@browns52 said:

hey, just wanted to say, you almost got the score right after last night. If it wasn't for that awesome ankle tackle by our explosive db gilbert on the bengals wr, you would have been totally correct...ehhh, except for the team of course. That receiver would have scored if he only could have kept his balance for just 1 or 2 more seconds...

My crystal ball was part right

@sisky-fringo said:

You mean that's where Peyton wants to wind up? Nebraska? Sorry, they play in Lincoln. LOL, I want to hear a play call like this-Omaha, Lincoln, Ogalla, Kearney, Valentine, North Platte. LOL.

@mudfly said:

chicken parm you taste so good.....

@clevfan4life said:

But let's play a fun game anyway, fast forward two years into the Dungy/Manning era where we're still an avg to below avg team rebuilding with young players. Let's hear why Dungy's a bum and Manning's an arrogant asshole that need to be fired not at the end of the season, but RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!! Let's preemptively run Dungy and Manning out of town before they're even hired. This will be fun, here I'll start one...

OMFG this fucking Manning cunt can't control his offense. You see these guys? Was a good QB but fuck he can't OC in the NFL. He needed to start out in division II or something...get him out of here he sucks and I hate him.

@browns_fucking_rule said:

It's not off topic...but to me and this is just my opinion. Bringing in the successful retread coach who has already won his super bowl (or more than one) somewhere else just won't work. It hasn't worked in 40 years and it's been tried many many times. So to me, that's not the way to go. The fire just won't be there.

If we're going to start over, we need to find the young Sean Payton or the young Belicheck (though the media would hate that guy) or as much as I hate to say it...the young Bill Cowher.

@mudfly said:

Or....sometimes the guy they hired IS the problem.....fire him and move on.....but firing the guy who hired him is stupid,, cause thats a never ending line.....are you then gonna fire the guy who hired the guy who fired the guy who got hired?

if everyone got fired for hiring someone who's not good at their job or for promoting someone who doesnt pan out in their new position.....there would literally be no one left at any business in the world.....

Oneill is the perfect example of the Peter principle, which plays out in every business every day.....and probably fits a bunch of folks who are here bitching as well.....

Maybe Pettine and Farmer too(ftm).....not sure....Peter Principle....look it up......it lives!

@bbedward said:

i have a feeling he will seek a role at the college level. Probably in the volunteer state.

@bbedward said:

hey, just wanted to say, you almost got the score right after last night. If it wasn't for that awesome ankle tackle by our explosive db gilbert on the bengals wr, you would have been totally correct...ehhh, except for the team of course. That receiver would have scored if he only could have kept his balance for just 1 or 2 more seconds...

@mudfly said:

didn't they call him gamblin sam...loved that era with sipe...lots of fun exciting games, but still one of the worse calls in professional sports history...guess that's why they called him gamblin sam....

@mudfly said:

So....is it a rumor or a guarantee???.....cant be both....

It is the uber rare guaranteed, infant-stage rumor...

@bbedward said:

I imagine he will eventually get into a front office or coaching role after he retires, but hard to see him jumping straight into it - would probably take a few years off sippin those pina coladas.

Unless we are the U of TN - Cleveland Campus...

Dunno... Elway had his golf. Manning does not strike me as the idle type, but I would think a role with U of TN would be closer to his heart. And FO over coaching would be his inclination. Maybe AD since the current HC seems to have them on a bit of an upswing.

@mudfly said:

As long as its not "high pitched voice" Manning....cause nobody would take him seriously....

You can include the "Four Tunesmen" as well!

@hoorta said:

There was some time inbetween his retirement and taking the GM job though right? 10 years maybe? Would be odd if Manning would jump pretty much straight back into the grind. I just don't see it....would love it, but don't see it. People would have to understand though that we don't have a qb that could run an offense the way Manning would want to run it. Just having Manning as the OC wouldn't magically reverse everything overnight. It would take time to get "his" players here. Basically if Manning was our OC right now there would be almost nothing different.

@hoorta said:

I imagine he will eventually get into a front office or coaching role after he retires, but hard to see him jumping straight into it - would probably take a few years off sippin those pina coladas.

@kvoethe said:

All we know is Haslam and Manning are friends due to their Vols connection. Peyton has enough loot for his playing days- why would he want to coach, when he can sit on a beach in Tahiti sipping pina coladas all day when he retires? Then again Elway took on the GM job with the Broncos- Manning to the Browns in the same position?

@mudfly said:

IKR? I heard that guy was in town the other day looking at real estate...get Landry out of here and get Paul Brown in. Cmon Haslem do this!!

@bbedward said:

Thats an understatement.....

@clevfan4life said:

and that hat he wears?.......who does he think he is, Paul Brown?.....

@mark-o said:

He knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who talked to his barber.

It was his gynecologist who told him.

Then again, Holmgren didn't care.