The Bye Week Blogs.

A New Czar and GM. How Mangini will get fired.

Nov. 7th, 2009

 

      This mess is going to play out in 2 ways. A 3rd scenario is possible, but it would lead me to going bonkers, doing something bonkers.  COMPLETELY BONKERS.  But i believe one of the first two will unfold.

      It was reported on ESPN Sunday NFL countdown, that Mike Holmgren 
is the most likely candidate to come to Cleveland. It's his if he wants it because Lerner cant get Accorsi to come on full time.  Accorsi is going to help Lerner out in some sort of Consigliere fashion.  This will lead to the hiring of Mike 'The Walrus' Holmgren. Then Holmgren will then hire a GM and then they will fire Mangini.  Lerner doesn't want this firing hanging on him UNLESS scenario 2 plays out.

     The Walrus says 'HELL NO, im not going to Cleveland!'. Claiming the Browns are more depressing than the rains of Seattle.  And then im thinking Lerner MAY go to Mike Shanahan.  He cant get the right Czar to come in so he goes with a 'cant miss' coach in Shanahan.  However, Shanahan demands complete control of operations. So no new GM needed.  I believe Holmgren and Shanahan are the only 2 coaches in the world that i would trust to come in and do whatever they would like AND give them 3 seasons, no questions asked.  These coaches have pasts that speak for themselves.  And FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, you Cowher lovers (must be Steelers fans in the closet), he LAUGHS at the Browns and at the Fans. DO YOU NOT WATCH HIM ON TV? He ISNT coming. And personally, i dont want him!  He was the face of the Steelers for 15 years!!  He is a STEELER!

     Scenario 3 will cause me to do something, im not sure what, but something crazy.  Im hoping at least a few people feel the same. Lerner cant get his Czar.  Lerner cant get his coach.  Lerner isnt going to sell. His ego is to big and there is to much cash coming in.  Lerner allows Mangini to select another GM (or pretends to hire one when we all know its just another beard).  This is what i can not accept. Ive learned that most fans are to lazy to actually DO something, so im hoping the ones that do care enough and the ones that agree that this is just another losing situation, take action also.  I have a very good idea that i think the "fans" will actually grab onto.... thats if scenario 3 plays out.  -Good Day

 

 

 

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More hate mail and perhaps some back peddling.

'the fan'
Nov. 2nd 2009

So i have received some more hate mail, of course. There are always going to be haters.  And once again, the guy did not reveal his name.  Just sent belligerent emails calling names.  I tried to look him up and only found a online dating profile for him. So i decided maybe the lack of love in his life was making him miserable and decided to cut him some slack.

I have received some positive feed back from some people, more of the mature type, talking about the 'tone' of the website and the actual outcomes.  As a mature and rational adult, i have to say i might be back peddling in my stance of wanting Lerner to sell.  The second option that i have mentioned before is probably overall the best option.  Lerner doesnt sell, but this time he keeps his promise of hiring someone who knows what the heck they are doing and he stays out of it.  

He has proven that he is not making the proper choices for the Browns, but i also think he truly does care.  Does he care more about his soccer team?  I dont care. I just want a respectable Browns team.  How it comes about, is not (totally) important to me.  JUST DO IT.

Would also like to note that as much as i LOVE Bernie.  He is not the answer to running the entire Browns organization.  He was hired as a Good Will Ambassador im assuming.  One we will love until we die (he knew this and played it) and love to have around.  But to run the Browns from the very top? No way.

What we need is a powerhouse.  Someone who can get things done.  Someone who has proven they can get things done.  Maybe Lerner selling is the only option.  Maybe behind the scenes he is some sort of controlling nut, like Jerry Jones or Al Davis.  But i do not think this to be the case.  Not yet at least.  He can make things right by doing what he said in the past, by putting someone with some brass in charge. Our recruiting is going to suffer tremendously after this year unless we do so.  Think about it.  Listen to Jamal.

Im not abandoning the 'sell' position, but i am open to compromise. Until we are blue in the face, we keep stating we just want to win. To be respected and feared again in the NFL!

It has rubbed me the wrong way that Lerner is meeting with 2 guys. The 2 that setup the Protest. THATS IT!?  2?  After all, they have just come around while we have been working for the last month to be heard.  But the ONLY reason that Lerner is meeting with them is because they garnered national media.  He is trying to put out a fire as soon as he can for his image.  But its a total disrespect to the rest of us.  The website, the petition, the people at home. Dont allow 2 guys to speak for you.   
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF and you can do that here! ~ Good day.

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Ahhh, my first piece of Hate Mail. I have arrived!

'the fan'
Oct. 26th  2009

Yesterday, i received my first piece of Hate Mail.  AWESOME. From a guy, well i assume it was a guy, but im starting to think it might have been a child. Or worse yet, a Man-Child. We will call him "Ted".  Ted tells me my website is a scam and that i'm an idiot.  I can only assumehe is referring to the donations i was asking for.  Which for the record, i have received ZERO dollars. Thanks Fans!  More on this later.  I have received help fine tuning the site and hosting the site, etc.  People have offered to help, but vanished quickly afterwards. Thanks Fans!There have been 2 people that have been with me and helping since day one. TWO.  MacAttack and Tabasco13.  Shout out guys. Thanks!  I have put in hours.  TONS of hours.  If anyone was around when the site was originally constructed, you know that i worked all night, literally ALL night into the next morning after the Ravens embarrassment. It was OBVIOUS we didn't have a team that was even remotely competitive or even watchable.  I spent almost 20 hours straight making the site and getting it functional.  This website was not built for me;  Its for us. Its for Cleveland. Its for Ohio. Its for any Browns fan of any type anywhere in the world.  I think my passion for the Browns is obvious.  I did not make this website to be profitable.  I made this website so i could watch football on Sundays and be F'ing proud to be a Browns Fan!

After exchanging emails with "Ted" a few times asking for an explanation, he refused. Just calling me names like, well, a little boy would.  I was pissed, then i laughed it off, then i was pissed again.  I thought maybe it was a troll from out of town. Maybe a Packer or a Steeler. Worse yet, an Ohioan who is a poser front running Steelers fun, (and on Saturdays, they play Ohio State fan, well because they front run). Nope, I looked him up and sure enough. He is a Clevelander!

We have had thousands and thousands of people visit the site since i created it. What they call 'unique visitors', not just the same 50 coming multiple times.  After our newest embarrassment yesterday with the Packers, we had 500 people on the site at once!!  I thought THIS IS!  This is the day we kick into high gear. The day the fans step it up to make a change!  I decide to reopen my donation idea, but to no avail.  These passionate fans cant even be bothered to sign up and show support. Even if you are AGAINST selling the team, which i actually and COMPLETELY understand, you can show support of wanting a change. Hell, there is an alternative solution to Lerner selling the team.  He hires someone who knows what the hell they are doing.  A Parcells type.  If you think for a second "well, turning a team around takes time", you would be partially right but mostly wrong. 
Want proof? Dolphins, Falcons, and the Saints.

Lets start with the Saints.  Its easy to forget. Heck we do it yearly. Look at how lopsided the last few Super Bowls have been. The last few years its been marred by HORRIBLE refereeing directly impacting the results.  We may talk about it for a day and its history.  But come the new year, we dont care, its football time! Hell Im even guilty!  But i dont forget.  (Dont get my started on overtime or the BC$)  The Saints were a horrible team that was hit by one of the worst, (if not the worst) hurricane ever to hit 'US'.  The government left them stranded. The owner tried to sell the team. They were without their home field to play their home games. They started the year on the road against the New York Giants and played one of the most inspiring games ever to be played. Either you saw it or you didnt, look it up, but it was absolutely an amazing game to watch. It might sound silly, but as a football fan, there was a sense of honor watching it.  It was that special to a lot of people. That day, the Saints turned it all around.  Look at them now a few years later. Arguably the best team in the NFL.  Now onto the Dolphins.

Miami was horrible a couple of years ago.  Made the mistake of hiring another high profile college coach that drove the franchise into the ground, Ala Butch. In comes Parcells and in the FIRST YEAR, one of the worst teams in the league is now a respectable team, not because Parcells is there, but because they are winning, DUE to Parcells being there.   I remember strongly, thinking to myself, WOW, The Dolphins and the Falcons are going to be bad for a very very long time.  They were royally screwed.  Then the Falcons.

The Falcons hired yet ANOTHER high profile college coach, Bobby Petrino. ( see a pattern? dont forget the Redskings!)  This guy came in, messed up the team so bad, he couldn't bare the stress, told his team he would NEVER quit on them and then the next day HE QUIT!  That team was way way in the tank. And then pile on the Vick ordeal.  I really thought that the Falcons would be the worst team for years to come after that.  Completely wrong.  The Falcons did it right. They were embarrassed and they were taking no chances. They hired the right people to come in and do what was needed.  Drafted well, brought in a young but talented RB in Michael 'The Burner' Turner. (I was praying we would snatch him from the Chargers the year before he even hit FA.   He was the best back up in the NFL and for the most a hidden gem).  They were immediately respectable again, not by their hires, but by their performance on the field and a record to show for it.

So why have the Browns faltered over and over again?  Its simple. We haven't had the right regime yet.  Starting at the very top.  Do you think, totally hypothetically speaking, that if the Big Tuna was in charge people would be laughing at us right now? Not one chance.  Though i state it as opinion, i believe to be a factual.  Seemingly Lerner learned his lesson last go 'round.  Said he would do it right this time.  He lied. He screwed up even worse hiring an unwanted off cast.  Why did the Jets fire Mangini?  We knew why and now we know why, by watching it every sunday.  Whats sad is, i believe Mangini brings the right attitude for us Clevelanders.  A Hard blue collar mentality.  It is suited PERFECTLY.....for the '60's or 70's. Fact is, That's not how football works anymore. I wish it was. It would be great not to have to deal with the divas.  There were no teams working like that 10 years ago, there are a few now however.  Pats, Giants, and the Niners.  Its possible it turns around.  Like what went down with the Giants.  This is exactly how it happened there.  The players ABSOLUTELY hated Coughlin. He fined them 2 grand for being 30 seconds late to meetings.  He fined them 3 grand for their socks being to high. The fans wanted him gone the players wanted him gone, but they bought into the system and now look.  The difference being, Coughlin is a good coach and was able to extract wins out of his team while they hated him.  This is not the same for Mangini.  He was fired and the players know this. They also know he wasn't liked at his previous stop.  They are playing for their own dignity and perhaps some for new contracts, not for their coach.  Do you think Shawn Rogers cares who the coach is?  A couple of years ago, maybe, but right now, he is playing hard because he cares.  He has a strong desire that you can see weekly.  Who knows how long that holds up, but between him and Cribbs, they are the essence of what this team needs to be through out. Toss in the fisherman there, JT while you're at it.

I was appalled last year. For the first time ever i wasnt sure where i stood when it came to being a Browns fan. Our starting QB was injured while playing a game in Cleveland, while laying on the field, the Browns 'fans' cheered.  Those people need to look internally.  Still makes me sick to this day.  If you wanted to cheer and injury, you should have tossed a snowball to Romeos face.  Not to any one player.  I can only assume that this is some type of next generation fan.  God i hope not.  The same fans that gave Chad 'Im not Hispanic' Johnson a big love hug when he jumped into the end zone after scoring on us.  I just about crapped my pants watching that on tv. I replayed it 20 times, looking for someone to do SOMETHING to represent North Side!! 

More on our fan base.. I asked the owner of the petition if he would like to team up and become one stronger force.  I like to think of it as 'team work'.  He said he would think about it, but decided not to.  Wanted to go solo i guess. Dont get me wrong. I signed the petition, forwarded it around, and still put it on the website.  But i guess maybe he plays like the Browns, no team work needed.

No one person is going to be heard.  We need to unite and be aggressive!

The ONLY reason i asked for a sponsor or donations was i could make shirts, make bumper stickers, get people to make signs for the dog pound, do things like the Redskins fans did when they bought a billboard!  NO ONE was interested.  So i removed the donation idea, dont want 'FANS' to think im scamming them as 'Ted' would put it.  I thought a very good idea was the Reverse clothes drive. Very unique. Very practical. Spend 3 or 4 bucks and send something back, ANYTHING. Spend 44 cents and send a note!   NO ONE has been interested. It would have brought some attention towards the cause. Have you ever heard of such a thing??  Me either!  Neither has anyone else! Genius! 

Everyone wants to sit back and argue over the starting Quarter Back situation.  Listen up people! Both Young and Old!!  It OBVIOUSLY doesn't matter who the hell QB's this team.  Do you not see that their is no player to blame.  There is one person to blame. One person to be pissed at.  RANDY LERNER.   PRO OR ANTI  SELL   -  HE COULD HAVE AT LEAST KEPT HIS WORD AND HIRED SOMEONE WHO KNEW WHAT THE HELL THEY WERE DOING!  HE DIDNT!  HE NEEDS TO GO SO WE CAN GET BACK TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS!!

I DO NOT mean to alienate any fan or member.  I could shutter' down and give up, but i think you can tell i care to much to do that. That's what they would want! I want us to unite. I am trying to point out how we can achieve a goal.  How to get a team worth watching on Sundays.  I am open to suggestions. I ENCOURAGE ANYONE who has an idea to email me.  WE NEED TO BRING THE HEAT AND WE NEED EVERYONE TO BRING IT TOGETHER!!  ~Good Day.   (this will be proof read later :))