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  • Dave D
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    D Dave wrote on last edited by
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    A couple years back, didn't they have a training camp in Bowling Green? Thought I remembered that somewhere, maybe when the new facility in Berea was under construction?

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      P Pumpkin Eater wrote on last edited by
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      I think they should practice there more, too. Anything to give your team the slightest edge.

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        LCDawgFan13L LCDawgFan13 wrote on last edited by
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        I agree. They should do something to get more familiar with CBS. If that means practice there once a week, then that's what they need to do. If that means, a Saturday walk-thru. Great. Mankok and company need to do whatever it takes to help this team find an identity. Part of that is getting that "PROTECT MY HOUSE" attitude! If they don't know the place, then why would they feel that way. It's pretty pathetic that our head coach gets lost in his own home stadium! He has probably been there more than most of the players that are new to the team. Imagine how lost they feel there!

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          I agree. They should do something to get more familiar with CBS. If that means practice there once a week, then that's what they need to do. If that means, a Saturday walk-thru. Great. Mankok and company need to do whatever it takes to help this team find an identity. Part of that is getting that "PROTECT MY HOUSE" attitude! If they don't know the place, then why would they feel that way. It's pretty pathetic that our head coach gets lost in his own home stadium! He has probably been there more than most of the players that are new to the team. Imagine how lost they feel there!

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          S Solon16 wrote on last edited by
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          @lcdawgfan13 said:

          I agree. They should do something to get more familiar with CBS. If that means practice there once a week, then that's what they need to do. If that means, a Saturday walk-thru. Great. Mankok and company need to do whatever it takes to help this team find an identity. Part of that is getting that "PROTECT MY HOUSE" attitude! If they don't know the place, then why would they feel that way. It's pretty pathetic that our head coach gets lost in his own home stadium! He has probably been there more than most of the players that are new to the team. Imagine how lost they feel there!

          Thank you...exactly!!!

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            ? Masters wrote on last edited by
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            I'd still pose the following question, what do other teams that get the "protect my house" attitude do?

            I do not see practicing at CBS having any impact or advantage for the Browns, just as it serves no advantage for other teams in the league.

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              ballpeenB ballpeen wrote on last edited by
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              I agree.

              All they need to do is run around on the field a few times to get accustomed to the grass etc.

              Practicing there more isn't going to do anything to improve gameday performance.

              If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
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                LCDawgFan13L LCDawgFan13 wrote on last edited by LCDawgFan13
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                Have you guys ever been a part of any type of sport? Even in high school? Did you not have that extra urge to play harder in front of your home crowd? In front of your fans...your friends...your family? If not, then I understand you not getting it! But, if so, then you should realize that it's the same thing. Is practicing at CBS going to make them better football players? No. But would it help them to relate CBS as THEIR HOME? Oh Yeah! Someone said something in a previous post about the visiting teams playing there just as much as the Browns. Why should it feel just as much at home to the visiting teams as it does to our Browns? Have you taken a look at what our home record is since the team came back? 28-52! On our HOME FIELD! They've managed just ONE winning season at home and that was 2007. They did manage 2 other seasons, 2001 and 2005, with 4-4 records at home. Hardly protecting their home field! It seems to be a HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE for our Browns! In that same stretch of time, they have compiled a record of almost an identical 26-54. Again, not much of an advantage at home! A part of that is ATTITUDE and IDENTITY! Let these guys start to have some of each! Give them more opportunity to feel like this is truly their home!

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                  Have you guys ever been a part of any type of sport? Even in high school? Did you not have that extra urge to play harder in front of your home crowd? In front of your fans...your friends...your family? If not, then I understand you not getting it! But, if so, then you should realize that it's the same thing. Is practicing at CBS going to make them better football players? No. But would it help them to relate CBS as THEIR HOME? Oh Yeah! Someone said something in a previous post about the visiting teams playing there just as much as the Browns. Why should it feel just as much at home to the visiting teams as it does to our Browns? Have you taken a look at what our home record is since the team came back? 28-52! On our HOME FIELD! They've managed just ONE winning season at home and that was 2007. They did manage 2 other seasons, 2001 and 2005, with 4-4 records at home. Hardly protecting their home field! It seems to be a HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE for our Browns! In that same stretch of time, they have compiled a record of almost an identical 26-54. Again, not much of an advantage at home! A part of that is ATTITUDE and IDENTITY! Let these guys start to have some of each! Give them more opportunity to feel like this is truly their home!

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                  DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by DieHardBrownsFan
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                  @lcdawgfan13 said:

                  Have you guys ever been a part of any type of sport? Even in high school? Did you not have that extra urge to play harder in front of your home crowd? In front of your fans...your friends...your family? If not, then I understand you not getting it! But, if so, then you should realize that it's the same thing. Is practicing at CBS going to make them better football players? No. But would it help them to relate CBS as THEIR HOME? Oh Yeah! Someone said something in a previous post about the visiting teams playing there just as much as the Browns. Why should it feel just as much at home to the visiting teams as it does to our Browns? Have you taken a look at what our home record is since the team came back? 28-52! On our HOME FIELD! They've managed just ONE winning season at home and that was 2007. They did manage 2 other seasons, 2001 and 2005, with 4-4 records at home. Hardly protecting their home field! It seems to be a HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE for our Browns! In that same stretch of time, they have compiled a record of almost an identical 26-54. Again, not much of an advantage at home! A part of that is ATTITUDE and IDENTITY! Let these guys start to have some of each! Give them more opportunity to feel like this is truly their home!

                  This is professional football, not high school. They are highly paid professional athletes. I can't think of any team that practices at their home stadium. They have to keep the grass in great shape. This has always been the case. I don't think that not practicing on the CBS is why their record is so poor. It is because we have had poor teams. Like I said, not high school.

                  "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.
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                    Have you guys ever been a part of any type of sport? Even in high school? Did you not have that extra urge to play harder in front of your home crowd? In front of your fans...your friends...your family? If not, then I understand you not getting it! But, if so, then you should realize that it's the same thing. Is practicing at CBS going to make them better football players? No. But would it help them to relate CBS as THEIR HOME? Oh Yeah! Someone said something in a previous post about the visiting teams playing there just as much as the Browns. Why should it feel just as much at home to the visiting teams as it does to our Browns? Have you taken a look at what our home record is since the team came back? 28-52! On our HOME FIELD! They've managed just ONE winning season at home and that was 2007. They did manage 2 other seasons, 2001 and 2005, with 4-4 records at home. Hardly protecting their home field! It seems to be a HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE for our Browns! In that same stretch of time, they have compiled a record of almost an identical 26-54. Again, not much of an advantage at home! A part of that is ATTITUDE and IDENTITY! Let these guys start to have some of each! Give them more opportunity to feel like this is truly their home!

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                    @lcdawgfan13 said:

                    Have you guys ever been a part of any type of sport? Even in high school? Did you not have that extra urge to play harder in front of your home crowd? In front of your fans...your friends...your family? If not, then I understand you not getting it! But, if so, then you should realize that it's the same thing. Is practicing at CBS going to make them better football players? No. But would it help them to relate CBS as THEIR HOME? Oh Yeah! Someone said something in a previous post about the visiting teams playing there just as much as the Browns. Why should it feel just as much at home to the visiting teams as it does to our Browns? Have you taken a look at what our home record is since the team came back? 28-52! On our HOME FIELD! They've managed just ONE winning season at home and that was 2007. They did manage 2 other seasons, 2001 and 2005, with 4-4 records at home. Hardly protecting their home field! It seems to be a HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE for our Browns! In that same stretch of time, they have compiled a record of almost an identical 26-54. Again, not much of an advantage at home! A part of that is ATTITUDE and IDENTITY! Let these guys start to have some of each! Give them more opportunity to feel like this is truly their home!

                    I'll start with "Someone said something in a previous post about the visiting teams playing there just as much as the Browns. Why should it feel just as much at home to the visiting teams as it does to our Browns? ". If someone said that, they obviously posted first and thought second (which you just did in even raising it). CLE plays 8 games at CBS per season. Last time I checked it wasn't against the same team every time. So how do the visiting team play there just as much as the Browns?

                    Yeah, I have played team sport (which serves no relavance). I didn't need to practice in that stadium/field every day or any day to understand it was my home field. The family, fans, and friends that are there on game day (not there at practice) remind me of that. These are guys who are playing at the highest level of their sport, its not a "Hoosiers" experience for any player when they stop on the field.

                    And once again I ask, how many other NFL teams practice at their stadium?

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                      Riffer XR Riffer X wrote on last edited by
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                      I played just as hard away as at home and probably had some of my best games on the road. We never practiced on our home field, either.

                      I see no relevance to this. I mentioned earlier and it was followed up by the Gipper, but the turf is the primary concern. You can't practice on grass that much without damaging it, then you'll have Heinz Field Northwest.

                      There is also the little issue of the field only being ONE field, whereas at camp there are 4 fields in one.

                      Is a pig's ass pork?
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                        So the multiple hundred million dollar facility gets used 8 times? Players and coaches and staff should use the facility....once a week. The rerason for the thread was Mangini said he had gotten lost there....Just makes no sense not to have the team there once a week, if for nothing else to freakin be comfortable in your home stadium, make it feel like HOME!

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                        @solon16 said:

                        So the multiple hundred million dollar facility gets used 8 times?

                        Not true.

                        From early February to late July, the place gets converted to one huge Olive Garden restaurant.

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                          Have you guys ever been a part of any type of sport? Even in high school? Did you not have that extra urge to play harder in front of your home crowd? In front of your fans...your friends...your family? If not, then I understand you not getting it! But, if so, then you should realize that it's the same thing. Is practicing at CBS going to make them better football players? No. But would it help them to relate CBS as THEIR HOME? Oh Yeah! Someone said something in a previous post about the visiting teams playing there just as much as the Browns. Why should it feel just as much at home to the visiting teams as it does to our Browns? Have you taken a look at what our home record is since the team came back? 28-52! On our HOME FIELD! They've managed just ONE winning season at home and that was 2007. They did manage 2 other seasons, 2001 and 2005, with 4-4 records at home. Hardly protecting their home field! It seems to be a HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE for our Browns! In that same stretch of time, they have compiled a record of almost an identical 26-54. Again, not much of an advantage at home! A part of that is ATTITUDE and IDENTITY! Let these guys start to have some of each! Give them more opportunity to feel like this is truly their home!

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                          @lcdawgfan13 said:

                          Have you guys ever been a part of any type of sport? Even in high school? Did you not have that extra urge to play harder in front of your home crowd? In front of your fans...your friends...your family? If not, then I understand you not getting it! But, if so, then you should realize that it's the same thing. Is practicing at CBS going to make them better football players? No. But would it help them to relate CBS as THEIR HOME? Oh Yeah! Someone said something in a previous post about the visiting teams playing there just as much as the Browns. Why should it feel just as much at home to the visiting teams as it does to our Browns? Have you taken a look at what our home record is since the team came back? 28-52! On our HOME FIELD! They've managed just ONE winning season at home and that was 2007. They did manage 2 other seasons, 2001 and 2005, with 4-4 records at home. Hardly protecting their home field! It seems to be a HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE for our Browns! In that same stretch of time, they have compiled a record of almost an identical 26-54. Again, not much of an advantage at home! A part of that is ATTITUDE and IDENTITY! Let these guys start to have some of each! Give them more opportunity to feel like this is truly their home!

                          As a matter of fact, yes..I played college baseball.

                          Sorry....YOU are the one who doesn't know what he is talking about. Nobody practices on their game field. Quit sounding like a dope.

                          If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
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