Dutch Oven

It was announced yesterday that Ryan Day announced that James Laurinaitis is now an official full-time coach, he will coach the linebackers. 

This won't hurt Ohio State's ability to recruit defensive players. They also gave DLine coach Larry Johnson a two year extension. 

The 49ers could still win the Super Bowl if Mike Pence has the courage.... 

6 hours ago, Flugel said:

Whoa!  Be careful.  Woody's gonna be moaning and groaning in here like he's on a permanent overdose of ecstasy. 

Now if the Browns could get Connor Stalions.... oh boy!

There's a line of free agent LBs possibly leaving the Browns this offseason, and I'd love to add a bigger, physical presence next to JOK in the draft...

That guy might very well be Junior Colson. I think he'd be a nice complement.

Just now, Flugel said:

Going from experience, that was his bait to set-up his next post to be all about how nobody in Cleveland ever wanted to TRY to surround poor Baker with great players.  As you know he's gone skipping record on that 1 thought 

That would have been fine if the guy who drafted Baker (Dorsey) didn't bring both Landry and OBJ here to give Baker play makers on the perimeter.  That's massive effort at the WR position as well as drafting RB Nick Chubb near the top of round 2 as another prong of attack. 1st round draft pick TE David Njoku was already here.  Not that Wills panned out as hoped but he was a 10th overall pick to play LT in 2020. The Browns also acquired/gave RT Jack Conklin a huge contract.  Dorsey also added Wyatt Teller at RG while Pro Bowl LG Bitonio was already here.  Cal likes to pretend to all that will read his repetitive efforts that Dorsey, whose FO career in Cleveland depended on Baker's success, was trying to purposely sabotage Baker's ability to succeed.

Please add anything I missed here...

 

calfox wasn't allowed to play high school football but somehow almost immediately after high school ended miraculously could join the Air Force? 

Oh... did you mean about his idiot takes regarding the Browns? 

4 hours ago, MLD Woody said:

Yeah man, it hit *my* nerve... Haha

 

You have fun in here. Maybe next year?

Until then Go Blue. National champions 

Seriously, why are you even on this board?

You don't give a shit about the Browns. 

Jesus, your profile pic is some mediocre TCUN player who doesn't even play with the Browns. 

1 hour ago, Flugel said:

Did someone REALLY just post great players and great coaches win Super Bowls?    

You have to wake up pretty damn early to get one past ol' calfox. 

Sharp as a tack, that one. 

▪︎-->  "The Official"   ★ Super Bowl 58 Game Thread KC vs SF ★  <--▪︎  Right here.

Rematch from a few years ago...

1 hour ago, gumby73 said:

Only 6 more hours of game hype to kill, before a 6 hour game  🤩 

Simple upgraded draft site  https://www.profootballnetwork.com/mockdraft

Large size of WR class, allowed for a few trade backs. Took 3 trades, covering most needs, so took 2nd falling Wide outs 

C

64.

T'Vondre SweatDT Texas

  trade

 

85.

Roman WilsonWR Michigan

 

94.

Blake FisherOT Notre Dame

 trade

 

132.

MarShawn LloydRB USC

 trade

 

134.

Ricky PearsallWR Florida

 

154.

Curtis JacobsLB Penn State

 

207.

Brevyn Spann-FordTE Minnesota

 

240.

Nelson CeaserEDGE Houston

 

Did a nice job with value AND hitting on needs gumby! 

55 minutes ago, Bob806 said:

Here's the thing I really don't understand. I had a disagreement on Marino recently with one of my long-time friends.

Miami had a few good/great seasons with Marino, but not really that many. It seemed they under achieved (my opinion). Marino's W/L record in Miami was 147-93

So was it Shula that held them back, or was Marino over rated?

Dolphins page

They were kind of a one-trick pony with Marino.

They could pass the lights out, but I don't remember them being a good running team, or having much of a defense. 

6 minutes ago, Flugel said:

That or @nickers showed up to that place with a pair of steel toed shitkickers; and went roadhouse bouncer on the poor guy that told him they only had light beer left...

 

The idea of nickers being a badass is hilarious. 

Now, whining from his mom's basement? That's probably a little more accurate. 

38 minutes ago, Flugel said:

When Andy Reid was walking off the field after his young LBer Nick Bolton made a huge play to help the Chiefs win a playoff game he was asked for his thoughts on it all.  His response via paraphrase here was "we drafted him because he was the best tackler the draft."  The depth of the statement wasn't just that he always makes ideal form tackles.  It was they watched enough film to see he could consistently make open field tackles in space; beat the point of attack to limit yards after contact to little to no gain; possess the instincts and preparation to always be on time to be in ideal position to make form tackles with his head up, etc.

 

This reminds me of how much I liked Bolton coming into that draft. 

The list is long, but I'd love for the Browns to draft a physical presence to put next to JOK. Time to move on from Walker, and while I like Takitaki as a depth/special teams guy, we need a legit starter. 

Once again, I'll add this:

Paul Brown is the father of modern pro football. 

But if my life depended on the outcome of one football game, I would choose Lombardi to be the head coach over Brown without thinking. 

This again? 🤣

1 hour ago, Browns149 said:

Wow. He left a head coaching job to be OC at OSU. 

I get the impression he was dying to leave, hopefully have a good season or two at Ohio State and get a good OC gig in the NFL. 

How many of you have been to other NFL stadiums, and how does Cleveland Browns Stadium compare to them? 

1. Ohio State's 2025 recruiting class on paper just got even better. They already had 5 star CB Devin Sanchez committed, now they nabbed the #1 CB in the nation, Na'eem Offord. As always, there's a long way until the official national signing day.

2. So it appears 97% sure that new OC Bill O'Brien will never actually call a play for Ohio State, as the new opening at Boston College for their head coaching job appears to be his any moment now. Two names to replace him to consider: UCLA Head Coach Chip Kelly, who Day coached under before coming to Ohio State, and Akron Head Coach Joe Moorhead, who was the Oregon OC in 2021 when Oregon came to the Shoe and shredded the Buckeyes defense. He started the process of the massive coaching staff changes on defense after the season in Columbus. 

Conklin is made of glass... I'm honestly surprised he hasn't retired at this point. 

12 minutes ago, AP1 said:

I'm dating myself, but wasn't that the intention of the Gateway Project? My grandparents took me to Gund Arena before we went to an Indians' game at Jacob's Field. I recall there was a mall connected to Gund Arena.

I know indoor malls aren't what they were in the 20th Century, but is it still there?

My guess is restaurants, shopping, multi-plex cinemas, Topgolf, breweries, events venues, etc.

Well there's bars and restaurants all around the Gateway area within walking distance...

This ballpark village would be more of building an entertainment area out of nothing. Like how Atlanta did with their new ballpark Truist Park out in the suburbs. 

1 hour ago, TexasAg1969 said:

I feel for you Orion. I passed one a few years ago and it redefined my 1 to 10 pain scale. Previously 10 had been when I broke my leg and simultaneously dislocated my ankle. That has become a 7. The 10++++ kidney stone felt like what the pain from taking a knife to yourself like the Japanese method of hara-kiri feels like, except no one is there to relieve you of the pain by chopping off your head.😁

I dropped a piece of steel on my foot yesterday, and I'd do that every day for the rest of my life to avoid ever going through the pain of a kidney stone again. 

I would imagine they would build some kind of "ballpark village" around it, like the Patriots did around Foxboro. 

But I don't quite understand how that works when the stadium you build around only hosts a very small amount of events there...

1 hour ago, nickers said:

I rather games be played in the elements... But Money and betting has cancelled traditional football out and has a firm grip on the NFL... My guess is college programs and HS will follow suit.. Football has gone soft...

Aren't you the guy putting people on ignore every other day because your tender feelings get hurt so, so easily? 

2 minutes ago, Flugel said:

I should have elaborated that the interest in TN probably didn't end his interest in returning to the Coaching OL the day we lost Callahan to TN.  The Browns could be a great situation for Munchak.  Once upon a time, the young version Roethlisberger used to run/scramble much like Watson does.  I say that because as he got older with wear and tear, he/Pitt stopped a lot of that running down field while allowing him to be elusive in the pocket (more like Brady or Marino was despite their cement cleats).  When Munch was there - they found a compatibility with the line and the QB while he was extending time to throw.

Maybe Munch could be a guy that could make a LT out of Dawand Jones - just spit balling here since the solution probably isn't available at #50 overall.

I had some doubts that Jones could start at RT for a year or two when we drafted him, I figured he'd be a slow work-in-process...

Now I'm starting to think that he could very well be our LT of the future. 

8 hours ago, gumby73 said:

No chance I'd pass on adding.. either/or

 DT Sweat or WR McConkey @54

Bama WR Burton or LB E. Cooper  @85 

T Rouse or  A&M WR A. Smith  or TE Theo Johnson  @134

T Blake Fisher or RB Marshawn Lloyd @154

 

I would have considered TE Cade Stover from Ohio State at #85. 

51 minutes ago, AP1 said:

Pretty wild that he interviewed for an OC job and ended up with the OL job. 

I wonder if....

When he interviewed for the OC job, the Browns knew Bill Callahan was going to Tennessee. 

If he is getting OC type pay or position pay. 

My concern is now that he has interviewed for an OC job, after next season he would again start interviewing for OC jobs and the Browns are back to square one.

That was the nice thing about having Callahan, you got the impression at his age that he was fine with being an OLine coach for the rest of his coaching career.

Still, the guy we got sounds like a good one... for as long as we have him.