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Fine.But if Thomas is the only "stud" AND off the board when the Browns pick at #3 or #4 AND we don't have a good trading partner, I surely hope you don't want to draft an OL in that position, or you are the moron. I'd rather have Gaines Adams or Branch on the DL than a reach OL. It's not like the Browns are an OL away from the Super Bowl. We need to go OL in the 2nd or 3rd rounds, or both, in that case.
Nope. Sorry. That's not an acceptable excuse. An NFL GM should be one of the very best at bargaining to get what they want. They are EXTREMELY well-paid. It is expected that, given a crisis at OL, they WILL find a way to maneuver their picks to get needed OL help. Anything else is a failure. Period.And if the Browns do this in 2007, and it doesn't work out, I don't want to hear one word from ANYONE about how it failed. I had to sit here for 20 years watching this team fail to address the OL. If we focus on the OL for 20 years and it fails, then come complain to me.
I've heard reports that Bentley will miss next season as well due to staph infection in surgerically repaired knee and will need major knee surgery again unfortuanately.
Staph infections can be very dangerous. Greg Lloyd was never the same after his staph infection.
The answer is to get someone that will produce in the Browns system, since 1999 the Browns have missed on nearly every first round pick. Center Jeff Faine was a first rounder. A bust according to you, until he went to NO...now he leads one of the best offenses in football. Scheme and coaching matter more to OL than any other position. A good talent evaluator finds the players to fit their scheme. Savage got a hit with Wimbley, the Browns need more like that, regardless of position. Plenty of good OL come later in the draft and plenty of early round OL are busts.
POSTED 4:43 p.m. EST, December 28, 2006SAVAGE GETTING CANNED NEXT WEEK?Last year at this time, former Browns president John Collins was in the process of pushing G.M. Phil Savage out the door. Coach Romeo Crennel and owner Randy Lerner intervened, and Savage stayed.Not long thereafter, Collins was out.This time around, there are rumors that Savage could get the shoe next week from Lerner.Peter King reports on HBO's Inside the NFL that Savage and Lerner will meet after the regular season ends to discuss the future of Crennel. King says he has a gut feeling that Crennel will be let gur sources tell us that both Crennel and Savage are vulnerable.And that would make sense. It was Savage, after all, who hired Crennel. Why should the G.M. be any less accountable than the head coach? We realize that, traditionally, the G.M. gets at least one mulligan (or, in the case of Matt Millen, two). But both guys should be in the same boat, in our not-so-humble opinion. Another possibility is that Savage will transition into a scouting-only role, and that a G.M. will be hired to handle the bigger picture. There were reports along these lines earlier in the year, and such an outcome has worked well in New York, where former G.M. Terry Bradway took a step down in connection with the promotion of Mike Tannenbaum.
Randy Lerner may be the problem. Unfortunately, that's the one problem that cannot be fixed. So if that's the case, there's no hope of success.I'm not really sure what axeing a coach or GM has to do with it. If you are suggesting that Lerner is unable to be patient, he was patient with Butch Davis and gave him 4 years. Butch never had a team this talented and never underperformed this badly, however.Its extremely hard to give a coach a mulligan in his first TWO years. You have to see progress. This team is going backwards.
That's rumor has been going around for a long time, and I believe Phil when he says in his press conference that it's nonsense. I just don't see it. Why would he leave one of the best organizations in football, with one of the best scouting jobs, to become a GM for a failing organization when deep down all he really wants to do is keep scouting?The media just makes #### up all the time around here.
Chuck Noll was 6-22 after 2 seasons. 12-30 after three.Jimmy Johnson was 8-24 after 2 seasons.
Chuck Noll showed improvement. 2-11-1 before he got there, they went 1-13 but then 5-9 in year 2.Jimmy Johnson showed improvement. 3-13 before he got there, they went 1-15 but then 7-9 in year 2.
I agree. And it can only be a good thing that Roger Brown is gone.Also, GMs are responsible for a heck of alot of things...but don't most GMs delegate all the tedious/workman like things to other people and concentrate mostly on scouting/player aquisitions/draft/free agency/salary cap (with the cap guru)/football things ETC ETC?
Whether you think the Browns biggest priority is: OL, QB, RB, etc., clearly they lack the personnel at most positions to compete in the division right now. I think that lies more with the GM than the coach, but both need more than two years to right the ship.
