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Browns 2021 Off-Season Thread

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What Position Should the Browns Focus On Improving?

  • Wide Receiver

    Votes: 6 4.5%

  • Defensive End/Edge

    Votes: 47 35.6%

  • Defensive Tackle

    Votes: 14 10.6%

  • Cornerbacks!

    Votes: 14 10.6%

  • Safeties

    Votes: 14 10.6%

  • DBs in General

    Votes: 59 44.7%

  • Linebacker Corps

    Votes: 70 53.0%

  • Leg-Related Special Teams Personnel

    Votes: 3 2.3%

  • Maine Coon

    Votes: 6 4.5%

  • Norwegian Forest Cat

    Votes: 5 3.8%
  • Total voters
    132
Mr. Orange said:
Bandwagoner? Son, I’ve been sticking my with the Browns since I was a wee lad for the fumble game. And yes that is my first clear Browns memory. So gtfo with this bandwagon crap. From Gerald McNeil to Touchdown Tommy, the other Micheal Jackson, Nahee Mustafa, the corpse of John Jurcovic, Chivarini, Chaun Thompson, the rubber band man Kamerion Wimbley, Beau Bell, watching DA’s interceptions in a windy Paul Brown Stadium, to the Shurmer years, being a season ticket holder for the Petttine years….I’ve been deep in the shit worse than Nam, so don’t call me a bandwagoner. Put some damn respect on my name. It became clear after Haslam bought the team that he had no clue what he was doing. I followed them but it wasn’t appointment television. Not wasting Sunday’s anymore. I voted with my walllet and change finally happened.

The point of this post is to note how truly far away we were from 1999-2019. We never had a chance. Now we know what a championship roster looks like. GTFO of here with the bandwagon crap.
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Well, then maybe do a better job of wording your posts considering a) this isn’t your first one of this nature, and b) you were dragged by multiple people… Not just me. Pretty sure no one is arguing with you that the Browns had a chance to win a Super Bowl in the last 20 years. That doesn’t make you special for deciding to not watch them in the lean years.

Put some damn respect on your name? Lol. Get over yourself clown.
 
Jack Brickman said:
In the past my basic Browns watching strategy would work like this...

I usually have both the Browns game and Red Zone (for fantasy football purposes) on Sundays, assuming I'm watching at home and the Browns had an afternoon game, which they usually did. Typically, early in the season the Browns game is on the big screen TV with the volume up all the way and Red Zone would be on my laptop with the sound turned down real low. Over the course of the season as the Browns continued to disappoint, Red Zone would become the big screen show and the Browns got relegated to laptop duty.

Last year was the first year in a long time where the Browns stayed on the big screen all year, which was awesome.
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Even though I won my fantasy league 2 of 4 years, i quit because it took away from my actual football watching. I found myself caring too much about my team and not the actual games and honestly I should have quit sooner.

But that is me just saying to each their own, not that you are wrong for what you are doing. If you are enjoying it, keep playing fantasy and watching red zone.

I actually quit the year before we got good, so maybe i am the real reason we got good.
 
Randolphkeys said:
Switching gears, evidently an ESPN article ranked the Browns off-season 10th overall. Here's the reasoning:

What they could have done differently: Cleveland could have gone after one of the other available edge rushers as opposed to Clowney, who signed a one-year, $8 million deal. Justin Houston and Melvin Ingram both have knee injuries in their past, but then again, so does Clowney. Signing Clowney also seemingly led the Browns to cut Richardson, and while the organization has talked about possibly bringing the former Jets tackle back, he might be the better player at this point.

I chalk it up to the usual reason - Let the bad franchises in large markets believe they have a good shot in 2021. Nobody will remember this article when the Saints miss the playoffs.
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I think it is more along the lines of the axiom that people will pay attention to stuff that fills them with outrage. The more outrageous the story, the more attention; the more attention, the more profit.
 
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selby56 said:
Alright, I have to ask. What could possibly be going on in the stands of a charity softball event that almost leads to a fight?
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There was a baseball team there of like some teenage or 12 year old kids. Their coach was sitting a few rows behind where the kids were sitting. One of the kids was tapping my brothers shoulder like sort of playing a game. He laughed it off and didn't think anything of it and then another kid kept putting his foot on my brothers back and kicking him.

So my brother stood up and told the kid to stop kicking him. The kid kept kicking him. He asked to speak to the adult who brought them there and that's when the coach of the team the kids were on got in my brothers face like nose to nose. My brother said the coach was clearly drunk.

He was gonna tell the coach that the kids were kicking him and being inappropriate but the coach wanted to fight him instead. The coach was a little guy too. My brother is not huge but he's not small either. The coach was like 5'8 150lbs and drunk. The coach bumped my brothers face with the brim of his hat and my brother pushed him into the next row. A bunch of the other people stood up and called my brother a troublemaker and the cops came over.

They ended up moving my brothers closer and gave them better seats.
 

Was pretty much off the table for the Browns as soon as Clowney signed but looks like the Vikings will hold on to him.
 
A buddy of mine asked a group of our friends this question a few days ago, and it sparked some healthy debate:

If you could pick 1 post 1999 Brown to put on this team, who would you pick.

My picks were either 2001 Jamir Miller, 2013 Josh Gordon or prime Joe Haden. They kicked around Cribbs, my avatar and Dawson, amongst others.

I really think another great pass rusher would be a huge luxury, and Jamir in 2001 was really the best we've had pre-Myles. CB is always a need and a deep WR threat would be big too.

As much as I love Joe Thomas, and he's certainly better than Wills, we already have arguably the best OLine in the NFL, so I don't know how much replacing a solid starter will move the needle.

Thoughts?
 
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