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Cleveland Browns (Finally drafting Buckeyes)

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DZ83CK said:
DePodesta must buy the media lunch all the time. He is getting billed as the smartest guy in the room. I believe the team has gone 14-49-1 since he has been the lead strategist. So does being offsite somehow shield him from actually having to accomplish anything?
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In fairness to DePodesta, IF the leaks are true it’s hard to hang the clowns record on him if they didn’t use his recommendations. Not saying they wouldn’t have still sucked if they did follow his advice because well they are the clowns.
 
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DZ83CK said:
I find it amazing the Browns can employ DePodesta and he is able to live in and strategize from San Diego and has no need to be around the team or coworkers in Cleveland. Something about that doesn't pass the smell test. Then again, we are talking about a complete idiot for an owner.
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Many large companies let some of their top executives spend some of their time in a city where the home office is not located. You really do not have to be at the home office all the time to get things accomplished.
 
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LitlBuck said:
Many large companies let some of their top executives spend some of their time in a city where the home office is not located. You really do not have to be at the home office all the time to get things accomplished.
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So 14-49-1 under his "strategy" qualifies as "getting things accomplished"? I am very wary of a guy who hasn't accomplished a damn thing being treated as if he is the smartest guy in the room when the team is trash during his tenure.
 
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DZ83CK said:
So 14-49-1 under his "strategy" qualifies as "getting things accomplished"? I am very wary of a guy who hasn't accomplished a damn thing being treated as if he is the smartest guy in the room when the team is trash during his tenure.
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he does not call the plays, he is.not involved in clock management or game planning or selecting the game roster
if you work in a large company go talk to your chief strategy officer and see what he does
 
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LitlBuck said:
he does not call the plays, he is.not involved in clock management or game planning or selecting the game roster
if you work in a large company go talk to your chief strategy officer and see what he does
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We are not talking about just any company in the abstract. We are talking about the Cleveland Browns, and all I understand about DePodesta with the Browns - other than that the team is a putrid 14-49-1 while he has been "strategizing" for them - is he supposedly is making recommendations that Haslam does not follow, and leaks his recommendations that are successful elsewhere after the fact. Seems to me honestly that he is worthless to the franchise. I don't know how common it is for NFL teams to employ people who are part of the front office & work off-site thousands of miles away, but I doubt it is very common.
 
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Here’s how this will likely go down: they’ll interview 5 or 6 guys, none of whom will take the job. They’ll insist they’re being thorough, but in reality, nobody with any cache wants to work for that dumpster fire of an outfit, or the hayseed owners. The fan base will grow more and more anxious before they end up with some coordinator flunky nobody else wants or even considered (see also: Shurmer, Pat; Chudzinski, Rob; Pettine, Mike; Kitchens, Freddie). Said flunky will he fired in December 2021 at the latest.

Or, they might just hire McDaniels offering him de facto GM status on top of HC.

Not sure which is worse.
 
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Odd that McDaniels had these interviews lined up with NY and Carolina, yet they both hire...um...who did they hire? A college coach from Baylor and the Patriots WR coach? (not the offensive coordinator???).

What the hell is going on? Either McDaniels is blacklisted and no other franchise wants him or he gave some very clear indications he wants Cleveland.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Odd that McDaniels had these interviews lined up with NY and Carolina, yet they both hire...um...who did they hire? A college coach from Baylor and the Patriots WR coach? (not the offensive coordinator???).

What the hell is going on? Either McDaniels is blacklisted and no other franchise wants him or he gave some very clear indications he wants Cleveland.
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I have a feeling his shenanigans with Indy two years ago aren't looked on very positively. Plus, his flame-out in Denver was ugly. Granted, that was a decade ago, but what has this guy ever done without Tom freakin' Brady? He coordinated a terrible Rams offense for a year. Taking a chance on a guy whose success is tied to the greatest coach* and QB* in league history is a risky proposition. Especially when other Belichick disciples have performed poorly as HCs across the board...though the jury is out on Flores who actually acquitted himself quite well in Miami this year.

*cheater
 
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