been telling u for years, winning AFC south literally means jack sht. I don't give a fk if we win in 2023, just to get ass blasted in playoffs. We want a team that can actually makes noise or has a legit chance of winning it. Beating the sht colts, jaguars, and titans to win AFC south means nothing if we are just gonna get ass blasted in playoffs. This isn't some movie type sht where if u sneaked into playoffs, anything is possible. u need actually talent, which we are lacking everywhere.
Um getting to the playoffs allows you to build after sucking for 4 years. The AFC South sure seems to get 2 teams in the playoffs every year. Those teams (aside from the Texans) have made it to the AFCG with regularity. All you do is **** on the Texans, no matter what. Go to the Browns forums and dig for gold with your butt buddy Watson.
He used to coach at Rice. If you can find the book Saturday's Child, it's a good read. It is a season of Rice football that coincided with him coaching there.
I've posted this before when a bunch of idiots started whining about how it's never been as bad as it is right now for NFL football in Houston. Just listen to what his own players had to say about him. Shout out to Pancakes. Starts at the 20:38 mark:
Watching it unfold over the last several years has been surreal. Basically every personnel move after the Duane Brown trade has been a disaster. Mostly because of the desperation involved in trying to replace the LT you lost and the result of hindering your OL so badly that the rest of the team suffered. Add that to the ridiculously stupid BOB overpays for Murray, Mercilus, Martin, and Cobb while losing Mathieu and Reader and then the Hopkins trade and here we are.
It’s easy to second guess or criticize the Duane Brown thing now but Rick Smith did not believe doing contract extensions when the player still had 2 years left on his contract. They did it for Watt and Andre Johnson but not Hopkins or Brown. Maybe they should have done it for Brown…but once he accused McNair of being a racist that ship pretty much sailed. But before trading for Tunsil they also could have signed Trent Brown as a free agent, they could have drafted Orlando Brown instead of Rankin or they could have just given Howard a shot at LT. Oh well the era of incompetence is over…I have faith that Caserio won’t make the same short-sighted mistakes that O’Brien made.
Yep, sooner or later owners aren't going to be allowed to hire who they think is the best hire for their business.
Horrific. I had forgotten how little we got back in the Brown trade too. Man, this franchise has absolutely sucked monkey butthole when it comes to acquiring talent outside of the draft (which has itself not be great shakes either).
Trading brown was a mistake but I think the bigger mistake was not getting Trent brown signed over trading for tunsil.
