This is All Brett Favre's Fault

[ClevelandFanForLife]

We've all seen how bad this team is this year and we aren't going anywhere next year either. We are all upset about how things are playing out whether it's with the decisions by the coaches/front office or by the players on the field. There are fingers to point at everyone for this but nobody deserves more blame than this man: Brett Favre.

 

Let's wind the clock back 12 months. The Jets were 8-3, leading their division and were on the fast track to the playoffs. However, bad decision after bad decision by Favre led the Jets to go 1-4 in their final 5 games, and finish the season 9-7. The major result of this was that head coach Eric Mangini lost his job and was quickly hired by the Browns after days of being unemployed.

 

Since getting here, Eric Mangini has ripped this team apart, alienated retired players by ripping down their legacy and memorabilia, made his current players upset with ridiculous fines, lied to the players and fans about the starting quarterback, waste much needed draft picks on guys that he isn't playing, be more arrogant than any other coach in the league, get a scrub players from his former team to try to make our team better, and here's the big one guys: made our team 1-10 and the laughing stock of the league. There is a lot to be said here about this but it's not all his fault. He should never have been hired in the first place.

 

If Brett Favre wouldn't have tanked last year, the Jets would have probably made the playoffs and Mangini would have never been fired and then hired by Slow Lerner. Therefore we don't get Can't-gini and he doesn't rip apart this team. He has no idea how to put together a team, his draft history is far from steller and he refuses to see anyone else's side of the point. He even threw his own "friend" George Kokinas under the bus.

 

I agree that he needed to get rid of Braylon and Kellen. They were cancers and we needed to get something for them while we could. However the fact that he does nothing for team unity is ridiculous. However, I digress to my original point: The blame is put on Brett Favre.

 

Favre's horrible decisions at the end of last year have led to us being a joke in the eyes of the NFL and nobody takes us seriously. Thanks Brett. We owe this season to you. It's true that one player can make or break a team and this is proof. He is makinig the Viking's into a Superbowl contender and is breaking the backs of the Browns. Pretty impressive for a guy who was supposed to have retired... twice. Good luck in the playoffs and i hope you choke again soon.

 

[samoth]

Hey if we're going to point fingers, You could just as easily say it's all John Elway's fault.

 

if elway had played for the Colts who drafted him, maybe they wouldn't be so bad that Irsay was forced to move the team in the middle of the night. Fast forward 10 years, the city of Baltimore doesn't need a team and Modell doesn't move the Browns there and then we win the superbowl as the cleveland browns in 2000.

[ClevelandFanForLife]

Hey if we're going to point fingers, You could just as easily say it's all John Elway's fault.

 

if elway had played for the Colts who drafted him, maybe they wouldn't be so bad that Irsay was forced to move the team in the middle of the night. Fast forward 10 years, the city of Baltimore doesn't need a team and Modell doesn't move the Browns there and then we win the superbowl as the cleveland browns in 2000.

that's the spirit! let's blame everyone. it's paul brown's fault for getting fired by art asshole. it's bernie's fault for not becoming gm five years ago. it's lerner's fault for not running the team properly... actually, that one works. let's go with that.

[JoeSixPat]

The real funny thing is that with Favre tanking last year Mangini was working hard to convince Lerner that Favre was brought to the Jets over the better judgment of Mangini (who apparently was forced to name his child in honor of Brett)

 

Many fans worked tirelessly to convince themselves of the same thing.

 

So assuming what Mangini told Lerner is true, one REALLY needs to be questioning Mangini's ability to assess NFL talent (as well as front office staff) now that Favre is the NFC Player of the Month!

[Tim Couch Pulls Out]

It's my fault because 20 years ago, I was born, causing the universe to split into two.

 

Had I never been born, the universe would never have split, and things would have been completely different. In this parallel universe (which would have been the only universe), Art Modell was shot in the balls on a hunting trip in 1992, which led to his untimely death. The Modell family sold the team to John Madden, who was in the market for a franchise after systematically winning the lottery, finding treasure off the coast of North Carolina, and striking oil whilst attempting to put up a volleyball net in the backyard of his Mexican vaction home, making him the richest man in the world. Because of Modell's untimely death, the Browns never were moved to Baltimore, and the Colts didn't enter the league until 2002, when Erik Estrada decided he would like to jump in on the NFL action. In the 1998 draft, we drafted a fresh faced Ryan Leaf with the first pick, causing a gigantic uproar. The Chargers, who believed Leaf was the secondcoming of Jesus, traded us their picks of Peyton Manning and Jamal Williams for Leaf the following week. Peyton led us to 7 Super Bowls in 9 years, 6 of which we won, with Jamal Williams becoming the first defensive lineman to make it to 11 straight Pro Bowls in his first 11 years. Ryan Leaf, on the other hand, was eventually arrested for buggering a horse in Waco, Texas. The President of the United States, Sir William Nye the Science Guy (yes, he was knighted), concluded that the Browns represented everything America stood for, and replaced the stars of the American Flag with tiny Browns helmets. This caused Russia to flip their lid (no one really understood why), and they decided to bomb France (nobody complained). The annihiliation of France was a source for celebration in Italy, and people began drinking heavily and fornicating in the streets. This mass orgy pissed off God, who decided the time was right for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to pay us a visit. The horsemen stormed through the world, decimating the people, until Peyton Manning dipped a football in holy water and threw it through the chests of all Four Horsemen, who shouldn't have been standing single-file to begin with. God realized that he made a mistake trying to start the Rapture, and apologized profusely. Peyton looked God in the eye and said "Don't let it happen again", and God didn't. Instead he blessed us Browns with 15 Super Bowls in the next 14 years (historians are still trying to figure that one out), and in 2021, the Browns were officially recognized as the greatest franchise in this history of professional sports.

 

Sorry, guys.

[Bob806]

Best Theory: Modell's fault for firing Paul Brown. We've really never recovered from that, not too many good seasons since.

 

80s Theory: Marty's fault: A) prevent defense that allowed Elway to go 98 yards for OT. Herman Fontenot of all people up the middle on 3rd & 2 in OT, he's stuffed, then we lose

 

Conspiracy Theory: Jerry Markbreit: "Here's your team, history & colors Cleveland, we will screw you every chance we can get on a close play, or our bullshit replay system." ( except for Dawson's FG vs. the Ravens, lol).