What Is Cribbs Really Saying?
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I read this article and I couldn't help but wonder what Josh Cribbs was trying to say. I read that he is willing to only play special teams, but why is that? Very interesting. I have a few theories but I thought I would rather see what you all thought the deeper meaning is here.
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Several parts to this I think. Frustration after a loss. Frustration after a loss in which the kick coverage team gave up a TD (something that rarely happened when he was covering kickoffs). Although I think he's looked better at receiver this year, other than one nice catch and run I don't remember the ball even being thrown his way. I think Cribbs has shown one thing over his time here and that's the guy is a football player and he'll do whatever the team asks him to do and he wants to contribute. My guess is that he feels like he isn't contributing on offense so why not let him do what he was really good at?
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It is clear to me that the coaching is terrible. The players are responding.
This is not good.
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He wants to play. That's what he's saying. He wants to play and shurmur wants to throw to hardropsty.
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I was also thinking that he might be suggesting that THE COACH IS AN IDIOT for not using him more. Maybe I am being cynical but if you aren't trying to make a jab at the coach why say this in public at all? It is funny how Cribbs is the third player to complain publicly and this is only week 6. And the players supposedly didn't like Mangini but we didn't here this kind of stuff. Maybe they don't respect Shurmer.
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I think Goober just likes to post stuff so he can tell everyone how right he was even though he's wrong 3/4 of the time. It must really suck having to use the internet to feel good about yourself because you play the flute and get picked on 24/7 in real life.... just sayin
Now I wonder if Cribbs will take a pay cut? When he was moved to WR he said that he deserves to make more money and now that he's got that money he wants a lesser role with the offense? I dont think so.
Maybe it's time to trade him to.
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Maybe if he gets traded he can play football somewhere
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What he's saying is, that in Joseph Campbell's book, Hero of a Thousand Faces, there is a universal pattern in mythology - concerning
the hero/heroine's quests, obstacles, and all else along the way. Cribbs wants to be a hero for the Browns, but the offensive line is beset with
injuries, a plaque if you will... to the offensive line. No less a bunch of devious doings than in many famous legends, like
"Jason and the Golden Fleece", for example, or the problems Dorothy and her friends encountered via the hands of the evil witch.
And Cribbs simply knows this, and seeks the Holy Grail of Heroism, in a sea of troubles, by heroically working away from the effects
of, symbolically, the evil witch - which in the Browns case, is injuries to the offensive line, and the previous historical stupid ass failure
to build the offensive line.
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@king-ghoolie-lives said:
He is saying what I have said all along. Cribbs is a return man,,,,,,,,,, NOTHING MORE.
Except he has also been an excellent cover man on Special Teams as well, and he is simply asking to be allowed to go back to doing that as well.
God knows Sunday proved that the Browns need that.
Fair to say?
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What he's saying is, that in Joseph Campbell's book, Hero of a Thousand Faces, there is a universal pattern in mythology - concerning
the hero/heroine's quests, obstacles, and all else along the way. Cribbs wants to be a hero for the Browns, but the offensive line is beset with
injuries, a plaque if you will... to the offensive line. No less a bunch of devious doings than in many famous legends, like
"Jason and the Golden Fleece", for example, or the problems Dorothy and her friends encountered via the hands of the evil witch.
And Cribbs simply knows this, and seeks the Holy Grail of Heroism, in a sea of troubles, by heroically working away from the effects
of, symbolically, the evil witch - which in the Browns case, is injuries to the offensive line, and the previous historical stupid ass failure
to build the offensive line.
What he's saying is, that in Joseph Campbell's book, Hero of a Thousand Faces, there is a universal pattern in mythology - concerning
the hero/heroine's quests, obstacles, and all else along the way. Cribbs wants to be a hero for the Browns, but the offensive line is beset with
injuries, a plaque if you will... to the offensive line. No less a bunch of devious doings than in many famous legends, like
"Jason and the Golden Fleece", for example, or the problems Dorothy and her friends encountered via the hands of the evil witch.
And Cribbs simply knows this, and seeks the Holy Grail of Heroism, in a sea of troubles, by heroically working away from the effects
of, symbolically, the evil witch - which in the Browns case, is injuries to the offensive line, and the previous historical stupid ass failure
to build the offensive line.
Actually, I think Cribbs can be equated more to Frodo and his quest to destroy the evil ring, but in doing so, rather than soliciting the aid of a single comrade (Sam), he employs the tactics of D'Artagnan of the Dumas novels and tries to employ a cadre of like minded individuals who also seek justice. But, unlike the successful Frodo and D'Artagnan, he seems to be having to endure the fate of certain anti-heros like the Roy Hobbs of the book (not the movie) who fail in their goal. He perhaps has a little Holden Caulfield in him as well, not to mention John Conner of the Terminator series. Always fighting....never knowing if you will endure success or failure.
Fair to say that we can elicit other literary and popular culture analogies?
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He's probably wondering when Cleveland fans became such homos.
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Ha.
Haha. That was good, Pumpkin.
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Ha.
Haha. That was good, Pumpkin.
Ha.
Haha. That was good, Pumpkin.
Really? It smacked of complete ignorance to me. You both seem to be saying that if you are a football fan that that status disqualifies you from being learned and literate.
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He's probably wondering when Cleveland fans became such homos.
He's probably wondering when Cleveland fans became such homos.
Hilarious!
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Ha.
Haha. That was good, Pumpkin.
Really? It smacked of complete ignorance to me. You both seem to be saying that if you are a football fan that that status disqualifies you from being learned and literate.
Really? It smacked of complete ignorance to me. You both seem to be saying that if you are a football fan that that status disqualifies you from being learned and literate.
Nope. It's implying that many on here posting are whiney biatches who won't even give a new coach 5 games before they are calling for him to be fired.
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Yeah, Gip. I didn't take it in reference to yours or Cal's posts.
As Michael Clarke Duncan says- "don't assume. It makes an asshole out of yourself."
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Really? It smacked of complete ignorance to me. You both seem to be saying that if you are a football fan that that status disqualifies you from being learned and literate.
Nope. It's implying that many on here posting are whiney biatches who won't even give a new coach 5 games before they are calling for him to be fired.
Nope. It's implying that many on here posting are whiney biatches who won't even give a new coach 5 games before they are calling for him to be fired.
yeah, to think that shurmur will be fired after this season is crazy. it goes against everything Holmgren said the Browns were lacking - consistency in the organization
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Yeah, Gip. I didn't take it in reference to yours or Cal's posts.
As Michael Clarke Duncan says- "don't assume. It makes an asshole out of yourself."
Yeah, Gip. I didn't take it in reference to yours or Cal's posts.
As Michael Clarke Duncan says- "don't assume. It makes an asshole out of yourself."
OK, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!!
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