Terry Pluto: You Wrong, Man!

Terry Pluto here wrote a good and bad article.  The Crowell part was good, mostly, except, like most paid writers, he gave propaganda more credence than reality warrants.

I have to ask this, by the way: Have Bill Livingston and Ben Dover ever been seen in the same place at the same time?

He was right that Crowell shouldn't be waived, however.  The idiot has scrambled to make amends, and the music in my ears is his professed intention to "work with" police.  He should be deprogrammed shortly, and ready to tell black kids everywhere that they have been brainwashed.

I know how this will play out, because in addition to being taught to think with my brain, I was part of Cleveland's law enforcement community, and know that the first four or so deprogrammers Isaiah will meet will be black.

Pluto and Livingston need to talk to these guys too.  

But kudos to Terry for including a hostile response from a police officer, who I wouldn't be surprised to find out was black.

Sorry if "black" offends you.  "African-American" is just silly.  Get over it.

Anyway, Terry doesn't seem to understand the Horton defense as well as he should either (must have been distracted--this is rare).

Horton's 3-4 is unique.  Terry thinks that Hughes and Cooper might start at DE.  He says he's heard that Hassan is a bit of a project.  He mentions one of my own favorites in Jamie Meder...

Well I'm nit-picking here, since Terry is talking about good players all-around, BUT:

Cooper doesn't match up well with offensive tackles.  He belongs inside, in a one-gap attack scheme.  

Hughes could neutralize a right tackle vs the run, but lacks the speed to pursue outside.

Horton could tweak his scheme, I guess, but if we stick with his ideal, we need two physical penetrators at nose tackle and right defensive end, and a truly athletic long/tall guy at left defensive end.

In point of fact, Horton's ideal left defensive end is the only REAL defensive end in his line, since both other guys are actually over inside gaps.

Hassan is the only guy on this roster who can play LEFT defensive end the way Ray needs it played.

As I posted earlier, the 3-4 "base" is almost a joke, since like every other defense, the Browns will be in nickels and dimes at least 70% of the time.

This roster is overloaded at inside linebacker, and includes four outside linebackers capable of deploying as defensive ends.

Terry is making a mountain out of a molehill.  Hassan can fill the left DE base-role on 30% of the downs, as long as Ray keeps it simple for him at first.  

As I posted earlier as well, he should come in at 290 lbs or more, now that he's not trying to convince GMs that he can play OLB.  He can keep the tackles off him with his reach, and overmatches them athletically.

Each and every alternative front could eliminate his position with legitimate 4-3 defensive end (or something else-remember this is Ray Horton).

Terry, relax.  Des will definitely be missed.  It will hurt.  But we got this.  No new retreads required.  Please shut the alarms down.  You woke everybody up.