Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level, and then beat you with experience. 21 He who laughs last thinks slowest. 6 If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. 5 What happens when you get scared half to death twice? 5 What?s the hardest part of a vegetable to eat? The wheelchair. 1 Q: Why do you always find things in the last place you look? A: Duh! 5 What if there were no hypothetical situations? 5 Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.
Free agent KR Josh Cribbs (knee) is reportedly healthy. Cribbs missed a chance to sign on in Arizona because of meniscus surgery. According to the Plain-Dealer, he has now has "several" teams interested. Previous speculation had the Lions and Bucs as potential landing spots. Last year, Cribbs ranked sixth in punt-return average (12.0 yards per return) and tied for fourth in kick-returns (27.4 yards).
Happy Hump Day Lounge Houndz The first round is on me. Duff I?ll take a supersized mug of Bluez?s Makers Mark, and leave the bottle on the bar. (_)>======= Crazy Crex?s food for thought :/ Draft Rant revisited? I still have absolutely no faith in the Joe Banner and Mike Lombatard (I?ll call them BM for short). Ponder this? Compare the caliber of the drafts that Philidelphia had prior to Heckert leaving versus the ones after he left. Not only the first few players selected in each draft, but the depth of the draft class for the team. I agree that Mingo and McFadden are both solid picks, and should have an immediate impact on defense. A bit of a Kool-aid homer prediction, Mingo has a better rookie campaign than Jones. Josh Gordon is one heck of a second round pick. Remember BM didn?t make the pick Heckert did. The trade for Bess was a solid move, but then most of the FA moves they made this year appear to be fairly solid, at least on paper. We all hope that translates into wins. Also note that we didn?t give up picks we merely moved them around. I get the impression that BM didn?t trust any of their scouting reports for selections in the fourth round and beyond. Either that or they were just TOTALLY UNPREPARED for the draft. Rumor has it that their draft board had players listed alphanumerically. If the intent was to load up on pick to go after a QB next year, then prepare yourselves for a ?suck for luck? campaign from BM this year. That would be about the only way to ensure that BM get "their" guy, or mortage the next few drafts to do it. Upfront the Browns FO are saying the right things. On paper the offseason moves they?ve made appear quite solid and fill out some of the notable holes in the roster. Whether or not it all translates into Wins remains to be seen. Lost somewhere between. and So I?ll kindly ask Irish and TD to please remain? Tune up the wagon and reserve my front row seat.
And despite Shurmer Weeds still managed to set a Browns rookie passing record. Imagine what he'll be able to do once Norv and Chud open up the throttle and turn it loose.
Titus Young....what a waste. Some guys just don't get it, and they never will. Maybe he and Rolando McClain are in a race to see who can throw it all away the fastest. It's a shame.
LMAO @ Crex ..love the fan descriptions .. I fit some of those . Titus Young report to DR Phil office ..take your meds first please . me thinks he has a few screws lose or as we say in the racing world ..he has the hit the wall one to many times !
crextin, I agree that the NEW didn't trust the OLD. Scouting dept gone, lets get some people in place to evaluate personnel for next year. The Brown have added pieces, not enough to take over the division but pieces that relate to wins now and in coming years. The fact they stockpile draft picks for next year spells out the anti-trust for the scouting dept.
speaking of adult beverages . i do think its that time . Desperado's bound . drawing night social night bike night all in one . before anyone asks yup i got a DD ..the neighbour girl wants to go up . she has never been there . for some reason she was scared because ..GASP ..there are Harley Davidson's parked out front of the place ..why the hell do people just assume that people who Ride are bad people ? in most cases its furthest from the truth . you just don't screw with them and all is good . i have known them most of my life . &^%# back surgeries robbed me of that as well ..i need to get a trike i guess as i miss cruising . have a good evening ..i know i well .
The wife and I have thought about getting a trike too Bluez. I've got back issues myself, but I miss riding more than just about anything....What do you think of those Can-Am Spiders? Personally, I think they look pretty cool, though I've never had the pleasure, nor do I know anybody that has one.....
Mean Joe Greene, the Hall of Fame defensive tackle who retired last week from the Steelers? front office, has been around the NFL for almost half a century. And he doesn?t like all the changes he?s seen. Greene told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that money has become too much of a focus of players these days, and he says it frustrated him in recent years when he saw players on the Steelers make an issue of who was making what, instead of focusing on how they could all unite to win. ?The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don?t like it. I don?t like that,? Greene said, via ESPN.com. ?I don?t begrudge anyone money but it disrupts the football team.? Greene played on a Steelers team that was loaded with Hall of Famers, and he said none of his teammates ever allowed money to be a distraction. ?It?s an attitude change. In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played. That?s a bad thing,? Greene said. ?I think that?s the attitude and direction that was so preeminent with the Pittsburgh Steelers; it was about family, it was about team, the organization. Everyone in the organization would get treated fairly because we were a family.? Greene may be right, but those days aren?t coming back. Treating football teams like businesses, not like families, has made players a whole lot richer than they were in Greene?s time.
TD a few of my friends have them and love them . of course all rode two wheels but health issues have limited them to not riding or getting a Trike . i rode a can-am last summer .it was sweet .slow down for the corners as they will roll & do not lean which is a natural response when riding .i almost wrecked a friend of mines from leaning ..that would have been bad ..yes i like them and am considering one myself . they have reverse and are priced right .get one .a Harley Trike is to pricey and not all have reverse .if you take a two wheel bike get a conversion kit to make it three wheel get your billfold out . i refuse to ride anything Japanese or own any Japanese vehicle even though they make them around here .i got friends that work at Honda & most have American Cars & Bikes ...each his own .
The Morning Kickoff ? My time in the boardroom: This was 30 years ago, the fall of 1983. I was in Donald Trump?s office in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in downtown Manhattan. I was there to interview Trump about his desire to purchase the Cleveland Indians. Trump sent a driver to pick me up at the airport in a limousine. When meetings tied him up, Trump had a personal assistant give me a tour of the shiny skyscraper, which was nearing completion to great fanfare. The building has achieved new fame as the home of Trump?s popular TV show Celebrity Apprentice. Trump closes each episode from a studio boardroom, in which he points to a goner celebrity and intones, ?You?re fired!? So I?m in Trump?s office listening to him say he would have no intention of moving the Indians if he were fortunate enough to buy them. Suddenly, a secretary buzzes his phone. ?It?s Brian Sipe, Mr. Trump.? I signal to Trump, ?You want me to leave, right?? He gives me the ?Of course not? look and takes the call. It was a Wednesday. Back in Cleveland, Browns players were on their lunch break. Sipe, whose Browns contract was expiring at season?s end, had been negotiating with Trump about jumping to Trump?s New Jersey Generals in the upstart United States Football League. ?We?d love to have you, Brian,? Trump said. ?So, yes, the offer is still good.? After the phone call, Trump said, ?Very nice man. He wants to play for us.? After concluding business on the Indians story, I rushed to my hotel room to call my bosses at The Plain Dealer about the unexpected Sipe scoop. I called Trump back to inform him I had to write the story and wanted to put everything on the record. ?Well, you were there. You heard it all,? Trump said. ?Of course you have to write it.? The story was somewhat embarrassing to Sipe. He had to play out the season with everyone now knowing he intended to bolt the Browns A Browns West Coast connection: I phoned Sipe on Wednesday to talk about Leon McFadden, the cornerback from San Diego State drafted by the Browns in the third round. Five years ago, Sipe, 63, retired as an architect to return to his alma mater as full-time quarterbacks coach. ?I was probably the oldest rookie coach in college history, my first job being at age 59,? said Sipe, now a grandfather of five. ?Brady Hoke (now Michigan coach) convinced me to do this. He?s an Ohio guy. I was coaching a little high school out here. He used to come visit. He used to say he was recruiting my son, which was a bit of a stretch. We got to be friends. Then he got the job out here and called and asked if I wanted to coach quarterbacks. I don?t know, life?s short. I thought it might be fun to try something as long as I have the energy to do it.? McFadden was a receiver recruit in Sipe?s first season at SDSU. One day early on, McFadden was asked to play cornerback ? and that was that. He never gave up the job. ?There was just never anybody else good enough to make us reconsider being on the defensive side of the ball. He was always the best guy in our secondary,? Sipe said. ?He was voted the team?s most valuable player (last season). He was the preseason pick to be the Mountain West Conference player of the year. He was all MWC first team three years in a row. Everybody knows who Leon is. Everybody out in the West knows who Leon is.? I asked Sipe if McFadden?s height ? 5-9 5/8 ? would be a problem covering NFL receivers, which are bigger and faster than ever. ?It was never a problem here, and we faced a lot of tall, athletic, receivers,? Sipe said. ?I think where he?s going to win that battle is with his quickness and his instincts. It?s the quickness and the change of direction that matters so much. Cornerbacks, can they arrive at the receiver when the ball gets there? In the four years I was here, I never saw him get outsized by somebody, you know, where they just threw a ball up and he couldn?t contend. I never saw it.? Sipe said it wouldn?t surprise him a bit if McFadden duplicated what he did at SDSU and earned a starting job with the Browns in his very first season. ?Because he?s smart and he learns things quickly and he?s fearless. I think the Browns did good to get him in the third round,? Sipe said. An unassuming legend: Thirty years after his Browns? career ended, Sipe remains one of the most popular players in franchise history. He was the classic underdog ? a 13th round draft choice in 1972 who spent two years on what is now known as the practice squad, an undersized quarterback whom the Browns tried but couldn?t even trade to an expansion Seattle team in 1976, who had the rare gene to get teammates to believe in him and rose to earn the NFL MVP Award in 1980 when he magically led the Kardiac Kids to the playoffs. ?It does give me some street cred with the kids,? Sipe said. ?But then they see the gray hair and the not-so-muscular build and I think they all kind of wonder how it all could?ve happened.? There are still plenty of Browns fans in southern California to have heard the stories of Sipe?s magic from their fathers or grandfathers. ?I?m still amazed at how many Browns fans I run into here in San Diego,? Sipe said. ?I still feel I?m on a honeymoon with the city of Cleveland. I get treated like royalty whenever there are Browns fans around and I very much appreciate that. It?s been a lot of fun. I still hear from a lot of people. There?s still a lot of fan mail that comes. It?s part of being a Brown. The whole thing is an honor to me. I hope I live up to it.?
Free-agent receiver/kick returner Josh Cribbs flew across the country to get from his Monday team visit to his Tuesday-Wednesday session. His next trip will be a lot shorter. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Cribbs will follow his visit to the Jets with a visit to the Giants. The Giants previously showed interest in Cribbs as a potential replacement for Domenik Hixon, who signed with the Panthers. But Cribbs? knee caused him to delay the process of finding a new team. Now that he?s healthy, he?s looking ? and the Giants remain interested. Cribbs launched his tour with a Monday visit to the Raiders. He arrived in the New York area on Tuesday night, and he visited the Jets on Wednesday.
Tackle Rashad Butler has missed 30 of the last 32 games after tearing his triceps twice and he?ll be trying to get his career back on track in Cleveland this season. Butler?s agent Ken Sarnoff tweeted out congratulations to Butler on signing a deal with the Browns. No financial terms have been announced for the deal with Butler, who entered the league as a third-round pick of the Panthers in 2006. He never played for Carolina, joining the Texans the next year and playing in 42 games with Houston. Butler had a shot to become the right tackle last summer after Eric Winston left the team, but wound up being beaten out by Derek Newton during camp. Butler?s injury might have made losing that competition a moot point, but he was ticketed for a backup role all the same. He?ll be trying to land the same role in Cleveland. Joe Thomas and Mitchell Schwartz are set as the team?s starters at left and right tackle respectively, leaving Butler to fight for a job against Oniel Cousins, 2013 seventh-round pick Garrett Gilkey and others.
