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Breaking, Ian Rapoport: Fitterer Fired

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5 minutes ago, CPantherKing said:

Now, let's hope they follow a proven championship team building formula instead of a new experimental long shot strategy.

This is my biggest gripe.  For what?  4 seasons he tried to find gems in the draft.... give it a rest. You clearly weren't drafting teams full of pro-bowlers. You were trying to get recognized for finding the Puca's and Pacheco's

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32 minutes ago, WhoKnows said:

SMH. I know the cap extremely well. I don’t need anything explained. The 2024 cap will be gone if we tag Burns and sign a FA like Higgins. That’s not a vast talent improvement. We’d basically have to borrow from 2025 to add more talent and then we’re in that same boat of wasting money on Teddy, Sam, Houston, Sanders, Thomas, Hurst, Donte, etc. (too many to mention) and still having a 2-5 game winning team.

Our 2026 cap hit is just our small 2023 draft class that could be 100% backups by then, so of course we have the most space. We likely are the only team without a good player/non-2023 rookie signed in 2026.

We are fake cap rich right now because we’ve got no long term talent tied up and we haven’t gone through 2024 free agency. Here’s to hoping the new GM realizes we aren’t going to compete in 2024 so maximize future picks and don’t waste cap space like 2019-2023 to get to 5-7 wins max.

Or we don't sign/tag Burns and spend wisely in the FA market.  If our new GM wraps that much money up into two better than average, but not elite players, he sucks at his job. We aren't tied to any mega deals and that is not necessarily a bad thing considering we are a 2 win team.

You say you understand, but act like we are different that everyone else.  Pssst, nobody else has gone through 2024 FA either.  So I guess every team is fake cap rich right now, even the teams that are actually cap poor currently.

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1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

No one's fault equals everyone's fault.

Or more to the point, everybody in charge means nobody's in charge.

Fitterer came in as a consensus builder, which is likely what helped him get the job in the first place because that's how Tepper wanted to operate.

But the reality is you can't run a football team by committee. They needed one person with a guiding vision in charge, and Fitterer was trying to please everyone.

Top that off by hiring a head coach with basically the same MO and here we are.

what got him the job was that he agreed to let rhule have the final roster say, nobody else did, in closing your boy fitt is a cuck

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6 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Lemme throw another potential name in here:

Browns Assistant GM Catherine Raiche

How good is she? Don't honestly know, but she's risen up the ranks and is generally considered likely to be the leagues first female GM.

Gotta believe Tepper would love to be able to say he's the guy that hired her.

Let the cat fights begin between Nicole and Catherine...................and stay out of the way!!

Bad move there........

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They should have canned his ass right then and there for not taking the Burns trade. That is one of THE worst things I have ever seen or heard, regarding trades.

On another note, I am willing to bet he had that exact expression on his face when he got fired. He seems extremely dull and slow.

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2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

No one's fault equals everyone's fault.

Or more to the point, everybody in charge means nobody's in charge.

Fitterer came in as a consensus builder, which is likely what helped him get the job in the first place because that's how Tepper wanted to operate.

But the reality is you can't run a football team by committee. They needed one person with a guiding vision in charge, and Fitterer was trying to please everyone.

Top that off by hiring a head coach with basically the same MO and here we are.

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Fitterer was trying to please everyone.

That was his downfall. He should have had a stronger long term "team only" mindset. Coaches come and go yearly. Ben Mccado was rhules last chance at "fixing" problem, you can not allow him to affect decisions. Either he does a great job or terrible one, hes gone in a year. Evero wanting a 25 year old OLB is the same deal. 

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6 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Vincent Richardson...

100% correct

Tepper absolutely needs to back off or nothing will change.

This is so overplayed.  Plenty of evidence he was heavily involved but not the one making the final personal decisions.  There are actual reports saying he understands he has limited football experience and often deferred to the football people around him.

He didn't make all of those terrible draft picks, he just picked the guys that were terrible at it.  If he picks the correct GM or coach, it won't matter if he has a weekly meeting with the coach.

  

 

 

 

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19 minutes ago, mc52beast said:

Maybe we can hire Hurney again. You know, the guy Tepper told us was a great GM.

Hurney was good (safe for the most part) in round 1.  I give him that.  After that, he lost his mind.

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8 hours ago, WhoKnows said:

It really isn’t. We’ve paid out way too much for mediocre results. Our 2024 cap according to Spotrac is $40M and that doesn’t include Burns and a full roster. If we tag Burns and say sign Higgins, we are done unless we start eating into 2025. Bumping up against the cap in 2023 and 2024 is sad when you have a rookie QB contract and you win 2-5 games per year. Remember at the beginning of the 2023 offseason when our 2024 cap was lauded for have over $100M in cap (like 2025 now)? Well, that’s because we didn’t even have a full team and now we are one tag and one WR FA signing away from having to restructure deals for a 2-15 team.

God for some reason it really grinds my gears when people who have no clue how the salary cap works talk about it.

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