So, I was thinking the other day that during the last round of searching for a new Browns coach and GM in 2005, Cleveland interviewed then Steelers O-Line coach Russ Grimm and considered then O-Coordinator Ken Whisenhunt as a possible candidate for the Head Coaching position. Instead, they went with a Belichick disciple that had already been in Cleveland once and didn't really have the best showing. Not that Crennel didn't deserve a shot as a head coach. It just didn't work out for him in Cleveland. I wish him the best in his future endeavors. But when I see that the Arizona Cardinals are in the Super Bowl...wait...let that sink in...it makes me crazy to think that Cleveland is starting all over AGAIN. Especially since Arizona stumbled in to the playoffs at 9 & 7 and the Browns were 10 & 6 in '07. And now you can scratch the Cardinals off of the infamous list of teams that have never even been to a Super Bowl. For those of you keeping score, that list is now Detroit, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Houston, & of course Cleveland.
And now they have hired another former Belichick lackey, who was also in Cleveland before (as a 21 year-old ball boy). And then they let him pick the GM. Oh, and the new DC...also a devotee of Bill. Maybe it's my good old-fashioned NE Ohio pessimism, but I just don't have a good feeling about this. Another cherry picked off the Belichick tree. I hope I'm wrong, but this does not seem to automatically equal success. Just ask the folks in South Bend.
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My taxman said to me yesterday that it's amazing how two teams in the same geographic area, with the same basic economic basis, could be so different (he was referring to the Browns and the Steelers).
It'll be three years at least before they compete, I'd say.
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