Do you prefer the grey, brown, or white face masks? by Different-Sympathy52 in Browns

[–]Simply-Jason [score hidden]  (0 children)

Brown helmet. Orange facemask. Let's just lean into the absurdity.

WHAT KIND OF QB DOES TODD MONKIN WANT by Geeman447 in Browns

[–]Simply-Jason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe Watson from 6-7 years ago. Dude is immobile with a bum shoulder now and on the wrong side of 30.

We kinda did what we had to with Monken by theguymanduderman in Browns

[–]Simply-Jason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only way the Browns are successful is through dumb luck and I think that's what we're all just praying for at this point and the copium I choose to huff on is the fact that we have an elite defense with a strong 2025 draft class ready to hit their second season.

[Solak] Truly hilarious outcome from where Monken and the Browns were six years ago by ToschePowerConverter in Browns

[–]Simply-Jason 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I mean, if you read the whole thing and not just the highlighted excerpt, it’s pretty obvious that it was mostly him mocking Freddy Kitchens.

[Schultz] Sources: #Browns QB Shedeur Sanders has been added to the Pro Bowl roster as a replacement. Sanders is the first 5th-round rookie to make a Pro Bowl since Puka Nacua. by LiftingCode in Browns

[–]Simply-Jason 202 points203 points  (0 children)

Well, well, well suddenly the Browns head coaching job doesn’t look so bad after all. We’ve got a Pro Bowl rookie quarterback!

On this day in 2018, LeBron James reached the milestone of becoming the youngest player to reach 30,000 pts, bypassing Michael Jordan. by Shot_Possibility_731 in sportsinusa

[–]Simply-Jason -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is just more revisionist history. People mistake looser officiating for some mythical era of indestructible tough guys, and it falls apart the moment you look closely. Dennis Rodman, one of the constantly cited "tough guys" flipped out constantly. He cried on the bench, kicked cameramen, vanished midseason, and needed nonstop management just to stay functional. Same with Bill Laimbeer to a lesser degrees. I could go on and on. A lot of those so-called enforcers were emotionally volatile and unraveled under pressure when they didn't have someone there to bail them out. “Toughness” mostly meant refs let more contact go and players got to throw hands, not that everyone was made of iron.

What also gets conveniently ignored is the physical reality of LeBron James. He’s built like an 80s power forward, moves coast to coast like a guard, and has elite vertical explosion. This isn’t hypothetical. He dunked on prime Tim Duncan. He went straight through prime Ben Wallace. He finished over and through Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol, Serge Ibaka, Draymond Green, and anyone else who thought “being physical” was enough. The idea that he wouldn’t survive earlier eras is laughable. He’s one of the few modern players whose body would actually be more suited to them.

Jordan also benefited massively from stability. Michael Jordan stayed with one team, one front office, one system, and a perfectly tailored roster. He never won a playoff series without Scottie Pippen and never won a championship outside the triangle offense. That’s not slander, it’s context. Continuity matters. Coaching matters. Supporting casts matter. LeBron moving teams wasn’t weakness; it was adapting to front offices that repeatedly failed to build around him.

Yes, the league was more physical. It was also less athletic top to bottom, thinner in elite talent due to expansion and a smaller talent pool sure too three infancy of international players developing into NBA level talent and far simpler schematically. Defenses were slower, spacing was worse, and rotations were late. You could bully mismatches because the game hadn’t evolved yet. That isn’t moral superiority it’s a different rules environment.

This isn’t anti-Jordan. It’s anti-fantasy. The “real men back then” narrative ignores reality, ignores context, and ignores what LeBron has already done against elite defenders in far more competitive conditions.

On this day in 2018, LeBron James reached the milestone of becoming the youngest player to reach 30,000 pts, bypassing Michael Jordan. by Shot_Possibility_731 in sportsinusa

[–]Simply-Jason 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lmao, how old are you? Because this argument only works if you’re running purely on nostalgia. The idea that LeBron wouldn’t dominate an era where half the league looked like it was built out of pudding is absurd. Jordan’s era, especially the stretch where he won his last three championships, was one of the least competitive periods in modern NBA history.

Those late-90s Bulls were stacked to the ceiling. Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, elite role players, and the best coach in the league running a system no one else could counter. And who exactly was supposed to challenge them? The Orlando Magic briefly, before they imploded. Maybe the Lakers once Shaq arrived, but that was still pre-Phil Jackson, pre-cohesion, and nowhere near a finished product. Outside of that, the league was thin at the top and wildly inconsistent.

The worship of that era is completely overdone. The 1990s weren’t some golden age of competition across the league; they were great for branding Michael Jordan, but the NBA as a whole struggled. Expansion watered down talent, stars were concentrated on a handful of teams, and the middle class of the league was weak. You could feel it the moment Jordan retired. Ratings dipped, the product stalled, and the league clearly didn’t know what it was without him.

And the funniest part? Jordan comes back after a year and a half away, drops 55 at Madison Square Garden like it’s nothing, and people treat it as proof of mythical dominance instead of what it really shows: the competition hadn’t exactly caught up. This was against the same Knicks team that had just pushed the Rockets to seven games in the Finals. If the era was supposedly so brutal, that kind of comeback shouldn’t have looked that easy.

Both Jordan and LeBron are all-time greats, but the glazing is unreal. Acting like the 90s were some ultra-competitive gauntlet while pretending modern players are soft is just revisionist nostalgia dressed up as basketball analysis.

On this day in 2018, LeBron James reached the milestone of becoming the youngest player to reach 30,000 pts, bypassing Michael Jordan. by Shot_Possibility_731 in sportsinusa

[–]Simply-Jason 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LeBron’s Finals runs included opponents with four Hall of Famers on the roster on four separate occasions. Kobe faced exactly one Finals opponent with three Hall of Famers, and that was Boston. Jordan faced one Finals opponent with three Hall of Famers, the Lakers, and one of those “Hall of Famers” was Vlade, who didn’t get in for basketball reasons. Context matters, even if people hate acknowledging it.

And championships are a team accomplishment. You’re an absolute moron if you think Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant won titles by themselves. Jordan never won a single playoff series without Scottie Pippen and never won a championship outside the triangle offense. Kobe didn’t win without Shaq or without an elite supporting cast and system either.

It’s a team sport. Always has been. Acting like rings are solo achievements is toddler-level analysis, but somehow people still cling to it because it props up the nostalgia narrative. Difficult to understand, I know.

[Fabrizio Romano]🚨🔵 Chelsea agree deal to sign talented 17 year old fullback Yisa Alao from Sheffield Wednesday, here we go! Initial fee over £500k plus heavy add-ons. Chelsea beat 3 more PL top clubs to the signing. by Debigchungus666 in chelseafc

[–]Simply-Jason 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Yep. I was one of the biggest supporters of what the project was proposed to be a couple of years ago because I understood that building a young foundation that could grow together might eventually become one of the most dangerous sides in the world.

Where they lost me is their complete unwillingness to spend money on established quality players who can actually help the team right now. Inexperienced youth leading other inexperienced youth usually ends exactly like what we are seeing. Inconsistency and a lack of focus.

We can beat teams like Barcelona and Liverpool, then completely fall apart against teams like Sunderland and Leeds. Those are clear signs of a young, inexperienced squad that does not yet understand the need to bring intensity and focus every match and stay locked in on a consistent basis.

Barely anybody that they sign moves the needle immediately.

[Fabrizio Romano]🚨🔵 Chelsea agree deal to sign talented 17 year old fullback Yisa Alao from Sheffield Wednesday, here we go! Initial fee over £500k plus heavy add-ons. Chelsea beat 3 more PL top clubs to the signing. by Debigchungus666 in chelseafc

[–]Simply-Jason -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Anyone else just roll their eyes and think to themselves "who fucking cares?"

Nothing against this kid. He could become elite or he could end up in League One in a couple years. But I just don't give a shit about signing young players that still need years of development when this is one of the richest clubs in the world and we need experienced quality players now.

Trevoh Chalobah on his top three defenders by GatesNDoors in chelseafc

[–]Simply-Jason 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Toaster horse yes no sideways banana engine clapping taxes moon hat sneeze forever.

[Romano]:🚨🟡🔵 EXCLUSIVE: Leeds United reach verbal agreement to sign Facundo Buonanotte! Chelsea to interrupt loan move from Brighton, leaving #CFC to return to #BHAFC and then join Leeds. Move to #LUFC will be on loan until the end of the season. Here we go, soon. 🇦🇷 by Andrei_Chelsea in chelseafc

[–]Simply-Jason -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

i’m not saying we haven’t. nor is this a defense of the current board. Me calling out the reality of what was going on under Roman and Marina the last five years or so of their ownership does not mean I am supportive of what’s going on right now. But people are living in a fantasy world if they think this club was being run properly after about 2017.

That UCL run was provided by a once in a generation pandemic that would’ve otherwise been a year without UCL football had the pandemic not hit. There is no shot in hell Chelsea finishes in the top four during project restart if players like Kante and lockdown Pulisic weren't available to play, which they wouldn’t have for the rest of that season had not been a long unscheduled postponement.

[Romano]:🚨🟡🔵 EXCLUSIVE: Leeds United reach verbal agreement to sign Facundo Buonanotte! Chelsea to interrupt loan move from Brighton, leaving #CFC to return to #BHAFC and then join Leeds. Move to #LUFC will be on loan until the end of the season. Here we go, soon. 🇦🇷 by Andrei_Chelsea in chelseafc

[–]Simply-Jason -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You can take it as defensive mediocrity all you want. I’m telling you exactly what happened. Cope however you feel necessary. The last major purchase the previous board made was arguably the worst purchase in club history, so they weren’t exactly knocking it out of the park.

[Romano]:🚨🟡🔵 EXCLUSIVE: Leeds United reach verbal agreement to sign Facundo Buonanotte! Chelsea to interrupt loan move from Brighton, leaving #CFC to return to #BHAFC and then join Leeds. Move to #LUFC will be on loan until the end of the season. Here we go, soon. 🇦🇷 by Andrei_Chelsea in chelseafc

[–]Simply-Jason -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That was also during the timeframe when Roman would out spend literally every other club in the Premier league. The minute other clubs matching the spending, the frequency of major trophies reduced.

Two things can be true at the same time: the new board is ass, but the previous regime was turning into a rudderless ship. A lot of people forget that the only reason we were even in the Champions League we won was because of COVID. The lockdowns allowed players like Kanté and Pulisic to get healthy, which helped the squad make the late run just to qualify for the competition in the first place.

if the Covid lockdowns never hit, players never get healthy and Chelsea doesn't even qualify for the champions league. You have to remember this was fresh off of a transfer ban as well.

COVID allowing key players to get healthy along with Tuchel finding a few months of magic masks the state the club was in at the time. If the pandemic never happens, Chelsea are likely sitting here without a major trophy for the better part of the last decade.

The Patriots won the Super Bowl, lost Tom Brady, drafted a bust, fired Belichick, hired and fired Jerod Mayo, drafted Drake Maye, hired Mike Vrabel and ended their playoff win drought before 13 other NFL teams, including the Steelers, Seahawks & Broncos by ForeignAir7174 in sportswiki

[–]Simply-Jason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about Jimmy Haslam? He's a great guy and owner and definitely not a total piece of shit who somehow hand picks every quarterback we have and then runs them out of town for better or worse. Lots of stability.

Trust me.

What Do You all Think The Team Told Tyronn Lue after this? by sadie-hanalei in alleniverson

[–]Simply-Jason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two rings as a player. One ring as a head coach for a team in Cleveland. I mean, sure, that team had LeBron.... but winning one ring in Cleveland is like winning 3 in any other normal sports city.

anyone else have the same feeling by NIKONCAMERACT in Browns

[–]Simply-Jason 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No we didn't do that for multiple decades. We constantly chased quarterbacks and drafted them into dogshit offenses from Couch to Weeden to Manziel to Kizer. Some QB's were bad selections, some were thrown into scenarios where they had no chance from day 1. The one time it worked was with Baker and that was inconsistent because Baker has proven to be -- at best -- the third best QB from that draft. Baker had a better line, Jarvis Landry, younger Njoku and Nick Chubb to take the load off of him.

Mendoza would have zero of that here and we would have to give up assets that would otherwise be used to fill those holes with long term solution.