• New here? Register here now for access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Plus, stay connected and follow BP on Instagram @buckeyeplanet and Facebook.

Latest activity

Forum list Hot Threads

Latest activity

 Posts Social Questions
plum diamonds buckeye planet

Cleveland Browns (Factory of Sadness)

Buckeneye
The Browns were sellers. Sellers knowing full well they'll need more draft capital to effect real offensive improvements within 2 years. By that point, Myles will be damn near 33 years old.

The Browns fielded multiple offers. As much as we bash them, I doubt they had anything better than what they took. Which amounted to two 1st round picks along with (binding points on the draft capital chart) a higher 2nd round pick. Not too shabby.

Point being is this is a matter of timing. Myles is heading towards the back 9. This team isn't close to contention and, even with offensive improvement this year, probably not even getting wildcard spot.

Of the top 5 NFL defenses, one (Texans) rostered great-to-elite edge talent. The Superbowl winners were 6th and had good talent across all 3 levels. None generational, none what we would deem elite.

Losing Myles, but infusing young talent to improve the whole of the 1st, 2nd & 3rd levels of the defense, while pairing it with (god willing) offensive improvement yields a more complete, competitive team where both sides of the ball can compliment each other. Right now the imbalance has been so egregious the last couple years that it's pathetic.


This team went 0-16 with Joe Thomas, then turned it around to being a few throws away from 8-8 the very next year.

Tough pill to swallow, but it's the truth.

I wish Myles well. It was a pleasure watching him. But the Browns are further setup with draft capital to take a shot at effecting real offensive improvement while still maintaining a quality defense.
Click to expand...
Upvote 1

J.J. McCarthy (once a tCun, always a tCun; Nine on the Pine)

ORD_Buckeye said:
I think all the GM's bought into the complete bullshit being whispered by Mormon Leaf's team that JF had a shifty work ethic, was a bad teammate and dumb.

And while we're here, fuck JJ Leaf too.
Click to expand...
Ya mean like how the other draft ate up Bryce was smart super genius and CJ couldn't read a defense?
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

Cleveland Browns (Factory of Sadness)

Bucklion
Jaxbuck said:
If your have a history of effectively drafting players then more picks are draft capital.

When you are the Browns, more picks are just disaster accelerant

It's like giving a small child not just a shiny revolver to play with but handing him a speed loader as well.
Click to expand...
It’s like spraying your nuts with lighter fluid and handing an arsonist a box of matches…wait, that’s being a Browns fan in general
Click to expand...
Upvote 1

PGA: Allows Golf Cart

ScriptOhio
ScriptOhio said:
Sports History

On this day in 2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.
Click to expand...

FWIW, good account of Casey Martin's medical condition and his legal pursuit to use a cart on the PGA Tour.

The battles continue for Casey Martin, decades after Supreme Court case​

When former PGA Tour golfer Casey Martin had his right leg amputated at midthigh in October 2021, he hoped to get some relief from the excruciating pain that had hobbled him since he was born.

Instead, Martin traded the all-too-familiar aches for an entirely new level of discomfort.

"The pains that I used to have for 49 years are gone," Martin said. "Unfortunately, there's a new set that came with it. I wasn't 100% prepared for what I was going to deal with. I'm not going to lie, it's been a bit of a war."

Martin, who has coached Oregon's golf team the past two decades, hasn't played an 18-hole round in nearly two years. He can stand on his right prosthetic leg and stripe a 7-iron about 150 yards while his players warm up for practice. He can still chip with the best of them.

But everything else the game requires is physically too much for Martin, who turns 54 on Tuesday.

"It's just so hard to play, and it hurts," Martin said. "I kind of felt like it just wasn't worth it. If you put me on a flat surface, it's OK. But if you put me on a side hill in a bunker, I can't do it."

Giving up the game he played for most of his life -- and the sport he challenged in a famous legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court a quarter-century ago -- required an entirely different kind of healing.

"I wasn't totally prepared for that," Martin said. "It's been a bit of a grieving process."

WHEN KING AND Melinda Martin's second son was born in Eugene on June 2, 1972, he cried incessantly. His parents eventually figured out something was wrong with Casey's right leg, which had what appeared to be an unusual birthmark.

When Martin was 10 months old, doctors diagnosed him with a rare and degenerative birth defect called Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome. The incurable disorder affects the circulatory system in his leg.

In the 1998 book "Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Casey Martin Story," author Tom Cunneff described Martin's condition like this: "Blood in a healthy leg is carried to the lower leg by arteries, and then pumped back up the leg through veins. Because the blood is flowing up through the veins against gravity, valves in the veins are designed to prevent blood from draining back down. In the case of Casey's right leg, however, those vein valves never close. The blood never flows back up and out; instead, it pools in the lower part of the leg."

The prognosis was grim: The leaking veins in Martin's right leg would deteriorate his tibia over the years.

As a child, Martin often had to have blood drained from his right knee with a syringe. He wore hip-to-ankle compression socks to promote blood flow and prevent swelling. He iced his right leg and soaked it in a hot tub.

Even before Martin became a teenager, he knew losing his leg was probably inevitable.

"I was prepared for it," Martin said. "When people would ask me about wearing a stocking over my leg, I'd be like, 'Yeah, I probably won't have it forever.' I knew that. It was not a healthy leg."

Martin's leg didn't prevent him from playing sports as a child. He was the designated quarterback -- not to be tackled -- in backyard football games. He played basketball and golf with his brother Cameron, who is two-and-a-half years older.
.
.
.
continued
Click to expand...
Upvote 0

Cleveland Browns (Factory of Sadness)

Zurp
Romanowski said:
Anything that didn’t include at minimum two 1st rounders is a joke. Berry just had a relapse and reverted back to his Watson trade days. Either give up the farm for a trash heap, or trade your prized thoroughbred for “potential.”

I will say trading Garrett was probably the right move. He is at his all time peak value, but what we got in return does not equal imo. Regardless, the Browns are going nowhere without a competent QB. Shedump and Twatson?!? Lolz…
Click to expand...
I would have traded him a couple years ago. But yeah - should have gotten more.
Click to expand...
Upvote 0
Load more

Filter

Back
Top