McDermott could have gone to the Browns

[xav8tor]

9 hours ago, Snake said:

Seeing as we have a new owner we could face some challenges like this moving forward. Richardson was a player and knew football. Not so much for Tepper.

 

6 minutes ago, Daddy_Uncle said:

I don't think that is true. Tepper is life long huge football fan and spent lots of time with the Steelers organization. He is no dummy. Richardson held us back in many ways where as I think Tepper will be a lot more progressive and aggressive about building a winning team

Yep. JR played NFL football for two years, 60 years ago. Tepper owned a 5% stake in one of the NFL's most successful franchises, and sat on the board, for almost ten years, until just last year, when he bought the Panthers. He has a handle on it.

[Pimpdaddy]

Haslam is the reincarnation of Feech Lamanna... he couldnt find his azzhole with a funnel... my poor beloved Browns.

[mc52beast]

11 hours ago, Snake said:

Seeing as we have a new owner we could face some challenges like this moving forward. Richardson was a player and knew football. Not so much for Tepper.

JR didn’t give a crap about winning, he gave out huge contracts to players just because he liked them and wouldn’t sign “questionable” guys even though he was a pervert himself.

Tepper spent 10 years with the Steelers and his own personal record shows he won’t accept losing.

[TNPanther]

As a Tennessee alum, I wish the Haslams would stay the fug away from football. They are 90% of the reason why the Vols are in the shape they’ve been in for the past decade. Their booster $$$ gave them the power to pull the strings and hire puppets until Bev Davenport put a stop to that by firing John Currie and hiring Fulmer as AD. 

Back last year it was rumored that Jimmy Haslam was personal friends with Greg Schiano and had hand-picked him to replace Botch Jones, and was hell-bent on making that happen. When Currie (Haslam’s puppet) announced the university was moving to hire Schiano, our fan base and other boosters went ape poo. Thank god Bev didn’t sign the contract and ultimately fired Currie.

Now that Fulmer is in charge and doesn’t listen to Haslam, Jimmy boy has gotten Bev ousted as chancellor and helped to expedite the resignation of Joe DePetrio, university president, to instill his own puppets. He is so hungry for power that he’s willing to do whatever it takes to regain control of the football program. I really hope Jeremy Pruitt works out otherwise it could lead to Fulmer being ousted and Haslam puppet pulling the strings again.

TLDR: fug Jimmy Haslam for ruining Tennessee football.

[Snake]

4 hours ago, Daddy_Uncle said:

I don't think that is true. Tepper is life long huge football fan and spent lots of time with the Steelers organization. He is no dummy. Richardson held us back in many ways where as I think Tepper will be a lot more progressive and aggressive about building a winning team

You mean like keeping Hurney and Rivera? That's not holding us back at all.

[Snake]

4 hours ago, xav8tor said:

 

Yep. JR played NFL football for two years, 60 years ago. Tepper owned a 5% stake in one of the NFL's most successful franchises, and sat on the board, for almost ten years, until just last year, when he bought the Panthers. He has a handle on it.

It seems so by keeping a GM who has had 4 winning seasons and a Head coach who has never had back to back winning season. Doesn't sound like the Browns at all.

[Snake]

2 hours ago, mc52beast said:

JR didn’t give a crap about winning, he gave out huge contracts to players just because he liked them and wouldn’t sign “questionable” guys even though he was a pervert himself.

Tepper spent 10 years with the Steelers and his own personal record shows he won’t accept losing.

And yet he kept a GM and coach only JR would hire together.

[TheSpecialJuan]

15 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

ESPN's Seth Wickersham recently wrote an article completely deconstructing the Cleveland Browns in general and Jimmy Haslam's ownership in particular. Bits and pieces of the article have been highlighted in several places.

They contain some utterly ridiculous things, including a supposed admission from Haslam's wife that she and her husband basically don't know what they're doing and wish they would have never bought an NFL team (both deny this, but several sources have reportedly affirmed that it's true).

The most interesting part from our perspective though is that a few years back, the entire Browns leadership team wanted to hire Sean McDermott as their new head coach.

Well, all except Jimmy Haslam. Turns out his vote was the only one that really counted.

Browns execs wanted Sean McDermott but Haslam hired Hue Jackson

Smooth move, Jim.

This was a fantastic article.