kungfoodude

fuging goons.

Finally got a chance to post here without work getting in the way. This game has been epic. Keep pouring it on and finish them.

Yeah we are literally re-creating the 1999-2017 Browns. It is shocking how similar. Well...except we are worse out of the gate than they were.

Not to laugh at the source but..... https://youtu.be/zBfujp5kNog

I believe Rhule will get 4 or 5 years but not because he will improve us, because Tepper is an idiot and cannot figure out he fuged up. It's too big of a hit to his pride to realize he has the worst head coach in the NFL. I think it is going to take being decisively proved to be wrong for him to come to that realization. IMO, after another 4-6 win season in 2022 and then somewhere between a 4-7 win season in 2023, he will finally get fired.

Cam basically said he isn't coming back to another 5 win team. He wants to be part of winning. That is not the Matt Rhule Panthers.

I mean, do we need to post the video of the "Oh ya'll been watching film, huh?"

In Madden?

I mean...if he doesn't you may as well cut him.

I have worked with enough generations to confidently say it isn't the younger generations that are exclusively "me first." It's much more pronounced in the 60+ crowd. It's an American sickness. If you have ever traveled internationally, you will notice how American it is.

High mileage/usage in college and high mileage/usage in the NFL. It just kind of is what it is. I know he is getting paid to handle the whole load at the position but I'd rather he get his touches reduced by 20-40% and be able to see him play in 17 games rather than be out 60+% of the year being banged up.

IMO, the biggest issue on him is mileage. I hope we actually try to limit his touches to some extent.

The obvious answer is Horn because he seems to be the one guy that might be the real deal. After that probably guys like Hubbard, Nixon, Taylor and Hoskins to maybe solidify some depth spots on the roster and make our second unit a lot stronger. TBH, not a lot of hope on Marshall, BC or Brown. Would be nice to be wrong but I didn't see much to work with.

He has conclusively proved he isn't a starting caliber NFL QB. It remains to be seen if he is an NFL caliber QB. Either way, as a fan I don't want to see him trotted out there to fail again. It's not fun for us and it's not fun for him, I'm sure.

So, for the people who follow/stalk these athletes on Twatter or whatever social media platform, keep in mind that some if not most of these guys do read this stuff you post on their feeds. Opponent or not, don't troll these guys or trash them in that kind of format. We never know what is going on in their personal lives nor do we know the challenges they may be facing. Every single one of us, myself included, loses sight of how easy it is to sit behind a keyboard or screen and rip into these people we don't know and make assumptions about them or their personal situations. I know I would never want to be a part of a crowd that is responsible for sending someone over the edge that is experiencing the level of trauma and grief that Tarik is. Think about that before you post something in the heat of emotion to these guys feeds/accounts/DMs.

I wouldn't be against trading him at all but we would need some relief from that dead cap nuking. Also, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to claim to want to be a road grading, run it down your throat offense and then get rid of the only elite running weapon at your disposal.

Yes but even if Corral is only marginally better....wouldn't you still rather see him? I never accepted the "Oh he's young" argument for Darnold because his tape was so fuging bad. I can at least accept that for a rookie. At least even if he is highly mediocre to bad there is still some hope about improvement. Darnold had years of bad film. We know he is terrible and isn't going to improve enough to ever be a good NFL QB.

I mean.....the fact PJ is still here.....

You probably can't easily be a complete idiot and play football at a very high level but just the simple concept of intelligence isn't always easy to quantify. So, conversely, while "smarter" guys might be able to pick up concepts more quickly(in theory) designing a test probably isn't going to be as effective as just simply interviewing a guy, watching some film and/or having him break down plays and schemes. That's the most effective way you are gonna be able to tell if a guy is on the Luke Keuchly end of the scale or the Sam Darnold end of the scale. And even if you excel at that, you still need to be able to put that into action effectively. Hence why something as football irrelevant as the Wonderlic isn't going to reveal much. Not to mention plenty of players have stated they don't take it seriously or even care about it. So given that alone, you aren't going to be able to effectively use it a tool if people aren't actually trying to take the test.

That is a pretty barebones article in which the paper is behind a paywall. I will see if I can get some more information about the methodology because he really doesn’t dig into what they found other than that sentence. Not saying they might not be onto something but I at least like to view the source material first. Especially since he literally doesn't discuss much of what they actually did or the results.

If you hear him talk, he isn't likely to be good at this. I will give him a chance but Olsen proved he had the ability to be quite good at it. I think Fox is mistaking people's interest in Brady after retirement as a bobblehead. I think we can all agree that none of us tune into an NFL game based on the broadcasters. We may or may not use the mute button based on who is announcing.

There were about a half dozen analyses of this done in the mid 2000's to mid-2010's all of which showed either no correlation. I read those fuging things more than a decade ago because of a similar argument where I had the same(incorrect) opinion that you are holding now at that time.

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5694518/why-the-nfls-wonderlic-aptitude-test-is-totally-worthless There are some more studies since then but this links a few of the original ones.

No, there us basically zero correlation at all. This has quite literally been analyzed by study after study and had absolutely no correlation on NFL success. It's always been a complete myth that it matters at all.