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  • From Terry Pluto, cleveland.com:. https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2019/12/embarrassing-disturbing-ugly-pick-a-word-for-inexcusable-cleveland-browns-loss.html

    Embarrassing? Disturbing? Ugly? Pick a word for inexcusable Cleveland Browns loss

    Updated Dec 16, 6:06 AM;Posted Dec 15, 7:17 PM
  • This is a good read, here's just part of it.....

    SOMETHING IS WRONG

    I don’t feel like talking Xs and Os.

    There is something very wrong with this team, something deeper than strategy.

    Coming into the game, Arizona had lost six in a row. The Cardinals were 3-9-1 overall and were 1-5 on their home field.

    That’s the team who embarrassed the Browns.

    I’m tired of the Browns being out-coached and out-hustled.

    I’m sick of them losing to first-year QBs, be it Brandon Allen in Denver, Delvin “Duck” Hodges in Pittsburgh or now Kyler Murray in Arizona.

    But it’s more than that.

    There is something lacking in terms of character and concentration.

    Not with every player.

    Nick Chubb is giving younger Browns fans glimpses of what it was like to watch Jim Brown in the 1950s and 1960s.

    Chubb rushed for 127 yards. He was brilliant as always.

    But the Browns remain a collection of individuals unable to come together when facing adversity on the field.

  • From Terry Pluto, cleveland.com:. https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2019/12/embarrassing-disturbing-ugly-pick-a-word-for-inexcusable-cleveland-browns-loss.html

    Embarrassing? Disturbing? Ugly? Pick a word for inexcusable Cleveland Browns loss

    Updated Dec 16, 6:06 AM;Posted Dec 15, 7:17 PM

    @mjp28 said:

    From Terry Pluto, cleveland.com:. https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2019/12/embarrassing-disturbing-ugly-pick-a-word-for-inexcusable-cleveland-browns-loss.html

    The Browns were favored to win this game. A victory would have made them 7-7 and kept hopes of a winning season and a flicker of playoff possibilities alive for another week.

    Instead, they are 6-8.

    No winning season. No playoffs.

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

  • @mjp28 said:

    From Terry Pluto, cleveland.com:. https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2019/12/embarrassing-disturbing-ugly-pick-a-word-for-inexcusable-cleveland-browns-loss.html

    The Browns were favored to win this game. A victory would have made them 7-7 and kept hopes of a winning season and a flicker of playoff possibilities alive for another week.

    Instead, they are 6-8.

    No winning season. No playoffs.

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    @tour2ma said:

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    its over johnny.png

  • @mjp28 said:

    From Terry Pluto, cleveland.com:. https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2019/12/embarrassing-disturbing-ugly-pick-a-word-for-inexcusable-cleveland-browns-loss.html

    The Browns were favored to win this game. A victory would have made them 7-7 and kept hopes of a winning season and a flicker of playoff possibilities alive for another week.

    Instead, they are 6-8.

    No winning season. No playoffs.

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    @tour2ma said:

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    I think, no I'm sure Terry is as pissed as all of us how the BROWNS basically threw away a whole season which had great expectations.

    (And Terry is a religious guy he would probably not have used pissed.  😆 )

  • @mjp28 said:

    From Terry Pluto, cleveland.com:. https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2019/12/embarrassing-disturbing-ugly-pick-a-word-for-inexcusable-cleveland-browns-loss.html

    The Browns were favored to win this game. A victory would have made them 7-7 and kept hopes of a winning season and a flicker of playoff possibilities alive for another week.

    Instead, they are 6-8.

    No winning season. No playoffs.

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    @tour2ma said:

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    It’s called reality

  • @tour2ma said:

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    I think, no I'm sure Terry is as pissed as all of us how the BROWNS basically threw away a whole season which had great expectations.

    (And Terry is a religious guy he would probably not have used pissed.  😆 )

    @mjp28 said:

    And Terry is a religious guy 

    We all have our vices, mjp ?

  • Funny how everyone hyped us into some kind of contender with one exception. Guys on "Moving the Chains" NFL Radio way back before the season began were saying to lay off the gas pedal. They agreed it was very rare for any team to make the giant leap from loser to contender in one season. If you look at what we went in with this OL, an untried defense and an inexperienced HC, then realistically they were right.  6-10 or 7-9 was more the in between step. Fix it for next year and move on.

  • Funny how everyone hyped us into some kind of contender with one exception. Guys on "Moving the Chains" NFL Radio way back before the season began were saying to lay off the gas pedal. They agreed it was very rare for any team to make the giant leap from loser to contender in one season. If you look at what we went in with this OL, an untried defense and an inexperienced HC, then realistically they were right.  6-10 or 7-9 was more the in between step. Fix it for next year and move on.

    @texasag1969 said:

    Funny how everyone hyped us into some kind of contender with one exception. Guys on "Moving the Chains" NFL Radio way back before the season began were saying to lay off the gas pedal. They agreed it was very rare for any team to make the giant leap from loser to contender in one season. If you look at what we went in with this OL, an untried defense and an inexperienced HC, then realistically they were right.  6-10 or 7-9 was more the in between step. Fix it for next year and move on.

    The only thing that didn't jive with their prognostication was that in 2018 they were 7-8-1 with a rookie quarterback. 9, 10, 11+ wins was a very logical and attainable goal.

    They just blew it !

  • @mjp28 said:

    From Terry Pluto, cleveland.com:. https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2019/12/embarrassing-disturbing-ugly-pick-a-word-for-inexcusable-cleveland-browns-loss.html

    The Browns were favored to win this game. A victory would have made them 7-7 and kept hopes of a winning season and a flicker of playoff possibilities alive for another week.

    Instead, they are 6-8.

    No winning season. No playoffs.

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    @tour2ma said:

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    A gleam rather than a flicker would be awesome right about now. 

  • @mjp28 said:

    From Terry Pluto, cleveland.com:. https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2019/12/embarrassing-disturbing-ugly-pick-a-word-for-inexcusable-cleveland-browns-loss.html

    The Browns were favored to win this game. A victory would have made them 7-7 and kept hopes of a winning season and a flicker of playoff possibilities alive for another week.

    Instead, they are 6-8.

    No winning season. No playoffs.

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    @tour2ma said:

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    Guessing because our defense is a sieve.  And our offense is a far cry from a 'scoring machine'.  And then there's Freddie who'll play anybody except Higgns & Njoku.  There's two guys right there that many of us expected to have big seasons with OBJ & Landry drawing the coverage away from them.  Nope, they can't find the field.  One of 'em a 1st round pick.   -  At the end of the season ownership will probably want to know why a promising 1st round pick TE wasn't utilized in a losing record season.  

  • @tour2ma said:

    Et tu, Terry??? There is a "flicker"... or at least half a flicker.

    Why are writers... even our own... writing us off before it's a fact?

    A gleam rather than a flicker would be awesome right about now. 

    @d-bone said:

    A gleam rather than a flicker would be awesome right about now. 

    No matter how many times I see the Shottenheimer "There's a gleam men..." video, I still have no idea what he's talking about. ?

  • @d-bone said:

    A gleam rather than a flicker would be awesome right about now. 

    No matter how many times I see the Shottenheimer "There's a gleam men..." video, I still have no idea what he's talking about. ?

    @dutch-oven said:

    No matter how many times I see the Shottenheimer "There's a gleam men..." video, I still have no idea what he's talking about. ?

    Really?   Here is the gleam he was talking about:

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  • https://923thefan.radio.com/articles/terry-pluto-its-too-early-to-give-up-on-baker

    It's way too early to have second thoughts on Baker. As far as Freddy? As long as we're going to stay in one and done mode forever we will stay in the middle or bottom of the AFC North till the end of time. I don't care if Bill Parcells comes out of retirement. I don't care if Vince Lombardi comes back from the fucking dead. That we really do need an improvement in coaching is a fact. Whoever the coach is will need to be subservient did John Dorsey and I don't see Urban Meyer doing that. Urban Meyer also has history of poor health bad attitude and quarterbacks who fail in the NFL. 

    Maybe Mike McCarthy because he knows John Dorsey and would assumedly get along with him. What we don't need is a head coach vs general manager situation again.

    WSS

  • https://923thefan.radio.com/articles/terry-pluto-its-too-early-to-give-up-on-baker

    It's way too early to have second thoughts on Baker. As far as Freddy? As long as we're going to stay in one and done mode forever we will stay in the middle or bottom of the AFC North till the end of time. I don't care if Bill Parcells comes out of retirement. I don't care if Vince Lombardi comes back from the fucking dead. That we really do need an improvement in coaching is a fact. Whoever the coach is will need to be subservient did John Dorsey and I don't see Urban Meyer doing that. Urban Meyer also has history of poor health bad attitude and quarterbacks who fail in the NFL. 

    Maybe Mike McCarthy because he knows John Dorsey and would assumedly get along with him. What we don't need is a head coach vs general manager situation again.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    https://923thefan.radio.com/articles/terry-pluto-its-too-early-to-give-up-on-baker

    It's way too early to have second thoughts on Baker. As far as Freddy? As long as we're going to stay in one and done mode forever we will stay in the middle or bottom of the AFC North till the end of time. I don't care if Bill Parcells comes out of retirement. I don't care if Vince Lombardi comes back from the fucking dead. That we really do need an improvement in coaching is a fact. Whoever the coach is will need to be subservient did John Dorsey and I don't see Urban Meyer doing that. Urban Meyer also has history of poor health bad attitude and quarterbacks who fail in the NFL. 

    Maybe Mike McCarthy because he knows John Dorsey and would assumedly get along with him. What we don't need is a head coach vs general manager situation again.

    WSS

    If it is true that the Haslams want Freddie gone and Dorsey doesn't, Dorsey going to bat to keep Kitchens might buy Freddie another season, but if it goes bad again, Dorsey will be on the unemployment line with his head coach.

    He's got to know this, and Dorsey better be right about Freddie if he goes against what the Haslams want. 

  • @westside-steve said:

    https://923thefan.radio.com/articles/terry-pluto-its-too-early-to-give-up-on-baker

    It's way too early to have second thoughts on Baker. As far as Freddy? As long as we're going to stay in one and done mode forever we will stay in the middle or bottom of the AFC North till the end of time. I don't care if Bill Parcells comes out of retirement. I don't care if Vince Lombardi comes back from the fucking dead. That we really do need an improvement in coaching is a fact. Whoever the coach is will need to be subservient did John Dorsey and I don't see Urban Meyer doing that. Urban Meyer also has history of poor health bad attitude and quarterbacks who fail in the NFL. 

    Maybe Mike McCarthy because he knows John Dorsey and would assumedly get along with him. What we don't need is a head coach vs general manager situation again.

    WSS

    If it is true that the Haslams want Freddie gone and Dorsey doesn't, Dorsey going to bat to keep Kitchens might buy Freddie another season, but if it goes bad again, Dorsey will be on the unemployment line with his head coach.

    He's got to know this, and Dorsey better be right about Freddie if he goes against what the Haslams want. 

    @dutch-oven said:

    If it is true that the Haslams want Freddie gone and Dorsey doesn't, Dorsey going to bat to keep Kitchens might buy Freddie another season, but if it goes bad again, Dorsey will be on the unemployment line with his head coach.

    He's got to know this, and Dorsey better be right about Freddie if he goes against what the Haslams want. 

    And the foul smell like keep detecting is a forced marriage coming to theaters near you between the general manager and some coach he doesn't want.

    And frankly, even admitting how little I know about football and what goes on in a professional locker room headquarters, I get the feeling Jimmy Haslam and his wife are morons. Just a hunch. So was Randy Lerner but he didn't give enough of a shit to meddle in football stuff.

    WSS

  • @dutch-oven said:

    If it is true that the Haslams want Freddie gone and Dorsey doesn't, Dorsey going to bat to keep Kitchens might buy Freddie another season, but if it goes bad again, Dorsey will be on the unemployment line with his head coach.

    He's got to know this, and Dorsey better be right about Freddie if he goes against what the Haslams want. 

    And the foul smell like keep detecting is a forced marriage coming to theaters near you between the general manager and some coach he doesn't want.

    And frankly, even admitting how little I know about football and what goes on in a professional locker room headquarters, I get the feeling Jimmy Haslam and his wife are morons. Just a hunch. So was Randy Lerner but he didn't give enough of a shit to meddle in football stuff.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    And the foul smell like keep detecting is a forced marriage coming to theaters near you between the general manager and some coach he doesn't want.

    And frankly, even admitting how little I know about football and what goes on in a professional locker room headquarters, I get the feeling Jimmy Haslam and his wife are morons. Just a hunch. So was Randy Lerner but he didn't give enough of a shit to meddle in football stuff.

    WSS

    If you’re a Pluto reader he pretty much painted the Haslams as such, except more diplomatically. Basically a couple of 1percenters who moved up into that upper echelon of 1 percenters who get to own sports franchises and jumped at the chance, but were pretty green at the whole thing and didn’t know what the hell they were doing or how to go about it. 

    He further portrays them as people who want to be successful at it, heart in the right place, put in the time and effort, yadda yadda, but alas, they are learning on the fly and follies have followed.

  • @westside-steve said:

    And the foul smell like keep detecting is a forced marriage coming to theaters near you between the general manager and some coach he doesn't want.

    And frankly, even admitting how little I know about football and what goes on in a professional locker room headquarters, I get the feeling Jimmy Haslam and his wife are morons. Just a hunch. So was Randy Lerner but he didn't give enough of a shit to meddle in football stuff.

    WSS

    If you’re a Pluto reader he pretty much painted the Haslams as such, except more diplomatically. Basically a couple of 1percenters who moved up into that upper echelon of 1 percenters who get to own sports franchises and jumped at the chance, but were pretty green at the whole thing and didn’t know what the hell they were doing or how to go about it. 

    He further portrays them as people who want to be successful at it, heart in the right place, put in the time and effort, yadda yadda, but alas, they are learning on the fly and follies have followed.

    @ibleedbrown said:

    If you’re a Pluto reader he pretty much painted the Haslams as such, except more diplomatically. Basically a couple of 1percenters who moved up into that upper echelon of 1 percenters who get to own sports franchises and jumped at the chance, but were pretty green at the whole thing and didn’t know what the hell they were doing or how to go about it. 

    You don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.

    ?

    WSS