Brady shows his career completion percentage.
Why don't I say more about the Bucs? Well, I will later. I told my friend--and fellow Bucs fan, Gene-that if the salary cap were still in place, the Bucs would be underneath the salary floor, the amount their required to spend on player payroll. Not too exciting. Yay. The Glazers are saving money. Awesome.
I know I'M relieved.
Yeah, I'm afraid we're looking at a scintillating 5-win season in 2010. Nice these idiots could tear down a successful franchise and replace it with this sorry excuse of a roster.
Here's the deal. It may cost more to put a winning team on the field, but you gotta spend money to make money. Winning teams get more money from jersey sales, higher fees for broadcast rights, more money at the games. Happy fans tend to spend more. It's a fucking fact.
Well, except in Cleveland, cuz they're so fucking hardcore and loyal (except when Pittsburgh comes to town and all of those self-proclaimed hardcore fans sell their tickets to Steeler fans, but hey, that's another issue).
More later on my raging adoration of Bucs fans. Uh huh. I'm pissed at them as well.
And I know, "Shut up about the Browns, Buccaneer Lori!" Hey, I get that. But like the team or not, that franchise is the one that's making news the last couple of weeks.
I know when some good shit is hitting the fan. And being the sports whore that I am, I cruise through a lot of NFL fan sites. Of course, I yap off a lot at a couple of Bucs sites. And I definitely hit one really good Browns fan site. And today, I saw perhaps the greatest quote by an awesome Browns fan who really hit his fellow fans where it hurts.
And I'll get to that wonderful post in a second. But first I need to set it up.
First off, Brady "The Best Argument For NOT Drafting Jimmy Clausen Aside From Actually Watching Clausen Play" Quinn was traded to the Denver Broncos today for a running back named Peyton Hillis a sixth round pick in the 2011 draft and a conditional pick in the 2012 draft.
Yeah, pretty big price he brought for the Browns! From what I heard, it was hard to even find a trading partner for him. I have a feeling they were going to have to call a Canadian Football League team if Denver didn't step up.
Then, just after news of that trade broke, the Browns sent linebacker Kamerion Wimbley, the Browns 2006 first round draft, to the Oakland Raiders for a third round pick in this April's draft.
Of course, now the Quinn lovers in C-Town are crying like the little bitches they are. They're ripping Mike Holmgren for the trade and predicting that Quinn will be the next starting QB in Denver. Of course, these morons are wrong. Quinn won't beat out Kyle Orton. But a Quinn cultist is a Quinn cultist. And they're already booking their tickets to Denver to explain how awesome Brady is to fans who aren't quite as enlightened as they are in all things Brady.
Bronco fans, here's a warning: When you see one of these twits come and say, "I'm a new Broncos fan!", he/she/it isn't. They're Quinn cultists and will shit, piss, drool and vomit all over your Broncos fan sites and sports talk shows, professing the greatness of a guy who throws as many passes into opposing defensive players' face masks as to his own receivers.
Tell these trolls to eat shit and bark at the fucking moon. Don't be nice. Trust me, they won't be nice to anyone who disagrees with them. They will rip Orton like he's a child molester. That's what they did to DA, and they'll do it to Orton.
They don't give a fucking care about your team, only about Quinn. They'd rather lose with Quinn than win with a real QB. And these fuckers are absolutely relentless. They're an infection. They are nothing but Quinn trolls. Tell them to fuck off the minute you see them.
They usually create names like "QuinnsFuckingAwesome", "QuinnsBestestFan", "MeNBradyBFF", "AllaboutBrady", "QuinnFutureHallofFamer", "Evry1butBQsucks", "QuinnsDickMyAss", "WishBQwasmyson," and "IWantToSuckBradysYummyCock." Trust me, they're not hard to spot.
Uh, back to C-Town. Now the beloved Golder Domer is gone and the Browns have Jake Delhomme and Seneca Wallace as their top two quarterbacks. Not overly impressive, but hey, both were better options than Quinn (and sadly, my beloved Derek Anderson as well).
My football czar boyfriend, the wonderful Mike Holmgren, has worked with the following QBs: Steve Young, Brett Favre, and Matt Hasslebeck, just to name a few. Dude kind of knows when a QB has it and when he doesn't. Clearly Quinn doesn't have it.
Anyway, the city-wide freakout/tempy tantwum had just gotten underway when the Wimbley trade was announced.
Wimbley is a good kid and good teammate. And has not been a good player since his rookie year in 2006 when he recorded 11 sacks. Kam played defensive end for--drumroll, please--Florida State.
The Browns play a 3-4 defense, which required Kam to learn a new position as an outside linebacker. Sometimes position changes like that work out. But I've always felt that if you want a fucking linebacker, draft someone who actually fucking played linebacker in college. Shit, leave 4-3 ends like Kam to teams that, uh, PLAY the 4-3 defense.
Oh, guess who passed on badass D-tackle Hiloti Ngata of the Ravens to select Wimbley? Uh huh. Phil Savage. Ngata's now one of the best defensive tackles in the NFL while Wimbley was traded for a third round draft pick.
Way to go, Phil. Phil's the Trent Dilfer/Starving Alpo Dog of fired GMs.
But I digress.
So almost everyone's ripping Homgren, the best thing to happen to Cleveland football since Bernie Kosar (you know, the former QB who Browns fans want as GM even though he has zero experience in that area), when I see the following quote.
It is fucking brilliant (emphasis is mine and the soft OLB he refers to is Wimbley):
"You naysayers make me want to puke. First off, none of you know shit. If you did, you'd be running a fucking NFL Team. Are any of you currently or have you ever worked in the NFL? Show of hands? I didn't think so. It doesn't matter if we would have traded Quinn for Peyton #$(%*#@ Manning, you'd bitch because Peyton is on the downside of his career.
You guys and your know-it-all Bullshit need to realize that there are 3, count 'em 3 people all making the calls in Cleveland now. It was a Cleveland Browns decision. If they deemed them expendable, then guess what? They were fucking expendable. Let's examine what we've lost. A qb with the brains and all the intangibles except for a real bonafide NFL arm. Didn't Holmgren say something about when you are evaluating an NFL qb, the first question is: "Can he throw it from me to you?" Guess what? Quinn didn't have the arm to succeed. He never will. Get over it.
Delhomme at least can make all the throws and he might surprise you. I believe that the powers that be are more intelligent when evaluating QB's than anyone on a fucking forum. Again, if you are so smart, go and apply as a scout for any team. Just do it, then you can tell me about how smart you are.
What else did we lose, let's see, we covered a worthless qb, okay, we lost a soft OLB. Again, get over it. Show me on film that he was worth keeping because I can tell you without any speculation whatsoever that when I watch the defense, I watched him and he was weak and a liability against the run. He couldn't get off a block. Once he was engaged by the lineman, he was done. That's why he's gone. Somebody already said it. He was a one-trick pony. All he had was that little dip the shoulder move and that's it.
As far as you Peyton Hillis haters, shut the fuck up. At his size, he runs a 4.5 forty, he's got good hands and it saves us from having to hope that Harrison can make it through the year. It also saves us from hoping that a good RB falls to us in the draft. Whenever he's been given an opportunity for extended playing time, he's surpassed expectations so again, would it have mattered if we would've gotten Knowshon Moreno from the Broncos? No because you naysayers just want to bitch so that you can tell yourselves how smart you sounded if you happen to be right.
Enough with the nonsense. DA was right, you guys don't deserve a winner because you're all a bunch of know-it-all ball busters that can never be happy. Some of you need to re-examine your lives because you will NEVER be happy. EVER. So, take a good long look at yourselves and find a new passion or something because you are the "FANS" that DA was talking about. He wasn't talking about guys like me that look for the good in everything. He was talking about you.
That line about Kam is so true. Whenever I'd watch the Browns, Kam almost ran straight into the blocker's arms and was done. Boyfriend pointed it out to me the first time we watched the Browns together. It was like some invisible force would guide him into the blocker and he'd stick like glue.You guys and your know-it-all Bullshit need to realize that there are 3, count 'em 3 people all making the calls in Cleveland now. It was a Cleveland Browns decision. If they deemed them expendable, then guess what? They were fucking expendable. Let's examine what we've lost. A qb with the brains and all the intangibles except for a real bonafide NFL arm. Didn't Holmgren say something about when you are evaluating an NFL qb, the first question is: "Can he throw it from me to you?" Guess what? Quinn didn't have the arm to succeed. He never will. Get over it.
Delhomme at least can make all the throws and he might surprise you. I believe that the powers that be are more intelligent when evaluating QB's than anyone on a fucking forum. Again, if you are so smart, go and apply as a scout for any team. Just do it, then you can tell me about how smart you are.
What else did we lose, let's see, we covered a worthless qb, okay, we lost a soft OLB. Again, get over it. Show me on film that he was worth keeping because I can tell you without any speculation whatsoever that when I watch the defense, I watched him and he was weak and a liability against the run. He couldn't get off a block. Once he was engaged by the lineman, he was done. That's why he's gone. Somebody already said it. He was a one-trick pony. All he had was that little dip the shoulder move and that's it.
As far as you Peyton Hillis haters, shut the fuck up. At his size, he runs a 4.5 forty, he's got good hands and it saves us from having to hope that Harrison can make it through the year. It also saves us from hoping that a good RB falls to us in the draft. Whenever he's been given an opportunity for extended playing time, he's surpassed expectations so again, would it have mattered if we would've gotten Knowshon Moreno from the Broncos? No because you naysayers just want to bitch so that you can tell yourselves how smart you sounded if you happen to be right.
Enough with the nonsense. DA was right, you guys don't deserve a winner because you're all a bunch of know-it-all ball busters that can never be happy. Some of you need to re-examine your lives because you will NEVER be happy. EVER. So, take a good long look at yourselves and find a new passion or something because you are the "FANS" that DA was talking about. He wasn't talking about guys like me that look for the good in everything. He was talking about you.
This poster is right about DA. Those bitches were exactly the ones he was referring to in that email.
And not one big, brave whiny bitch talked back to him.
Maybe he'd write something up and post it on a Bucs site to all those idiots who were crying to get Gruden fired after the 2008 season.
I mean, that worked out great, didn't it? It's awesome sucking donkey snot when instead we could be contending for a playoff berth every season. Now we get elminated by, oh, week six and get to overpay a top three selection in the draft. Awesome. Now I can finally devote my Sundays to something more exciting than watching the Bucs win: the Pro Bowlers Tour.
Yeah, Pete Weber, baby!
Way to go, Bucs Nation. You ran the only two guys who actually knew what they were doing in Jon Gruden and Bruce Allen out of town. Now you have a cheap, moron owner (and his moron, silver spoon-sucking sons), a weak GM and Rasheed Morris, a guy CLEARLY over his head, "coaching" the team.
Nicely done. Maybe the Glazers would've fired Gruden and Allen no matter what. In fact, they probably would have. But I wonder if they would've had the nerve to if thought that Bucs fans would revolt. I have no doubt they peeked at the message boards and listened to radio callers and gauged the pulse of the fans. And when they heard these so-called "fans" bitching about getting that horrible Gruden out of town (you know, the guy who brought a Super Bowl championship to Tampa), I bet that's all they needed to hear.
"Salary dump, ahoy, Captain Malcolm!"
And enough of "Duhhhhhh, Gruden only won with Tony Dungy's players! Duhhhhh!" Uh, wrong.
First off, I love Dungy. But Dungy didn't win with "Dungy's players", Gruden did. Secondly, Dungy didn't bring those players to Tampa, former GM Rich McKay did before leaving for Atlanta, so they weren't "Dungy's players". They were McKay's, you fucking dumbasses.
Learn what a fucking GM actually does (hint: don't ask Phil Savage) before running your fucking mouths. That argument is absolutely moronic. Did we win the Super Bowl before Gruden? No, so shut your fucking mouths about "winning with Dungy's players".
Did Dungy win the Super Bowl with Jim Mora's players, then? After all, Peyton Manning was drafted when Jim Mora (the dad, not that moron son of his) was Indy's coach.
Wow, Bucs fans. You're kind of like the Browns fans I rip so much. Real great company you're in. You should really be really proud. You were smart enough to want a real coach fired and replaced with fucking Raheem Morris. What an upgrade! Thanks for that.
As a Bucs fan since before I was old enough to know how badass Leroy Selmon was, I truly appreciate this franchise being set back years.
You fucking morons.
