Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

[YardRat]

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[YardRat]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

My bad, didn't know this was already reported in the Kelly thread...delete please.

[gr8slayer]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

Good pick up for the Browns. They are a lot closer to being a decent team than most realize.

[DBrown77]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

I still can't figure out why we bothered to interview him when both said it was a token gesture.

[X-Era]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

My bad, didn't know this was already reported in the Kelly thread...delete please.

Nah. It's worthy of it's own thread

[Slim]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

Good pick up for the Browns. They are a lot closer to being a decent team than most realize.

Solid defense, great offensive line, talented back. They have young un-devolped talent everywhere.

[Don't Panic]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

I really hope we don't miss out on him... this is our best chance to get this thing right. Pull out the stops, Brandon and Co. Oh, and please make Tim Graham look like an idiot. Reading his twitter page is like sitting at a cafeteria table in a middle school.

[SeatownBillsFan21]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

Oh well never expected him to come here anyways. This team has Wiz written all over it. we might as well convince ourselves now that it will be a good fit.

[gr8slayer]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

Yeah, he's going to have a ton of tools and talent to work with.

Solid defense, great offensive line, talented back. They have young un-devolped talent everywhere.

[Guest]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

I still can't figure out why we bothered to interview him when both said it was a token gesture.

Perhaps to tell him that Buffalo was a great city before 1970.

[Jaybird]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

good for them and i think us. I was not interested in a coach without the nfl experience. Chip MO is a unic Offense, and that O will not work in the NFL

[YardRat]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

I'll be interested to see who he rounds out his staff with. If he loads up on NFL experience and results, bad for us...if he brings his Oregon staff with him, bad for the Browns.

Regardless, my gut feeling still is he pulls a Saban/Spurrier and is back in the college ranks by year #3 of his contract.

[X-Era]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

I'll be interested to see who he rounds out his staff with. If he loads up on NFL experience and results, bad for us...if he brings his Oregon staff with him, bad for the Browns.

Regardless, my gut feeling still is he pulls a Saban/Spurrier and is back in the college ranks by year #3 of his contract.

That could EASILY happen.

[SeatownBillsFan21]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

I'll be interested to see who he rounds out his staff with. If he loads up on NFL experience and results, bad for us...if he brings his Oregon staff with him, bad for the Browns.

Regardless, my gut feeling still is he pulls a Saban/Spurrier and is back in the college ranks by year #3 of his contract.

I think Cle will give him total say on who he wants to bring in player and staff wise he should do pretty good as long as its ran his way good hire for the browns happy for them.

[Mr. Pink]

Re: Per NFLN/Rappaport-Kelly close to deal with Browns

I think Cle will give him total say on who he wants to bring in player and staff wise he should do pretty good as long as its ran his way good hire for the browns happy for them.

That's exactly it. He's gonna be given as much power as he wants on players and assistants with a figurehead GM in place. If there's even someone who gets a GM title. Lombardi might come in with the title of Director of Pro Personnel as opposed to an actual GM.