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Braylon Edwards (official drop thread)

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Politi: It's time for NY Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards to stop dropping passes | New York Jets - - NJ.com

Article about Braylon dropping passes after the dropped pass in the end zone last week. Dad is keeping it real. :lol:

“Am I worried about him getting a reputation for dropping the football?” Stan Edwards asked this week from suburban Detroit. “No. Because let’s be honest — he’s earned it.”
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“People wouldn’t be harping on him dropping passes,” his father said, “if he wasn’t dropping passes.”
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The Game and Rivalry plug

Stan Edwards remembers his son’s house being egged the week of the Ohio State game, his lawn strewn with trash. He called it “a negative situation for everyone.” “The Michigan-Ohio State thing is real,” the father said. “I remember one night, we needed a police escort back from a restaurant — this was during the offseason. These people were very serious about causing bodily harm. I thought I was going to have to fight.”
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Braylon Edwards' dad says his son's college, not drops, brought flak from Browns fans
By Tony Grossi
January 23, 2010

Think about Braylon Edwards in the Super Bowl.

Other than Art Modell, who won "the Big Enchilada" after the 2000 season before his ownership of the Baltimore Ravens was bought out, is there a person more reviled by Browns fans than Edwards?

The fact that Edwards, too, can reach pro football's summit adds to the frustration of a sports town tormented by a history of near-misses and macabre twists of fate.

Edwards, traded to the New York Jets on Oct. 6, is one win from going to a place that has been unreachable for the Browns. All it will take is an upset victory over the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday.

No wonder Edwards gave thanks after the Jets' playoff win over San Diego last Sunday to Browns coach Eric Mangini for trading him.

He is living the dream life in New York as his turbulent 41/2 years in Cleveland appear smaller in his rearview mirror.

His father, Stan, said the relationship between Edwards and Cleveland fans was never going to improve and he is "100 percent sure" the root of the problem lies with Edwards being a University of Michigan graduate in Ohio State country.

Edwards' record-setting season in 2007 could not erase his maize and blue colors in the eyes of Browns fans, the father said.

"You guys all hate him," Stan Edwards said in a telephone interview. "If there was continuity in the organization and there was one quarterback he was playing with and he was still making Pro Bowl after Pro Bowl, the relationship would have still been the same with the Cleveland fans."
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Braylon Edwards' dad says his son's college, not drops, brought flak from Browns fans | Cleveland Browns - cleveland.com
 
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tibor75;181932; said:
Edwards' passion, work ethic make him No. 1By Tom Friend
ESPN The Magazine


I'd draft the dead man's son before the policeman's son. I'd pick the player's son over the head coach's nephew. I'd think twice about the Miami kids, but I'd be all over the Auburn kids. I'd pay attention to strength, but more to the strength coach.

The NFL draft, if you do it right, is investigative reporting. It's seeing through the con and also the 40 time. It's not watching the athlete on the field, it's somehow following him home to see what he does off of it. It's more personality test than Wonderlic test. At the scouting combine, teams will ask players, "If someone passes you, at high speed, on the highway, do you chase them or let them go?" Or they'll ask, "Would you rather be a cat or a dog?" It makes me wonder how they keep their jobs.

It's like what's going on in Chicago. The Bears, I'm told, are afraid of Braylon Edwards because they swung and missed on another Michigan receiver, David Terrell. And also because they've seen Edwards drop a ball or three. But the draft shouldn't be about fear, it should be about research. You talk to people. You find out that Braylon Edwards is so hyper before games, he can not sleep. That, the night before games, he'll call his mother and father at 2 a.m., wide awake. That, because of it, he tends to drop passes early in games, because he's still foaming at the mouth. "I'll never forget his first Notre Dame game," says Edwards' father, Stan, a former NFL player. "He was hyperventilating; his mouth was caked white. Took him a whole quarter to come down. So he'll drop the first or second ball to him sometimes. It's like clockwork almost. Gets it out of his system."

Brett Favre gets overexcited early in games just like that, but it takes some probing to find these tidbits out. You think Lovie Smith talked to Edwards' dad? See, now I understand why Tom Coughlin, when he took over the Jaguars, nearly hired our colleague, Chris Mortensen, to help him with research. Football is the one sport for which heart and character is arguably more relevant than skill. And so, when it comes to Saturday's top 10 picks, teams need to throw away the 40 times and pay more attention to a players' life and times.

Like I did.


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• 1. San Francisco – Scouts, Inc. pick: Alex Smith, QB, Utah. The right pick: Braylon Edwards, WR, Michigan.
Yes, the player's son should go first overall. People don't realize that Edwards, besides being an obvious talent, has a freakish work ethic. While he watches TV in the evening, he'll do flexibility work, or sit-ups or pushups. He refuses to just lie down on the couch.

The only time he'll sit still, in fact, is when he pops in a video tape of Jerry Rice. His father has compiled an extensive football video library, and Rice is the one player who gives Edwards the chills. He noticed how Rice would run just as hard in practice as in games, and that became Edwards' approach at Michigan. That's why he wore Rice's No. 80 his first two years in Ann Arbor. That's why sometimes he'd head to the track, after practice, and run extra sprints by himself. That's why Michigan coach Lloyd Carr says no one is as gung ho as Braylon Edwards.

The kid has been thinking like a pro player for years. In college, he got a massage after every game, which is what the NFL studs do. His dad, who used to play for the Oilers and Lions, introduced him to the Rams' Torry Holt, and Holt took him out to the field to tutor him. Holt let him have it, too, critiqued his pass patterns, and Edwards wasn't offended at all. Now, every day, he's working on hitches and digs and post corners, working on disguising his routes. He's proud to have Randy Moss's downfield speed, but also wants the route-running feet of Marvin Harrison.

He's also the kind of kid who cried after Michigan losses, who played his junior season with a broken finger, but never mentioned a word of it. After games, while wearing a suit and tie, he'd throw passes to little kids in the Michigan parking lot. When the Lions' M&M Boys, (Matt) Millen and (Steve) Mariucci, interviewed him this spring, they asked if he'd mind going to a team that already had Charles Rogers and Roy Williams. And Edwards answered: "No offense to those guys, but I love the game too much, and I'm gonna play." This could be the one player in the draft who has it all: Rice skill, Rice heart. The 49ers, 20 years later, should draft the reincarnate.


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THis is the post that started this thread.

Just one reaction, which is the same as the guy/gal who started this had:

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Braylon is an idiot if he really thinks the heartburn he got was because he's from scUM.

Must have majored in Kinesolgy or whatever the hell it is. Glad you're gone Braylon, you're a bitch.

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Ahh...to see the Jets get just a glimpse of greatness and a taste of making it to the big stage...only to have all of Braylon's hard work wasted in defeat :biggrin: So glad things turned out the way they did, I would like nothing more than for Braylon to never come that close again.
 
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