SportsAndLady;1579257 wrote:Haha a former member of this site on another site..

"I heard haslam walked in a meeting and said 'banner, Lombardi you're fired get out' and everyone was dead silent"

I definitely do not miss his "stories" on here that 90% turned out to be untrue.

Commander of Awesome;1579378 wrote:Not valid at all. Who is Shawn Starr? Did a google search, seems like a wedding photographer in Hawaii or a sergeant in the army in Georgia with 3 kids. Sure either one of them is really tied into the Browns background info /sarcasm. Sure SE is rubbing his penis to this though, about to write "TOLD YOU SO" in this thread.

Commander of Awesome;1579378 wrote:Not valid at all. Who is Shawn Starr? Did a google search, seems like a wedding photographer in Hawaii or a sergeant in the army in Georgia with 3 kids. Sure either one of them is really tied into the Browns background info /sarcasm. Sure SE is rubbing his penis to this though, about to write "TOLD YOU SO" in this thread.

se-alum;1579431 wrote:Don't know if I should be flattered or scared that you're always thinking about me. What is your evidence that it isn't valid?

Commander of Awesome;1579432 wrote:Paid professional JOURNALISTS vs a guy with 3 kids that works for the army and lives in Georgia that runs a blog. So logic and common sense.

What evidence do you have that Haslem didn't want to hire the flying spaghetti monster?

Commander of Awesome;1579432 wrote:Paid professional JOURNALISTS vs a guy with 3 kids that works for the army and lives in Georgia that runs a blog. So logic and common sense.

What evidence do you have that Haslem didn't want to hire the flying spaghetti monster?

• The Peyton Manning Factor: Haslam currently has no CEO in the front office. My guess is that he'll offer that job to Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning someday. He loves Manning, they're great friends, and he's watched what John Elway has done in running the Broncos. Manning will play at least one more season to break Brett Favre's record for TD passes, but might be lured into a CEO role after that. The day Haslam agreed to purchase the Browns, I asked him if he'd bring Manning aboard, and he praised Manning, saying among other things, "he's very smart.''

Whisenhunt said, “Why didn’t you guys hire me last year?’’

The Browns’ CEO who was in both interviews, Joe Banner, told Whisenhunt he didn’t think the staff he was putting together at the time was “a championship coaching staff.”

Whisenhunt, one NFL source said, was peeved that a man who had never coached and who’d been involved in football mainly on the business side would sit in judgment of his potential coaches.

“Who are you to tell me what makes up a championship coaching staff?” Whisenhunt said, with an edge in his voice.

IggyPride00;1579607 wrote:http://mmqb.si.com/2014/02/12/cleveland-browns-jimmy-haslam-fires-joe-banner/

From Peter King's article last night.

It seems like that was the moment Jimmy finally realized what everyone but him knew, that he had a bean counting troll with a Napoleon complex running the football operation instead of a real football person. Banner didn't know jack shit about the football side of things, and I love that Wisenhunt called out his credibility in front of the owner.

King said that Banner and Lombardi were stunned when Jimmy dropped the bomb yesterday, and it couldn't have happened to 2 better people. Banner went out of his way to re-draw the organizational chart, hire yes men, and create his own little fiefdom on Lou Groza Blvd thinking he was untouchable.

Jimmy has once again given hope to Browns fans like me that were in the abyss because of the bridge troll that was running this organization into the ground. It is nice to be back.

like_that;1579694 wrote:Did you type this post with one hand?

like_that;1580300 wrote:This article sheds some light on everything http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2014/02/joe_banner_and_mike_lombardi_e.html

Commander of Awesome;1580301 wrote:Pretty much sums up what we all knew about Banner/Lombardi before Haslem hired them. Sounds like it should have happened a hell of a lot sooner.

like_that;1580303 wrote:I am happy banner didn't want McDaniel though. Also, some of the shit in that article shows we had certain people QQing over nothing.

DeyDurkie5;1580337 wrote:This is a much better at up for haslem. He likes to have control of his situation/company. With only two people running the show and reporting directly to him, he will have a much easier time making decisions. Not too mention you don't have a jew rat and a retard running shit under his nose.

like_that;1580343 wrote:After all the bitching, I don't think all that much was lost so far this off season. Yeah, nobody wanted chud to be fired after 1 year, but it seems like we got a coach that many players and coaches around the league highly respect. We also still have a shit ton of picks, at least 5 of our 6 pro bowl/all pro players returning, and a shit ton of cap room. On top of that, we fired dumb fuck lombardi, and stubborn banner, which should make even the biggest QQers happy. Now we have farmer, who apparently is a great talent, and the FO all of a sudden seems like less of a cluster fuck than it was a month ago. Farmer seems to also be looking to lock up our best players.

When it's all said and done, after FA and the draft we might look back and say this offseason was an overall positive for the Browns.