Nice to have Terry Pluto backing Captain Obvious and I how utterly stupid it would be for the Browns to sign Dez Bryant. However, there he goes again "the Browns probably do need another receiver, but--"
Terry then says the Browns already have a number one receiver: Jarvis Landry. I can accept that, since he's certain to "out-catch" everybody else, but now Terry has reduced Josh Gordon to an asterisk.
I remember when Terry threw his hands up and said they should just dump Gordon...despite the fact that retaining him was free, and without risk. Terry is a fine analyst, but thank God he's not running the team.
After saying that the Browns probably need another receiver, he says that Rashard Higgins has become a contender to start, mentions how good Callaway looks, and we're up to four good-to-great wide receivers here (not including Duke Johnson--who might out-catch everybody except Landry, Terry!)
Good grief Terry what do you have against Ratley, Janis, and Board?. (and Duke Johnson, for that matter?) Why do you think they all need to get kicked to the curb or risked on waivers en route to the practice squad?
I guess for Terry, Damion Ratley is years away from NFL viability because you know--it's just all so complex...but he just can't still believe this.
Right here, the rookie Josh Gordon was quite effective, and he was the best wide receiver in the NFL in year two. The unheralded Jarvis Landry caught 84 passes as a rookie (and never looked back).
If you think Callaway will disappear when it gets real, you're kidding yourself. He's practicing against better cornerbacks than he'll be facing.
Even if you are dumb enough to think an NFL team needs all it's wide receivers to have 3-plus years' experience...I give up:
Captain Obvious and I agree that the Browns do NOT need any more wide receivers, and have too many as it is. But at least Terry sees how insane even wasting time with Dez Bryant is.
Dorsey, don't you get this? Are you trying to exploit the fact that nobody else wants him to get him cheap? Like he wouldn't resent the hell out of that, and start butting heads with Todd Haley and Tyrod Taylor because they're not giving him a "fair shot" (you know playing bumbs like Gordon, Landry, and Johnson ahead of him? Not throwing to him?)
Everything is going so well. You just can't stand it, can you, John? Let's throw a fragmentation grenade into the wide receivers room and see what happens, right?
Sorry I've fixated on this, but insanity drives me nuts (joke get it? Insanity---zingg nevermind...ok how 'bout "pain hurts" did that one register? Tough crowd...)
I know that in my last post I said every coach in the NFL sounds the same to me; cliche machines, but Todd Haley, like Gregg Williams, is a little different.
Haley talks about wanting an offense that can come back from setbacks, short and long-term.
And we can see this on Hard Knocks, as he "rides" his players relentlessly.
Actually, I think that's overblown. I mean, I don't find "Come on Corey, that's a big play! You've got to make that catch!" as very brutal at all.
He never yelled "You're soft!" or any of a whole lot worse things I can think of. He wants each player to do his best--that's all.
Corey Coleman is gone because Haley couldn't trust him in the clutch. Rashard Higgins has climbed up the depth chart because Haley can trust him.
I really "get" Todd Haley: If you check out his Steelers "stars", you see Big Ben (of course), Bell, and Brown. His Steelers' offenses always ranked very high, but he couldn't control his defense, and got in a bunch of shoot-outs.
Then there were the Ravens, whose defense seemed custom-built to screw him up. In the playoffs every season (and totally screwed by the referees in 2017)...
That's what Haley is talking about: He wants guys who get better under pressure. Bell and Brown were those guys for him. The rest were decoys when the chips were down.
I've written about this before: Most of us have "breaking points" wired into us. We are social animals, and our original form of "government" was heirarchical and based on physical dominance.
We remained wired that way even as civilizations were established (by dominators who consolidated and retained power through a hereditary aristocracy)...
Okay screw the history lesson, but almost every one of us has the instinct to roll over and surrender once we feel beaten. Most of those who don't die young, to this day.
In my humble (and maybe unfair) opinion, Corey Coleman subconsciously "backed down" too often vs defensive backs; he lost most "contested" targets some how, some way.
Todd Haley wants ALPHA dogs, and Coleman wasn't one, ok? Jarvis Landry is the ULTIMATE alpha dog, and Josh Gordan is another one. Callaway will fight for the ball too. Higgins means business.
Now if you want a bird dog to follow your neighbor into a parking garage and point him out to your brother and another asshole to gang-stomp, Corey is your dog!
Anyway, the "roll-over" threshhold in all of us can be raised, you see? This is what Todd Haley is pushing and looking for. He was trying to HELP Corey Coleman.
I wish I could say I wish Corey Coleman luck, but I can't. I laugh at pot busts and dwi's, but I can't get past viciousness and brutality or unfair fights.
This just in! Hue Fisher is considering demoting Baker Mayfield because Drew Stanton has more experience.
There must be something in the water here! Pluto thinks the Browns need another wide receiver, Dorsey is flirting with Dez Bryant, and now this "experience" crap!
Hard Knocks is here, filming all this, and I'm already embarrassed for this team. Just when it looks like the team is about to turn itself around, they start recruiting Dez Bryant and talking about demoting a first overall draft pick for a grade 66 quarterback with more interceptions than touchdowns!
Hey HUE! It's "Hard Knocks"! Not "the Office"!
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