Skip to content

Andy Lee Traded to Panthers

The Browns Board
200 45 6.4k
  • LMAO.

    Step away from the ledge guys!

    We traded a punter for a fourth round pick ... And a punter!

    A punter who is averaging 46 yards per boot in the preseason and is ten years younger than the guy we traded.

    Browns win all around.

    And Lee was a pussy.

    You guys are fucking nuts with your conspiracy theories with Lee and Kruger. Fuck them.

    We are a young team that just rebooted and we've already collected a thousand draft picks and Hue is taking out guys that don't fit his mold.

    What don't you get?

    Z

    Zombo said:

    LMAO.

    Step away from the ledge guys!

    We traded a punter for a fourth round pick ... And a punter!

    A punter who is averaging 46 yards per boot in the preseason and is ten years younger than the guy we traded.

    Browns win all around.

    And Lee was a pussy.

    You guys are fucking nuts with your conspiracy theories with Lee and Kruger. Fuck them.

    We are a young team that just rebooted and we've already collected a thousand draft picks and Hue is taking out guys that don't fit his mold.

    What don't you get?

    Z

    that's it and that's all, Browns saw an opportunity to get a good deal and they pulled the trigger. Did Andy's long punts even matter when the defense lets teams run on them at will anyway?

  • That 4th-rounder could turn into the next Seth DeValve!

    @dr.footwear said:

    That 4th-rounder could turn into the next Seth DeValve!

    Or the next Vince Mayle.

  • @osiris said:

    http://nfltraderumors.co/trade-browns-trade-veteran-p-andy-lee-panthers/

    Brilliant move. He decided not to put effort in trying to tackle the return man in Tampa Bay. Team played like crap as a whole. Hue's sending a message. If you don't want to put in 100%, you're gone. Don't care if you are a veteran, one of the best at your position. You're gone. Best part, is it's just a punter, so not like it's gonna impact the team all that much.

    The culture change is real.

    Edit: I can't believe the Browns got a fourth round pick and a punter for Andy Lee and a seventh round pick. Holy crap lol.

    Hopefully that plan of action works out.

    Seems like we are going to need a punter pretty badly this season so it would be nice if the replacement is better not just more of a pet or cheaper.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Hopefully that plan of action works out.

    Seems like we are going to need a punter pretty badly this season so it would be nice if the replacement is better not just more of a pet or cheaper.

    WSS

    They actually got a pretty good punter back in the trade. Lee was like 8th in the league, the guy they traded for 18th. (plus that 4th round pick)

  • We have not done well in converting on third downs and if that is the case when the season starts having a great punter becomes a big deal. It is always an asset to have a great punter but even more so with a team that might be punting often and probably many times in their own territory and deep in their own territory.

    Lee's punts also have good hang time and if the special teams can get down the field and force fair catches that is huge in the field position game. With a defense that has been porous thus far you want to at least make the other team drive down the field as far as possible and not have a shortened field.

    Hopefully the new punter will be pretty decent (and he is younger) and we did get a 4th rounder to boot so there is that...

  • We have not done well in converting on third downs and if that is the case when the season starts having a great punter becomes a big deal. It is always an asset to have a great punter but even more so with a team that might be punting often and probably many times in their own territory and deep in their own territory.

    Lee's punts also have good hang time and if the special teams can get down the field and force fair catches that is huge in the field position game. With a defense that has been porous thus far you want to at least make the other team drive down the field as far as possible and not have a shortened field.

    Hopefully the new punter will be pretty decent (and he is younger) and we did get a 4th rounder to boot so there is that...

    @oldbrownsfan said:

    We have not done well in converting on third downs and if that is the case when the season starts having a great punter becomes a big deal. It is always an asset to have a great punter but even more so with a team that might be punting often and probably many times in their own territory and deep in their own territory.

    Lee's punts also have good hang time and if the special teams can get down the field and force fair catches that is huge in the field position game. With a defense that has been porous thus far you want to at least make the other team drive down the field as far as possible and not have a shortened field.

    Hopefully the new punter will be pretty decent (and he is younger) and we did get a 4th rounder to boot so there is that...

    The team won 3 games with Lee as the punter and all his assets of putting the other team deep in their own territory. 3 fucking games...so all of you who have your panties in a bunch over this think the team would've only won 1 or 2 games without the great Andy Lee punting? The team got younger and got a draft pick and it's just a fucking punter.

  • @oldbrownsfan said:

    We have not done well in converting on third downs and if that is the case when the season starts having a great punter becomes a big deal. It is always an asset to have a great punter but even more so with a team that might be punting often and probably many times in their own territory and deep in their own territory.

    Lee's punts also have good hang time and if the special teams can get down the field and force fair catches that is huge in the field position game. With a defense that has been porous thus far you want to at least make the other team drive down the field as far as possible and not have a shortened field.

    Hopefully the new punter will be pretty decent (and he is younger) and we did get a 4th rounder to boot so there is that...

    The team won 3 games with Lee as the punter and all his assets of putting the other team deep in their own territory. 3 fucking games...so all of you who have your panties in a bunch over this think the team would've only won 1 or 2 games without the great Andy Lee punting? The team got younger and got a draft pick and it's just a fucking punter.

    @mark-o said:

    The team won 3 games with Lee as the punter and all his assets of putting the other team deep in their own territory. 3 fucking games...so all of you who have your panties in a bunch over this think the team would've only won 1 or 2 games without the great Andy Lee punting? The team got younger and got a draft pick and it's just a fucking punter.

    We will find out soon enough how big a deal having a great punter is when the season starts.

  • @mark-o said:

    The team won 3 games with Lee as the punter and all his assets of putting the other team deep in their own territory. 3 fucking games...so all of you who have your panties in a bunch over this think the team would've only won 1 or 2 games without the great Andy Lee punting? The team got younger and got a draft pick and it's just a fucking punter.

    We will find out soon enough how big a deal having a great punter is when the season starts.

    @oldbrownsfan said:

    We will find out soon enough how big a deal having a great punter is when the season starts.

    I don't think it's going to make a difference.

  • @mark-o said:

    The team won 3 games with Lee as the punter and all his assets of putting the other team deep in their own territory. 3 fucking games...so all of you who have your panties in a bunch over this think the team would've only won 1 or 2 games without the great Andy Lee punting? The team got younger and got a draft pick and it's just a fucking punter.

    We will find out soon enough how big a deal having a great punter is when the season starts.

    @oldbrownsfan said:

    We will find out soon enough how big a deal having a great punter is when the season starts.

    Look at how each party benefits:

    A. The Panthers get a punter that is very good at burying the opposition deep in their own territory. They went 15-1 last year.....but this still will help their defense.

    B. The Browns get a 4th round draft pick and a replacement punter...not as good, but adequate. More on this later.

    C. Andy Lee gets to go play with a Super Bowl contending team. He gets to go live where his family lives. No one can tell me that Andy Lee sees this as any kind of punishment, at all, for himself. He still gets paid his full salary...goes home...goes to a contender.

    If he was being punished supposedly for dogging it, all I can say is that he must have thought that he should have dogged it earlier.

    And here is what we have to look forward to taking with our 4th round pick. These are the guys taken in round 4 by the Browns since 2005:

    2005A Antonio Perkins

    2005B Isaac Sowells

    2006 Leon Williams

    2008 Beau Bell

    2009 Kaluka Maiava

    2011A Owen Marecic

    2011B Jordan Cameron

    2012 James Michael Johnson

    2013 Travis Benjamin

    2014 Pierre Desir

    2015A Vince Mayle

    2015B Ibrahim Campbell

    We got a Pro Bowl TE in Cameron, a good punt returner in Benjamin....and perhaps a starting safety in Campbell. Otherwise pretty much crapola. Desir has yet to prove a thing though he is on the roster.

    Beyond that: detritus.

  • @oldbrownsfan said:

    We will find out soon enough how big a deal having a great punter is when the season starts.

    I don't think it's going to make a difference.

    @mark-o said:

    I don't think it's going to make a difference.

    @mark-o said:

    I don't think it's going to make a difference.

    It will make a difference in the field position game but probably not in the final score but you can't put that on the punter. Working the field position game is what we ask of a punter.

    I see both sides of this Gip and Mark...it looks like we did get a good return for Lee with a younger punter who looks to be a decent one and a 4th rounder. I thought at first it might have been a knee jerk reaction to Lee's pitiful non attempt to make a tackle on the punt return for a TD but I don't think that is the case now.

  • @mark-o said:

    I don't think it's going to make a difference.

    @mark-o said:

    I don't think it's going to make a difference.

    It will make a difference in the field position game but probably not in the final score but you can't put that on the punter. Working the field position game is what we ask of a punter.

    I see both sides of this Gip and Mark...it looks like we did get a good return for Lee with a younger punter who looks to be a decent one and a 4th rounder. I thought at first it might have been a knee jerk reaction to Lee's pitiful non attempt to make a tackle on the punt return for a TD but I don't think that is the case now.

    @oldbrownsfan said:

    It will make a difference in the field position game but probably not in the final score but you can't put that on the punter. Working the field position game is what we ask of a punter.

    I see both sides of this Gip and Mark...it looks like we did get a good return for Lee with a younger punter who looks to be a decent one and a 4th rounder. I thought at first it might have been a knee jerk reaction to Lee's pitiful non attempt to make a tackle on the punt return for a TD but I don't think that is the case now.

    I think the team got younger, got a draft pick and also sent a message that if you play half ass, you aren't going to be on this team. Now, it can be said that the trade worked out the best for Lee, he goes to a contender and closer to home.

  • lol... from Terry Pluto's column:

    14. How about this? The Browns received a fourth-round pick for their punter. But the best they could do for Barkevious Mingo was a fifth-rounder from New England. Mingo was the No. 6 pick in the 2013 draft. I expect Patriots coach Bill Belichick will find a role for Mingo. The Boston Globe said it will be on special teams and as a "spot rusher."

    Terry also mentions that per PFF a 4th round pick is the highest one traded for a Punter since 1994.

    http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/index.ssf/2016/08/cleveland_browns_scribbles_pau.html

  • Nobody said a punter was gonna win us any games.....but watching the defense stop the team on 3rd down but still get a fg kicked on them cause of firld position is gonna get real old with u guys real quick.

  • It's not about the punter or the punter kicking 80 frickin yards or him not trying to make a tackle....it's about the flippant attitude of throwing out the only talent (which is sad i know) when there is absolutely none besides 2 guys that are on their down side of their career.

    I'll tell u this, if brown and depoesta don't turn this around in 2 years every friggin person who believes in analytics will be burning those papers.

  • believe me this is not about a missed tackle. it's another 'move' that makes these guys seem relevant. these clowns are really pissing me off.

    analytics, schmanalytics.

    go fuck urself sushi.

    @miktoxic said:

    believe me this is not about a missed tackle. it's another 'move' that makes these guys seem relevant. these clowns are really pissing me off.

    analytics, schmanalytics.

    go fuck urself sushi.

    Yup,we gonna start over with young talent and pray it's good. Football, meet Money ball.

  • I still can't believe we got a 4th rounder and a perfectly good NFL punter with career in front of him for that pussy with his career largely behind him.

    Z

  • Yeah he's a giant pussy for not laying out in a meaningless preseason game.

    #ifurpunterhastomaketacklesurteamisshit

  • Yeah he's a giant pussy for not laying out in a meaningless preseason game.

    #ifurpunterhastomaketacklesurteamisshit

    @clevfan4life said:

    Yeah he's a giant pussy for not laying out in a meaningless preseason game.

    #ifurpunterhastomaketacklesurteamisshit

    So why should they even wear pads if there is a an assertion that they should never have to make a tackle?

  • @clevfan4life said:

    Yeah he's a giant pussy for not laying out in a meaningless preseason game.

    #ifurpunterhastomaketacklesurteamisshit

    So why should they even wear pads if there is a an assertion that they should never have to make a tackle?

    @logicisforsquares said:

    So why should they even wear pads if there is a an assertion that they should never have to make a tackle?

    Operative phrase "meaningless preseason game". As a coach i wouldnt want my kicker or punter getting fucked up in a meaningless preseason game. You dont want any starters to get injured obviously but especially not the kickers or punters, especially if they're good. Those guys are not a dime a dozen as evidenced by the awful kicker we just let go. The ball never looked right coming off his foot, i dont even know why we had that guy in camp

  • Lee was the best punter we've had in a long time but just another "sell the farm" move which I've remarked here a bunch has been the plan for day one. I don't buy for a second it was because of a lazy tackle effort in a game. It's about getting an above average value for a guy who basically had one more year left to punt on an awful football team.

    @jrb12711 said:

    Lee was the best punter we've had in a long time but just another "sell the farm" move which I've remarked here a bunch has been the plan for day one. I don't buy for a second it was because of a lazy tackle effort in a game. It's about getting an above average value for a guy who basically had one more year left to punt on an awful football team.

    Grossi seems to agree with you. He was saying today that he doesn't believe it had anything to do with the lazy tackle effort, but instead the opportunity to turn a player who cost a 7th round pick and another 7th round pick into a replacement punter and a 4th round pick. Considering Andy Lee was punting the ball down the oppositions throat last season and the team went 3-13, I don't see the downside here.

  • The 4th round pick that came in the deal will more than likely be meaningless.

    It's not like the Browns have been a fucking drafting juggernaut over the last decade.