Week 8 NFL Thread

[Bubbler]

But the Browns QB position as always been a black hole - Derek Anderson is now 9th all time with franchise starts (32) and 10th with wins (14).

Otto Graham, Milt Plum, Frank Ryan, Brian Sipe and Bernie Kosar would all like a word with you.

 

[McPoyle]

No kidding. Otto Graham was one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. Hell of a nice man, too, at least in his older years. I have no idea what he was like when he was playing.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

 

[McPoyle]

That's outstanding.

 

[imjustagirl]

Accorsi made the extraordinarily popular move on the North Coast to hire Belichick, didn't he?

He also recommended Kokinis for the job with the Falcons, but Blank (smartly, apparently) didn't even interview him.

Ernie Accorsi offers a different opinion.

The former Browns executive -- now retired after building the New York Giants championship team -- served as a consultant for the Falcons last year when owner Arthur Blank went looking to rebuild his football operation.

"My three recommendations were Dimitroff, Tom Heckert and Kokinis," Accorsi said. "Blank really loved Dimitroff and hired him before interviewing Kokinis."

It turns out that Accorsi -- and not Belichick -- was the man responsible for bringing Kokinis to Cleveland in 1991. Kokinis had been a baseball graduate assistant at University of Richmond when Accorsi's godson played for the team. Accorsi gave Kokinis an entry level job in the Browns' operations department. After Accorsi left the following year, Belichick took Kokinis under his large wing.

"Everybody fell in love with him," Accorsi said of Kokinis, who was 24 at the time. "Hard worker, smart, a great kid. Now, over the years, I'd lost touch with him. But through my scouts [with the Giants], I got to know of him well. I'd ask about him all the time, and everybody liked him. Ozzie was really high on him."

http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2009/01/while_kokinis_has_his_skeptics.html

 

[BYH]

Guess Lerner wanted to go from one extreme to the other...from a guy nobody ever saw to a guy who will never ever ever ever shut the **** up and will always want to tell you how he's pals with Joe Paterno and how he covered Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game and how Johnny Unitas always told him you've got to have a franchise QB, yada yada yada.

 

[DanOregon]

For all the money involved in the NFL, it's amazing that more than a few franchises are run like a small town Elks Lodge.