For All The Emo Fans Who Want To Give Up On The Season

Well, you quoted my post---it's kinda natural to presume you were talking to or about me.

I dunno...ever visit a Browns' message board?
And I never said the team sucked. I said that our play on special teams and our offensive scoring has been very bad. We have a lot of talent at many positions...but we lack good offensive coaching and either talent, coaching or experience in ST kick coverage and our defensive secondary. We can correct some of those things during the season and still finish with a decent record. If we do NOT correct them, or at least attempt to, I think Sparano's job should be in jeopardy. I know we can't fix all of them this season and I never expected a SB run this season, but we have enough talent on this team to win a playoff game and if we don't even make the playoffs, someone should answer for it.

 

I quoted your post only after you quoted mine

As for everything else you said I would have to agree. We have the talent...something has to be wrong with the coaching *EDIT*: I don't think, however that everyone needs to be fired. Our Coaches just need to do a better job of preparing this team. I do believe that we can fix our offensive woes over the bye and hopefully our ST unit plays decent at worst.

As for our secondary I really wish Sean Smith would get off his high horse and work harder towards becoming the CB he has the potential to be. Vontae is already a beast. Yerimiah Bell is a sure tackler and Chris Clemons just sort of co-exists with the rest of the defense.

 

No, I don't think expecting to make the playoffs three years into a coaching regime that has basically been given everything it wants and told money is no object is too great. And I don't think Ross will think it too great either.

 

If they didn't want 10 new starters, they shouldn't have cut the old ones. Do you have a source for your contention that the purse strings have been tightened? Because getting Dansby and Marshall sure took a buttload of money. Were the cuts made for money or simply because Sparano or Ireland wanted a younger team?

 

Every team has new starters every season yet some teams magically are still consistent. It's not like the entire roster is being completely overhauled every season. We don't have that many players who weren't starting here or somewhere else last season. Three years is a fair amount of time to expect to compete for the playoffs. If that doesn't happen then this season is definitely a failure. Let's start calling a spade a spade. Let's give credit where it's due but stop pretending this team is for some reason dealing with things that 31 other teams aren't dealing with every season. The Pats secondary is greener than ours yet here they are at 3-1. The Jets are dealing with all kinds of injuries and new players to the system. Here they are at 3-1 and in the division driver's seat. Tony and company have a chance to turn things around, but up to this point they have been outcoached within the division. I don't know how you can deny that.

 

Pittsburgh has been doing it for a long time...since the Cowher years.

 

I guess not many of them. Probably because they're not bringing in too many Ernest Wilfords, Gibril Wilsons, and Akin Ayodeles. Having ten new starters in year three is their own doing. There's not some rule mandating any amount of roster turnover. If ten starters you fielded the season before weren't good enough, that is a circumstance of your own making if you're in charge. It doesn't change the timeline you should reasonably expect success. I still expect a run at playoffs in year three. You are free to expect something different. But there is rationale behind my expectations. They are not unfair. And if they fall short I won't call for sparano's head as long as things are continuously going in the right direction. That's the key.

 

You want to build a playoff competitor within three to four seasons in my opinion. You don't have forever in today's NFL to build a team good enough to go to a Super Bowl and keep that team together. Look at Arizona. Their window didn't stay open for very long. Some of your good players become free agents and you can't keep them all.

 

That's nothing but speculation by the reporter. He doesn't quote any source to back it up.

 

I'd expect him to have at least an unnamed source. Writers get confidential reports all the time from people who dont want to be named. But he doesn't, because he has no source other than his assumption it was done for financial reasons.

 

I don't know why we cut them. What I am not doing is ASSUMING I know why we cut them.

 

That could very well be...but if they had really wanted to keep them, they could have renegotiated. I am trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.