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August 13, 2013
TD talking Tribe, Browns and turkey sandwiches – WFNY Podcast – 2013-08-14
August 14, 2013
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Three guesses and the first two don’t count. “Instead of holding out hope that Weeden could be the guy, it appears someone within the organization has been letting multiple NFL insiders and reporters know that they’ve already decided he’s not. I don’t know that to be the case for sure, but my instincts lead me to strongly suspect that is what is going on here.
One national reporter wrote a column about the Browns quarterback of the future likely being in the 2014 draft. Another tweeted after attending Browns camp that he doesn’t believe Weeden is the guy for this franchise. These are the type of insiders who offer opinions based more on what they hear than what they see. Fact is, they are great reporters who are just doing their job and I don’t fault them at all.
My issue is with the person feeding them this information. It could be owner Jimmy Haslam or team president Joe Banner or general manager Mike Lombardi or even Chudzinski. That part of it is immaterial to me. What matters is that someone of authority—because respected national writers wouldn’t write such things unless they knew it to be true—has been putting the word out that Weeden wasn’t the answer before the guy even took a single snap in a preseason game. To me, that is total garbage.” [Tucker/The Sporting News]
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“Good or bad, the Indians are always tearing it up in one direction or the other. It’s like they can’t make up their minds what they are. Are they a really good team that sometimes plays really bad? Or are they a really bad team that sometimes plays really good?
Don’t say that the answer lies somewhere in the middle, because somewhere in the middle is never where the Indians are. They never play so-so. They either play whoa, whoa! baseball. Or they play, oh-no! baseball. Either way, it usually goes on for a few weeks in one direction, and then it goes on for a few weeks in the other direction.” [Ingraham/News Herald]
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Urban Meyer and Braxton Miller on ESPN College Football Live. [Men of the Scarlet and Gray]
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More expectations from the first preseason game. “Much more zone blocking than I anticipated. I fully expected us to utilize a “Power O” based blocking scheme. Instead, we ran a lot of zone blocked plays. They didn’t look like the trademark zone schemes of Houston, Washington, and previously Denver, but we were zone blocking quite a bit.” [Rufio/Dawgs by Nature]
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On projecting Cavalier improvement. “His first point is important. Even without new additions, the Cavaliers were probably going to improve next season as Kyrie Irving, Tristan Thompson, Dion Waiters, and Tyler Zeller improve. Last season the Cavaliers had a negative point differential of 4.7 per game. In other words, the Cavaliers were outscored by an average of 4.7 points per game. On the other end of the spectrum, the Oklahoma City Thunder had a positive point differential of 9.2. So Cleveland has a long ways to go. Still, Doolittle projects the Cavs to be 5.7 points per game better than they were last season, which would lead to a positive differential overall. No team with a positive point differential finished with a losing record last season. The Lakers finished with a positive points differential of 1.2 and won 45 games in the tough Western Conference.
Now, there are some caveats. Doolittle is assuming Andrew Bynum plays 40 games. We don’t know how likely that is. Doolittle assumes relative health from Varejao (I recall Kevin Pelton, who does similar analysis, saying that the projections would give Varejao about 65 games next season, but it wasn’t in this context so I can’t be sure. If Doolittle feels that Varejao is going to play 82 games, well, we know better than to expect that. He also is giving a lot of weight to Mike Brown’s ability to coach defense. He has the Cavaliers projected as the 9th best defense in the NBA next year. While Earl Clark, Alonzo Gee, Thompson and Varejao are all capable defenders, that is a jump of 18 spots. Seems like a lot to ask.” [Zavac/Fear the Sword]
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I’m a civilian and even understand that lingo but seriously I used to play “Call of Duty!”
92Y (Supply.)
In my case, my Soldiers are surprised at how accessible/easy going I am. Apparently there are a crap ton of crappy Supply NCO’s out there. (I also have had back-to-back GREAT commanders at this unit.) Basically, I can order nearly anything I want, so long as I can justify the purchase. And if it’s on the shelf, and a Soldier can justify the need, I get to hand it out.
Just throwing it out there to cut off the whole “19 kids and counting” comments that almost inevitably come up. 😉
Besides, I wouldn’t survive a reality TV show. It’d be a horrifying combination of 19 Kids meets Howard Stern. (How I write on here is far different from how I talk in real life. There’s too much “Soldier” in my daily life.) And since discipline isn’t the “in” thing in today’s society, our show would get cancelled several episodes in.
I use a lot of one liners on my kids like: “You get an A for effort, but there’s two Fs in effort.” Or, “If you’re looking for “Sympathy”, it’s in the dictionary between “$h!t and Syphilis.”
It’s all good no judging here I mean if 19 is the goal and your at 8 I think you need to get to work slacker! 😉
But seriously I love kids just as long as they are someone else’s.
The goal was to stop at 5. Apparently I’m a serious over-achiever. LOL 😉
I’m just looking forward to the two olders (both turn 14 within the next two weeks) leaving for the military or college. LOL
Never thought I’d own a 15-pax van…now it’s a requirement for us to make this upcoming move. But it’s all good. I respect my kids enough to discipline them…so they’re well behaved.
Never seen Deadliest Catch either, LOL. Which one is Gold Rush? I’ve watched a few episodes of a show with my wife where there’s several groups of gold-prospectors trying to strike it rich. One of the groups is led by a kid who is trying to take over for his grandpa.
The two are mutually exclusive. If anything, I think it would more negatively affect a younger player who hasn’t played professional sports and isn’t used to the harsh realities of sports management and public criticism. From my vantage point, it seemed like you just wanted to make a complaint about Weeden’s age and fit it into the discussion.
As for Weeden’s age, I’m okay with it. I’d rather have 5 years of quality QB play than 12 years of mediocre QB play. Gun to my head, I think that will be the difference between Brandon Weeden and Ryan Tannehill when all is said and done. With that said, I do think there’s a possibility that Weeden holds up later into his career simply because he hasn’t been taking hits as long as other QBs coming into the NFL at 21 or 22. All of this remains to be seen, but I’m okay with waiting to find out.
That’s “Gold Rush” the kid is Parker Schnabel. This new season he’s done with the family mine and moving to The Klondike. Kid is like 18. Like Jack Hoffman says, “NO GUTS, NO GLORY!”
Yeah – seen several episodes of that show. It’s alright…but it’s other people’s drama. I have more than enough in my life. I don’t really need to see other peoples too. LOL
I see well I’m making a mental note not to use the phrase, “cocked, locked and ready to rock” around you otherwise #9 might be in the pipeline!
That is much appreciated! LOL