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I voted Freddie because coaching changes really chap my ass. Every time it happens it creates an uphill environment for the team. I think Freddie has improved in some areas in the latter part of the season. Let him go again.

Isn’t he like a restricted free agent after this year?

I think that was a roman numeral 5. Mike showing off his Latin skills!

I have a theory that for every year you don’t do well as a head coach equals 2 years of not getting a head coaching gig after you’ve been demoted. Not sure what the track record of that theory is though.

It’s been fun for me watching the TE play this year. It’s been a bit of a revolving door with Harris being the only mainstay. The team relies a lot on the TEs on certain plays, mostly for blocking purposes. Sometimes those guys are squared up with the opposing team’s marquee edge rusher, and more often than not have done well. That said l’m not sure what the future holds for the position. I really thought Pharoah Brown was making mighty strides as a plus blocking guy, but he’s been inactive the last couple games, so l guess they like Carlson better? I dunno. Harris has come on strong the latter half of the season, but who knows what Dorsey will decide to do.

Oklahoma is being denied Browns football? For shame!

It’s been a wierd season for the defensive side for the Browns, at least when looking through it from the lens of what we thought we would see at the beginning of the year to where we are now. We had visions of Garrett living in the backfield with cameo appearances from the likes of Vernon, Avery and Chris Smith. Richardson and ‘Jobi were going to eat running backs alive who dared to run up the gut. I even liked our backups in Lawrence and Ekuale, who's name may or may not rhyme with ukulele. The Ward and Randall led secondary was going to lock down receivers and make life miserable for opposing QBs. Heck, the linebackers seemed to have the question mark designation at the beginning of the season, but thanks to the play of Schobert and development of Mack, they’ve probably been the most consistent positional group on defense. Now with the season winding down, things got wonky. Avery must not have been a good fit. Seemed to always be inactive and then traded. I don’t think l saw the Chris Smith tummy rub all year, and now he’s gone. Lawrence too. Garrett with his debacle. Vernon’s injury. Randall’s head case reared its ugly head case. I suppose some of it is adapting to new things with Wilks. Some guys are better fits than others with his scheme l suppose. It’s not the worst place to be with the season we’ve had. Best to identify the keepers and the cutters, and keep and cut accordingly. I guess we can write off the mega extension for Randall. More money for Schobert, who l really hope we can extend.

Not sure l would call it weak play, but rather inconsistent play. The CBs have looked good at times.

That too!

Not even one nanny nanny boo boo?

I’m quite interested in seeing how the rest of this year shakes out. These last few games have mettle testing written all over them. How does Kitchens handle it? How does the DL handle losing their superstar? Will anyone besides Bitonio and Tretter make a case for themselves to play next year on the Oline? Will Greedy learn how to turn his head? Will Swagger II remain undefeated at home? Inquiring minds wanna know...

The defense, particularly the line, looked gassed as the game wore on. I think l mentally noted that before the first half was even over. The Oline was terrorized much like they were the first game by Watt and company, but we just didn’t get enough magical Baker plays to pull this one out.

Most likely a TE would be made inactive or dropped. We don’t really use a FB much but when we do it’s a TE giving it a shot. I mostly wanted to say a new name here for this theoretical list.

Thomas, Newsome, Cribbs, Perry, and l would add Vickers in here as we could a formidable full back.

Allen likely benefitted from sticking with the same team for his less than 2 year career so far. I have no clue what the plan for Rosen is, if any. I can’t get too fired up comparing non-Browns QBs so l’ll let those who do carry on with this debate.