Got a big project for you here, I cleared my clipboard and stockpiled a bunch of intelligent articles, so I can't be doing my Don Rickles thing this time.
All I will do this time is respectfully make minor corrections on smart (not neccessarily well written) articles by people who grok the 2017 Browns, and football in general.
First up is Pow-lease ride-alongs. Players in Cleveland and Miami are doing this. This is great! Isaiah Crowell did this after he got in trouble for his brilliant twitter post depicting a masked assailant cutting a cop's throat.
Hopefully, these guys will return to tell their teammates that they were unable to find any institutionally racist conspiracy aimed at oppressing (or mass-murdering) minorities. Like Crow, they first went through a training class, and found themselves shooting some innocent people.
They no doubt discovered that many of the cops they met grew up in the communities they are trying to PROTECT, too, and that the radio calls they get usually take them to...well...minority households thass prow-filin man oh shut tf up!
Anyway, this is very positive. I was a dumbass when I was their age, and I hadn't even been spoiled and pampered for stuff I did playing children's GAMES. These immature puppets will learn a lot from this, and be embarrassed.
Be very embarrassed.
Jabrill Peppers was more aggressive vs the Jets. Dan Labbe really dove deep on this, and told us where Jabrill lined up, and what he did throughout the game, complete with some tapes for illustration.
I tried very hard, but couldn't find anything wrong with this article.
The comments section following thie article was dominated by negative, ignorant, and psychotic people, but I'll paste one intelligent comment here:
agouradawg 3 hours ago
Jets really didnt have any deep threats last week so GW probably decided to bring him up to help blitz and control the box my guess he could afford to do that against the Jets, this week will be different with Fuller & Hopkins, I'm sure he'll be 20-25 yards off the ball this week and they should have someone shadowing DWatson, the defense has been burned a number of times on QB scrambling and or blitzing this year....I would shadow DWatson and play a zone and drop 7-8 into coverage, DWatson has struggled with accuracy and we may be able to get some INTs if we can force him to throw from the pocket.
Now I need to head Black Cloud off at the pass here: The GRAMMAR does not matter here. (Black Cloud is easily distracted by irrelelant stuff).
I wouldn't have said that Watson "has struggled with accuracy", because this guy has never "struggled" with anything, but the writer is probably overstating parts of Watson's pre-draft scouting reports.
The consensus questioned his arm, judgement, and deep accuracy...and size...and a bunch of other stuff.
But I can't knock agouradawg here, simply because he's a better thinker than he is a writer (good grief I can hear Black Cloud fixating on run-on sentences--thank God the guy spelled everything right, or this would be a very long night).
Agouradawg really gets it, and is right: Houston has lethal deep threats, and a quarterback who can hit them deep. Peppers will stay deep a lot more than he did vs the Jets.
Next up: What's up with Kizer. Here, Thomas Moore digs into DeShone's many issues, and I couldn't find much wrong with it. On the bottom line, he's very raw.
Now, Thomas didn't say this, but somebody else did, and I need to correct it: "Processing speed" is not among the positive traits Kizer has demonstrated. Don't just throw big words around like that, at least until you comprehend what they mean!
Anyway, Thomas says the Browns need to see what Kizer can do "ASAP", and thinks he might come back after the bye week (and three Hogan starts).
What bothers me here is that Tom seems to expect Rodney Hoganfield to play worse than he has to-date. Because if Kevin Hogan is kicking ass by the break, and they replace him with Kizer anyway...well?
This isn't about pubic opinion or the fans. This is about the players on this team.
Offensive linemen grow really fond of a quarterback who gets rid of the damn ball, and receivers of a quarterback who gets it to them in good spots. If a head coach yanks a guy who's doing that in favor of a second round rookie who already failed badly, they'll stage a mutinee.
Tom, I don't think Kevin Hogan is going to cooperate with your proposed plan.
This just in: Phil Simms likes Kevin Hogan.
Phil liked him coming out of college, except for his elongated throwing motion (which in the NFL is a big deal). Phil didn't say this, but I know Phil, and will say it for him: He also doesn't like any quarterback who doesn't go deep a lot.
A whole lot.
Phil projected Hogan in the fifth round, right where he went.
But today with Mad Dog Russo on NFL Radio, Phil said that Hogan has eliminated that "wind-up", and looks much better mechanically. He evidently actually forced himself to watch one half of a Browns game (eeewwwww).
Phil isn't putting Kevin Hogan in the Hall of Fame just yet, but does like his decisiveness and accuracy. He didn't have much to say about Kizer, besides the obvious: He's not ready.
Phil rarely pulls any punches, but he doesn't want to talk about Kizer. Think about that.
DPD's Joel Cade wrote a nice article on the emergence of Son Coleman as a pretty good right tackle. Joel is kind of an offensive line geek, and I've come to trust his analyses of the big uglies.
Joel says that Coleman was always a dominating run-blocker, both in-line and in space, but initially sucked in pass pro.
Now, Joel says Coleman is vastly improved in protection (although he's still got work to do) and, on balance, is now a pretty good starting right tackle.
That's good to know.
Oh I just read another ignorant hit piece. I'm trying to ignore it. The Browns second-season front office is the Donald Trump of the NFL. It's between that or a pre-Tet firebase in Viet Nam. Sashi should dig in and call an air strike onto his own position. His perimeter is overrun damn that didn't take long!
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