@harry-buffalo said:
The whole Heckert thing pisses me off. He has obviously drafted well during his tenure with the team but the players themselves have been mismanaged by the coaching staff, mainly Shurmer. His two worst pick ups thus far are Weeden and McCoy and it is public knowledge that he had no control over drafting those two players and that Holmgren pulled rank on him to make those picks happen.
Nope, Banner is going to bitch route and saying that he doesn't want to fire Heckert, saying that he thinks that Heckert has done a good job. What he is doing is stripping Heckert of his power over collecting players (through the draft, FA, and trades) and demoting him to a glorified personnel director while knowing full well that it goes against what is written into Heckert's contract. Because Heckert came to Cleveland in the first place to have actual power on player pickup he isn't going to stick around when he has the legal means to get out of his contract due to Banner going against it. I would respect Banner so much more if he stopped being such a bitch and just came out and fired Heckert and told everyone why he is doing it. He doesn't want Heckert because they butted heads in Philly. Banner doesn't care that Heckert has proven to be a good drafter, he just wants him gone so he can install his own little puppet GM who has no power past scouting college players.
I don't get why everyone is so excited about new ownership when it includes bringing Banner along. He literally jumped ship from Philly right before it sank. Most of the people that he hired to work underneath him are now being fired because of how poorly the team is playing and how the team is being ran. He has ZERO experience successfully scouting and drafting players and he obviously has so little experience in this vital area that he had to go and spend millions of dollars to get himself involved in an investment group who bought partial ownership of the Browns. If this didn't happen, Banners only hope would have been to have a job for the NFL. He had zero chance working for any actual team, especially in a role that had him signing, trading, and drafting players.
Why should anyone here be happy about new ownership that puts in place a team president who is acting as a GM when he has zero experience with player pickup and who also plans to hire a GM (Lombardi) who is only going to act as a glorified personnel director and is so damn bad at his job that no NFL team would offer this guy a job at any level in their organization for the past 5 YEARS!
Since Ghoolie makes all these damn predictions all the time, here is one of mine. Mark my words, regardless of how fantastic our new head couch might be, even if he turns out to be the best head coach the NFL has ever seen, over the next five seasons we will not see the playoffs because of terrible trades, FA pick ups, and terrible draft picks. At the end of those five years Haslam will finally force Banner out as president and fire Lombardi, if not sooner.
Well you can always go the "i'm gonna be a Steelers Bitch" for the next five years while they turn it around so you can be a Bandwagon fan like the rest of their fanbase. So far we have seen absolutely nothing from the new FO and already a portion of the fanbase is screaming "woe is me, my panties are in a bunch". Guess what, we are 9-23 over the course of the last 2 seasons. How about wait until at least we know what direction the team will be going in before talking about the next blowup....pathetic and ridiculous...CONGRATZ
C
