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There are literally more words in the title than in the first 3 posts combined. And that’s including “OL” as one word. Hats off to all.

I’ll go with Wyatt Ray. There were times one ps game he looked like the guy we thought Barkevious Mingo would be, all wiry and chaotic on the edge.

I just ate a bunch of night crawlers. Waiting with baited breath...

I must admit this seems like an abrupt end to the “kicking competition”. Neither seemed to be rock solid all camp long, but it sounded like Joseph outperformed Seibert 80% of the time. Regardless, it’s probably best for the team psyche to tab their guy and go for it. It was a helluva game by Seibert, but it was one game.

Lol...title change

I read some comments in the link and there seems to be some question about whether Joseph will still kick game 4 or not.

Interesting. A week ago he was reported to be a lock to make the team

I paid attention to Forbes in the second half of the TB game, and he didn’t do great. I don’t see him taking Kush’s spot anytime soon.

I agree. I have a high opinion of Duke and think he can damn well whatever he sets his mind to on a football field. Watching Hunt blocking blitzers in the back field made me miss him already. I recall that game last year when we were trying to run out the clock to seal the deal, and everyone and their mothers knew we were running it, and Duke was the guy running it. And run it he did, first down and cake and ice cream for all.

As hunky as that handlebar mustache is, l legitimately thing Gillan can pull way more wool. That physique AND a Scottish accent? It’s simply not fair. If nothing else we should sign him to convert every straight and single female in Cleveland to Browns fandom, and all the gay guys too.

Did you really look up those dudes’ mothers’ names? Whose mother is not named Elizabeth?

Ha! Intrigue is good...

We should talk about title construction. It should be succinct and lead to intrigue, and capital letters should be involved. Avery on the Bubble? Avery Day I’m Hustling Something like that. But no, l think Avery is fine and in the plans. A seemingly consistent theme we’ve seen this camp is the guys you see less are the guys who factor in more when the action is real, so l figure Avery’s role is accounted for and we are seeing and hearing about him less because he’s doing fine.

1. 49, 22, 0, and 91 2. OSU 3. Purdue 4. Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, and Toledo 5. Panthers 6. Green Bay 7. 12 8. Brown 9. All people with 1 syllable first names 10. All people whose mothers’ were named Elizabeth

Got thoroughly through half 1. Made random notes. Kush watch ‘19: ah, he did ok. Strikes me as a bend but tries not to break guy. Pretty consistently loses ground to a pass rusher but tries to buckle up when he needs to. 3 plays l noted where he pretty much sucked. Ole’d one guy (ironically on the same play Bitonio straight pancaked a dude with authority), he let Nassib get to his outside on another play, and he got Suh trained into Mayfield for another. There were good plays though too. He did like C- grade work this game imo. Hunt: is no Duke Johnson level blocker in the backfield. A concern l had over Duke gate. He’s more of a chip and release or gets bent backwards kinda guy. Duke could stonewall a guy when he had to. DeValve: may surprise you but l was kinda impressed by him in the first half. Dude has made significant strides as a blocker, especially in a fullback role. At least 2 plays he did what a good fullback should do and flew to his spot and maintained respectable blocks. Another instance as a TE he got good and low to lay a block. Vernon: he’s got moves that’s for sure. Chris Smith: man l like Chris Smith. That is all.

I thought Coley flashed a bit the first preseason game, but seems to be back to his old mosh pit self, slamming up against whoever is there to slam up against and churn around for a while.

Since this is the internet where wild speculation and half cocked opinions run rampant, I’m starting to wonder if the Scottish Hammer isn’t a raw yet potentially generational talent? At least whatever the hell a “generational talent” is for a punter. It’s almost like he heard Kitchens’ comment about hang time and said, “Hang time? Here’s your hang time...” and hang time there was. Lots and lots of hang time. And he looks nothing like a typical punter. That guy has the potential to get laid more than any punter has ever ever gotten laid in the history of punter’s getting laid.

The old Ogunjobi thread be locked so starting this to gush about him. Holy hell did he have a game against the Bucs. He is consistently one of the first defenders reacting off the snap, immediately using his hands to find a wedge and then slicing through the line like a light saber. Man is he fun to watch. ‘Jobi isn’t concerned with your lineman trying to block him. He is a more civilized weapon for the modern game.

I got through the first couple dozen paragraphs and the last few paragraphs and feel confident that l got the gist of what was in between. There was definitely an element of over the top with the article as others have pointed out. A quote from it... ”This all comes from the same place, from the soul of a coach who’s watching for the first time in an eternity as a season starts without him.” You can’t just throw out “the soul of” whatever without a few eyes rolling at the melodrama. And sure, everyone gets it. Coaches are humans with feelings. Even at the end of the article it was still portraying this sad tragic figure, which is at best counterproductive to getting a coaching job. Who wants to hire a guy hell bent on feeling sorry for himself?

We already have a good chunk of change invested at the Tackle position, so l would be surprised if we made a move like this prior to the start of the season. If our starting Tackles do a less than acceptable job a few games in, then maybe. A few games in to the season might lower the asking price too.

A pertinent article from the Athletic (subscription site that is quite good) written by Jason Lloyd pasted for your perusal. Sort of connects the dots in how things said can be taken out of context and blown up with social media. Also delves into Baker’s relationship with the media in the pros vs. college, and even further with how any media member who follows a team has a different set of standards than a guy writing a one off. When I spent a few days on Oklahoma’s campus last fall for a profile on Baker Mayfield, a number of the OU writers asked me what Mayfield’s media availability was like. He’s distant, I told them. Guarded. He’ll say anything, sure, but the NFL’s setup makes it difficult to get to know him. He is whisked in for his weekly availability and abruptly hauled back out when it’s over. There are few real opportunities for small talk, it’s hard to get side sessions during the week and there are no real chances to get to know anything about him other than how he reads a Cover 2. They were shocked. Building relationships is what he does best. The OU writers thought it is a mistake the Browns don’t make Mayfield more accessible during the week because they all believe they had a great working relationship with him. But Cleveland is a long way from Oklahoma and the NFL is a long way from college. Mayfield is beloved here. He doesn’t need to have a relationship with anyone in the press for that to change. All he has to do is win. And he has certainly given intimate access to GQ and ESPN for offseason profiles. He even made his wife available briefly for both. Still, I couldn’t help but think back to the OU writers who described a different Mayfield than the one who responded to a GQ article Monday by attacking the writer and insisting he didn’t detonate Giants rookie quarterback Daniel Jones like it appeared in print. Mayfield was quoted as saying he was shocked the Giants took Jones sixth overall. “Blows my mind,” he said. When the snippet erupted on social media, Mayfield fired back. “This is not what I said,” he responded on Instagram. “Just so we’re clear. I also said I was surprised I got drafted No. 1. Then was talking about the flaws in evaluating QBs. Where I brought up winning being important. Reporters and media will do anything to come up with a click-bait story. Heard nothing but good things and wish nothing but the best for Daniel.” I can’t say for certain what Mayfield did or didn’t say, but I’ve been in these settings enough to know how this usually goes. The subject is out of the normal interview environment. He’s comfortable. He says something flippantly. Then when it appears in print, it looks much worse than how it was intended or how it sounded in his head. It happens all the time. The writer, Clay Skipper, had a choice to make. The comment about Jones had nothing to do with the rest of the story on Mayfield and the Browns’ resurrection. But it reinforced Mayfield’s reputation of being a maverick who will say anything about anyone at any time. Skipper has written other sports pieces. He profiled Joel Embiid last year for a piece that will be published as part of “The Best American Sports Writing 2019.” Embiid didn’t accuse him of clickbait. But we’re supposed to believe he singled out Mayfield and chose him as the victim of one silly, invented quote about the Giants quarterback? Please. Anyone who has done this long enough has run into multiple situations like this. If I wrote everything LeBron James said in my four years with him, we could’ve had one of these firestorms every week. Once, before a road game at Houston, I walked in on a locker room discussion about some of the worst players in the league. Cavs players were trashing some of their current and past colleagues. It was an open locker room period. I would’ve been within my rights to report everything that was said. Maybe you’ll read this and think I should have. But I never wrote a word about it because it wasn’t worth it to me. Instead, my discretion built trust with the players for when I needed something more important later on. When you’re around a team every day, you don’t write everything you see and hear. When you’re dropping in for a profile piece on the hottest team in the NFL, then leaving town again in a few days, you have nothing to lose. You have a little more leeway to use quotes like those. But Mayfield accused GQ of clickbait, and that’s where I have to push back. The distrust of the media in society has never been higher than it is today. As a member of the press, that hurts. Politics is mostly to blame. But as someone who tries every day to get it right, the idea that writers are always making things up or looking for clickbait strikes a nerve. Some of the vitriol toward the media is certainly warranted. Some is not. This is not. GQ did not promote the quote about Jones in the headline or in any tweet about the story. It wasn’t mentioned until the ninth paragraph, which his hardly the lead. The eruption over the quote occurred on social media from everyone else. As I’ve told numerous interview subjects and teams, we have no control over how other outlets and publications aggregate our original content. It frustrates me sometimes, too. But to aim the venom at GQ in this instance is misguided. It wasn’t clickbait. Nothing with how they packaged or presented it was clickbait. And what happens to pieces like this once they enter the toxic vortex of Twitter/Instagram/Facebook is out of the hands of those of us who take the time to carefully produce original pieces. This will blow over. It always does. Mayfield will be asked about it during his next availability, he’ll bristle at the question and then it will go away — at least until next season, when the Browns play at the Giants. It will most certainly resurface then, particularly if Jones is the starting quarterback. If he’s not, then the Giants really did blow the pick. At this point, you might be mad that I’m (of course) defending the media. You might be shocked I managed to write 1,000 words on Mayfield calling another publication’s piece clickbait. But one way to start rebuilding trust is to admit when you blow it and then defend what you believe is right when you see a wrong. One other thing the OU writers said about Mayfield: He’ll invent enemies for motivation. Ask TCU’s Gary Patterson about that. Mayfield is creating an adversary here where one doesn’t exist. But the silly season, thankfully, is almost over. For a team that can’t seem to stay out of the spotlight, here’s the best news of all: The games that matter are less than three weeks away. They can’t get here soon enough.

I’m of the opinion the Colts OL was a notch above what we saw in Washington. Even their back ups were decent.

I love the level of commitment from the both of you.

I never rode a bike other than as a passenger, but my mom did date a biker. That’s right, my mom was some guy’s old lady. From this l have a heightened awareness and a certain developed mode of driving behavior around motorcyclists. For example, extra cushion on the tailing. However, in my ample studies of driving behavior in rush hour traffic, l can see how a bike in that environment would be a no bueno situation. It’s all about boxing it in to push through, not letting the asshole to your right merge into your lane mentality.

As a resident Ray Ray Armstrong supporter, l gotta admit he hasn’t shown me much so far. And l been watching, but having great hair doesn’t make you a lock here. Maybe in years past l would have been ok with the all hair team, comprised of you and Gillan and Higgins’ bufont of wonderment, and Baker with his whimsical facial thing.