Mike Brown

[BengalChris]

(11-06-2017, 09:40 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: You make a great point, without even realizing it.  Paul Brown never had to deal with things like unrestricted free agency.  So, Mike is trying to run the team like Paul did, but that was a different era, a different set of rules.

I can't speak for how Paul Brown would have adapted to modern free agency, but I'm guessing that he may have learned to embrace it a little better than his son has chosen to do.

Free agency is not why the Bengals have sucked since Mikey boy took over. That's Mikey boy's justification as to why he has sucked.

Here are the facts about Paul Brown:

1. Paul Brown had to deal with many things, but he always looked to find an inventive solution to what he was presented with. He never said, "Oh, look the rules have changed and I can't cope, so let's suck now," which is all that Mikey boy has ever done.

2. Paul was running the newly founded Cleveland Browns. He went up against the best team the NFL had and beat them with a passing games the NFL had never seen before.

3. After that he was put down by the NFL because his offense was just finesse and it won't last. So what does Paul do the next season? He goes out and beats the NFL team by running the ball every single down of the game and winning.

4. Players get hurt in the face. He invents the facemask.

5. Big armed QB Greg Cook gets injured and new QB has limited passing range. He invents Ohio River Offense Bill Walsh, which later becomes the West Coast Offense.

6. He wants to call the plays from the sidelines, but doesn't want the other team stealing the signals. He has radio receivers placed in QB's helmet, which then gets outlawed, but is not standard.

7. Paul had players he wanted to keep in Cleveland, but there weren't roster spots for them. So one of the other owners owned a taxi cab company and those players were employed by that company to stay in Cleveland. It was called the Taxi Squad, which eventually led to the NFL's practice squad.

8. Paul wanted players to learn the game, so he started teaching them in a classroom setting. No one had done that before.

9. He invented the play book.

What the F-- has Mikey boy invented?????

Nothing

Paul Brown would have come up with a great solution for free agency because he was just the kind of guy who would keep working at it until he figured out how to work it.