Orion

I was a fan back when there were no domes. But this is a very different time. There ARE teams with domes. AND there's free agency which they didn't have in pre dome times. - I wonder how many Minnesota Vikings privately dreamed of taking Bud Grant behind the stadium and knocking some sense into him for not allowing them to use sideline heaters while the opponents, on the same sideline, could thaw themselves out while on the sidelines. "Make them suffer! It makes them tougher!" Some fans had to have amputations after the Chiefs playoff game this year. The game was not invented / intended as a winter sport. But games are being played practically into mid-winter.

It would be easier to attract players to the organization. Believe it or not, there are players that don't like playing in the freezing wind, rain and/or snow. Like Anthony Walker who just told his agent to find someplace warm and that he's sick of the cold. Or Deshaun Watson who doesn't like the cold such that it took a quarter billion guaranteed to get him here.

Similar to what I said in February. Once we got through the bulk of free agency our more crucial needs became more in focus. Now one can take a look at a few Big Boards and see what players are ranked in the area of pick 54...or 85. Then one can take a cursory look at players at positions that you think are in need of help. ( the Browns home page did a segment on Ricky Pearson. I've not read it...but I'll probably get around to it )

My son had one of those games. It was 2 on 2 basketball. Big heads. I laughed so hard playing that game with him.

Cleveland pockets a seventh-round selection in 2024 from the Tennessee Titans in exchange for OT Leroy Watson IV. --------- 7th pick in the 7th round (227). So, with less than two weeks until the draft we now have: Round 2 (No. 54 overall) Round 3 (No. 85 overall) Round 5 (No. 156 overall) Round 6 (No. 206 overall) Round 7 (No. 227 overall) Round 7 (No. 243 overall)

Ya know those padded bonnets for the helmets that some of the players use in practice and/or scrimmages. Some day those will be mandatory.

That's more or less the 64k question. (the 'less' being that we don't think he'd be Charlie Frye bad) But there does exist the possibility that all of the missed time and all of the pressure to perform up to the standard of a 3 first round pick traded player...negativity towards him from part of the Browns fan base...lingering legal issues, etc. might weigh on him to the extant that he never returns to his previous level of play. I wouldn't bet $ either way.

Yeah, but it's been so long that I think that the When has become If.

And yet he made the decision to try and run for the 1st down instead of simply tossing it to a wide open Demetric Felton standing just beyond the sticks at the sideline...while trailing in the 4th qtr of a late season game. We had to punt. We lost the game and wound up missing the playoffs. He looked right at wide open Felton...and decided to outrun guys that are much faster than cops. That pissed me off. From that point on I no longer felt that he was the QB that we needed....but that we'd be stuck with him. And this is why I've never been able to bash Haslem, Berry, DePo and/or Stef for the trade for Watson because some, or all of them, must have felt the same way that I did. I'll sometimes bash the fact that we spent all of the draft picks and $$ for something that we've really got virtually nothing out of so far...but I can't bash them for doing what they did.

Medical science is making life difficult for the league. You can't ignore a concussion anymore and just give the player a whiff of smelling salts because of those damned brain imaging machines! I remember way back in high school...some of us thought that it was kinda' barbaric of our coaches teaching how to crack back and block a defense end at the knees from the blind side. They were teaching HS kids how to injure other HS kids. KIDS!! The league is going to have to continue to make rule changes to make the game safer. Not because 'the league' really gives a rats ass about the well being of the player...but because they need 'players' in the pipeline.

Good genes.

It's an interesting measurement number. It's also the number degrees in a circle. He's a big round guy. He won't fall far. Somebody will see him as BPA and take him.

I think he's gone before we pick at 54.

Sanders would be a liability in run blocking...but I didn't think that Harrison was great at run blocking...nor was he much of a receiving target. I expected more out of a Mackie winner.

Anthony Walker is not the only one that tells his agent stuff like this. Build the dome. Speaking to the Miami media, Walker shared the simple factor that he told his agent to focus on in free agency: Warmth!