BR1986FB;1304309 wrote:
If he wanted to keep his job he'd pull out all the stops. His stubborn arrogance will be his downfall.
You could say that about the whole regime though from Holmgren to Heckert to Shurmur.
A lack of urgency has been rampant in this gang from day 1.
There is a big gap between being recklessly win now, yet also taking steps to expedite a rebuild process.
It was only this year when they drafted Weeden (which I don't think they would have done had Kendall Wright been there at 22) and gambled on Gordon in the supplemental draft (which I was thrilled about for this reason) that they showed a hint of urgency.
They all appeared to think it would be just fine to tell Browns fans to eat shit for 4-5 years until they were good because they were only going to use the draft and hopefully hit on 2-3 players a year.
I thought the refusal to use free agency severely hamstrung the rebuild because it forces you to have to hit on an unrealistic number of draft picks to get the ball rolling.
It is part of the reason that our win total has gone from 5 to 4 to less than that in their 3 years on the job. It is also part of the reason no other team does a rebuild like this, and why they will all be looking for jobs at seasons end.
They just bungled this so badly. No one in the NFL was an ideologically rigid as far as the Browns front office about insisting on only doing things a certain way and refusing to deviate from that even when evidence was mounting it wasn't working.
Haslam thankfully will not allow that to go on any longer because if Randy hadn't sold the team we would have this same gang back next year.
Holmgren said 6-10 is not acceptable, but does anyone think he would have really fired Shumur no matter how piss poor his record was this year? Of course not, we would have gotten more excuses an no accountability. That has been the biggest legacy of that failed regime.