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Cleveland Browns (2013 Season)

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Horton as DC gives me a good feeling about this defense if we can add a couple playmakers in the draft. If Werner and/or Elam are available...watch out.

edit: Hilarious. For the first time in a long time, we're looking at the coaching staff as Browns fans and going "not bad".
 
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns have hired former Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton for the same position here, the team announced today.

Horton's hiring gives the Browns three extremely strong coordinators, including Norv Turner on offense and Chris Tabor on special teams. The Browns interviewed Horton on Jan. 1 for their head coaching vacancy and were impressed with him.

He replaces Dick Jauron, who was popular with the players here. Horton, who runs a 3-4 scheme, became available when Bruce Arians was named Cardinals head coach on Thursday, a move that angered Horton, according to multiple reports.

Horton, who has 19 years' experience as an NFL assistant including the last two as Cardinals coordinator, interviewed twice with the Cardinals for their head job and was reportedly miffed they chose Arians over him.

He got into "a heated exchange'' with new general manager Steve Keim over the move, according to Mike Jurecki of XTRA 910. Arians reportedly wants to hire former Browns assistant Todd Bowles as his defensive coordinator.

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is familiar with Horton from their days together with the Steelers, when Haslam was part owner and Horton was a Steelers defensive assistant under Dick LeBeau, including 2007 through 2010 as defensive backs coach.
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Buckeneye;2294094; said:
Horton as DC gives me a good feeling about this defense if we can add a couple playmakers in the draft. If Werner and/or Elam are available...watch out.

edit: Hilarious. For the first time in a long time, we're looking at the coaching staff as Browns fans and going "not bad".
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We're just advancing along the Factory of Sadness spectrum...before it was shitty coaches wasting good players, now it will be shitty front office wasting good coaches...
 
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It will be interesting to see who he brings in as defensive assistants because they did not retain any from the previous staff. His Arizona defense was pretty good last year and I wonder if he will bring some of those guys along.
 
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Bucklion;2294090; said:
Ummm...are you asking if he didn't have the baggage? Or if people knew what he was going to do in the NFL in his first year?

In any event, the top WR on the board is Keenan Allen probably, so it's a weak class for WRs...
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I'm saying if there was a loophole in the supplemental draft so that Lombardi could be a retard and take back the 2nd round pick this year in exchange for putting Josh Gordon back in the draft where would he fall with everyone knowing about his baggage and how his first NFL season went.

I'm guessing a lot higher than the 6th pick in the 2nd round.
 
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exhawg;2294106; said:
I'm saying if there was a loophole in the supplemental draft so that Lombardi could be a retard and take back the 2nd round pick this year in exchange for putting Josh Gordon back in the draft where would he fall with everyone knowing about his baggage and how his first NFL season went.

I'm guessing a lot higher than the 6th pick in the 2nd round.
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Mid-first would be my guess...between 15 and 25.
 
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From the PC transcript. I want the names of those guys are recommended Lombardi. It was probably the owners of the other teams in the AFC North.
Over the past really particular week, but really two weeks as we started to focus on this, I had the opportunity to talk to several people in the business, you all are going to want to know who they are, but I’m not going to name them, who I respect. These are people at the very top of the NFL business, the most respected people in the business and without exception every one of them said this, ‘If you can get Mike Lombardi to be your general manager you should hire him immediately.’ Joe has known Mike a lot longer than I have and I’m going to let Joe say a few words in a second, but in the time that Mike and I have spent together, I have been very, very impressed. I will repeat what I said earlier, smarts, passion, drive, he wants to win, he wants to win badly, but also with the knowledge he has of the league, the NFL, players, college players, etcetera. I know we got the very best possible person to be (Vice President – Player Personnel)
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LitlBuck;2294112; said:
From the PC transcript. I want the names of those guys are recommended Lombardi. It was probably the owners of the other teams in the AFC North.
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Jesus :lol: If you have 20 years of experience in the NFL, then you know who you can trust for an honest opinion and who you can't...given Haslem's very limited experience, it's hard to believe he put that much weight into opinions from people from other teams...JFC.
 
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