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Who cares who she roots for. We can root for whoever we want, at least until the socialists(communists) tell us who to root for. If her mind, personality, and body work for him, that's good enough for me.

They play 17 friggen games a year. That's less than 60 yards a game. Lets quit acting like 1000 yards is a lot. Elite receivers should gain around 1400 yards.

LOL....my bad..I googled Godwin. Sorry about that. Thanks for the correction.

I get what you are saying, but if we win your must win games and nothing else, we win 7 games. Just play the season. All games are must win, and know you aren't going to win all of them. You never know which loss is going to hurt the most. You never know which win is going to help the most. That season ending loss to the Bengals which you project might be the killer. I do understand you may not project it as a loss, but it could be the must win game. Just stack up wins and hope it is good enough.

Our bye week is in week 5. That is pretty early. It won't be good if we are 1-4 at week 5, but it isn't over at week 5. The last 12 games are going to count for something. Same if we are 5-0...you know well enough we can bodger it up after that.

Noory has done a real good job. I still tune him in if I wake up at 1-2AM, which is a regular thing these days. I like IAN Pundant...he is a weekend fill in guy. I think he is out of Atlanta. I have listened to Church. It is what it is. As I have gotten older and retired, I sleep like a cat. A few hours here, a few hours there....no set deal of going to bed at 9 and waking at 4 like I did when working. I sleep when I am tired and stay up no matter the hour. My wife gets mad when I get up and fix a cup of coffee at 1AM. I'll sleep again between 5 and 7, or maybe 9 and 12, or 2 and 5PM. LOL I stay up when awake and sleep when tired.

Larry King was great. Same with the Art Bell program. Glad there are some other radio heads out there. At least for me, I would pick up some "far away" station, then go to my Google of the day, the "Funk and Wagnalls", and read about the city the next morning. My parents bought our Funk and Wagnalls at the grocery store a few volumes at a time. Fishers grocery store. It took about a year to get the entire set.

I was a radio freak as a kid in Bay Village. I'd tune that sucker and get all excited listening to a radio station in New Orleans or listen to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. I felt like I was there. Heck, I was. You left the bubble called Cleveland. I actually started to like country music back then, but wouldn't admit it to my friends because they made fun of it....lol. Kind of like us Clevelanders kind of, sort of like Polka music, even if you don't admit it. WSM...650 on the dial. The Opry has been broadcast nearing 100 years now as a weekly program. The longest running program. Maybe since 1924. I am sure you remember as a kid every once in a while you could pick up Detroit TV stations. Man, that was an exciting moment! Even Toronto every now and again! They were mostly showing the same stuff, but still, it was another world just like radio stations out of Nashville, New Orleans, St Louis. Pretty cool as a 10 year old kid.

I don't know. For listening to games, AM is the best. FM stations usually only have a broadcast rage of maybe 40 miles. The clear channel AM stations can rage 700 or more miles. I can pick up WTAM at night and I live 650 miles away. I've picked it up when I went to school in Gainesville many moons ago. I think it was WERE...maybe WHK...I can't remember. Those clear channel stations were set up for national defense purpose. It doesn't matter where you are in this country, you can pick up one of them. You can usually get them at night because stations on a close frequency have to shut down at sunset. In an emergency, they have to shut whenever told by the FCC. Actually, with the advent of satellite radio and personal devices, FM is on the downswing. AM dominates the talk and news segment. When in Cleveland, I tune in 1100 to get the news and traffic. I'd bet a lot of you listen to Wills and Snyder in the morning. You know you are going to get the skinny every 10 minutes or so. It's a good format.

He is older and probably not as fast, but he is still fast. In checking he is 27. 30 is the normal benchmark teams look at.

I think he will.

I don't know about that. I see it as a toss up. Turnovers and penalties are probably going to make the difference.

Quite a iconic figure. He is responsible for 3 common phases or lexicon. Margaritaville Cheeseburger in Paradise It's 5 O'clock somewhere. It's Labor Day. Pat and I usually for for BBQ ribs. She may still get that. For me, a cheeseburger and margarita seem fitting.

Naa...Leatherwood has Paul Zukaskis feet. I think his shoes have lead insoles and steel toes.

That is why we brought in Schwartz. He just didn't work out. Goodwin is the speed a team needs. We have some guys who have decent speed but they have to shake their coverage, they can't just run past them. Goodwin can. Unlike Schwartz, he can actually catch the ball so safeties are going have to respect him more than they did Schwartz.

I would think that is the plan. Work him inside where i think he will be fine. He'd be one of those guys that since he has experience on the outside, he might be considered a swing tackle only if you had to play him there.

I never knew your age, but I know mine and figured that I am at least 25 or more years older than the average poster in here. I remember events, sports and otherwise from the 50's first hand, not just reading about it in some book or article. I thought you possibly had seen some Hogans Heros reruns, if not first hand.

I agree and in the that is what he did do. It was the only decision. I would have wanted him to stay. He is going to be a good kicker in the league but we are at the point we couldn't wait for that to happen. The fan based had turned on him which added to the pressure. He just needed to start with a clean slate. I see we added a kicker to our practice squad. Hopkins is our kicker for now, but we have someone ready to call up. Maybe we even go with 2 active kickers at some point. Hopkins isn't all that good outside 40 yards. We might want that long rage kicker in some situations. I'd rather take my chances on a 55 yard FG over a hail mary with 2 seconds remaining.

I get it. So would I. You seem to be more in tune than I on such matters, but even if you were the man in charge, there would be multitudes of people thinking you know nothing..you remember Sgt Schultz don't you? LOL In the end I just have to trust that even if the decisions don't work out, they were thought out and talked through. I like to think there is some sort of reasoning behind decisions and Berry isn't just throwing a dart at a list of names, picking the one he hits dead center.

We really only kept Schwartz for 2 seasons. I don't count camps as seasons.

LOl....and in the end, does it really matter if we know? I've never had someone from the FO call to ask me if I agreed or approved. Just saying...

The practice squad rules below, as there seems to be some confusion. How and when a team has to designate the 4 protected players in unknown, but it doesn't really matter as long as the team and league knows. NFL practice squad salaries: Minimum salary, eligibility rules & more to know for 2023 (msn.com)

I am not saying that Hopkins can't kick well. He just doesn't have a big leg. He is good from 40 yards in. Outside of that it goes down and he isn't know for kicking 50+ yard kicks. I don't know the brown practice routine. I know they have a indoor 60 yard field in which to work. I would suspect the kickers get plenty of outdoor work. Kicking in Berea, and iI know there are many occasions where the kickers and snapper/holder actually go to the stadium with some assistant coach and a couple of interns to act as ball boys and kick in the stadium elements for an hour or so. I feel good that all the kickers get plenty of outdoor work no matter the time of year. They may not go out there in a driving rainstorm or snowstorm, but on a windy day down on the lake, I am sure they load the guys up in a van to get some stadium work often enough.

It probably means they don't want to take any chances and are more or less having a kicking competition. Hopkins is proven, but why take a chance? This way Havrisik gets to kick in Cleveland weather, gets to know the other players and can be elevated at a moments notice. Also, maybe Havrisik has a big leg. We know Hopkins doesn't. Maybe we decide to go with 2 active kickers on gameday. If we have to kick a 55 yarder, Hopkins isn't the guy.

Tough calls have to be made. Goodwin brings the speed a team likes to have to help stretch things on the vertical. In the end I don't think it was Goodwin or any of the other receivers who bounced Watkins off the 53. I think it was Diabate or Hickman. Probably more Hickman. Diabate got a pretty sizeable signing bonus to sign with us as a UDFA. I think it was 5th round money. In the end both of those guys will be able to make immediate contributions on special teams for sure and possibly the D as a whole. Both of those areas needed more help than the WR room did. At best Watkins was only going to see very limited action this season. I also think the teams feels that Watkins has the best chance to clear waivers. The guy is already 25 which is nearing that barrier age of 30 for wide receivers. We have to remember, our philosophy, or roster strategy has changed. Gone are the days where projecting guys 2-3 years down the road have taken a back seat to how can a player help todays team? That's what happens when you establish a pretty solid roster and are looking at winning today more than developing players for the future.