Farmergeddon

The stunning revelation that Ray Farmer was texting during games has sent shock-waves through the universe.  Last week, a man is burned alive.  Children are being crucified and buried alive.  Now this!

For years to come, each of us will know exactly where we were when we found out that Ray Farmer himself was the texter.  Those scars may never heal.

It goes without saying that Farmer must be fired, if not imprisoned for a long time.

Sorry I can't keep this up.  If I do I'll be a moron all day.

Sure, Farmer should have known better and shouldn't have done it.  League rules aside, he went into personnel instead of coaching, and has to leave coaching to the coaches.

But if you refer back in my blogs, I suggested why he did it.  When Bernie Kosar referred to "non-football people" making football decisions, he could not have been referring to former NFL linebacker Ray Farmer.

That's why when Ray watches games, he imagines himself on that field, and analyzes things as he did when he was a player.

He got frustrated with some of the things Shanahan ordered. He got so ticked off that he couldn't restrain himself.  If he had punched Kyle in the mouth, I would be excited about it, but all he did was text.

Suspend him.  Fine him.  Otherwise big deal.

And he probably felt under attack.  Manziel had Ray's name on him, and when the party boy started, Kyle ran the exact same offense that Hoyer did.  I have almost zero doubt that Ray felt he was deliberately undermining Manziel, and just couldn't stand it.

YardBarker makes a big deal out of Hoyer's statement that he was interested in where the investigation would lead.  By the way, he never used the word "dysfunction".

Behind the scenes, players, coaches, and front office people are rolling their eyes at the firestorm an errant text message has unleashed.

Look, you can bash him for the Manziel pick, but you need to cool your jets even on Gilbert, whose physical talent is off the charts.  His free agents and the rest of the draft are outstanding.

He'd be a fool to cut Gordon.  He will cost zero and not take up roster space.

Even on that, everybody has lost their damn minds.  The season is over, and he and some teammates had some drinks on a plane.  It's the NFL that's being rediculous about this whole thing.

It's getting downright silly when a guy can't drink a little in the offseason, and when a GM texting sounds like a rape accusation.

I'm glad Johnny checked into rehab, because he was rediculous with his partying.  I don't know if it will do any good, but it might.  If he's not drinking, he'll need a hobby.  If we're lucky, it will be football.

Those who say he lacks NFL talent are full of it.  He might still lack an NFL brain, but we don't know that yet.

Terry Pluto, as usual, wrote the best article about Farmergeddon and the state of the Browns.

This blog entry must conclude this way:

Put down the magnifying glass, and look at this on a 1:1 scale.  It's simply not that big.  So now put down the ropes and torches.  Go home and sober up.