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  1. [quote]While professional football has to generate a profit, again I ask, how much and how far has it removed itself from the common fan?[/quote] What is a common fan? I think that definition changes with the times. The big problem football has in keeping prices in line with what i think you mean by the common fan/man is the limited number of games they play. They get 8 home games compared to baseball's 81 games. They can have the $15-$20 seats. They can run a dollar hotdog day. Football can't do that. As for how much money should they make, I am a capitalist. They should be able to make as much as they can just like players should make as much as they can. If people buy the product, don't worry about the folks who can't, and I don't say that in caviler way.
  2. LOl...I rounded my ticket price..I didn't factor the service fee..lol I agree on the announcement of the ticket increase. Seems that should have been made before the initial payment was collected. That said, I expected prices to go up so it wasn't a shock. I hear you, I have already gone past the threshold on price I made when I first got these things 18 years ago...maybe 19. Anyway, here I am, still buying. It is a marketing machine. Heck, the Browns have a waiting list they cap at 4000 people. It's full and people pay to get on the list. People can't even get on the list until slots open up. The Browns don't care all that much if people drop their seats. They have thousands waiting in the wings who want seats. Maybe I shouldn't say don't care. More in line with not being concerned with filling the seats.
  3. That was a rant that seems to have been bottled up for a long time, and this has been how it goes for a long time. I can still hear my Dad complaining because his season tickets went up to $14 a seat. Maybe for the 1965 season. I have slept since then. I know all about the price of games. My 2 seats now cost me $4500 a year. I suspect the same people being priced out of going to games are more or less like the people priced out of going to game when tickets went up to $14 a seat. This just goes in to the "it is what it is" category. The NFL has never been in some magical category. It has always been about money. At least since players began to play for money and owners began to sell tickets.
  4. I get it, just as the front office seems to see it the same way as I. So there's that. You know damn good and well there is a block of fans looking for an excuse to root against Watson. A QB controversy will cost us more wins than some back-up QB might lose. Got it?
  5. Just speaking from a football standpoint, the league has expanded to the point where there aren't enough quality players to fill all the job openings. It started with QB's maybe 20 years ago. There simply aren't enough quality QB's to fill the 32 starting quality openings. Half the league is looking for starters. When they finally get them, the half that has them now won't have them.
  6. I understand the point. We will probably draft someone, but nothing says we can't or won't extend any of the mentioned players. Also, if those players move on, we will have that money to move on to the next batch of rental receivers. Something tells me we will have some receivers on the team next year. That comment isn't meant to be a dig at you, rather just a matter of fact.
  7. All one has to do is read this thread to understand. The team isn't interested in a QB controversy. With every incompletion after maybe game one, the OSU morons would be chanting "We Want Fields" or whoever is the popular player of the hour by the other morons. We have been through all of that. People who want more of that are simpletons. It's a game. Enjoy life.
  8. Pretty much agree. I agree that a O lineman will be high on the list, and where we draft, one could very well be the BPA. RB is a question mark. Hines is a situational guy. If we don't draft a back, we will sign one or two as UDFA. I am not sure about Chubb. If we draft a guy fairlt high, it might mean Chubb isn't progressing very well. If we don't, then maybe we feel he is nearing a full go. If so, a RB room with Chubb, Ford, Strong and Hines. I also think that Berry likes the WR room. I am not sure we will do much more in that area. To bring guys in means we have to cut players already on the team. I am not sure Berry wants to cut any....Bell might be the cut guy is we draft a WR. Back to the Oline..I wouldn't be surprised if we draft 2 Oline players. O line is very deep this year. It's questionable we keep Wills after this year. Something on the O line i would like to see in camp is putting Jones at LT and Wills at RT. Wills played RT his whole career before playing here. He was a stud, so call me naive, but making a switch seems like an obvious try.
  9. A move that can't hurt anything. To me, consultant is like a part time position. I don't know if he is going to be in the building every day. He will be active through the draft and camp. After that...we'll see. I think the guy has his eyes on the OSU job if Day has problems this year. Ohio isn't a bad place to hang out if that is the carrot you are after.
  10. A decent enough signing. We are talking back-up QB here, we aren't talking about a Watson replacement which is what some people seem to want.
  11. I think part of the reason we moved on from AVP is because of Elija Moore. Not because of anything Moore did, it was about what he didnt do. It seemed to me we simply slotted Moore in to the Schwartz role. Moore was our trick play specialist. Trick plays require an element of surprise. Wnen Moore came in to the game, teams were on the look out. It just seemed that for the first 5-6 games of the season Moore was in a decoy role rather than an actual receiving weapon.
  12. I don't like it, but the NFL has a world of untapped fans.
  13. It probably been that way for so long that players don't really care. They know that going in. I am sure we could find a few examples to differ, but for the most part the QB has been the highest paid player on the team since when? The 70"s? 80's? At least the top type QB's. Not a rookie or some guy signed to a 1-2 year deal. I will agree there are times where QB's get top money but don't produce top results.
  14. I am not doing any of that. They are separate issues.
  15. It's fine to think that way as a fan. You can think what you want. If Nick actually did that and I was Berry, I would tell him it is obvious it isn't going to work out and trade or release him ASAP. It doesn't matter if I like him more. You don't fuck with other people's money.
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