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Cleveland Browns (2007 & prior)

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23Skidoo;697356; said:
I think this team needs some leadership really bad, and even though that is Crennel's job, I don't see us getting that leadership if we fire him and hire another head coach.
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A lot of that was suppose to come from Bentley, Washington, Jeruvicious, and Willie....just doesn't seem to have happened.
 
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NFBuck;697332; said:
...and who is responsible for changing that? That would be the head coach. I don't dislike Romeo, but he's not the man for this job. This team needs a disciplinarian who will clean house and force a change in attitude. RAC was pretty much doomed from the start. Actually, I'm not so sure any coach who comes here isn't doomed.

As far as the draft...Joe Thomas or bust. The OL is an abomination, that's where rebuilding needs to begin. That sucks too, because I think Peterson is gonna be a stud. Problem is that if the Browns drafted him, I doubt he'd make it out of camp alive. There are no rushing yards to be had when your OL falls over if somebody breathes on them hard. Now the one good OL we have (Bentley) may not play next year either. This team is basically starting from scratch again eight years into its existence.
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The attitude of the players is not solely on the head coach, the asst. coaches, have the most one on one with these idiots and are not getting through to them.

I agree the HC is responsible for the overall discipline of the team and the penalties have been better than in the past, but again Rome wasn't built in a day.

Has anyone here actually been on an NFL coaching staff? They're dealing with grown men who are obviously motivated but once they're in thr NFL, they got their $$ now all that's really left is the RING. I think that, along with other stuff, is the proper motivation and what is sorely missing in Cleveland.

Prima Dona overpaid whiners need to go, it's gotta be about team.

They need someone to instill the team attitude and beat it into their heads that team is the only way the ring is gonna happen. This coaching staff is average at best and they're not getting the best from the talent they have. IE Edwards still dropping passes and I don't think there is a real identity on offense and that is a problem. One that the coaching staff is solely responsible for. Put the playmakers in positions to make palys, properly motivate and prepare them, execute an offensive scheme that dictates what the defense does not the other way around, 1st dwn run 2nd dwn run 3rd dwn pass 4th dwn punt. It's the same old BS every week and I'm sick of it.
 
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Buckin' A;697358; said:
A lot of that was suppose to come from Bentley, Washington, Jeruvicious, and Willie....just doesn't seem to have happened.
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I really can't argue against that... the leadership has to come from somewhere. And it's not coming from the senior players or the head coach. It seems like there is something fundamentally wrong with this organization, and I'm definitely not an insider to have any clue what it is.
 
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Canton

Browns: Dorsey is in, but Cribbs may also get a shot
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
By Steve Doerschuk repository sports writer

BEREA Chris Palmer was in job-saving mode.

His 2000 Browns offense was in a seven-week coma after losing Tim Couch to a broken bone in his hand. It turned out Palmer had two games left as head coach of the Browns.
Palmer was desperate to make more happen in a home game against the Eagles than he thought quarterback Doug Pederson could. Pederson started, but wideouts Dennis Northcutt and Kevin Johnson also played quarterback. Northcutt took seven snaps and ran seven times, gaining 37 yards. Johnson, who was a Syracuse quarterback before getting beaten out by Donovan McNabb, threw three passes. One was incomplete. One gained 23 yards. One was an interception.

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Canton

Crennel mum on WR
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
By Steve Doerschuk repository sports writer

BEREA Braylon Edwards' act has worn thin among Browns fans, some of whom want him gone in 2007.

Head Coach Romeo Crennel, though, talked Tuesday in terms of Edwards being around for the long haul.
Asked what he thinks it would take for Edwards to become a better team guy, Crennel said, "I think in time that's going to happen." According to sources, being way late to a meeting led to Edwards being benched until the latter stages of the second quarter Sunday. He had started the previous 14 games.

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Canton

BROWNS REPORT
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
STEVE DOERSCHUK

BROWNS REPORT

Grading Anderson
Derek Anderson's season is over after a four-game roller coaster.
Before Chris Hovan's sack late Sunday left him with a separated shoulder, Anderson was 66-for-117 for 793 yards, with five touchdowns and eight interceptions. He was sacked eight times and had a 63.1 rating. "I thought Derek took advantage of his opportunities,'' Head Coach Romeo Crennel said.

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At third, then off to home

Browns' year to end with Dorsey at helm
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Tony Grossi
Plain Dealer Reporter
Third-string quarterback Ken Dorsey takes over the tattered reins of the Browns' offense for the final game Sunday in Houston.
What did he do to deserve that, you ask? He's the only one standing.
Derek Anderson is out with a separated shoulder and Charlie Frye is out with a wrist injury that the club terms a deep bone bruise.

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Decisions at top leave us spinning

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Bill Livingston

Plain Dealer Columnist
It would be easy to fire Bud Carson all over again.
Carson was an aging, Super Bowl-winning defensive coordinator who flopped as a head coach with the Browns back when they won more often than the seasons change. Romeo Crennel has the same background and the same shortcomings. They are accentuated because the oft-dumbfounded Crennel comes off as bewildered in his news conferences.
Crennel made a fairly big deal of the quarter-and-a-half in which receiver Braylon Edwards sat on the bench, a result of the coach's decision, during Sunday's stinker against Tampa Bay. But that bus (actually, that helicopter) left more than a month ago, when Edwards was late to a Saturday night meeting before the first Steelers game. Against the advice of almost everybody, he had taken a helicopter to the game between Ohio State and his alma mater, Michigan.

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Dispatch

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BROWNS NOTEBOOK
Is third discipline the charm for Edwards?
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
James Walker
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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BEREA, Ohio ? Coach Romeo Crennel hopes his latest message to Braylon Edwards sinks in, despite the fact that disciplining the Cleveland Browns receiver has not worked on two previous occasions. Edwards was benched for most of the first half Sunday against Tampa Bay for missing a team meeting. Edwards also has missed curfew, after attending the Ohio State-Michigan game, and yelled at teammates on the sideline.

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Why pooch ?

Lost in the loss Sunday was Crennel?s decision to pooch punt from the Tampa Bay 27-yard line on the opening drive. The punt went into the end zone for a touchback, so the Browns gained 7 yards on the play.
"We were going into the wind there, and the conditions weren?t exactly what we wanted them to be (for a field goal attempt)," Crennel said. "So I decided that if I can pooch punt it there and get them backed up, the field position would be a shot in the arm for us. "It didn?t work, and the ball went into the end zone, so they ended up getting the ball at the 20. It?s one of those decisions that you make, if it works it looks good, if it doesn?t it looks bad."


Has anybody considered that Romeo could secretly be hired by the Ravens to sabotage the Browns?:paranoid:
 
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