I'm good with Hue and Todd both getting dumped, and am all Jacksoned-out like the rest of you, but it's not all black and white.
It never is. Jackson and Haley aren't idiots. If you just ridicule or ignore EVERYTHING they say, you are just a mindless part of a mindless mob.
Well, Hue actually scored some points in one of his post-termination interviews--and did NOT throw Baker Mayfield under the bus.
Writers I respect are foaming at the mouth and distorting/exaggerating everything this guy says! I'm embarrassed for them--but I digress:
In this interview, Hue says that it would have been a better idea to import elements of Mayfield's Oklahoma offense to help him get off on the right foot.
Obviously, that WOULD have made a ton more sense than Todd Haley's rigid, inflexible, Chris Palmer-like approach.
Remember, when the Browns hired Todd Haley, I told you Hue was forced into it.
The thing is, this was because Hue had ignored the fact that DeShone Kizer looked bad in preseason, just like he did throughout his extremeley short college carreer, and named him the starter anyway.
Then HE kept Kizer in the pocket and installed a deep pass...nevermind but Hue himself was a blockhead.
I find it curious that NOW he says he would have imported parts of the Sooners offense to help Mayfield get started.
Still, Baker WAS a first overall pick, clearly out of Kizer's zip-code, and I think that Hue is actually being sincere about this, in my opinion.
After all, it fits the Browns theme so perfectly:
1: Haslam/Dorsey (with just cause) force John Dorsey (with full authority) on Jackson because he was a blockhead, while Dorsey made Laveon Bell Laveon Bell and Antonio Antonio and stuff.
2: Dorsey Palmerizes Mayfield, while Jackson would have made the offense Baker-freindly.
3: When Hue tries to take the offense back so he can DO this, both these guys get fired.
Oh no no no, this wasn't "another clueless move" by Jimmy Haslam, either:
Hue Jackson DID fail, and blamed everybody else for it. Haley DID come in here and "impose" his "my way or the highway" offense on these players without regard to their skill-sets. Square pegs? Round holes?
HALEY failed, big-time!
Haslam (*and DORSEY*) cut their losses.
A lot of the National guys are all over Gregg Williams now due to "Bounty-Gate":
Well Gregg Williams was guilty of encouraging guys to injure opposing quarterbacks, but he had nothing to do with "bounties". The PLAYERS did that.
Yes, it was despicable, but so was Micheal Vick's investment in dog-fighting.
Both these guys have behaved themselves since then. Vick is redeemed. Williams is obviously irredeemable for some reason.
GET. OVER. IT.
AND I'm not kneejerk/reflexibly laughing at Gregg Williams over his assertions that he's had eleven solicitations to become a Head Coach, including four only requiring his signature.
The majority of these offers were no doubt before "Bounty-Gate", and Gregg probably included every offer he ever got, including before he became Head Coach of the Bills, but this bashing is getting rediculous!
Can you see it? EVERYTHING and everybody linked to the Cleveland Browns is under fire again. Every sentence (if not word).
One pundit said "everybody in the NFL community thinks Gregg Williams as the interim Head Coach doesn't make sense", and that's pure bullshit (not to mention idiotic).
Political Correctness is insanity. Real "football people" (and soldiers, and generals, and surgeons, and "real people" in general) live in reality.
...I don't have time to work these idiots over properly here, but in reality, the "football people" think Gregg Williams as the interim Head Coach is the obvious call.
A lot of pundits just make stuff up. They LIE.
The lynch-mob settled down a little with the hirings of Dorsey and Haley, and with Taylor and then Mayfield.
But the terminations of Haley along with Jackson have put it back into overdrive.
Everything Hue Jackson says is pure bullshit, and so is everything Gregg Williams says. Haley is smart to just not say ANYTHING. Haslam HAS to talk, God save him, as does Haley.
There is no mole-hill which isn't a mountain. There are no two consecutive words which can't be distorted.
Don't be a mindless zombie and join that lynch-mob. T H I N K.
Yeah, it looks bad. I mean Mahomes and the Chiefs, of all teams this week? How utterly BROWNS is that?
Baker and company do have a snowball's chance. Ward will be on Hill. Four guys can pressure Mahomes. Mayfield's CAN run a balanced offense vs this defense.
This Browns defense can take the ball away and short-circuit drives. Mayfield vs Mahomes in college was a historic event. Ratley is massively underrated, but Higgins is more significantly underrated.
Still, if the referees have to help the Chiefs steal this one...they will, so...
I have to give Matt Lane (a KC writer) superkudos for a super-objective, insightful, and well-researched article on how the Chiefs' offense can exploit the Browns (current) defense.
This guy is awesome. As a Browns fan, I HATE most of what he says, but as an intelligent analyst, I must accept it.
Matt did his homework, and is over my head in X's and O's...a little.
Anyway just click that link and DEAL with it.
I still think that (now that Chris Haley is gone and Higgins is back) Baker Mayfield might go apeshit himself and win a shootout.
...and then injuries happen. The stars align in certain ways. The referees are occasionally not out to screw the Browns...
Well just don't count the Browns (hopefully "unchained dammit") out.
...What a mess. Is Kitchens a Haley clone like he says he is? Did Haley HAVE any Mayfield-freindly plays in his playbook?
I'm optimistic that Kitchens will reward (or be forced to reward) performance with playing time.
Rashard Higgins should automatically come right back as the number two wide receiver behind Landry.
Nobody gets this: Higgins is averaging over 15 yards per-catch. That's a roughly 50/50 combo of deeper passes and shorter ones he took off and ran with.
Higgins is NOT just a possession receiver!
True, he's not a true "X" receiver, but think with your brain:
Jerry Rice was not an X! He RARELY caught any long bombs! Almost EVERYTHING he caught was short and intermediate, and you know what else?
Bill Walsh's Superbowl dynasty NEVER had a true X-receiver!
Get out of the fkng BOX! Even if you can't think for yourself, both Callaway and Ratley ARE legit X's (...well Ratley for sure anyway).
I digress: I'm glad John Dorsey didn't SPAZZ OUT like most of you would have and spent capital on "known" wide receivers who weren't AS GOOD AS the younger guys already here!
Here's a CLUE:
Great quarterbacks don't NEED a Randy Moss or Josh Gordon or Megatron or whatever! Is Antonio Brown an X? Hint: NO.
Brady, Rodgers, Brees, Montana, Elway---for that matter, Dan Marino had two SMURFS!
Great quarterbacks only need receivers who CATCH THE DAMN BALL.
Rodney Higginsfield is back, and Duke might just be used at wide receiver, and that might be all Baker Mayfield needs.
Browns 75, Chiefs 12. Ok Browns 44, Chiefs 20. Ok Browns 30, Chiefs 33, but that's my final offer.
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