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We all wondered what is wrong with him compared to his previous years in Miami, and maybe this could help explain why he has looked so bad at times this year. If he has some serious family issues going on back in California, that are weighing him down.


Cleveland Browns WR Davone Bess misses second day of practice while dealing with serious family issue, source says | cleveland.com
http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2013/12/cleveland_browns_wr_davone_bes.html


BEREA, Ohio -- Browns receiver Davone Bess missed practice for the second straight day today, and a source told cleveland.com that Bess is dealing with a serious issue involving one of his family members back home in Oakland, Ca.

Bess is still in Cleveland, the source said, but he's listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Jets.

The source said the issue has been an ongoing thing this season and that it's taken a heavy toll on Bess.

"I've excused him for personal reasons,'' said coach Rob Chudzinski. "I'll have a better idea (on if he'll play Saturday).''

If Bess can't play, receiver Josh Cooper will replace him "and we have some flexibility with Greg Little as well,'' said Chudzinski.

Bess, acquired in a draft day trade with the Dolphins, has certainly not been himself on the field this season. He leads the league with 14 drops, and has been limited to 28 or fewer yards in 11 of 14 games.

Bess, 28, was traded to the Browns along with the Dolphins fourth-round pick and seventh-round pick in exchange for a Browns' fourth and sixth in the 2013 draft.

Bess received a contract extension through 2016 worth $11.5 million, including $5.75 million guaranteed.

hope all is well with his family.

and, it sure feels awkward for the article author to be discussing his on-field issues this season when we don't know why/what he has to go deal with off the field here. time and place for it and this wasn't it.

Well, Chud announced that he has been excused to personal reasons, so I think that it's appropriate to report it.

Further, I think that it does help explain why he has been so far off of his norm. Hopefully he gets whatever this is resolved so he can get back to normal. (and for his own peace of mind)

Hope that weed helps him, instaGram doesn't lie

It's from this story.

web page

There's a link in the story to the picture.

Ah ...... great.

Bess was always such a dependable receiver in Miami. He was the guy who did catch the ball. He's been a big disappointment this year. I hope he gets it together and plays better next year.

Smart trade at the time. Not sure what happened to him this season.

I know I'll sound like a jag, but whoop. Everybody in the world is dealing with something - if I were as craptastic at my job for a year because of it as he's been, I'd have been fired long ago.

Cut him today and he can have plently of time to deal with his family issues.

I know that when something serious is going on in my family, it weighs on me.. I think when it does it effects my concentration and I lose something at work..

Sorry for his troubles, hope the work out.

It depends ......

If he has a family member who is trying to kill another member of his family, fo example, how could you set that aside? I think that it depends on what the issue is. The team has evidently known about it all along.

We would be a better team if he can get his head back in the game, so I hope that's what happens.

That said, I do understand your viewpoint. I have gone to work during some of the crappiest stuff in my personal life, and even used work as my escape from problems in my personal life. I don't think that everyone is built that way though.

Bes is now done for the year.

Cleveland Browns' WR Davone Bess will miss final two games of season for personal reasons | cleveland.com
http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ss...t_flyout_sports

Newark, N.J. -- Browns receiver Davone Bess, who's been dealing with a serious family matter involving one of his relatives back him in Oakland, has been placed on the reserve/ non-football illness list for personal reasons.

He will miss Sunday's game against the Jets and next week's finale against the Steelers.

The move had nothing to do with illegal activities, a source said.

Bess was excused from practice on Thursday and Friday by coach Rob Chudzinski for personal reasons, and no further details were provided.

On Friday, a photo was posted on Bess' confirmed instagram account that showed him sitting outside on his deck lighting what appeared to be a cigarette of some kind, possibly hand-rolled. A photo of the late Bob Marley, a committed Rastafarian, sat next to him, and Bess wore a Rasta flag around his neck.

The photo, which caused a stir in social media circles, was deleted shortly after it was posted, as was Bess' instagram account.

A source told cleveland.com that Bess has been dealing all season long with a serious issue involving one of his family matters back home in Oakland, Ca. and that the situation has taken a tremendous toll on Bess this season.

Bess, 28, grew up in a rough section of Oakland, and often worries about family members who still live on the dangerous streets, a source said.

With Bess out, receiver Josh Cooper will replace him primarily as the slot receiver. Greg Little is also expected to play more inside.

A source said Bess' pre-occupation with his family member back home resulted in his poor season. Bess, acquired in a trade with the Dolphins, leads the NFL with 14 drops this season and is fourth on the team with 42 catches and 362 yards. He's tied for third with only two TDs.

Bess, a six-year veteran, was acquired in a draft day trade with the Dolphins involving a swap of middle-round picks, and immediately received a three-year extension worth $11.5 million, including $5.75 million guaranteed.

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I know I'll sound like a jag, but whoop. Everybody in the world is dealing with something - if I were as craptastic at my job for a year because of it as he's been, I'd have been fired long ago.

Cut him today and he can have plently of time to deal with his family issues.

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Everyone has something that will bring them down to a bottom level. Loss of a spouse, death of a child, a cheating wife, etc, etc. Everyone has something that will occupy their mind to the detriment of everything else.

Perhaps you haven't had yours yet. I hope you never find it. But to those who have found theirs, yes, you sound like a jag.

He posted a picture of himself smoking weed to Instragram yesterday.

Took it down, deleted the account (though obviously it's still out there), and then gets shelved for the year. Maybe a coincidence, I guess.

Hot damn. I know we all have a right to privacy, but I'm a nosy boy and I sure as hell wanna know what is going on with him... Too bad he can't just say what it is cuz now that that picture is out there I'm REALLY curious.

He must have wanted attention, obviously, or he wouldn't have posted that picture.

Once again the stuff that happens off the field with the Browns turns out to be the most interesting stuff. Kellen Winslow anybody? (At least Winslow could catch the ball!)

j/c

I'll wait for more info on Davone's story before I make any assessments.

There's simply too much we don't know for me to project anything upon him or this unfolding story.

It IS perplexing, to say the least.



I love a good mystery, and I love to watch it unfold in Real Time. I've never been one to leap to the last chapter of a book to see how the story ends.... and I'm not going to do it with Mr. Bess.

In the fullness of time, I'm sure we'll get the backstory to his first season with the Browns.

For now.... I'm OK with not seeing him on the field. It's much better that he take this time to 'collect his defecation' and come back to us as the player he was hired to be.

If you can't help your team in your current state, help yourself first. Then we can talk about the future.

I wish him good, going forward.

JC.

Goodbye Bess.You stole a paycheck all season long. Take Greg Little with you.
Maybe even Norv. And whoever gets this team fired up in crunch time.
And also the special teams coach who sent this team into a tailspin.
Oh and lets not forget our very special crook at the top Mr. Haslam
Goodbye. Good riddance!
I do not care to hear anymore sad poor, poor Bess.
What a crock of you know what.
The photo op looks a bit over the top and staged to me.
But whatever. Staged or just plain stupidity.
Get him gone. He is a friggen millionaire with personal issues? Oh so sad.
No excuse to be a cop out dude.
Really these fools need to get over themselves and stop doing stupid crap in the public eye to get attention.
I am sure there is a league program for this exact crap.
Poor, poor Browns fans! How about that?
Enough of the crap. Clean house again!
At this point it is par for the course.
And it is becoming that all too familiar circus again.
I wonder who he has been selling to on the team?
Let them go too.

Totalfrikkenunbelivablebelievabletypicalbrownsseasons.
Sing it to a Marry Poppins song.
My new sig coming soon.

Where is the I give up smiley?

I would excuse Bess from the Browns for football reasons.Get us some real WRs to go with Josh please!!!!

Very strange.

Maybe he just doesnt want to play for the Browns. I had such "high" hopes for him, but its all gone down the "pot".

We really need to weed out all these bad receivers.

All their hopes for him went up on smoke.

At least it was a joint decision.

j/c

I think the last few posters have been rather blunt with their replies.

Sometimes bluntness is whats required to hash these problems out.

I hope Davone gets his family issues sorted out. The grass is greener on the other side.

I think his family issue was too many roaches.

I'm glad we all decided to take the high road in this thread.

Now that's a half-baked deduction if I've ever seen one . . .

We'll have a hard time trading him, sinsemillan dollars is the asking price.

He didn't throw his dreams down the pipe, oh no... instead, he burnt one too many of them right up.

So everybody thinks this is a cronic problem.

Not sure its a chronic problem, but where there's smoke, there's fire.

He has taken a lot of single hitters this year.