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They should have put this image on all of our helmets, till the tide turns around:

Da-Man-Is-Hot

are you done trying to make a gay insult?

Man, I disagree with a lot of this, if not all of it.

We went 7-9, and stopped being an "easy win" last year.

Winning is always the main goal, but to get to winning from losing, you have to change the way things have been done. Part of that is changing the mindset. I have used my own far less high profile experience at turning businesses around as an example, and the 1st thing I have always done in turning a business around is changing some very visible things. I want visible, mental reminders available every day to let people know that this is not the same business it used to be. This is the same thing that has to happen in the NFL. Bad teams start expecting to lose. They start expecting to make the big mistake at the wrong time. They start expecting the black cloud to follow them. Changing that mindset s vital, and this is done with the coach's emphasis on certain ideals, bringing in veteran leaders to help change the mindset, and so on.

We have a new OC, but he is a WCO coordinator, and will use a similar playbook to what Shanahan did. One other thing about Shanahan ..... I liked the guy as a coach last year, but let's face it, he never did anything to help the team overcome the loss of Alex Mack. We still ran the same plays as if the backup was going to block to the 2nd and 3rd levels. Hoyer looked worse and worse last year as the year went along,. I think that the coordinator bears some degree of responsibility. I do like his play design, but let's face it, we were 27th in scoring last year, scoring 18.1 PPG last year. We were also 27th the year before, and scored 19.3 PPG in 2013. Yes, we actually went down in scoring last year from the year before. I know I was shocked.

The defense, however, improved dramatically. We were 8th in scoring defense last year. In 2013 we were 25th in scoring defense, at 25.4 PPG. We made a massive improvement on defense. We intercepted the ball 21 times last year, and forced 15 fumbles, recovering 8. In 2013, we intercepted the ball 14 times, and forced 9 fumbles. recovering 7. We improved greatly on defense, and got better as the year went by, even with tons of injuries. The defense improved as players learned the defense. The offense did not.

Yes, I am concerned about Shanahan leaving, but let's not make him out to be the savior of Browns football or something.

As far as Pettine, the one thing that truly impressed me was that he already knows how to delegate, and can do so without having his ego trip him up. Yes he made mistakes last year. He screwed up timeouts on occasion, and made other "rookie" mistakes. However, I think that he will improve in that regard. He is a very smart man, and understands the game of football. I have every expectation that he will improve.

I think that he now has a coordinator he trusts on the offensive side of the ball. It is obvious that something went wrong among the coach groups last year, and I choose to believe that it was Shanahan who was the core of the problem. There were rumors that Pettine had a list of potential OCs before Shanahan made his presentation to beg to leave. I think that it was a mutual separation From what I have read, Fillipo runs a similar offense, and is looking at keeping many of the same calls as we used last year. I think that we will show improvement on that side of the ball. Even if we didn't, we are going to have new players at QB, TE, and WR anyway. They are going to have to learn the new offense regardless what offense we run. So will any rookies we draft. I am not as worried about this aspect of things as others are.

Anyway, I liked a lot of what Shanahan did last year, and had problems with others., He did a good job when he had all of his pieces, but struggled when he lost Mack. He was good, but the defensive coaches did a better job last year as far as scoring/stopping the other team from scoring is concerned. I think that we'll be god with the new, revised staff.

They should have put this image on all of our helmets, till the tide turns around:

So you think he should have changed the entire offense midseason when Mack went down? To what? A throw every down O? Without a QB worth spit? Alright man.

And yeah, our defense was AWESOME. DEAD LAST against the run. 31 sacks. WOW doesn't GET better than that.

You contradict yourself. You defend the coach and FO because we won more games than normal and you then criticize the OC because we did not win more games.

You contradict yourself. You defend the coach and FO because we won more games than normal and you then criticize the OC because we did not win more games.