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#Browns are likely going to be featured on this year’s HBO Hard Knocks series, per source. An official announcement is expected on Thursday.

https://twitter.com/KyleKellyCLE/status/988886089023807488

It was ONLY a matter of time... let the jokes continue to roll.

I will be watching

They already do "Building the Browns", what's a few more cameras?

Love it! We’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at Hue preparing to be in charge of the challenge flag this season and being able to locate it in a timely manner.

Count me in.

yessssssssssss
Cant wait. I may have to up my HBO subscription

I already looked at how much HBO is going to run me to add it. Funny, I didn't want to be on that show at first but I can say I like/approve of this after I read the post.

I dig it.

yep, here we go

There are ways around that though Get a firestick and jailbreak it. Not that i have that or anything

But HBO is the only pay service i would consider paying for. There original programming is far ahead of the others.

I have a Roku already so. Let's say I'll look into my options

The camera fades in to Cleveland Stadium with a choppy Lake Erie shoreline in the background...



The camera slowly moves to the North Coast Harbor where in the distance, a 1-31 Head Coach standing on the pier between the two lighthouses...



The camera zooms in to the grizzled face of Hue Jackson as he jumps into the lake with a perfect cannonball.

Fade to black...

Cleveland Browns 2018

We Started off all wet, but this year we hope to make a big splash!

j/c:

Good. Now we can see first-hand how dumb the claims that Hue is just a gopher for the coordinators is.

I hope they'll have the Angel in the back of the defensive meeting room this year.

I guess I'm the old guy on his porch yelling at kids to get off his grass, but I see this as an unwelcome distraction for a young team that should be trying to turn things around, not worrying about how they come across on some BS reality show.

Hard Knocks....sounds like the story of every Browns fan everywhere.

The title of the show fits the Browns. Or should I say Browns fans

I have been watching "Building the Browns" for the past two years. I really enjoy it. It's also easy to find and stream via their website or YouTube.

I don't have cable...are the 'Hard Knocks' easy to stream?

I’m directing.

If you already have Hulu, you can add HBO for $5 a month.

If you get HBO streaming on it's own, it's $15 a month.

Oh, I'd agree.

Unfortunately, is what it is. They've been bugging us about doing it for awhile. At some point, our turn is up

I agree. I mean, I'll watch if it's available in Canada at some point, but I'd prefer our guys didn't have that distraction.

Don't forget, he's a lackey to the GM too. If Hue is a good minion, Dorsey is actually going to let him know who he is drafting tomorrow instead of finding out once the pick is in.

What will be interesting is seeing a more candid, uncensored/no holding back fly on the wall take on what is happening. "Building The Browns" is good, but it is very polished, censored and edited.

Is this Building The Browns thing somewhere on you tube?

I dont have Netflix or HBO.

Yep, on the Browns website and YouTube.

I understand that viewpoint, however how has NOT having Hard Knocks fair for us so far?

I mean, maybe - just maybe - some of these kids will get some limelight they are not used to since we are joke- and some dang pride will set it.

To be honest, any tv show named "Hard Knocks" is not going to be focused on our successes. (Do we have any?) I dont really think its going to be anything amazing, maybe more of "Oh those poor Browns and the poor fans" How do you have pride in that?

If 1-31, and being a laughing stock on national TV with millions of millions of viewers watching doesnt make you get prideful to change that fact - IDK what will. Thats my point. You have pride in regards to wanting to change that perception.

I live outside of the Cleveland market near Pittsburgh. Until this year, no one here knew who Duke Johnson was (the only reason they do know is because of his ties with Shazier after he got hurt), no one knows who Corey Coleman is or they forget he even existed after that draft. Then you get to guys like like BBC an the second tier level players - no one knows who any of these guys are.

Put them on Tv, and when the jokes start coming fast and furious millions at a time, if that dont awake your pride nothing will.

I had HBO for a year for free, with my Dish subscription.

I think I watched it 3 times.

I don't see myself adding it. I'll have to find a rich friend with HBO ..... or maybe switch my mom to Dish, and get a free year of HBO there. Hmm .... that's an option.

I followed a season of Hard Knocks a few years ago. It was anything but focused on failure. Made you really want to root for the team. "Hard Knocks" was more a play on the hard work that goes into making a team successful.

We've got young talent, new acquisitions, bright shiny new toys (after the draft), new culture, new front office... and the only way to go is up anyway. Should make for good TV. I predict it will have outsiders cheering for the Browns rather than making fun of them. I'm excited, I hope we get an inside look at how quickly the "team" dynamic is building with all these new players.

one year too late... no joe thomas...

i bet he makes some cameos

Joe would have been great to have seen in the locker room.

Or just put the HBO app on your firestick and use your father-in-law's HBO account to watch That's what we do.

A new HBO comedy! Could I possibly like it better than 'Veep' and 'The Divorce!'

Sweet... I was excited to watch the texans on it,.. pumped the Browns could be on it...

John Dorsey doesn’t see anything good about being on Hard Knocks

Posted by Josh Alper on May 2, 2018, 11:40 AM EDT

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...on-hard-knocks/

Because they have not been on the show in the last 10 years, haven’t changed coaches and didn’t make the playoffs the last two seasons, the Browns are one of six NFL teams that can be compelled to appear on Hard Knocks this summer.

General Manager John Dorsey said he’ll be OK with any decision that the league might make, but it sounds like he’d prefer if they chose someone else for a starring role on the HBO series chronicling training camp.

“I don’t believe we’re on Hard Knocks,” Dorsey said on ESPN Cleveland 850, via Cleveland.com. “I don’t think there’s anything good that comes out of Hard Knocks, but we’ll see.”

With Dorsey in his first season, the first overall pick in the draft in quarterback Baker Mayfield and several other notable acquisitions after an 0-16 season, the Browns have plenty of storylines for producers to craft a show around.

The Chargers are another team that can be forced to do the show and their General Manager Tom Telesco said earlier this year that he can see some benefits to the experience even if he is “not entirely” comfortable with inviting cameras into camp.

I hope he's right.

I hope we aren't on Hard Knocks but I think both elibility requirements and storylines are there.

If Dorsey doesn't want Hard Knocks, he'll have to fire Hue. That's the last remaining option to disqualify Cleveland immediately because teams with new HCs can opt out, IIRC. But that ain't happening...it's not realistic.

Bring it on... I know it's a distraction for them but I love seeing the inside... loved when they'd did the texans... it's a mixed bag he teams far after being on hard knocks...