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Browns get no help from early slate of Week 9 action

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Just let the patented Barry Filter ™ weed out all of the nonsense and focus on the truly important stuff, with paywalls largely lifted out of the way (even our own) and the focus placed on new stuff rather than recycled information and with all the cruft swept aside. I honestly don’t know why every Browns fan doesn’t start their day with this. Maybe it’s the fact that I fill it with my biased opinions and crap that people don’t want to read. Nah.

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It’s a light news day, but even if it weren’t, I would bust past my self-imposed Browns-only restriction for NEWS of this importance. The return of the Choco-Taco to Taco Bell should be the lead story on every cable network instead of whatever they’re yammering on about because, well, Choco-Tacos are awesome. You can take it from me because I’m a fat guy, so I know these things. I have to imagine this was a FOX 8 I-TEAM EXCLUSIVE, broken only through extensive dumpster diving and sneaking around Taco Bell offices disguised as UPS delivery people wearing gigantic camera hats.

I find Nelson Agholor annoying. He’s one of those guys who doesn’t do anything all game, and then, in a crucial third-and-goal situation from the fifteen-yard line, he manages to weasel his way open in the end zone. I assume he does this because defensive backs are busy with the dangerous receivers and are not taking him as seriously, but he always seems to pop open and score a touchdown for the Ratbirds. I don’t like him. I don’t like this story.

The Browns obviously need some wide receiver help. Some might say that getting Deshaun Watson some more weapons is the most critical need for the Browns. So, the next few weeks will be filled with people drawing lines from the Browns to available free-agent wide receivers based on nothing other than the potential that they could be logical fits. Then, various aggregation sites will write stories titled things like “Browns Linked to Exciting Wide Receiver” based on this and make some money off the clicks. I’ll wade through that crap to find you the original sources, in this case, a PFF article and a Mary Kay Cabot article. Both are speculation.

The fact that guys like Pete Carroll, Steve Spagnuolo, Jim Schwartz, and Bill freaking Belichick didn’t get much more than a sniff at available head coaching jobs seems to indicate that “old guys need not apply.” I’m 62, have tons of energy, fantastic experience, and feel great, but I don’t think that I could get a job in my chosen field at this point because of my age. That’s just the way it is. At some point, your age and the brevity with which you might serve the corporate need are perceived to outweigh the value your experience brings. Mike Florio discusses this, and I think he’s right about it from personal experience.

Pro Football Network is out there, pumping out dozens of stories a day, and occasionally dipping into the “fan reaction” realm on big stories. Such is what they’re doing today with this story on fan reaction to yesterday’s story on the Steelers organization’s disinclination to bring in a hotshot new quarterback to face off against Kenny Pickett and Mason Rudolph.

I’m here to point out to the Steelers organization that they’ve been very successful over the years and should certainly not listen to these ignorant fans. After all, you’re the Steelers, possessing winning season after winning season. Truly a legacy that shows your decision-making acumen and a total lack of any need to listen to bozos on social media blathering on about how Kenny Pickett sucks. Stick to your guns, fellas. You know what’s what.

NFL players are like meteors streaking across the sky. Mostly, their time drawing the eyes’ attention is short, but they can make a heck of an impact during that time. It doesn’t take much, as Dorian Thompson-Robinson showed in this story from January about a gesture that meant a lot to a Westlake man who had battled against congenital heart disease. Here is the story on FOX 8

Today’s show starts with Jake and Andrew sharing some banter on the misconceptions of the All-Star game across the major US Sports and if there is a path to fixing them, then they close the opener with two questions unanswered from the Weekend Mailbag. The duo then shifts to another of the 2023 positional reviews with the defensive tackle position. They assign grades for collective performance, who stays/leaves in 2024, and the position’s best “path to improvement” including free agency and draft angles early in the off-season process. This discussion is all about the improvement of the group from 2022 to 2023 and if there is a need for heavier investment come next season.

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