CLEVELAND, Ohio (TheOBR.com) Good morning, Cleveland Browns fans!
Of all the aspects of running a small business, I hate running a small business the most. What I love is the work itself – writing, helping out Browns fans on the site, slamming in updates, and building stuff that people will helpfully use and enjoy.
What I don’t like so much is all the paperwork, accounting, and detail-tracking that goes along with one’s interest in pretending to be an entrepreneur. The OBR’s books are a cacophony of subscriptions, invoices, receipts, and other annoyances, and I spent all yesterday in the midst of it, with plenty more to do as the weekend nears.
Let’s do the fun stuff. Let’s talk about the Browns.
DEVIN BUSH LOOKS POPULAR: Part of what I do behind the scenes is talk shop with people who run sites similar to the OBR, to get an idea of what is working for them, and help each other out where we can. Yesterday, I spoke with the publisher of Pewter Report, a very popular Tampa Bay Buccaneers site that, like the OBR, is unaffiliated with an old-school media outlet and does a very nice job of covering their team. We talked shop for a while, but I had to point out to the publisher that he was infringing on my turf by having a picture of Devin Bush on his home page. The Buccaneers, it appears, might beone of many teams interested in signing Bush, who revived his career in Cleveland.
Dammit. It appears that, regardless of how many times I mutter, “keep your hands off my linebacker”, other NFL teams are going to try to take him away from the Browns, which is rough, because I have abandonment issues.
It looks increasingly like Bush could command $15-17 million a year on the open market, which I would think might be too rich for the Browns, a team that doesn’t value linebackers as highly as defensive linemen and cornerbacks.
I don’t like it.
MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND GUYS WHO WON’T BE BROWNS: Despite one of the local outlets putting “The Browns MUST Consider Kyler Murray” on their website, odds still seem to favor other teams in making a run at the soon-to-be-released Arizona Cardinals quarterback.
As the Browns “collaborate” on figuring out a very unsteady quarterback room, Murray represents a high-potential, low-cost option seemingly tailor-made for a team looking to create competition for the starting quarterback job.
Since people bet on everything these days, there are odds for teams to sign Murray, and the Vikings are comfortably on top of it. The Jets, Dolphins, Browns and Falcons follow at much longer odds, which are +450 in the Browns case. I guess having a Justin Jefferson on yoru team is catnip for quarterbacks looking to bounce back. The offensive-line-less Browns are more of a reach.
Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio offers his thoughts on where Murray might land at the aforelinked story, suggesting Murray is at a key point in his career: “Either way, the clock is ticking (as it is for all of us). Murray turns 29 later this year. The high-end speed and acceleration will fade. At some point, he’ll need to transition to a pocket passer if he hopes to keep playing deep into his 30s.
NERD FIGHT! Speaking of Florio, he’s squabbling with Adam Schefter over the latter’s Carnell Tate reporting, as Schefter defends his claims that teams timed Tate faster in the 40-yard dash. The entertainment value is off the charts.
AUTOMOTIVE ASSUMPTIONS: I’m one of those guys who drive fairly responsibly. I’m puttering along at a little over the speed limit, typically, and not standing out in any particular way. I don’t drive a sports car, can’t afford a luxury car, and largely blend in with the terrific in an unexceptional way. There are guys who don’t do that, driving way too fast and weaving in and out of traffic like crazy people. When one of them roars past me, I mutter various things to myself, unhappy that the collective safety of we normal people is placed at risk by a more aggressive driver.
If I were driving on I-71 North while Myles Garrett was driving 94 freaking miles per hour, like he was the other day in his expensive sports car, there surely would have been some muttering, including potential suggestions about the intelligence of the fast driver. THat would be unfair, because Garrett’s a pretty smart guy, but he’s got this desire to drive fast that worries us all, even more since he flipped his car a few years ago.
Slow the hell down, Myles. I listen to music or the news while driving, keeps me from getting bored and deciding that being in a car is a waste of time and speeding to end it sooner. Dude, chill.
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When not checking his glucose, Barry McBride is the Publisher and Founder of the OBR and bloviates this nonsense every morning. You can follow him on Twitter @barrymcbride or write him at barry@theobr.com if you are so compelled.
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