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  • @bob806 said:

    Yep. Since being canned by the PD, Grossi is definitely jaded in covering the Browns. While some of the stuff he writes or says on the radio is true, he seems like he's lost some objectivity.

    I wonder if he's a Steeler fan.

    Uh no, Grossi is no Steeler fan on the field, he is a fan of their organization.

    He is a Browns fan on the field, but has criticized the organization and their moves....

    Much the same way you fucks do here, so I don't understand all this Grossi hate.

    @stinkhole said:

    Uh no, Grossi is no Steeler fan on the field, he is a fan of their organization.

    He is a Browns fan on the field, but has criticized the organization and their moves....

    Much the same way you fucks do here, so I don't understand all this Grossi hate.

    Did I say I hated him? I said he lost his objectivity. I also said some of the stuff he says or writes is true.

    Mention the word "Steeler," see reaction. Jeez.

  • Speaking of QB trades..

    Found a link discussing the best trade each team in the NFL has made in their history.

    11 of these trades involve QB's.

    The great ones:

    Jim Kelly

    Joe Namath

    Eli Manning

    John Elway

    Sonny Jergensen

    Bret Favre

    The OK ones:

    Bernie Kosar

    Matt Schaub

    Carson Palmer

    Ron Jaworski

    Two of those really surprised me.

    The best trade that Philly ever made in the history of their franchise was acquiring Jaworski? Really?

    The best trade the Cleve ever made in the history of that franchise was acquiring Kosar?

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/32for32x161102/best-trade-every-nfl-team-ever-made

  • @stinkhole said:

    Uh no, Grossi is no Steeler fan on the field, he is a fan of their organization.

    He is a Browns fan on the field, but has criticized the organization and their moves....

    Much the same way you fucks do here, so I don't understand all this Grossi hate.

    Did I say I hated him? I said he lost his objectivity. I also said some of the stuff he says or writes is true.

    Mention the word "Steeler," see reaction. Jeez.

    @bob806 said:

    Did I say I hated him? I said he lost his objectivity. I also said some of the stuff he says or writes is true.

    Mention the word "Steeler," see reaction. Jeez.

    First of all I said "all the hate" so I am not singling out just you.

    No, you didn't say you hated him...no one did.

    "Hate" was not used in its literal sense. "Hate" could mean excess or undue criticism, making fun of or ridiculing.

    I don't think anybody really hate hates him, but maybe they do.

    "Steelers" in this very entertaining thread was mentioned a few times. I replied to only one mention of them. Yours.

  • Speaking of QB trades..

    Found a link discussing the best trade each team in the NFL has made in their history.

    11 of these trades involve QB's.

    The great ones:

    Jim Kelly

    Joe Namath

    Eli Manning

    John Elway

    Sonny Jergensen

    Bret Favre

    The OK ones:

    Bernie Kosar

    Matt Schaub

    Carson Palmer

    Ron Jaworski

    Two of those really surprised me.

    The best trade that Philly ever made in the history of their franchise was acquiring Jaworski? Really?

    The best trade the Cleve ever made in the history of that franchise was acquiring Kosar?

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/32for32x161102/best-trade-every-nfl-team-ever-made

    @stinkhole said:

    Speaking of QB trades..

    Found a link discussing the best trade each team in the NFL has made in their history.

    11 of these trades involve QB's.

    The great ones:

    Jim Kelly

    Joe Namath

    Eli Manning

    John Elway

    Sonny Jergensen

    Bret Favre

    The OK ones:

    Bernie Kosar

    Matt Schaub

    Carson Palmer

    Ron Jaworski

    Two of those really surprised me.

    The best trade that Philly ever made in the history of their franchise was acquiring Jaworski? Really?

    The best trade the Cleve ever made in the history of that franchise was acquiring Kosar?

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/32for32x161102/best-trade-every-nfl-team-ever-made

    I'm sure Gipper will appreciate this post. He is the resident guru of NFL history and trivia!

  • I was just looking a Brady's contract and after 2017 his "Cap Savings" turns positive. And his number, at the tail end of his last restructure, jumps from a "friendly" $14mm in 2017 to $22mm in 2018 and 2019.

    http://overthecap.com/player/tom-brady/1250

    Not that he's a cut candidate... just an observation... but it got me wondering harder about whether 2017 will be his last season as a Pat. It was a springboard, not an integral piece. The first integral piece is the renewed interest in keeping Jimmy G. Assuming it's real spending nearly $40mm/yr on QBs can hamstring even the Pats. But this thought is old news.

    Let's do some Q&A... and some point/counterpoint...

    • Simply based on FA who is going to be favored over the Pats to win SB LII? (or is it LIII?) And a repeat gives Brady an Elway like send off if he decides to retire... at age 40.
    • And if he doesn't retire? Would Bill really trade "his guy"? I think he would... as much as he loves Tom... business is business... and the list of great Pats who retire as Pats in the Belichick era is a very, very short list.
    • But if he traded Tom, then the Pat fans would go crazy! Yes, they would... but then Browns fans went crazy when he got rid of Bernie in '93. And we stayed and for almost a whole year... until we made the playoffs.
    • But Bernie is not Tom! To Browns fan he was. We did not know any better. We refused to see what Bill saw: diminished skills.
    • But clearly Tom's skills are not diminished! Are we sure of that? Are we looking through Bill's eyes through Bill's eyes? Have we been in game plan sessions for years to witness a shift in planning? Would we even recognize a shift not preceded by, "Tom doesn't do that well enough anymore, so let's do this"?
    • But the Pats are not the Browns! True. So it will take more than a playoff appearance to sooth Pat fans' ruffled feathers
    • But clearly Bill plans to walk off into the sunset with Tom... doesn't he? Ah.... the last bullet ... "the Buddy system"... and the end of the bullet-points...

    Setting aside the whole "never met a guy he wouldn't trade" argument made earlier, there is still the fact that there are people in this world who actually believe that Bill can't win without Tom.

    I think that before he walks off into the sunset, Bill wants to prove them wrong. Bill turns 65 next month. Tick tock...

  • @roycerolls said:

    I'd rather eat a 3 day old chicken nugget than a cat turd, but I'm not excited about either one.

    Just saying if you had to eat one or the other I'm guessing the price wouldn't be your main concern.

    😉

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Just saying if you had to eat one or the other I'm guessing the price wouldn't be your main concern.

    😉

    WSS

    Lol, I'll concede that.

  • Speaking of QB trades..

    Found a link discussing the best trade each team in the NFL has made in their history.

    11 of these trades involve QB's.

    The great ones:

    Jim Kelly

    Joe Namath

    Eli Manning

    John Elway

    Sonny Jergensen

    Bret Favre

    The OK ones:

    Bernie Kosar

    Matt Schaub

    Carson Palmer

    Ron Jaworski

    Two of those really surprised me.

    The best trade that Philly ever made in the history of their franchise was acquiring Jaworski? Really?

    The best trade the Cleve ever made in the history of that franchise was acquiring Kosar?

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/32for32x161102/best-trade-every-nfl-team-ever-made

    @stinkhole said:

    Speaking of QB trades..

    Found a link discussing the best trade each team in the NFL has made in their history.

    11 of these trades involve QB's.

    The great ones:

    Jim Kelly

    Joe Namath

    Eli Manning

    John Elway

    Sonny Jergensen

    Bret Favre

    The OK ones:

    Bernie Kosar

    Matt Schaub

    Carson Palmer

    Ron Jaworski

    Two of those really surprised me.

    The best trade that Philly ever made in the history of their franchise was acquiring Jaworski? Really?

    The best trade the Cleve ever made in the history of that franchise was acquiring Kosar?

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/32for32x161102/best-trade-every-nfl-team-ever-made

    Well...that very well may be. Can't really think of another better one....though somehow or other some kind of trade had to have been consummated in 1978 that allowed the Browns to have 2 first rounders...in which they selected both Ozzie Newsome and Clay Matthews.

    They have had some really bad trades: Warfield for Phipps. Bobby Mitchell for Ernie Davis. They traded away both Henry Jordan and Willie Davis....not sure if they were trades but got rid of Dick LeBeau and Doug Atkins.

  • In all fairness no one knew what would happen with Ernie Davis, winner of the Heisman Trophy. What a tragic loss.

  • @stinkhole said:

    Speaking of QB trades..

    Found a link discussing the best trade each team in the NFL has made in their history.

    11 of these trades involve QB's.

    The great ones:

    Jim Kelly

    Joe Namath

    Eli Manning

    John Elway

    Sonny Jergensen

    Bret Favre

    The OK ones:

    Bernie Kosar

    Matt Schaub

    Carson Palmer

    Ron Jaworski

    Two of those really surprised me.

    The best trade that Philly ever made in the history of their franchise was acquiring Jaworski? Really?

    The best trade the Cleve ever made in the history of that franchise was acquiring Kosar?

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/32for32x161102/best-trade-every-nfl-team-ever-made

    Well...that very well may be. Can't really think of another better one....though somehow or other some kind of trade had to have been consummated in 1978 that allowed the Browns to have 2 first rounders...in which they selected both Ozzie Newsome and Clay Matthews.

    They have had some really bad trades: Warfield for Phipps. Bobby Mitchell for Ernie Davis. They traded away both Henry Jordan and Willie Davis....not sure if they were trades but got rid of Dick LeBeau and Doug Atkins.

    @the-gipper said:

    Well...that very well may be. Can't really think of another better one....though somehow or other some kind of trade had to have been consummated in 1978 that allowed the Browns to have 2 first rounders...in which they selected both Ozzie Newsome and Clay Matthews.

    They have had some really bad trades: Warfield for Phipps. Bobby Mitchell for Ernie Davis. They traded away both Henry Jordan and Willie Davis....not sure if they were trades but got rid of Dick LeBeau and Doug Atkins.

    Mike Oliphant for Earnest Byner. OUCH.

  • @the-gipper said:

    Well...that very well may be. Can't really think of another better one....though somehow or other some kind of trade had to have been consummated in 1978 that allowed the Browns to have 2 first rounders...in which they selected both Ozzie Newsome and Clay Matthews.

    They have had some really bad trades: Warfield for Phipps. Bobby Mitchell for Ernie Davis. They traded away both Henry Jordan and Willie Davis....not sure if they were trades but got rid of Dick LeBeau and Doug Atkins.

    Mike Oliphant for Earnest Byner. OUCH.

    @bob806 said:

    Mike Oliphant for Earnest Byner. OUCH.

    That seemed almost like a Mercy trade. Byner committed "The Fumble".....lets get him out of here so that he does not have to be stigmatized and hassled by the fan base.

  • I was just looking a Brady's contract and after 2017 his "Cap Savings" turns positive. And his number, at the tail end of his last restructure, jumps from a "friendly" $14mm in 2017 to $22mm in 2018 and 2019.

    http://overthecap.com/player/tom-brady/1250

    Not that he's a cut candidate... just an observation... but it got me wondering harder about whether 2017 will be his last season as a Pat. It was a springboard, not an integral piece. The first integral piece is the renewed interest in keeping Jimmy G. Assuming it's real spending nearly $40mm/yr on QBs can hamstring even the Pats. But this thought is old news.

    Let's do some Q&A... and some point/counterpoint...

    • Simply based on FA who is going to be favored over the Pats to win SB LII? (or is it LIII?) And a repeat gives Brady an Elway like send off if he decides to retire... at age 40.
    • And if he doesn't retire? Would Bill really trade "his guy"? I think he would... as much as he loves Tom... business is business... and the list of great Pats who retire as Pats in the Belichick era is a very, very short list.
    • But if he traded Tom, then the Pat fans would go crazy! Yes, they would... but then Browns fans went crazy when he got rid of Bernie in '93. And we stayed and for almost a whole year... until we made the playoffs.
    • But Bernie is not Tom! To Browns fan he was. We did not know any better. We refused to see what Bill saw: diminished skills.
    • But clearly Tom's skills are not diminished! Are we sure of that? Are we looking through Bill's eyes through Bill's eyes? Have we been in game plan sessions for years to witness a shift in planning? Would we even recognize a shift not preceded by, "Tom doesn't do that well enough anymore, so let's do this"?
    • But the Pats are not the Browns! True. So it will take more than a playoff appearance to sooth Pat fans' ruffled feathers
    • But clearly Bill plans to walk off into the sunset with Tom... doesn't he? Ah.... the last bullet ... "the Buddy system"... and the end of the bullet-points...

    Setting aside the whole "never met a guy he wouldn't trade" argument made earlier, there is still the fact that there are people in this world who actually believe that Bill can't win without Tom.

    I think that before he walks off into the sunset, Bill wants to prove them wrong. Bill turns 65 next month. Tick tock...

    @tour2ma said:

    I was just looking a Brady's contract and after 2017 his "Cap Savings" turns positive. And his number, at the tail end of his last restructure, jumps from a "friendly" $14mm in 2017 to $22mm in 2018 and 2019.

    http://overthecap.com/player/tom-brady/1250

    Not that he's a cut candidate... just an observation... but it got me wondering harder about whether 2017 will be his last season as a Pat. It was a springboard, not an integral piece. The first integral piece is the renewed interest in keeping Jimmy G. Assuming it's real spending nearly $40mm/yr on QBs can hamstring even the Pats. But this thought is old news.

    Setting aside the whole "never met a guy he wouldn't trade" argument made earlier, there is still the fact that there are people in this world who actually believe that Bill can't win without Tom.

    I think that before he walks off into the sunset, Bill wants to prove them wrong. Bill turns 65 next month. Tick tock...

    I mentioned it in another thread Tour. Trading for Cooks with their #32 and more means the Patriots are all in to win the SB this season. I'm not buying that sets up the Jimmy trade to recoup the pick. The obvious reason is should Brady get hurt either for an extended period, or in the playoffs and Garropolo is on another team, that Super Bowl win goes "poof". Jacoby Brissett- that's the ticket to the Promised Land.

  • @tour2ma said:

    I was just looking a Brady's contract and after 2017 his "Cap Savings" turns positive. And his number, at the tail end of his last restructure, jumps from a "friendly" $14mm in 2017 to $22mm in 2018 and 2019.

    http://overthecap.com/player/tom-brady/1250

    Not that he's a cut candidate... just an observation... but it got me wondering harder about whether 2017 will be his last season as a Pat. It was a springboard, not an integral piece. The first integral piece is the renewed interest in keeping Jimmy G. Assuming it's real spending nearly $40mm/yr on QBs can hamstring even the Pats. But this thought is old news.

    Setting aside the whole "never met a guy he wouldn't trade" argument made earlier, there is still the fact that there are people in this world who actually believe that Bill can't win without Tom.

    I think that before he walks off into the sunset, Bill wants to prove them wrong. Bill turns 65 next month. Tick tock...

    I mentioned it in another thread Tour. Trading for Cooks with their #32 and more means the Patriots are all in to win the SB this season. I'm not buying that sets up the Jimmy trade to recoup the pick. The obvious reason is should Brady get hurt either for an extended period, or in the playoffs and Garropolo is on another team, that Super Bowl win goes "poof". Jacoby Brissett- that's the ticket to the Promised Land.

    @hoorta said:

    I mentioned it in another thread Tour. Trading for Cooks with their #32 and more means the Patriots are all in to win the SB this season. I'm not buying that sets up the Jimmy trade to recoup the pick. The obvious reason is should Brady get hurt either for an extended period, or in the playoffs and Garropolo is on another team, that Super Bowl win goes "poof". Jacoby Brissett- that's the ticket to the Promised Land.

  • @bob806 said:

    Mike Oliphant for Earnest Byner. OUCH.

    That seemed almost like a Mercy trade. Byner committed "The Fumble".....lets get him out of here so that he does not have to be stigmatized and hassled by the fan base.

    @the-gipper said:

    That seemed almost like a Mercy trade. Byner committed "The Fumble".....lets get him out of here so that he does not have to be stigmatized and hassled by the fan base.

    Byner was shipped out after he got called for two unsportsman-like conduct penalties in a row towards the end of a playoff game. It effectively killed our final drive and we lost the game.

    Actually it was Marty's fault. I was yelling at the TV, "Get him outa there!". Anyone could see that he was out of his mind. But nope, Shotty let him stay in and get the second penalty.

  • @the-gipper said:

    That seemed almost like a Mercy trade. Byner committed "The Fumble".....lets get him out of here so that he does not have to be stigmatized and hassled by the fan base.

    Byner was shipped out after he got called for two unsportsman-like conduct penalties in a row towards the end of a playoff game. It effectively killed our final drive and we lost the game.

    Actually it was Marty's fault. I was yelling at the TV, "Get him outa there!". Anyone could see that he was out of his mind. But nope, Shotty let him stay in and get the second penalty.

    @orion said:

    Byner was shipped out after he got called for two unsportsman-like conduct penalties in a row towards the end of a playoff game. It effectively killed our final drive and we lost the game.

    Actually it was Marty's fault. I was yelling at the TV, "Get him outa there!". Anyone could see that he was out of his mind. But nope, Shotty let him stay in and get the second penalty.

    Yeah it sucked. We should have beat the Oilers; ruined our Christmas Eve.

    That was the game where Clay Matthews picked up Warren Moon's lateral, ran it into the end zone, and Jerry Seaman said "the whistle blew,incomplete pass." Browns lose 24-23

  • In all fairness no one knew what would happen with Ernie Davis, winner of the Heisman Trophy. What a tragic loss.

    @texasag1969 said:

    In all fairness no one knew what would happen with Ernie Davis, winner of the Heisman Trophy. What a tragic loss.

    Saddest thing Ag, with my medical background- if then was now, 95% chance he'd have been back on the field like Eric Berry. The '60s were Stone Age compared to what we know now on how to treat blood cancers.

  • @texasag1969 said:

    In all fairness no one knew what would happen with Ernie Davis, winner of the Heisman Trophy. What a tragic loss.

    Saddest thing Ag, with my medical background- if then was now, 95% chance he'd have been back on the field like Eric Berry. The '60s were Stone Age compared to what we know now on how to treat blood cancers.

    @hoorta said:

    Saddest thing Ag, with my medical background- if then was now, 95% chance he'd have been back on the field like Eric Berry. The '60s were Stone Age compared to what we know now on how to treat blood cancers.

    Yep, my mother's older brother for whom I was named died of pneumonia at age 17 about 3-4 years before penicillin came into mass use. And his grandfather was one of the pioneering MDs who founded Texas's first med school in Galveston in 1891. He could not save him or my mother's older sister who had died many years earlier during the big Spanish flu pandemic after WW I.

  • @the-gipper said:

    That seemed almost like a Mercy trade. Byner committed "The Fumble".....lets get him out of here so that he does not have to be stigmatized and hassled by the fan base.

    Byner was shipped out after he got called for two unsportsman-like conduct penalties in a row towards the end of a playoff game. It effectively killed our final drive and we lost the game.

    Actually it was Marty's fault. I was yelling at the TV, "Get him outa there!". Anyone could see that he was out of his mind. But nope, Shotty let him stay in and get the second penalty.

    @orion said:

    Byner was shipped out after he got called for two unsportsman-like conduct penalties in a row towards the end of a playoff game. It effectively killed our final drive and we lost the game.

    Actually it was Marty's fault. I was yelling at the TV, "Get him outa there!". Anyone could see that he was out of his mind. But nope, Shotty let him stay in and get the second penalty.

    Was that the Houston WC game? I recall that. I think that was just absolute frustration on his part after his gaffe a year earlier was still weighing heavily on him.

  • Words fail to express how much I'd hate this...

    2017 NFL Mock Draft: Browns take Myles Garrett, trade 4 picks to Pats for Garoppolo
    by Will Brinson

    Browns send:

    • 2017 1st round pick (No. 12 overall)
    • 2017 2nd round pick (No. 33 overall)
    • 2017 2nd round pick (No. 52 overall)
    • 2018 2nd round pick (TBD, Cleveland’s original)

    Patriots send:

    • QB Jimmy Garoppolo

    http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2017-nfl-mock-draft-browns-take-myles-garrett-trade-4-picks-to-pats-for-garoppolo/

  • Words fail to express how much I'd hate this...

    2017 NFL Mock Draft: Browns take Myles Garrett, trade 4 picks to Pats for Garoppolo
    by Will Brinson

    Browns send:

    • 2017 1st round pick (No. 12 overall)
    • 2017 2nd round pick (No. 33 overall)
    • 2017 2nd round pick (No. 52 overall)
    • 2018 2nd round pick (TBD, Cleveland’s original)

    Patriots send:

    • QB Jimmy Garoppolo

    http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2017-nfl-mock-draft-browns-take-myles-garrett-trade-4-picks-to-pats-for-garoppolo/

    @tour2ma said:

    Words fail to express how much I'd hate this...

    They haven't even invented the proper word yet

  • Words fail to express how much I'd hate this...

    2017 NFL Mock Draft: Browns take Myles Garrett, trade 4 picks to Pats for Garoppolo
    by Will Brinson

    Browns send:

    • 2017 1st round pick (No. 12 overall)
    • 2017 2nd round pick (No. 33 overall)
    • 2017 2nd round pick (No. 52 overall)
    • 2018 2nd round pick (TBD, Cleveland’s original)

    Patriots send:

    • QB Jimmy Garoppolo

    http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2017-nfl-mock-draft-browns-take-myles-garrett-trade-4-picks-to-pats-for-garoppolo/

    @tour2ma said:

    Words fail to express how much I'd hate this...

    2017 NFL Mock Draft: Browns take Myles Garrett, trade 4 picks to Pats for Garoppolo

    by Will Brinson

    Browns send:

    • 2017 1st round pick (No. 12 overall)
    • 2017 2nd round pick (No. 33 overall)
    • 2017 2nd round pick (No. 52 overall)
    • 2018 2nd round pick (TBD, Clevelands original)

    Patriots send:

    • QB Jimmy Garoppolo

    http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2017-nfl-mock-draft-browns-take-myles-garrett-trade-4-picks-to-pats-for-garoppolo/

    This is worse than dick cancer.