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I have a friend who worked with Trent when he played for the Browns. Trent was getting hurt all the time, muscle strains, etc. Beyond the official injury report. He was also unmotivated to succeed, unreliable, and all over the place in his personal life. Beyond the offered first round draft pick, these were a big part of why Banner pulled the deal. His lack of commitment was becoming obvious within the facility. So, no thanks.

Thanks for the heads-up, yea I stop by infrequently and post even less. There's a few items to interest me that pop up infrequently. Politics is mostly a waste of time but I am hoping the Republicans can find someone decent because as much as Obama was a disappointment to me, Hillary would be the disaster. After 2 posts I have to agree with you about lybob. A lot of drama queen mouth-breather there.

Wow, you are quite the extremist, and no I am not saying any of that garbage in your head. Go get some counseling for that. Scott Walker quit college and seems to be having a successful career. Kudos to him for having the courage to decide what's best for him. If either of my kids have the passion and a plan to go after a successful career that avoids a college education and the 10s of thousands in debt, I will encourage them to go for it. Higher education is always available. I'll tell you where Scott Walker didn't quit: In clipping the wings of the Wisconsin's teacher's unions to enable the education system. He risked it all and stood tall. Such horror for the union to have to finally contribute to their own pension and doctor's co-pay while "only" collective-bargaining salary. So terrible for them to join the rest of us working folks. Wah. The out of wedlock story surfaced in the midst of the 2012 recall election and had no legs to it. Supposedly a reporter talked to the mother in question who denied Walker as the father. https://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/tag/walker-illegitimate-child-controversy/ I don't know the truth, but given the animosity towards Walker, the truth's been proven already and denies your hopes. As far as Hillary, she is a good political whore and best kept in Congress. From keeping her marriage intact, to 9/11 and everything since, she has shown me to not possess the backbone necessary to lead this great country. She's the Dick Jauron of politicians.

If the best the media can do is go off on the fact that Walker didn't finish college, then (1) he's a pretty clean candidate and (2) they are scared to death of him. Just pathetic though. But, they've got to do it because they're stuck trying to help Hillary-whore get elected. Last time I checked Bill Gates and Steve Jobs never finished college either.

Cleveland's winter was fairly average in terms of temperature and snowfall until about the last week+ when we got a nice dumping of snow and the temps took a dump too. Pretty damn cold right now!

Why not ask your future employer what's available as far as phone/internet/tv where you will be housed? From page 3 of this publ: http://www.nps.gov/crla/parknews/upload/Crater-Lake-Reflections-Summer-Fall-2012-Low-Res.pdf Internet Wireless internet is free for guests of Crater Lake Lodge and The Cabins at Mazama Village. Public Wi-Fi is available at Crater Lake Lodge and the Annie Creek Restaurant for $4 per hour or $10 for 24 hours. Lost & Found Contact a ranger at either visitor center or call 541-594-3060. Phones Cell phone coverage in the park is unreliable. Reception depends on your location and provider. Pay phones are located outside the Mazama Village Store and inside Crater Lake Lodge.

I understand where you're coming from on this, but EJ needed to take a seat. Marrone made the right move on that one. EJ had become very tentative and his receivers were almost at the point of rebellion because of their frustrations. He was not leading the offense and it was a quagmire. From all accounts, Orton was very driven to succeed in practice/preparation. Hopefully the upside from Orton's time was that EJ got a chance to observe, circle back and learned how to properly prepare and lead the offense. Obviously the offense never got fully untracked and I think Marrone made the wrong move not at least giving EJ the second half of the New England game.

+1 This. A first class, dominant O-line and talented skill position players is our best chance to get adequate QB play from a non franchise quarterback. Any quarterback looks worlds better when he has all day in the pocket to make a decision. OP needs to change the misleading title of his thread.

Nature and evolution bestowed mankind with the ability to create everything we have put on the planet.

I live in Cleveland and feel for all Browns fans. You guys are stuck in an absolutely disheartening position because Haslam is a lousy owner right now and it all starts with him. The Browns are just spinning their wheels right now. It only took Ralph Wilson 40+ years to realize he needs to let his people work for him and stop meddling all the time. How much realization vs his health not allowing him to meddle is debatable, but I hope Haslam figures things out much quicker than Ralph did. Good luck, I pull for the Browns as my #2 team!

Yea, it's making my head woozy! Can't blame the Jags for going all out to bring him in, though!

You're right. For some reason I thought the Browns extended his contract beyond what the Jags were offering him. Apologies.

Well, if the article is correct and the Browns actually had Carr, Bridgewater, Manziel on their board in that order then maybe Farmer deserves a little slack. At this point, the decision making process in that building is a complete clusterf**k. I feel bad for the Cleveland fans and people like Pettine. Alex Mack and Joe Thomas have got to be hating their decisions to stay in the last 2 years. Just a sad situation.

A sad indictment of Cleveland's player evaluation process.

Totally what I was thinking, I mean, c'mon, just having Rex and his quotes are a field day by themselves. I think we've got a great shot at it.

I agree with you context of timing is everything here. FWIW, it doesn't make much sense to me to allow the ball attendant to have the game balls in his possession after the balls are checked up until game time. It makes more sense for the balls to stay secured in a room until, let's say, 20-30 minutes before the game when the attendant accesses the room and takes the balls up to the field. Having to go to the bathroom on the walk up to the field seems highly suspicious in this context. If the Patriots are intent on changing the pressure then it has to be done quickly and out of any camera range. There are a lot of cameras on the field and in the building. Think they risked invasion of privacy by placing some in the restroom? Is it beyond a detail-oriented guy like Belicheck to have a system to leave the balls in the bag and quickly, uniformly deflate them with the proper equipment? Only other thing I can think if it was only 11 out of 12 balls is that the 12th ball would be for kicking field goals. If so, I would think it would be marked in some subtle way.

I believe it. I'll bet Hackett would really learn a lot having Roman show him the ropes and could take over in 1 to 2 years because Roman really wants to be a HC. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/07/greg-roman-believes-time-will-come-for-head-coaching-job/ Honestly, for now it might be a step back for Nate but would probably accelerate his career.

That was my biggest fear if Bill Polian would have come here: Foist Chris on us and get rid of Whaley. No, thank you.

It was a powerful movie. Gave me an amazing sense of how difficult maintaining the "us vs them" mentality can be. In all fairness, there was no theme music playing as the credits rolled. Only time I can remember that.

No, it was not. It was intended to equalize the amount of $$ each team could spend on its players. Why would that level competition? It would help avoid "super teams" that would consistently outspend to dominate the league with poorer franchises serving as farm teams but that doesn't mean competition was intended to be close to level. Front office, coaching, talent, quarterback, injuries, etc. all affect team performance. I don't see this as a Galileo scenario because IMO you are not understanding the purpose of the salary cap. Certain teams/franchises are just better at winning consistently. Is 5 years truly a large enough analysis window to support your conclusions? I could find a 5 year block where the Bills were in the playoffs every year. The cowboys, niners, and seahawks (just to name a couple) have had their dry spells too. When a franchise assembles a good front office, coaching staff, and talent they tend to have good teams for more than one year. Hopefully we are going there with the Pegulas at the helm.

Ok, seriously, who besides you believes that the salary cap was intended to level/equalize the talent of each team, comrade? It equalizes the total compensation each team is allowed to spend on their roster. Nothing else. It's working as it's supposed to. What a pointless thread.

It sounds like the entire problem was the host mom did not make clear there would be a non-refundable per child payment for snow tubing, etc until after the fact. But normally places like the ski slope will be cool and not bill for 1 or 2 kids who don't show up. Lack of communication and classless behavior by the host. This kind of situation happens a lot, or you get the other type of parent who shows up with the rest of their uninvited kids wanting to participate in the party. But it's very classless to ask for the money, especially if you didn't make that clear with the accepted invite.

Wow. I respect the hell out of your opinion but have to respectfully disagree. I think he has real potential. Don't get me wrong, I agree with Yolo that Jones needs more game experience. But he has a good pocket presence, feel for the game and varies the speed of his ball well. Puts nice touch on his throws to the flats or can rifle it down field. He sees the field and his reads fairly well. His scrambles are by choice after reading his options, I do believe his willingness to take on college backers and the odd nose tackle will go away in the NFL. I think he is a little slow getting rid of the ball but I think part of that is his inexperience. I have zero expertise, so I guess we'll see how he turns out eventually. :-) I don't expect much from Mariota in the NFL. I like him as a person but he seems like a system QB. I do think Jameis has real potential if he can get his head screwed on straight.

Congrats on the game yesterday Yolo. I'm a Penn State fan but a great run and championship by OSU! Beating the ducks while committing 4 turnovers is a bit of a miracle, but speaks loudest about OSU's character and coaching! They came a long way from August. I totally agree with you that Cardale needs another year and would be a developmental prospect if he comes out, but our best shot to draft him would be if he decides to declare now. I'm just amazed at his pocket presence and decision making for how little he's played. I kind of hope that he will adjust quickly to being an NFL QB considering how well he did against 3 of the best teams in college football. Talk about trial by fire! The other thing working in our favor is Urban Meyer trying to bring Braxton Miller back. Why? How can you not start Jones next season? And I imagine JT Barrett won't be too happy about the situation.