Cleveland Browns: Crawl Before You Walk

Pat Kirwan, in the wake of his most recent interview of Hue Jackson on NFL Radio, is sounding less bored by and disdainful of the Cleveland Browns.

He came very close to admitting that Cody Kessler was not neccessarily doomed to fail, and he likes Crowell and Pryor.

Pat has an old school issue with analytics, referring often to "money ball" and implying that football is too complex for such deep analysis to be nearly as effective here.  He loves Hue Jackson, however, and is coming to realize that Hue is all aboard with Sashi and company.

Indeed, as Head Coach of the Raiders, he really had little help, and pretty much ran everything.  He coached just fine, and his draft was about average.  But several games into the season, when Campbell went down, he traded with the Bengals for Carson Palmer, paid him gobs of money, and hurried him onto the field.

Remember, Palmer was sitting out the season in a contract dispute.  He hadn't been in camp or practiced.  He was no doubt working out, but hadn't played any football for a long time.

It didn't work, and was probably the reason Hue was fired.

So Hue has had his taste of handling the personnel side of things, and in my opinion is probably glad to let somebody else do it.

Pat Kirwan said of this team: If you measure their progress by wins and losses, you miss the point.  They are looking for their dependable core players.  Pryor, Crowell, and possibly Kessler are some of these, and by the end of the season, there should be some more.

Pat then happily accepted a call from "Browns Freak", who calls the front office a bunch of idiots and called for a boycott to remove Jimmy Haslam three years after he bought the team.

As usual, the nimrod predicted 0-20, a Hue Jackson firing, death and destruction.  Pat said "I agree" three or four times.

When in a moment of clarity he called Colon Kaperdick a pud, Pat avoided it.  Oh well that's Pat.

Yesterday I read this by a guy I like even more than Pluto: Lesmerises. You've probably already read it, but just in case, click and make sure you did:

The silver lining in all the injuries is the experience the younger players are getting, and the extended looks the coaches are getting at them.

In the short term, it's a disaster, but in 2017 and beyond, it will pay dividends.  Some of these players will probably be gone by the end of next training camp.  Others will probably be starters.  The playing time they're getting now will not only make them "grow up" faster, but give the staff the information it needs to make better decisions.

I think the Browns have a shot vs the Bengals.  Losing Eifert hurt them, but they're still loaded with talent at every position. I believe the bigger loss Marvin Lewis suffered was...Hue Jackson.