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Miss you friend ! You and the family as well !

Right on, Deisle! Hope you're having a great summer, bro!

I saw this one coming (I think a lot of us did). I wonder if the first two games were home if the decision would be the same.

Either way, Watson has a few weeks to prove anything (I think we lose both games regardless of which QB we have). I feel like our organization looks horrible again

I'm going to support number 4 because the coaching staff feels he's the best chance at the team winning.

As a Browns fan I cannot hate a player on a team that I love and support who wears the brown orange and white.

Monken said Watson has gone above and beyond in the building and outside the building to try and be a good QB for the Browns.

I wanted to stop being a Browns fan when fans cheered when Couch got injured.

I didn't because the Browns are the team who I love the most

Actually Miles Garret going on National tv and saying he's not wanting to play for the Browns because it's not about the money it's about being on a contender.

Two weeks later he's taking the money. Then getting traded. It upset me more than Watson being named the starter. It's what Watson did. He came to the Browns because of the money. Most players do, while others don't.

But to simply just hate and be so negative before the season starts just isn't healthy. Will it turn out good or bad ?

Who knows, But as a Browns fan I'm going to support # 4, I just imagine how I would feel or react if the fans cheered because I got injured.

As of now, I want to see a win game number one, then every game after that will give me feelings of success or failure.

You Dawgs be good, chill support and put the negative feelings aside until the season starts... jmo


Go Browns ! My team Dawgs , Woof ! Woof !

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Irish, would starting Watson have any factor for insurance payouts? I thought I read last year that the Browns could not simply sit Watson. They had to make a conscious effort to play him to collect.

My opinion. If I have to guess, I bet Watson is the most knowledgeable-sounding person in the room. With everyone so new on offense, the key to starting the season is getting everything in rhythm. Then he gets injured.

Ignorant boomer conservatives will never be convinced that they purposely ignored, or condoned, all forms of racism from the 50s til now.

Sanders will probably be playing by week 3. Green by week 15. The typical 3 QB brownie season.

Yep
DW is a no benefit huge cost investment, that has come to the end of his time.

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Hey After many Years..Man I cant say I saw this decision coming but somehow, I'm not surprised..

We are a story because the Browns have made the story.

I know I am not alone in wanting to open a season with a shot at accomplishments.

Instead of expectations of last place from myself and everyone else.

For a team that has no realistic expectations of contending this season we're going to get a lot of attention from everyone that's not a Browns fan and the national media simply because of all of the storylines and drama. Hope the players and coaches can handle it. Could be very distracting.

Knowing how to swaddle a baby pays huge dividends!

"But this is Murica and we have freedumb of speech and all that!"

I have no idea at what point they will begin to realize that you can defeat an army, you can conquer a nation but you can't defeat an ideology. It will remain and continue to battle you. I suppose after trump claiming he defeated ISIS and Iraq continues to face security challenges from both lingering ISIS sleeper cells and powerful, Iran-backed paramilitary groups and the Taliban still controlling Afghanistan wasn't enough of a lesson for them. The writing is on the wall for anyone who has been paying attention.

You were saying? Yes, Gary, Indiana which has been without electric for almost two weeks now is a coincidence.

Flint, Michigan who found their water lines were poisoned with lead in 2014 just finished replacing all of those pipes last month is just another coincidence.

At what point do you begin to stop trying to make it sound like all of these things are nothing but coincidences and admit there's a problem here?

Let me guess. Never.

I don't believe that.

I take Monken's word. He was better than SS after the evaluation period in total.

The truth is both guys do not deserve to start. Neither could beat out any starter in the league.

That is the state of the QB room.

In the end it is probably a good thing that he won the job.

We should have a good shot at the number one pick.

I will still want to win every game we can. However, that is meaningless.

DW is getting his last chance. The results will be tied to his performance.

And yes DW is about performance.

Sounds like the Larry David School of Overthinking Things.

Don't need to think outside the box. This is football, not a talk show about football. From that standpoint, the team, it's players and it's coaches should 100% be adopting short-term thinking at this point.

New coach, new offense, new schemes; a bunch of rookies and a new OL. You are preaching that the unquestionable "right move" is to start Sanders... and mostly basing it on the fact that people don't or shouldn't really care for Watson... and then how that may affect our ability to secure FA talent in the future?

C'mon dude. I won't argue some of the points, mostly that Watson is not the future, but throwing a seemingly slow-to-learn Sanders out there sounds like a terrible idea if there is any semblance of an option. I'll say this out loud for anyone that hasn't noticed yet: Sanders is a sssloww learner.

So, that's my opinion based on the games are "for real" in three weeks, not me pontificating on what are the best long-term options to draw FAs in 2029.

I get what you're saying. The "Us against the world" mentality might prevail. I also think you're right about winning. I won't go as far as to say "nobody" would care if the team is winning but certainly the vast majority wouldn't care and that quiets the noise.

But there will certainly be circumstances at play here which I think will greatly influence how this will play out in regards to the team.

How are things going on the field? If the team is competitive against the good teams and winning against the bad teams with noticeable and steady improvement, I think it will galvanize the team.

If as some suspect the defense takes a step backwards and the O doesn't quickly step up to the plate I could see problems arising. I was never a professional athlete but even in high school I HATED losing! I certainly feel that holds true with the vast majority of professional athletes. You generally never get that far without that fire and passion to win. When and if the players start to feel that noise holds validity that could spell trouble.

Monken is new to the NFL HC position. That's yet another factor. We have no idea how he will fit into that role and be able to control the emotions of the players. Especially if things aren't going well.

I'm certainly not willing to try and make a prediction in that regard but to me, sadly, it's like a lot of seasons we've lived through. The drama surrounding the team seems to be taking the lead role going into the season over our expectations to the outcome of the season itself

I don't think most expect it to be a winning season but the drama built up to this point alone almost makes it must watch TV.

What a phenomenal idea.

https://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-...untry-to-criminalise-politicians-who-lie

Under the proposals it would be a criminal offence for a member of the Senedd, or a candidate for election to the Senedd, to wilfully, or with intent to mislead, make or publish a statement that is known to be false or deceptive. Proceedings would have to be brought within six months from the date on which the statement was made.

It would be considered a defence if it could be “reasonably inferred” to be a statement of opinion, or if it were retracted with an apology within 14 days. Being prosecuted for such a law would disqualify a person from being a Senedd member.

I think they are trotting him out there in hopes he gets injured so they can recover more money

When Watson fails... they can put in SS and fully close the book on Watson.

That will leave SS to prove that he is or is not a starting/winning QB in the NFL

If SS fails... we are drafting high and taking a QB.

4 for 1

Lol. You need to get one of those baby burrito blankets.