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Originally Posted by GMdawg
DEPO does not MAKE football decisions. I have made that clear on here.

How could he be? He is extremely busy sending hurricanes to Florida and escalating the war in the Middle East.


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More than anything this whole situation is sad.

There are lots of dedicated hard working people in the Browns organization. They pour all they have into their jobs.

At the end of this disaster heads will roll. Coaches, players, who knows?

There is no easy way out.

IMO Jimmy Haslam will need to make a statement. Not the kind where he has a press conference and says he is making a change at GM or head coach.

I think he should make a statement to the fans. He is making huge plans for a new stadium. His payroll is in the top three. He is not like Dolan.

Right now the team is an embarrassment. He made the final decision on signing DW. He needs to announce that KS has his permission to make changes.

He has to take charge and make things clear to the fans. If plans are being made to release Watson in June. And Haslam intends to retain KS he needs to make a statement of his support on all decisions made regarding who plays.

To remain silent and let this just play out till the end of the season is unfair to the organization and the fans.

Haslam has big plans. He needs to show that he supports his fan base.

This cannot continue with nothing being done.

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I agree Bone. If Haslam truly supports his coach and believes in him, HE needs to be the one to publicly say: We are moving on from Watson and turning the page into a brighter future, which includes a fresh start, new stadium, etc


"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
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Saying nothing and doing nothing is not an answer.

Haslam expected the fans to embrace a guy who was charged with sexual harassment.

He held a press conference stating that he understood the fans who had issues with DW. That this was a second chance and he was confident
that DW would do everything to earn his way into the community. He would receive consoling and guidance.

Haslam gave extensions to KS and AB demonstrating his support.

Now he needs to step up and show his support to the fan base.

The game Sunday against the Bengals will get rude. He needs to say to the fans he supports them and understands their frustration with the team.

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I think we can all agree this is the third year in a row that DW hasn’t played any NFL football.


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Originally Posted by GMdawg
DEPO does not MAKE football decisions. I have made that clear on here.


GM..I have to throw the BS flag on this idea of yours that Depo doesn't make football decisions...I'm not buying it.

Depo plays the part of "ENABLER"...!

Haslam comes up with an idea and Depo runs the idea through his "baseball analytics brain" and supports Haslam.

Depo is always a phone call away ready to support the guy who signs his paycheck.

The two guys running the Browns franchise...Owner-Jimmy Haslam and Chief Strategist Paul Depodesta...and neither is qualified to run a NFL franchise.




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Originally Posted by MemphisBrownie
rofl

He says he's throwing the BS flag, then procedures to make up a bunch of BS.


There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.

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Reporting what the numbers actually say isn't being an enabler. Or are you trying to suggest that Depo manipulates the numbers to say what Haslam wants them to say? If so that sounds a little out there.


Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.

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Originally Posted by mac
Originally Posted by GMdawg
DEPO does not MAKE football decisions. I have made that clear on here.


GM..I have to throw the BS flag on this idea of yours ....

Fixed.


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Originally Posted by bonefish
More than anything this whole situation is sad.

There are lots of dedicated hard working people in the Browns organization. They pour all they have into their jobs.

At the end of this disaster heads will roll. Coaches, players, who knows?

There is no easy way out.

IMO Jimmy Haslam will need to make a statement. Not the kind where he has a press conference and says he is making a change at GM or head coach.

I think he should make a statement to the fans. He is making huge plans for a new stadium. His payroll is in the top three. He is not like Dolan.

Right now the team is an embarrassment. He made the final decision on signing DW. He needs to announce that KS has his permission to make changes.

He has to take charge and make things clear to the fans. If plans are being made to release Watson in June. And Haslam intends to retain KS he needs to make a statement of his support on all decisions made regarding who plays.

To remain silent and let this just play out till the end of the season is unfair to the organization and the fans.

Haslam has big plans. He needs to show that he supports his fan base.

This cannot continue with nothing being done.
Originally Posted by bonefish
Saying nothing and doing nothing is not an answer.

Haslam expected the fans to embrace a guy who was charged with sexual harassment.

He held a press conference stating that he understood the fans who had issues with DW. That this was a second chance and he was confident
that DW would do everything to earn his way into the community. He would receive consoling and guidance.

Haslam gave extensions to KS and AB demonstrating his support.

Now he needs to step up and show his support to the fan base.

The game Sunday against the Bengals will get rude. He needs to say to the fans he supports them and understands their frustration with the team.

100%!

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Originally Posted by mac
Originally Posted by GMdawg
DEPO does not MAKE football decisions. I have made that clear on here.


GM..I have to throw the BS flag on this idea of yours that Depo doesn't make football decisions...I'm not buying it.

Depo plays the part of "ENABLER"...!

Haslam comes up with an idea and Depo runs the idea through his "baseball analytics brain" and supports Haslam.

Depo is always a phone call away ready to support the guy who signs his paycheck.

The two guys running the Browns franchise...Owner-Jimmy Haslam and Chief Strategist Paul Depodesta...and neither is qualified to run a NFL franchise.

You don't need to buy anything. I'm just telling you the facts Mac. They are free


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Jimmy Haslam has to be careful.

Kevin is only human and at the moment he don’t seems to get some public support from his nearest bosses. I have said it before and some of you will not like this but the working environment inside Berea isn’t optimal. Right now is borderline to bad when it comes to show leadership.

Anybody with some sorts of experience in management can see this from miles away.

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This’s hard words and some will not like it but it has to be said. It’s in the end about what’s best for the organization to moving forward from this fiasco.
How to save what is left to save and what to do next so supporters don’t loose interest and quit engage.
Something must be done.

Andrew Berry, and to a lesser extent Kevin Stefanski, have failed.
That’s a fact. Results don’t lie.

Kevin is most of the time a good football coach. His record with the Browns is still above 0.5 but this season the losses are coming more frequently.
What he needs to work with is discipline, players seems unprepared and that the moral inside his team is fluctuating depending on ebb and flow in and between the games.

When it comes to our GM there’s nothing more to say.

He has totally mishandled what he inherited from Dorsey in 2020. There’s no room for excuses any longer.
It’s doesn’t matter how much he was involved in the Watson decision or not. The failure is total and as it stands it will take years to recover.
The ultimate responsibility inside Berea stops with him even if we all know that the owners were heavily involved.

Match goers and true supporters deserves better.
The city of Cleveland deserves better.
Even the players deserves better.

This organization is deeply dysfunctional and Andrew Berry has been involved in almost every bad decisions taken.

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Is it safe to say our Super Bowl window has slammed shut?


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Originally Posted by GMdawg
You don't need to buy anything. I'm just telling you the facts Mac. They are free

Your Welcome.
Hey GM - if this is a question you can answer or even attempt to shed light on I'd be interested .... who in your opinion was the person most interested in trading for DW? Was it KS because he had lost trust in and there was friction with baker? Was it Berry who perhaps thought DW was the guy to relieve the friction between Baker and HC? Was it Depo who might have done a deep dive on the analytics and found DW in his hey day was a difference maker? Or owner who wanted to make a splash/headlines/saw Fastrack to SB contender?

I've always held a belief/guess that Depo must have been very high on DW for the owner and rest of the FO to go so hard for him. Or put another way - if all Dep does is present data ... Depo must have been very high on what the data represented? But that's exactly what I said: opinion/guess. I could be 100% wrong.


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Originally Posted by Ballpeen
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Is it safe to say our Super Bowl window has slammed shut?
I think the below average window has been slammed shut lol


"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
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I like Quincy - not a big fan of this take. Meh.


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Originally Posted by mgh888
Originally Posted by GMdawg
You don't need to buy anything. I'm just telling you the facts Mac. They are free

Your Welcome.
Hey GM - if this is a question you can answer or even attempt to shed light on I'd be interested .... who in your opinion was the person most interested in trading for DW? Was it KS because he had lost trust in and there was friction with baker? Was it Berry who perhaps thought DW was the guy to relieve the friction between Baker and HC? Was it Depo who might have done a deep dive on the analytics and found DW in his hey day was a difference maker? Or owner who wanted to make a splash/headlines/saw Fastrack to SB contender?

I've always held a belief/guess that Depo must have been very high on DW for the owner and rest of the FO to go so hard for him. Or put another way - if all Dep does is present data ... Depo must have been very high on what the data represented? But that's exactly what I said: opinion/guess. I could be 100% wrong.

Group effort AB, KS, QB coach/offensive cord, scouts, player personel department. They all deserve the credit or blame.


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