@the-gipper said:

I am going to start to put as much time and effort into commenting on this board as the Browns apparently do planning for their games.

Which means you won't see me much on here for a while. I have some vacations coming up....so I think I will concentrate on those....and trying to get some work done.

Bud I understand.

I had to take a season of 2 years back and get the depression out of my system. Spent the days building Android roms and playing Payday 2 online.

Sometimes we just hit that point we can't take anymore because we've been making the same mistakes for 15 seasons and its like watching your idiot son constantly putting their car in reverse and backing into your front room every time they get in the car.

I blame the poor running game on the oline coach. It's pretty obvious he only knew how to drink and beat women.

Wait..

We had Ray Rice coaching the oline?

We need Bernie back doing the play by play. Brent Jones smacked us around more then Bernie ever did anyone.

Johnny didn't look as bad as last year, but he still looked bad.

He made a couple nice throws and some nice scrambles, but when you're holding on to the ball past 3 seconds you're just begging to get your linemen called for holding.

Another thing is, you can't blame the online when Johnny is carrying the ball one handed like a loaf of bread, that's just begging to get stripped. He's got to learn to protect the ball better, hell man one of those fumbles was from Johnny running into his own guy.

He's either not seeing the field or he just can't read the field. He looked like a rookie qb, like what he should have looked like last year.

Maybe at this rate he'll be ready to start when he's 30.

He's got a lot of work to do.

I think the majority of the fans don't give a shit who is the coach, gm or qb so long as we can WIN A GAME and not get blown out of the water like a fish in a barrel.

And 3 out of 4 of the most single game rushing yards are on us too.

These past 15 years have been pretty brutal.

Don't take this the wrong way, but in the off season our media fed us any information that made the team look good because if they were honest and let us know how bad it was going to be they'd be locked out of the training facilities and refused interviews like they do in Pittsburgh.

Every year, most fans buy it, hear about improvements, and think this is the season its going to be different.

It's honestly hard not to when its the team you love and love makes hope sping eternal...

Until you get fed up with the lies and lose faith. It takes more with some then others, but we all hit a breaking point sooner or later.

@tony_shalub said:

Four things irritate me more than anything watching football.

1: Fat offensive lineman holding. Your job is to block. Its honest to God easy to not hold someone.

2. Wide Receievers who cant catch a football. It is the NFL for goodness sakes.

3. Missed tackles... Not wrapping up. It is the NFL for goodness sakes

4 And fumbles..... I dont understand

Fumbles irritate me more than anything. Put two hands on the damn football and tuck it before you run. Its not a loaf of bread.

Basic fundamentals that NFL players cant do.

I agree with you on all but #1.

When your qb expects to rock the ball to sleep while singing it a lullaby you tend to get holding calls instead of those "fat guys" letting their slow ass qb that can't make his reads get killed.

@sisky-fringo said:

Good God, why are you back...

Because the family insists I still watch Browns games to "support the home team" and I believe they COULD BE great again, but we've got morons as far up as the owner box and straight down the line through the coaching staff.

We're always seeing coaches come in, and instead of adjusting to the talent, they insist it be traded and dumped for their guys and in the process get fired for taking too much time.

Great coaches adjust, as much as I hate the Pats they change their schemes with their talent instead of rebuilding and changing their talent to their schemes.

I want THAT HERE.

Problem is every first time head coach knows it all and thinks their way is going to work with an entirely new group of players with different skill sets then what they had.

We see the same thing over and over, and we've either got to find the right guy or let the new guy learn and hope he becomes the right guy.

Besides, I moved out of the city and live on a farm now, I've got no one to talk about the games with anymore...

@tim-couch-pulls-out said:

I'd love to see him dive and lead with his feet. That would be the smartest way.

Except for the fact the ball crossing the plain constitutes a TD, not body parts.

Further, jumping over a person isn't "leading with your head", fuckwit.

Glad to see impotent rage still lives on trolling the Browns forums.

Still, what did he lead with?

It might have been ballsy but it was still nothing short of stupid no matter how you look at it.

@jrb12711 said:

You're the worst type of person.

Thank you.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

So, you're comparing fucking McClown to John Elway? Really?

I was thinking more like McCown would be lucky, actually WE would be lucky if McCown turned out more like Jake Plumber because he sure as shit ain't no Elway...

@tim-couch-pulls-out said:

Diving for a TD is Mike Alstott, got it. Clearly you've never watched the sport.

You are so negative because you're a dumbass.Simple explanation. I don't think anyone really wonders why, it's pretty apparent.

No dumbass, I'm talking about leading with your head, not diving for a TD.

Apparently reading isn't your strong suit. May I help you sign up for some remedial English classes at the elementary school? I heard they're all the rage in Pittsburgh...

I always liked the NFL more then college up until about 3 years ago.

Then again, Sunday was the only day my dad, uncles and grandfathers got together and we all watched the Browns together.

Now watching the Browns is like watching that movie Pixels, not even nostalga can save something THAT BAD.

Look, if your starting qb thinks he's Mike F*cking Alstott leading with his head you picked an idiot and have to blame the GM.

This level of stupidity is D.A. trip the ref level of stupid.

And people wonder why I get so negative! Dear god!

Well it depends on what you consider top 5.

If you can consider top 5 in yards allowed and points scored against then we're in there!

Seriously though, I was pretty disappointed. We couldn't penatrate, stuff the run or seal the edges. To top it off, even when the secondary looked good they still screwed it up (like the Gibson int).

Does breakfast count towards gameday food or just what we'll be eating game time?

If breakfast counts, we fixed bacon bombs. It's basically a mozzarella chunk wrapped in a honey butter biscuit wrapped in bacon cooked in the deep fryer.

Healthy? Oh hell no but it sure is tasty..

Best of luck to the local kid no matter where he goes.

I'm up to a charcoal grill, 2 propane grills and an electric smoker.

We do family picnics here now!

Today its just cod and coleslaw, forecast called for rain today so I didn't get anything to smoke or grill.

@texasag1969 said:

You must be a secret Texan. I thought we were the only ones that used that grammatical error in everyday life.

I've actually thought of moving down there since Google Fiber runs in Austin now and Time Warner is a sad, sad joke...

But then I'd have to give up the farm, and after being a city boy my entire life I'm finding the country agreeing with me.

Well, that and the nephews and nieces love coming down in the fall and pressing cider when the apples come in. Now I've just got to get the stuff set up to make wine and hard cider, THEN I'll probably never want to leave.

Hell man last time I brewed ale my brother drank two and stumbled into a wall. I don't half ass my alcohol!