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  • We also need an offensive coordinator 

  • Wargo has admitted that the overwhelming reason he wants this front office to get another season isn't because he's impressed with the job they are doing so far, but because this team has to show people that you can get more than two seasons before you are fired.

    It's pointless to argue with him, regarding this subject, if this is what he's basing his want of a third year for the current front office.

    @dutch-oven said:

    Wargo has admitted that the overwhelming reason he wants this front office to get another season isn't because he's impressed with the job they are doing so far, but because this team has to show people that you can get more than two seasons before you are fired.

    It's pointless to argue with him, regarding this subject, if this is what he's basing his want of a third year for the current front office.

    He's going by the old investment disclaimer- past performance is no guarantee of future results. MHO? It's merely a question of how much losing Jimmy is willing to tolerate before he blows it up again. 2-3 wins fueled by Josh Gordon's return MIGHT save everyone. 0-16? Somebody is going to get canned. Bet the ranch on it. 

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Wargo has admitted that the overwhelming reason he wants this front office to get another season isn't because he's impressed with the job they are doing so far, but because this team has to show people that you can get more than two seasons before you are fired.

    It's pointless to argue with him, regarding this subject, if this is what he's basing his want of a third year for the current front office.

    He's going by the old investment disclaimer- past performance is no guarantee of future results. MHO? It's merely a question of how much losing Jimmy is willing to tolerate before he blows it up again. 2-3 wins fueled by Josh Gordon's return MIGHT save everyone. 0-16? Somebody is going to get canned. Bet the ranch on it. 

    @hoorta said:

    He's going by the old investment disclaimer- past performance is no guarantee of future results. MHO? It's merely a question of how much losing Jimmy is willing to tolerate before he blows it up again. 2-3 wins fueled by Josh Gordon's return MIGHT save everyone. 0-16? Somebody is going to get canned. Bet the ranch on it. 

    Yep-nobody can go 1-31 and have things remain status quo. Nobody. Would it bother me to see a new HC? Nope. He's one of the poorest gameday NFL coaches I've ever seen. Zero clock management skills. Zero. And as I've said multiple times, the sooner he insists on a quality OC the more likely he is to stay.

  • @hoorta said:

    He's going by the old investment disclaimer- past performance is no guarantee of future results. MHO? It's merely a question of how much losing Jimmy is willing to tolerate before he blows it up again. 2-3 wins fueled by Josh Gordon's return MIGHT save everyone. 0-16? Somebody is going to get canned. Bet the ranch on it. 

    Yep-nobody can go 1-31 and have things remain status quo. Nobody. Would it bother me to see a new HC? Nope. He's one of the poorest gameday NFL coaches I've ever seen. Zero clock management skills. Zero. And as I've said multiple times, the sooner he insists on a quality OC the more likely he is to stay.

    @texasag1969 said:

    Yep-nobody can go 1-31 and have things remain status quo. Nobody. Would it bother me to see a new HC? Nope. He's one of the poorest gameday NFL coaches I've ever seen. Zero clock management skills. Zero. And as I've said multiple times, the sooner he insists on a quality OC the more likely he is to stay.

    I don't think Hue has been set up for success by this front office, and an argument could be made that this was done on purpose. Not saying the FO has been trying to sabotage Hue, but winning NOW obviously isn't the top priority. I get this.

    But Hue hasn't exactly helped himself either. He's made decisions that are just flat-out baffling at times.

  • @texasag1969 said:

    Yep-nobody can go 1-31 and have things remain status quo. Nobody. Would it bother me to see a new HC? Nope. He's one of the poorest gameday NFL coaches I've ever seen. Zero clock management skills. Zero. And as I've said multiple times, the sooner he insists on a quality OC the more likely he is to stay.

    I don't think Hue has been set up for success by this front office, and an argument could be made that this was done on purpose. Not saying the FO has been trying to sabotage Hue, but winning NOW obviously isn't the top priority. I get this.

    But Hue hasn't exactly helped himself either. He's made decisions that are just flat-out baffling at times.

    @dutch-oven said:

    I don't think Hue has been set up for success by this front office, and an argument could be made that this was done on purpose. Not saying the FO has been trying to sabotage Hue, but winning NOW obviously isn't the top priority. I get this.

    But Hue hasn't exactly helped himself either. He's made decisions that are just flat-out baffling at times.

    He can always use Bill Belichicks excuse.. ''All plays are designed to score touchdowns"

  • @dutch-oven said:

    I don't think Hue has been set up for success by this front office, and an argument could be made that this was done on purpose. Not saying the FO has been trying to sabotage Hue, but winning NOW obviously isn't the top priority. I get this.

    But Hue hasn't exactly helped himself either. He's made decisions that are just flat-out baffling at times.

    He can always use Bill Belichicks excuse.. ''All plays are designed to score touchdowns"

    @nickers said:

    He can always use Bill Belichicks excuse.. ''All plays are designed to score touchdowns"

    Even Metcalf up the middle plays? 😆

  • This has been answered very thoroughly in several different places. Open your eyes and read. This thread is just a waste of board space. 

    @wargograw said:

    This has been answered UNCONVINCINGLY  in several different places. Open your eyes and read.   I'm a waste of board space. 

  • That some of you are willing to let this Sheet show go on.. They are 1-25 at this point.. What do you have in your crystal balls that makes you think these idiots will be successful... Me personally..Theres not one valid reason to keep these schmucks if they go 1-15 again..

    I really want to ask.. I'm sure some of you own companies, or small business or hold positions of management.. Be honest.. If someone on your payroll performed like these dimwits have.. Tell me that you honestly would keep them...

    @nickers said:

    I really want to ask.. I'm sure some of you own companies, or small business or hold positions of management.. Be honest.. If someone on your payroll performed like these dimwits have.. Tell me that you honestly would keep them...

    Since you artfully framed the question to get either get the support you wanted or the ability to attack any who don't play along, first let me add this to your "set up"... I mean... premise.

    If my hypothetical company had performed as the Browns have since '99 and I bought it in 2012 and tried to tinker around the edges for four years with no real hint of sustainable success, yes, I would stick with this management group, this organizational approach and with this plan for at least four years.

    Now... "sticking with the plan" does not protect every single job in that management group, but the visible heads, the heads you want to see roll are all safe. Although in one case, Hue's case, his continued employment comes with strings attached... namely, as I have written before, with him reducing his distractions from being this franchise's HC. Could be adding an OC... could be adding a "bench coach". But some position has to be added to get him to focus on the team as a whole and his QB rearing in particular. He can continue to call plays, but when the D is on the field he stays focused on his young QB(s).

  • @nickers said:

    I really want to ask.. I'm sure some of you own companies, or small business or hold positions of management.. Be honest.. If someone on your payroll performed like these dimwits have.. Tell me that you honestly would keep them...

    Since you artfully framed the question to get either get the support you wanted or the ability to attack any who don't play along, first let me add this to your "set up"... I mean... premise.

    If my hypothetical company had performed as the Browns have since '99 and I bought it in 2012 and tried to tinker around the edges for four years with no real hint of sustainable success, yes, I would stick with this management group, this organizational approach and with this plan for at least four years.

    Now... "sticking with the plan" does not protect every single job in that management group, but the visible heads, the heads you want to see roll are all safe. Although in one case, Hue's case, his continued employment comes with strings attached... namely, as I have written before, with him reducing his distractions from being this franchise's HC. Could be adding an OC... could be adding a "bench coach". But some position has to be added to get him to focus on the team as a whole and his QB rearing in particular. He can continue to call plays, but when the D is on the field he stays focused on his young QB(s).

    @tour2ma said:

    Since you artfully framed the question to get either get the support you wanted or the ability to attack any who don't play along, first let me add this to your "set up"... I mean... premise.

    If my hypothetical company had performed as the Browns have since '99 and I bought it in 2012 and tried to tinker around the edges for four years with no real hint of sustainable success, yes, I would stick with this management group, this organizational approach and with this plan for at least four years.

    Now... "sticking with the plan" does not protect every single job in that management group, but the visible heads, the heads you want to see roll are all safe. Although in one case, Hue's case, his continued employment comes with strings attached... namely, as I have written before, with him reducing his distractions from being this franchise's HC. Could be adding an OC... could be adding a "bench coach". But some position has to be added to get him to focus on the team as a whole and his QB rearing in particular. He can continue to call plays, but when the D is on the field he stays focused on his young QB(s).

    So please tell me.. Who said they would be back next year.. if they go 0-16.. Someone is gonna take the fall.. it's a question of whose PUD taste's better to our owner Dee Haslam... Sushi's or Hueless...

  • Also, I’d love to hear your detailed analysis of why firing everyone would work? Extra points if you do it WITHOUT crediting Sashi (like “we have a great base of young talent, now if we could just.....”).

    @wargograw said:

    Also, I’d love to hear your detailed analysis of why firing everyone would work? Extra points if you do it WITHOUT crediting Sashi (like “we have a great base of young talent, now if we could just.....”).

    Your comments bear little weight here.. Go read a comic book.

  • Here’s 17 reasons:

    Myles Garrett

    Jabrill Peppers

    David Njoku

    Corey Coleman

    Emmanuel Ogbah

    Carl Nassib

    Shon Coleman

    Jamie Collins

    Trevon Coley

    Larry Ogunjobi

    Jason McCourty

    Briean Boddy-Calhoun

    Seth DeValve

    Josh Rosen

    The Other First Round Pick Next Year

    Our Second Round Pick Next Year

    The Other Second Round Pick Next Year

    The FO has given this coaching staff more individual talent than any of our last regimes. This coaching staff, specifically the offense, hasn’t been able to do jack Sheet with it. The fault lies with Hue, not on the FO.

    If you can’t understand that, well...nevermind. Nobody around here really expects you to understand that.

  • Of the 13 players you listed. About 3-4 if them would be starters on a good team. 

    FIRE THEM ALL JIMMY 

  • @wargograw said:

    Also, I’d love to hear your detailed analysis of why firing everyone would work? Extra points if you do it WITHOUT crediting Sashi (like “we have a great base of young talent, now if we could just.....”).

    we DONT have a great base of young talent though, and he is partly responsible for that.

    @tacosman said:

    we DONT have a great base of young talent though, and he is partly responsible for that.

    Sooo you have no explanation. Got it. Thanks.

    @tacosman said:

    well not only that, but his argument fails at face  value because he assumes the other option is default failure.  So he's set up this scenario, for the purpose of the argument, that even is sashi is given another year or two and continues to make bad calls on draft picks and the roster continues to suck, then he will just shrug and say "well I wasn't wrong because the other way would have  produced the same results"....which of course is the ridiculous part of the argument.

    Additionally, this team and this regime over the last two seasons has been SO HISTORICALLY BAD that even if we continue to suck for the next two years, SOME improvement is possible.  Simply due to a regression to the mean in terms of results.  Our pythag has been incredibly bad over the last 2 years, but not 1 win total bad.....so in a way sashi and hue have been so historically bad that even if they continue to suck and the results simply regress to the mean(4-12, 5-11) for sucking, these idiots can say "see, we are better".....

    Meanwhile you assume firing everyone would work even though we have LOTS of history that it won't. So your arguments are just as absurd (and I would argue moreso) as you think mine are.

    @texasag1969 said:

    Yep-nobody can go 1-31 and have things remain status quo. Nobody. Would it bother me to see a new HC? Nope. He's one of the poorest gameday NFL coaches I've ever seen. Zero clock management skills. Zero. And as I've said multiple times, the sooner he insists on a quality OC the more likely he is to stay.

    Yeah let's scrap the defense and have Garrett play LB in some crappy 3-4 next year. Great plan!

    @nickers said:

    Your comments bear little weight here.. Go read a comic book.

    So you have no answer either. Thanks.

  • There are lots of people dressed as Santa at this time of the year collecting for charity relying on people's sympathy to raise money...I might try the same thing in my Browns jersey .... I wonder if my local walmart would allow me to stand outside with a bell ...I bet I make more than the Santa

  • This has been answered very thoroughly in several different places. Open your eyes and read. This thread is just a waste of board space. 

    @wargograw said:

    This has been answered very thoroughly in several different places. Open your eyes and read. This thread is just a waste of board space. 

    Everywhere but the 1-25 football you want everyone to celebrate with you for some bizarre reason.  Legally Blind's QB is leading the NFL in turnovers so thank God he's at least spoiled you rotten with 5 TD passes.  Feel free to throw him a parade and report back what a terrific fan you are because of it. 

  • If this regime is 1-31 after 2 years, they should ALL be fired. 

    I don’t care who you want to blame. FIRE THEM ALL!!!!!

  • @tacosman said:

    we DONT have a great base of young talent though, and he is partly responsible for that.

    Sooo you have no explanation. Got it. Thanks.

    @tacosman said:

    well not only that, but his argument fails at face  value because he assumes the other option is default failure.  So he's set up this scenario, for the purpose of the argument, that even is sashi is given another year or two and continues to make bad calls on draft picks and the roster continues to suck, then he will just shrug and say "well I wasn't wrong because the other way would have  produced the same results"....which of course is the ridiculous part of the argument.

    Additionally, this team and this regime over the last two seasons has been SO HISTORICALLY BAD that even if we continue to suck for the next two years, SOME improvement is possible.  Simply due to a regression to the mean in terms of results.  Our pythag has been incredibly bad over the last 2 years, but not 1 win total bad.....so in a way sashi and hue have been so historically bad that even if they continue to suck and the results simply regress to the mean(4-12, 5-11) for sucking, these idiots can say "see, we are better".....

    Meanwhile you assume firing everyone would work even though we have LOTS of history that it won't. So your arguments are just as absurd (and I would argue moreso) as you think mine are.

    @texasag1969 said:

    Yep-nobody can go 1-31 and have things remain status quo. Nobody. Would it bother me to see a new HC? Nope. He's one of the poorest gameday NFL coaches I've ever seen. Zero clock management skills. Zero. And as I've said multiple times, the sooner he insists on a quality OC the more likely he is to stay.

    Yeah let's scrap the defense and have Garrett play LB in some crappy 3-4 next year. Great plan!

    @nickers said:

    Your comments bear little weight here.. Go read a comic book.

    So you have no answer either. Thanks.

    @wargograw said:

    Sooo you have no explanation. Got it. Thanks.

    Meanwhile you assume firing everyone would work even though we have LOTS of history that it won't. So your arguments are just as absurd (and I would argue moreso) as you think mine are.

    Yeah let's scrap the defense and have Garrett play LB in some crappy 3-4 next year. Great plan!

    So you have no answer either. Thanks.

    And you are a complete waste of sperm...

  • @texasag1969 said:

    Yep-nobody can go 1-31 and have things remain status quo. Nobody. Would it bother me to see a new HC? Nope. He's one of the poorest gameday NFL coaches I've ever seen. Zero clock management skills. Zero. And as I've said multiple times, the sooner he insists on a quality OC the more likely he is to stay.

    I don't think Hue has been set up for success by this front office, and an argument could be made that this was done on purpose. Not saying the FO has been trying to sabotage Hue, but winning NOW obviously isn't the top priority. I get this.

    But Hue hasn't exactly helped himself either. He's made decisions that are just flat-out baffling at times.

    @dutch-oven said:

    I don't think Hue has been set up for success by this front office, and an argument could be made that this was done on purpose. Not saying the FO has been trying to sabotage Hue, but winning NOW obviously isn't the top priority. I get this.

    But Hue hasn't exactly helped himself either. He's made decisions that are just flat-out baffling at times.

    Hue said it's about winning- the aborted McCarron trade says so.   Get ready for the Hoorta blow up.

    @tour2ma said:

    Since you artfully framed the question to get either get the support you wanted or the ability to attack any who don't play along, first let me add this to your "set up"... I mean... premise.

    If my hypothetical company had performed as the Browns have since '99 and I bought it in 2012 and tried to tinker around the edges for four years with no real hint of sustainable success, yes, I would stick with this management group, this organizational approach and with this plan for at least four years.

    Now... "sticking with the plan" does not protect every single job in that management group, but the visible heads, the heads you want to see roll are all safe. Although in one case, Hue's case, his continued employment comes with strings attached... namely, as I have written before, with him reducing his distractions from being this franchise's HC. Could be adding an OC... could be adding a "bench coach". But some position has to be added to get him to focus on the team as a whole and his QB rearing in particular. He can continue to call plays, but when the D is on the field he stays focused on his young QB(s).

    Sorry Tour. Jimmy tried something different- and it blew up in his face. Ag said it- and I agree, Hue is in over his head. You want my crystal ball? Mr. Nice Guy players coach Huless the Clueless gets canned for a Tom Coughlin clone. Shashi is toast in his current position.  

  • Of the 13 players you listed. About 3-4 if them would be starters on a good team. 

    FIRE THEM ALL JIMMY 

    @browns149 said:

    Of the 13 players you listed. About 3-4 if them would be starters on a good team. 

    FIRE THEM ALL JIMMY 

    How about you name the ones who wouldn’t start for what teams, and the players that would start over them.

    Collins, Kirksey, Shelton, Garrett, Ogbah, McCourty and BBC would all start for almost any team in the league today. Peppers would start at SS for at least half of the team in the NFL. Coley would start for half the teams in the NFL

    7 of those 9 were acquired by this FO.

    3/5 of our starting offensive line would start for nearly every team in the NFL. The fourth would start for at least half the teams.

    2 of those 4 were acquired by this FO. 

    That’s 9 easy starters right there. 

    Trying to make the argument that we haven’t added young, solid talent is stupid. 

  • Pleading the 5th here. While I'm with many here that is frustrated as hell, I do see some young talent.

    IF Peyton Manning is getting hired, as say the President of operations, he will interview these guys, and learn  the philosophy or plan they (DePodesta, Sashi) speak of. At that point he may offer an alternative plan or suggestion to those two, or blow it up and can them both. 

    I'm of the belief Haslam does want Peyton here. He'd be the "football guy" so many are clamoring for. It may be a brilliant hire, or a PR move. Rest assured, Peyton doesn't want to suck. 

    My gut feeling is Sashi stays and they have him focus more on contract stuff. Hue stays as well, gets a nudge or 2 about delegating his OC duties.

    @bob806 said:

    IF Peyton Manning is getting hired, as say the President of operations, he will interview these guys, and learn  the philosophy or plan they (DePodesta, Sashi)

    First, I don't see Sashi being here if Manning were brought in.

    Secondly, why is Peyton Manning qualified to be the President of a football team?  Because he played QB?  Is it his degree in Speech Communication?  Or is it his commercial where he's playing a guitar wah-wah with his hands?