championships."

    I don't know anything about how Patricia would do outside of the Supervision of BB in terms of will he be able to relate well enough to today's players or is he destined to lose a locker room as fast as Josh McDaniel did in life outside of Tom Brady's and BB's coattails. Chud showed up as a good Coordinator and left here as a guy that lost the team too early.

    I want to hear what specifically makes Patricia hot material for being in charge of all 3 phases here in Cleveland. We don't have NE's personnel and the last 2 NE coaches that came from football utopia to body by Cleveland FO got culture shocked right out of town. Who's out there that's not working with personnel easy street and coaching them up into better football than expected? That's where we're at. Didn't the guy now coaching Jax discover the difference between Seattle's front office and the personnel he has to oversee for all 3 phases now?

    Perhaps the most important intangible of all is what Jim Schwartz told ESPN radio and 2 former Titans hosting the show. The most important thing for a new Head Coach is to get hired early enough to the extent all the good assistants aren't already hired elsewhere. He added that he's hired assistants that he knew he would probably have to upgrade just 1 year later unless he was pleasantly surprised. Well, if NE goes until SB Sunday before Patricia can be named as Head Coach - what's left out there to be hired as assistants for this gig? We've seen what a defense looks like with bad personnel + bad/inexperienced defensive assistant coaches look like.

    @flugel said:

    I don't know anything about how Patricia would do outside of the Supervision of BB in terms of will he be able to relate well enough to today's players or is he destined to lose a locker room as fast as Josh McDaniel did in life outside of Tom Brady's and BB's coattails.

    That's it in nearly a nutshell...

    Where BB's coattails end is not just an X's and O's question.

  • I agree Flugs-the longer the selection of HC and GM, the less we have time to select quality assistant coaches. One thing that impressed me about the Chiefs's staff was how well the assistants were selected by the HC.

    @texasag1969 said:

    I agree Flugs-the longer the selection of HC and GM, the less we have time to select quality assistant coaches. One thing that impressed me about the Chiefs's staff was how well the assistants were selected by the HC.

    Good point. And Andy Reid has experience as a Head Coach so imagine how important this is for a guy that has zero experience as a Head Coach.

  • I agree Flugs-the longer the selection of HC and GM, the less we have time to select quality assistant coaches. One thing that impressed me about the Chiefs's staff was how well the assistants were selected by the HC.

    @texasag1969 said:

    I agree Flugs-the longer the selection of HC and GM, the less we have time to select quality assistant coaches. One thing that impressed me about the Chiefs's staff was how well the assistants were selected by the HC.

    Don't forget Haslem did say he wants to retain some of the coaches from Pettine's staff. So does that make it seem more like we are looking at a 1st time HC?
  • On top of being able to hire him earlier, would a guy like Hue Jackson and his experience volume be a more attractive recruit to potential assistants for this gig?

    All this stuff comes into play.

  • Raider fans loved what hue did for them.

  • Raider fans loved what hue did for them.

    @lbc-mike said:

    Raider fans loved what hue did for them.

    That's true Mike whether you meant it or you were being sarcastic. Only he and Tom Cable won as many as 8 games in 1 season dating all the way back to 2002. He only got 1 year and I'd take 8 wins from any Head Coach in his first year after inheriting the cumulative effect of chaos and confusion in Cleveland. BB didn't even win at least 8 games in any season here until his 4th year if memory serves me right.

  • Well the Falcons have resigned their GM. Guess Scott Piolli may still be assistant GM. If this FO was not run like a Attorney Firm, Piolli & Patricia sure sounds like one 😉

  • @lbc-mike said:

    Raider fans loved what hue did for them.

    That's true Mike whether you meant it or you were being sarcastic. Only he and Tom Cable won as many as 8 games in 1 season dating all the way back to 2002. He only got 1 year and I'd take 8 wins from any Head Coach in his first year after inheriting the cumulative effect of chaos and confusion in Cleveland. BB didn't even win at least 8 games in any season here until his 4th year if memory serves me right.

    @flugel said:

    That's true Mike whether you meant it or you were being sarcastic. Only he and Tom Cable won as many as 8 games in 1 season dating all the way back to 2002. He only got 1 year and I'd take 8 wins from any Head Coach in his first year after inheriting the cumulative effect of chaos and confusion in Cleveland. BB didn't even win at least 8 games in any season here until his 4th year if memory serves me right.

    I like Hue and Patricia as pretty good options who will work with the front office and it's new plans.

  • I'd like to see some talent acquisition before I get s chub over a coaching change.

  • I would like to see a coach in first. Nobody wants to come into a predefined set up with players and assistant coaches.

  • I would like to see a coach in first. Nobody wants to come into a predefined set up with players and assistant coaches.

    @lbc-mike said:

    I would like to see a coach in first. Nobody wants to come into a predefined set up with players and assistant coaches.

    I should have been clearer. They need to hire a coach ASAP. I just am not going to think playoffs next year based on the coach that is chosen. The team is talentless for the most part.

  • One change I wouild like the NFL to make is to not allow coach hunting to begin until after the Superbowl.

  • Wish we knew some more details, like who are first choice is, and what kind of chances we have at getting him. Patricia is rumored to be into analytics, and his intelligence level makes him a prime fit for what we appear to be doing. Hue Jackson is my other candidate. That guy went something like 8-8 in Oakland one year, and I believe he was let go. I could be wrong. Anyways, I think he's a solid choice. I'm just antsy about who we're going to get.