Augie

Umm, excuse me, but……..did you bring enough for everyone? It’s their job to think of every possible scenario and be ready with plans and backup plans and backup plans for the backup plans. That’s how you build a winning organization. The best organizations (that’s us! ) will see the coaching staff and front office (and practice squad for that matter) poached more than the lousy teams. Beane and McD will be ready for the challenges ahead. If you are afraid to have smart people around you, you’ve already failed. .

I wish we could put part of his salary into the “coaching pot”!

You are confusing Country Club tennis with professional tennis. Professional tennis is a factory, and some of them have enough natural talent that they don’t need to pay. You are “on scholarship” at the factories to draw other players. I think the lady I know is originally from Ukraine. They fought like hell to get out ahead of the person they were competing against. Year after year. Jessica had to leave the palace to go put in the same work, but harder. That is special and I celebrate it! I am awed just by the pure dedication and self motivation it takes to climb that mountain.

You underestimate tennis and the natural talent and the dedication it requires to become a top 10-15 tennis player in the world. Sure, the money helps, but I know a lady who was dirt poor and worked and struggled for years to get a college tennis scholarship in the US. She said that’s what drove them all, to get out of Eastern Europe. They were dirt poor, and fighting like dogs for a ticket out. If anything, coming from wealth could be seen as a detriment. She didn’t NEED tennis to make her life. In order to be top 15 in the world, you have to be talented, dedicated and mentally strong enough to beat people like that. People who had dedicated their entire lives, but never reached nearly as far as Jessica. This lady barely won on the satellite tour. It was short lived. Look up the top 50 women. A LOT of those names are hard to pronounce. There are another billion not on the list but with the same dream. It was a VERY moving story. BTW - we used to live near Bolliterri/IMG tennis camp. There are camps like that all over the country. Have you ever been to one of those? A sea of courts in every direction with kids trying to outwork and beat each other. I’d recommend that over seeing a Major in a 20,000 seat stadium. It’s frickin’ INCREDIBLE! And most of the kids are still in high school. For Jessica to be near the peak of that pinnacle puts me in AWE. Sorry, mini-rant over for now…..

Leave it to the Browns to create a situation where everybody loses, except the dirt bag who got the guaranteed contract. I mean Baker loses, the fans lose, the team loses in games (unstable QB situation) and cap space………and the NFL as a whole loses with the precedent of that guaranteed contract. I don’t expect the other 31 owners to be very happy with Haslam. Browns, please keep your losing ways to yourself.

So, are you an algorithm now? I like to start with an “S” in the last position. That is often the correct spot for it because it covers anything that is plural and a lot of verbs.

They are also criminally overly-talked-about. Please make it stop!

It’s never about the money…….but it’s always about the money.

On the bright side, he didn’t mention that he sews his own clothes. As they say down here…..”bless his heart!” .

If someone posted that, it was probably you!

Saw him at the hotel in Nashville last year. Fine as far as I know. I think Covid put an end to a number of things that were ready to die anyway. Like going to the office all day every day. The condiment spritzing was great….then I’m sure it became a chore.

I lost that one by a couple hours. You made me look it up. My wife is avoiding me……..

Blow-up counts as “actual” I think. Did you mean biological? That might be very different!

Sounds like we just might have a knack for identifying and developing DB’s. Who knew? 🤷‍♂️ ….OK, almost anybody paying any attention. Should we start a thread with a poll on who you might want to replace McD?

I love it in the winter, and I can handle the summers. A few weeks in the mountains, or Buffalo for that matter, would be nice in the summer. We spent 30 years in hurricane territory (Hilton Head and Sarasota). Cat 1-3 we hunker down. Cat 4-5 we run away like Monty Python in a frenzy. We were lucky in our 3+ decades.

I’d take Kyle Williams at some point, along with some others. But I FULLY agree Butch Byrd is LOOONG overdue!

He was still forming the thought and considering the execution when his helmet ejected! I’m glad it happened in Buffalo!

The most amazing thing to come out of this, IMO, is Brady admitting he slid late. I didn’t know that could happen. 🤷‍♂️

They call you……..lots of things. @muppy - I highly recommend hitting a Bills tailgate at home or on the road. You meet a lot of great people. Some of them might also break into your car, but if you are inside they probably won’t steal anything. Scare the #### out of you, but too polite to steal your stuff while you are watching! (Yes, Gugny, I’m looking at you!)

Based on the shift in the type of player we’ve seen, I don’t think Ford will have to worry about fitting in this system. He’ll need to worry about finding a system that DOES fit him. I remember the beach chair stuff, but what was the reason for Kromer leaving last time around? For some reason I don’t recall that.

Only if Josh is secluded in a secret location, safely ensconced in bubble wrap!

That’s it, pace yourself! 🍺

Maybe @cDAVIS would like to pick up the torch and entertain us all! 😂

Browns fans deserve a process to fire an owner. We had decades of ineptitude, but nothing approaching this. If this was the Bills, I’d have to take a break. Even I have limits. Even so, is that the guy you want to be the face of your franchise? That alone is not worth the grief. Wow…… .

You can’t overcome a lousy owner easily. It boggles my mind that they gave this dirt bag a fully guaranteed contract! Who would do that? You have to be situationally aware, and show just a glimmer of common sense.