DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum Edwards wants out of Cleveland?

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I have realized since being in Cleveland that the organization appreciates me but not the fans and the media. Since day one I have been a marked man."

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I find it funny that after a good showing in a meaningless game he mouths off.

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Id rather have Antonio Bryant, Dennis Northcutt, Kevin Johnson, or even Quency Morgan back than start next year with Stallworth still on the team

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Id rather have Antonio Bryant, Dennis Northcutt, Kevin Johnson, or even Quency Morgan back than start next year with Stallworth still on the team

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Whoa, let's not say things we can't take back!!!

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Listen to me you big dumb piece of crap, if you don't want to be here, we don't want you. Get the hell out. If you'd rather be a Chad Ocho Cinco clone than a Hines Ward clone, GET OUT.

Perform or leave, your choice. Same applies to your selfish tight end teammate who couldn't block me with one arm tied behind my back.

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You sound a little bitter. Braylon probably is not really going to read this. lol. Snap out of it man. It will be okay. Just Breathe!.... ::Breathe in:: Breathe out::

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of course he wants out...braylon is a joke and a half, but he thinks he is the best thing since terrell owens!

nothing will become of this though...he'll be in cleveland next year, mark my words. this is just a repeat of ocho cinco drama last year.

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If he thinks he is the best thing since Terrell Owens, then he must not think very highly of himself.

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Livingston:

Between the Lines: Hoard's popularity with Browns fans fractures Edwards' complaints
by Bill Livingston/Plain Dealer Columnist
Tuesday December 16, 2008, 6:47 PM
Bud Shaw ably skewered Braylon Edwards for his a-maize-ing belief that going to Michigan is why he's booed, and not because he's had more drops than the Smith Brothers used to cure coughs.

My favorite example of a Michigan guy who, like Edwards, got off on the wrong foot, then was loved by the fans here was Leroy "He Scored" Hoard. No less than Bo Schembechler ripped Hoard's work ethic to The Plain Dealer's Tony Grossi after the Browns drafted him in the second round in 1990.

Soon thereafter, it developed, in a story I broke, that Hoard tended to fall asleep in team meetings. "He Snored" admitted it. "But only once or twice," he said.

In his second season, as a reader rebuking my carelessness with stats pointed out, he scored 11 touchdowns. Then, in 1994, Hoard was responsible for 1,335 yards rushing and receiving, nearly double his next-best one-season total. He scored nine touchdowns that season.

In the mid-1990s, not many Browns fans seemed to mind that Leroy Hoard was a Wolverine from Michigan. They just liked how he ran and scored touchdowns.The fans loved Leroy Hoard that season, when he was a big contributor to a playoff run and the team's most recent postseason victory in the wild-card round. The only Michigan comments amounted to playful razzing the week of the Ohio State-Michigan game.
Don't forget that General Manager Phil Savage first gift-wrapped this ridiculous "Michigan man" excuse for Edwards and left it under his tree, during Edwards' early struggles with the Browns. It is typical of the culture of alibis in Berea.

It would be funny if it weren't so ludicrous. A guy drops more passes than anybody in the league, catches three TD passes compared to 16 last season, and he's using Michigan as an excuse for the boos?

It might be the most clueless thing any member of the Browns organization has said since Carmen Policy was observing that plastic bottles don't pack much of a wallop.

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BE has never been given the love cause of his Mich ties...as he said from day one.

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The title of the article is BS because it indicates he said somethig he didn't.

And I believe the above comment to be about the same amount of BS. Nobody cares where he went to school.

He's a Brown, not a Wolverine.

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I think it would be best if fans acted as though they were in a room facing the player. In other words if you wouldn’t say it to their face then perhaps you shouldn’t participate in the mob when attending games. This season by far has been the fans worst, never have I seen such despicable behavior. It truly saddens the Bee Jesus out of me.

From cheering DA’s injury to wearing T-Shirts soliciting the removal of the coach it’s been horrific. It was and is just a matter of time before coaches and players no longer wish to be in Cleveland. The big big selling point for players coming here has always been the support of the fan base. Sadly that has evaporated, and has been replaced by cowardly acts of venomous displays of stupidity.

Sometimes I think fans forget that players are people too. Like most people they give all they got. Or at least I think they do. And yes sometimes it’s not enough, but to publicly humiliate the player and the coaches it’s just despicable behavior. It needs to stop. It helps no one. Ever make a mistake? Ever have some one publicly humiliate you? How much money would it take for you to expose yourself to public humiliation week after week? For me its simple no amount of money would be enough to take what many a fan is giving. It’s during times like the ones the Browns are currently going through that the players earn their money, more so then when their winning believe it or not, and that’s because of, you guessed it, the FANS.

Ask yourself this has your reaction ever been come on so and so shake it off? Shake it off man we need you. You can do it. Boo the play not the player, encouragement of a player is important to them, just like it’s important to most of you. If I held most of us up to the light how well would we fair? It is the nature of the beast no question but it hardly justifies the behavior.

Don’t like the play of one of our players, bet your butt, neither does the coaching staff. But as long as they strap it on for my Browns when I attend games I will support them. The ridicule and public embarrassment these players have to endure can be justified by the nature of their business, but it can never be justified on a human level, never.

Try to remember act like you’re in the room with the player/coach.

JMHO

BTTB

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Try to remember act like you’re in the room with the player/coach.

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I'm virtually certain your speaking to those that hurl verbal insults at these people while at games. I get that.

However, let's flip this around a little, just so I can make a tiny point:

"Hey, dude, don't talk to me. I've been a marked man around here because people like you and the media don't like me because I'm from Michigan."

My natural response, in my sarcastic nature, is going to be pretty much what I just typed.

"Braylon, you play a game, making millions of millions of dollars. You play in a dying city where people can barely support their families. They work hard. They expect you to work hard. When you go out and stop playing because you aren't getting the ball, you can bet your ass they are going ride you. When you beat your chest after a good play and after a good game, but run and hide from the camera when you don't, these people aren't going to love you. The respect you want is earned, not given. Furthermore, if your skin is so thin that you only hear the few hundred idiots who razz you because your from Michigan, then you need to put on your big-boy pants and become an adult, because your skin is WAY WAY too thin. Time to grow up, Braylon."



Sure, knock the idiot fans who hurl insults at players which are undeserved. But if Edwards can say how he feels to the media, then the fans can say how they feel as well.

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BE has never been given the love cause of his Mich ties...as he said from day one.

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The title of the article is BS because it indicates he said somethig he didn't.

And I believe the above comment to be about the same amount of BS. Nobody cares where he went to school.

He's a Brown, not a Wolverine.

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Couldn't agree more.

As Bill Livingston reminds us, Leroy Hoard was also from Michigan. He worked hard and produced, and the fans loved him.

Edwards? Not so much. The ultimate sin is quitting on game-day, and he's done it time and time again.......then lied about it.

And he wonders why people razz him

By the way, he knew he would get razzed when he first got here. It's part of the game. If his skin is too thin to take it and get past it, then that's his problem, not ours. That comes with the job description.

The truly sad part is that he's STILL in control. All he has to do is work hard off AND on the field. If he does that, he'll win the adoration he so desperately seeks. Yet here he sits.........spoiled brat..........crying because he isn't given unconditional love. GMAF(reakin')B.

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IIRC, Steve Everett was liked quite a bit here.. he went to michigan no?

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IIRC, Steve Everett was liked quite a bit here.. he went to michigan no?

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Yes he did. However, my guess is some people will say something like "that's different, he's a lineman" or some such thing.

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Just to clarify, it's not because he isn't playing up to his ability. Players can have off-years as long as they are working hard.

He's being boo'ed because he's clearly quit during games, even admitting same. Then he lied about it in an interview, saying he's never let up during games

It all boils down to this: He feels slighted because a few fans got on him because he was from Michigan. An adult who isn't a petulant child lets that run off his back and accepts responsibility for his own actions. Edwards isn't doing that, which is the root of his comments.

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Okay, now I agree back 100%!

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IIRC, Steve Everett was liked quite a bit here.. he went to michigan no?


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Yes he did. However, my guess is some people will say something like "that's different, he's a lineman" or some such thing.

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Steve Strapped it up, shut it up and opened holes....One of the best darn linemen we ever had and to this day one of my favorates. Steve is what ebing a Cleveland Browns is about.....