Jim Zorn downplayed the comments, which was the right thing to do.
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Bud Shaw of the Cleveland Plain Dealer writes that the Browns would only essentially be applying a band-aid fix to their soon-to-be head coaching vacancy by hiring Marty Schottenheimer.
In fact, it sounds exactly like something Lerner would do if he can’t land Cowher and that’s what should concern you. It would be taking the easy way out. Hire a coach with experience primarily because the last one you hired had never been a head coach and it showed.
But with Schottenheimer, all you’d be doing is rinsing and repeating two or three years from now.
Maybe Lerner wants a quick turnaround so he can sell. But that kind of short-term thinking doesn’t do Browns fans any good.
If you make the right choice based on a wide knowledge of the coaching talent around the league, it makes it easier to ride out the bumps. In picking Crennel from New England and Savage from Baltimore, Lerner was intent on borrowing from successful organizations. But within a year he was ready to fire Savage and had serious concerns about Crennel.
Getting the right people is what’s most important, not taking one from Column A and one from Column B as if you’re ordering in Chinese.
This next hire demands foresight. Sorry, that’s not Marty Schottenheimer, whose time here came and went 20 years ago.
What’s ironic about Shaw’s criticisms of Lerner “borrowing from successful organizations” is that Shaw goes on to note that the Ravens were wise in taking a chance on John Harbaugh, who came from Philadelphia…a successful organization.
As I wrote when the news first broke, the Browns could do a lot worse than Marty Schottenheimer – a lot worse. Would he be a band-aid fix? Yeah, probably. It’s Lerner and Savage’s responsibility then to make sure that Schottenheimer’s eventual replacement is already on staff so when it’s time to move on, you already have someone familiar with the organization and the direction it wants to go in. Don’t just write off Schottenheimer because he’s not a long-term answer. Bring him in to establish structure and to get his players to believe in a system and then make a transition to one of his coordinators that could be a long-term solution.
I say this assuming the Browns can’t land Cowher. Because if they can, than clearly he’s the ideal choice.
Adam “Pacman” Jones’ season is officially over. No, not because he spit in a woman’s face or had one of his friends shoot a woman in the ear. This time it’s because of a neck injury.
Sources close to Adam Jones have informed Fanball.com’s Ryan Houston that the turbulent CB / KR / PR suffered a neck injury and will miss the rest of the season.
Our View: What started out as a promising “fresh start” ends with more controversy and an injury. It’ll be interesting to see if Jerry Jones allows Adam Jones to come back in 2009. Regardless, neck injuries are always serious concerns and we should know more as test results are released later today.
This is good – Pacman with free time. Yikes.
Detroit Lions’ offensive lineman Dominic Raiola is tired of taking abuse from fans. And damn it, he’s not going to stand for it anymore.
Raiola, one of the team’s captains, responded verbally to the heckling — and also with an obscene hand gesture — late in Sunday’s 20-16 loss to the Vikings at Ford Field.
Asked Monday if he regretted “giving the fans the business,” Raiola, while not directly acknowledging the gesture, didn’t mince any words.
“Nope. Not one bit,” said Raiola, who returned to the lineup Sunday after missing four games because of a broken right thumb. “Because I wish everybody out there came into the film room and watched the film, watched the effort put out there. And, yeah, everybody makes mistakes, everybody messes up — and I’m talking for everybody right now — and, yeah, they’re paying customers. But we’re trying to put some wins on the board and give them something to cheer about. And I don’t know what to say, other than what I said yesterday.”
“I don’t take one thing back,” said Raiola, an eighth-year pro whose streak of 104 starts ended after he was injured Nov. 2 at Chicago. “I’ll say the same thing to a fan that I see on the street. I wish I could give my address out to some fans — I’d do that. But you can’t. Nobody plays with fists. Everybody wants to play with metal. So I can’t.
“I’m just so frustrated. I’m tired of being a doormat. For people to just talk to us how they want to talk to us, I’m just not gonna put up with that anymore.”
I don’t blame Raiola for getting frustrated and firing back at fans that take personal shots at him. But when you’re making millions of dollars for playing a kid’s game, getting heckled by fans comes with the job. You still have to be a professional and try to ignore it, especially when you’re on a team that can’t produce one lousy win for a fan base that has already suffered enough throughout the years.
Honestly, if I were in Raiola’s shoes, I’d probably be giving the fans the ol’ double-fingered salute on the way out of the stadium, too. But I’d be in the wrong, just like Raiola is. Buying a ticket to the game doesn’t give you the right to act like an idiot, but it also doesn’t give Raiola the right to take his frustrations out on paying, unsatisfied customers, either.
Since shooting himself in a nightclub two weeks ago, Plaxico Burress is attempting to reach out to kids to warn them about the dangers of guns.
But as you can see in this video clip from Atom films, Plax still has a long way to go:
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