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1 minute ago, flyingfooldoug said:

 I mean, even Harrison called him dirty.

And he said it without a trace of irony.

10 minutes ago, hx214 said:

 

Jesus, Ray Lewis was with a group of guys that murdered somebody and he's in the Hall of Fame, James Harrison made his career spearing guys in the side of the helmet year after year and the Steelers fans ate it up with a spoon, the Bengals used Burfict year after year.... The rest of the AFC North really has nothing to say.

Preach on, my brother

1 minute ago, Vagitron said:

James Harrison never did anything close, ever and the steelers weren't "trying to score" as  they ran one damn play. They weren't burning timeouts. Garrett didn't need to take Rudolph to the ground and what Garrett did is the dirtiest thing I've seen in professional sports. Period.

Oh fucking please. Harrison took out Josh Cribbs and Colt McCoy helmet-to-helmet in the same game  and Steeler fans cheered long and loud. I was driving home from Erie on I-79 when Antonio kicked our punter in the face and Stan and the rest of the boys were yukking it up in the DVE booth. "Boy, he wasn't expecting THAT, was he?" Spare me the outrage.

If the Steelers didn't want Mason to get touched with 8 seconds left in the game, then they should have simply taken a knee. Don't send your receivers down the field and then complain because someone hit your quarterback.

Garrett completely lost it on the field and he most definitely should be punished. But give the self-righteous indignation a rest.

15 minutes ago, Vagitron said:

He's leveraging his free hand to pull his other hand out. As I said emotions are running high for everyone including us. I don't think he's really trying to rip his helmet off.

Except for the part where Garrett's helmet is twisted to the point that he's looking out the ear hole.

"Chasing sacks, hence taking Rudolph to the ground with 8 seconds left."  So, with 8 seconds left in a two score game, the Steelers are still trying to score but Garrett is at fault because he didn't take a knee? Right.

Look, I get it: Garrett deserves a suspension. But can we please stop acting like Rudolph was serving Thanksgiving dinner to the homeless when Garrett suddenly for no reason decided to start whaling on him with his own helmet? After Garrett tore his helmet off he is clearly backing away with Pouncey and another Steeler lineman between him and Rudolph. Rudolph chooses to be the aggressor and charges at him when Myles loses it. Again, Myles deserves a suspension. But comparing him to Burfect is asinine.

P.S. James Harrison says hello.

I definitely wanted a team. I was just led to believe that we would be getting an NFL team.

Something I read earlier:

"Miami is intentionally tanking and the Browns have won one more game than them."

Oh, for fuck's sake. 

Playoffs.

Are you actually watching the fucking games?

11 hours ago, D Bone said:

The Browns' win / loss record fully supports this article...... win and it all goes away. 

You are what your records says you are.

13 hours ago, TexasAg1969 said:

And I'm a pessimist who just voted 6-10. I  think we found a quorum. 😂

Let us pray...

6-10. But then again, my friends tell me I'm an optimist. 😶

On 10/17/2019 at 2:16 PM, jiggins7919 said:

6-10

We're undisciplined, we turn the ball over, we don't throw TD passes, we don't score DEFENSIVE TDs, and we don't make the plays when they matter the most.  That's the biggest thing, right there.  When we need to make something happen, when the game is ON THE LINE...we choke.  Basically, this team has absolutely NO MAGIC.  Zip, zilch, nada, nil.  Let me ask you, how many people on this board felt like we were going to go down the field and score against the Seahawks to win the game?  I think it's a safe bet that not many of us thought we were just going to march down the field and win.  That right there...that expectation that something great is going to happen...THAT'S what is missing from our team.  We still expect to step on our Johnson, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.  We HOPE someone on the team will make a play instead of EXPECTING to make the play.

NOW...if "something" changes?  If we find the "magic"?  I'm telling you, we're a play or two away from winning some games, and I know that most teams in the NFL can say that, but you have to figure our big names are going to start making big plays.  Garrett gets a strip-sack that's returned for a TD.  OBJ one-handed grab for 7.  Chubb breaking loose, Greedy pick-6...whatever.   We start making those 2-3 great plays a game, and we can be something.  We can win the division, but we have to stop beating ourselves and start stringing together wins.  Now. 

I felt like crying late in the 3rd...

Two points:

1. TN was much more physical than we were.

2. After Williams took over as HC last year, the stupid penalties decreased dramatically. Not saying that we shouldn't have hired Kitchens---not saying after one game that Kitchens must be fired---just stating a simple fact: under Williams on-field discipline improved and the stupid, constant shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-defense-can't-get-off-the-fucking-field-on-third-down moronic penalties largely went away. Freddie has to get a handle on this---fast.

14 hours ago, The Gipper said:

 

No, I agree---fuck the Colts (Irsay).

As for the rest of it---sorry, the Browns have no one to blame but themselves. If you're counting on another team to win in order for you to make the playoffs, you probably don't belong in the playoffs. In 2011, the Red Sox entered the final game of the season needing the Yankees to beat Baltimore so that Boston could get the wild card. The Yankees had clinched the division the week before. The Yankees led and then Joe Girardi pulled the starters in the 6th inning. Baltimore came back and won and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Red Sox Nation because the Yankees "tanked so we wouldn't make the playoffs". Barry Larkin said on Baseball Tonight, "the Yankees took care of their business. It is not their responsibility to help you make the playoffs." 3 or 4 years ago we had the same shit with the Steelers. After another 0-3/2-4 start, they rallied late in the season and in the final week needed another AFC team that had already clinched a playoff berth to win. That team rested it's starters and Steeler Nation and the Steeler players themselves bitched and moaned that other teams tanked because they were afraid of the Steelers in the playoffs. Fuck'em. Win your games and forge your own destiny.

In '07, with 2 games left the Browns controlled their own destiny. Beat the 5-9 Bengals and the 49ers and we were in. Instead, we laid an egg against Cinci. Not an iota of the requisite effort and intensity. So we went into the final game needing the Colts to win. The Colts sat their starters. Tough shit for us. Win your fucking games.

2 hours ago, Gunz41 said:

I'll just reply to this one since it is same subject. I said I was only talking about how they got Luck.

I agree with you on the other one. And I certainly don't remember the circumstances of that Colts game. But in coach mode, if the game didn't mean anything to the teams playoffs, I can see why sitting starters is something a team would do. Again, let's say the Browns are 13-2 going into the last game. They have locked up #1 seed. If they play and Baker gets hurt, can you imagine the backlash and chatter about playing in a meaningless game for the team? Again, I am not an NFL coach obviously, and all of our games do matter so I certainly would play mine, and I would like to think I would in NFL, but it is not like the reason for the Colts doing that was to screw the Browns, it was to give themselves the best opportunity to win a championship 

It never upset me that the Colts sat their starters in '07. The sewed up their division, and the week before clinched home field advantage for the playoffs. Why would you send your starters out in a meaningless game? I can assure you that if the Browns have home field sown up going into the final week and I see Baker and OBJ and Landry and Chubb running out onto the field I'm gonna lose my shit. Fuck the other teams; we took care of our business---you take care of yours.

Bottom line, Indy took care of their business. They were not responsible to help the Browns or anyone else make the playoffs. Especially when you consider that Cleveland fucked itself when we shit the bed in Cincinnati the week before and lost (badly) to a shitty 5-9 Bengals team. The Browns had complete control of their own destiny going into that game and fucked it up. Not Indy's responsibility to pick us up.

4 minutes ago, Westside Steve said:

Nice find! And they dropped the Zionist bomb right there in the headline! Thank you WaPo.

😆🇮🇱

WSS

Yes, how dare an actual Jew voice an opinion counter to one that non-Jews tell them they should have.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/22/trump-sees-all-us-jews-israelis-because-his-christian-zionist-allies-do-too/

This, from an actual Jew...

1 hour ago, calfoxwc said:

egad. once one of those went awry for whatever reason, there would be no way to stop it without releasing a dirty bomb anyways?

a mini-chernobyl? over the U.S. way before it hits it's target? or anywhere?

The main reason the U.S. gave up on it was because they didn't want to test it in the American southwest or the Pacific. Apparently, the missile literally spews radiation as it flies across the sky. 

Something obviously went catastrophically wrong in Russia. A tremendous amount of deadly radiation was released because people in the nearby town began getting sick overnight. I would guess that this puts a major crimp in Russian plans. I can't imagine that Russian scientists are kicking down the doors in order to get in on this. 

I read an interesting article this morning about this test. The Russians are trying to develop a very dangerous technology in order to beat U.S. missile defenses. If completed, the missile would not only be nuclear-armed but nuclear powered, carrying a relatively small reactor to heat the air in it's jet engine. It would fly on a lower and less predictable trajectory than an ICBM, making it theoretically capable of evading U.S. missile defenses. The only problem is, it's extremely dangerous---as our Russian brethren found out.

The U.S  tried in the 1960's and gave up on it. An MIT professor said, "Think of it as a mini Chernobyl on a missile. It's an air-breathing cruise missile and they put an unshielded mini nuclear reactor on it. Obviously, that's pretty batshit insane...I think the phrase 'flying nuclear reactor' tells you all you need to know. You've got air blowing through an open nuclear reactor and spewing radiation out the back." "It takes a special kind of crazy to do this. The Russians seem to have gone down this Soviet path of this bizarre menagerie of doomsday weapons."

It demonstrates how worried the Russians are about U.S. missile defenses. However, many scientists are deeply skeptical of domestic missile defenses based in Alaska and California. One said he wouldn't count on our missile defenses to intercept even a single incoming ICBM from North Korea. But what worries Russia is not necessarily it working today, but working in the future.

The article was on either cnn.com or nbcnews.com.

3 hours ago, OldBrownsFan said:

That guy has some serious TDS/Christian hate going on...he should stick to drumming..

On a side note some of the rock stars I liked growing up when I listened to them later on talk shows and they got off of speaking about music (which they knew something about) and spoke about world affairs/politics (which they knew next to nothing about) they just sounded like dopes..

Yeah, it's obvious to anyone who has ever heard Tommy Lee speak that he's an idiot.

Years ago, Dennis Miller commented on people who freak out over album lyrics: "Folks, if your kid is capable of being pushed over the edge by anything Gene Simmons has to say, then you're simply not doing your job as a parent."

And finally, this nugget from Frank Zappa circa 1977: "Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."

A couple years ago I read an article about how provincial NYC fans are---whether it's NCAA Basketball tournament, Super Bowl, WS, NBA Finals---if a NYC or near-NYC team isn't involved, then NYC fans don't give a shit. And tv ratings for those events reflect that attitude.

Unfortunately,  U.S. involvement in Iran's internal affairs doesn't begin in 1979. The Iranians didn't just wake up one morning in 1979 and decide to storm the embassy in Tehran.

Do a quick google search of SAVAK. Knowing that the people who are making you watch a bunch of guys rape your wife while sticking a cattle prod up your ass were trained by the CIA with the blessing of the benevolent American government won't make the Iranian people look too fondly on the U.S. Also, google the exile of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The decision to allow him into the U.S for treatment of his cancer (which the State Dept. warned Carter would likely result in the Iranian regime seizing the American embassy) was an act of pure political fuckery on both sides of the ideological aisle.

20 minutes ago, LogicIsForSquares said:

When I was 16, I worked a summer at Dairy Queen. Needless to say, I didn’t eat anything I didn’t personally prepare. Teenage kids are ruthless.

Same here, except at Hardees. 

I also bartended at several high-end restaurants in my younger days. Be careful about insulting wait staff. Bad things, man.

14 hours ago, DieHardBrownsFan said:

I find that hard to believe.

In your previous post you said that generally, someone shot in the heart will black out within 15-20 seconds. Let's conservatively cut that in half---say 7 to 10 seconds. All I'm saying is that if the person is 10 feet away and has a knife or other deadly weapon, that 7-10 seconds can seem like an eternity.

The "so he isn't allowed to have fun like every other adult?" argument is the same one we got from JFF apologists while he was partying in Vegas and all points west. No, he can do whatever the fuck he wants---it's just that he has a suspect history and he's willingly putting himself in positions where bad things can happen. Sure, you have every right to go to a bar like any other free man in America. If memory serves me correctly, Hunt wasn't charged in any of the previous incidents but the NFL broke it off in his ass, anyways. Dorsey has already told him he's on a zero-tolerance policy and he's at bars putting himself in situations where the police are being called. It's fucking stupid.