Completely understandable.

Triv is about 85% of the reason that I got satellite radio. He’s horrible to listen to and thinks he knows entirely more than he actually does. When WTAM had Triv and Drennan on back-to-back, it made me want to take an ice pick to my ears. Now, WKNR has gotten slightly better, but I’m still glad to have my satellite radio just to avoid the blow-hards on WTAM, notably Triv.

Yeah, but somewhere today I read about the good work Lerner has done with his soccer team in the UK. He turned that team around. Call me crazy but I still believe in Lerner.

By the by, expecting that the next round of rumor and intrigue will be during Football Night in America, starting at 7.

I have to believe Lerner understands the mistake he made in the past, sure the talent on this team improved, however it is not where it should be to be a consistent winner and playoff contender.

randy has made great business decisions, as the value of this franchise has almost doubled since his dad brought the browns back. so that’s false.

as well, randy didn’t hire policy or clark…or davis—al did. and savage did hire crennel! give a thought to a little verification of your rants before you go on them. you sound like triv.

randy is a model owner, which makes this situation attractive to guys like pioli…or parcells. he puts football people in place and gives them the rope they need to do their thing. savage and romeo hung themselves…that would have been hard for randy to foresee. now he needs to be very careful about giving the rope to the right guy.

are you saying that the PD’s message was different from what palcal said? or that savage did not err in the draft or overpay on FA’s?

i think it’s pretty fair to expect a talented and competitive team after 4 years of a gm/coach regime. i’ll leave the talent point aside since that’s been a topic of much consternation around here, but i think we’re fooling ourselves if we think that this organization is headed in the right direction football-wise. we’ve got a shot at a true fix in an established guy like pioli, why wouldn’t we take it?

i’m not sure how this is a reflection on lerner?

The talent is undeniably higher than ever before. He hit jackpot on numerous decisions that were immensely important:

- Edwards pick (look at the other top 7 pics from that draft, BE is by far the most successful)

- The Wimbley pick is, like most problems with this team, Crennel’s fault, not Phil’s. Savage had Wimbley and Ngata pretty much even, and Crennel made the call based on the positional aspect. And he was even wrong in that assessment (NT being more important in a 3-4 than stud OL). Also, going from 11 sacks to 5 to this year has to be placed at the defensive coaching staff’s feet, which is all Romeo.

- Thomas pick

- Trade for Quinn (we ended up losing a 20-something pick, for a top 10 talent)

- Trade for Rogers, highway robbery.

Not to mention the unbelievably tragic losses to players in their prime (Bentley, Baxter).

The critique of his 2nd day pics/undrafted FAs is ridiculous, both b/c of the veritable success he’s had there (Cribbs, Harrison, McDonald) and b/c he’s only had three chances (He said himself 05 was too little time to implement his system, and that had a lot to do with the bust of the 2nd day draft that year. They concentrated on getting the high picks right, which they mostly did w/ Edwards and Pool.)

Finally, he’s not a big spender in FA at all. When the cupboard is bare and you’re 40 million under the cap b/c you literally have no players good enough to command a high salary, of course you have to sign some guys. Plus, our cap situation is still better than the Steelers or the Ravens. They’ve drafted better than us for a decade so their $ is spent on their own players. We didn’t have any good players, so what’s he supposed to do with that extra 40 million, sit on it? At the time of their signing, Bentley and Baxter were both coups (from Philly and Balt respectively), amazing moves if their careers had continued throughout the normal prime years of a player. And those two players are pretty much the only big ticket FAs he’s ever signed. Stalworth’s contract is nothing, basically a one year deal, and he’s not overpaid for a starting receiver at all. And Williams and Rogers were both under control by their former teams and acquired via trade, with Rogers being an absolute robbery. Those two moves in conjunction are a deniable positive (2nd, 3rd and Bodden for Williams and Rogers) and show just how creative Savage is to improve a roster.

The only real football criticism you can apply to him, expecially when it comes to “big” decisions, is not cashing in on DA’s value when he had the chance. That’s it, that’s the only one.

That’s quite literally the worst indicator one could come up with. Literally the worst. The man was just fired from a job. It’s like saying, “how many head coaching jobs can Belichick get” in 1995, or “how many head coaching jobs can tom coughlin get” in 2002.

Also, the defense this year wasn’t bad. It was exactly average (tied with the Bears, incidentally), ranked 16th.

However, as a Head Coach Crennel is a bumbling idiot for all the reasons (and 100s more) that I mentioned above.

His game management alone is unforgivable.