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Only if I have enough time after you get done blowing me Vito. I have a flight to catch today.

Best point on this topic. You're right! The Browns have a huge amount of cap space and could afford to bring someone in. The question is who? Trades don't happen that often in the NFL and there isn't really anyone out there worth bringing in as a free agent. If I was a GM looking to make a trade with the Browns at the QB position, I would have to have a solid starter waiting and I would demand Frye in the trade. Who is that team? I don't see one. In all fairness, I think Frye would make a great backup QB. I just have no confidence in his ability to win games for long stretches.Don't feel sorry for Frye, he will make a lot of money for a long time in the NFL if he gets with the right team. It's just a job like all of us have except they make a lot more money than most. If they brought someone in to start in Cleveland in front of him, Cleveland could be his team for a long time as a backup. I'd love for him to back up Big Ben in Pittsburgh. He is better than anyone they have backing up Ben now.

LeCharles Bentley? Centers don't win games.

I should sue this guy for stealing my ideas. If he had really done his homework, he would have seen that two of the wins in the 7-5 season were against 1-AA teams. He would have also mentioned that Biggs saved Frye's senior season from being a complete disaster.

In order to make a comment like that you have to be a squeeler fan. I am.Probably the kind that lives in northeast ohio and has no ties to the confluence. Grew up in a town near there. I don't know how you can say that their offseason acquisitions were poor. Those were some of the best I have ever seen and certainly the best since 1999. You're drunk I hope on this May Day. The only reason players come to Cleveland is because they get drafted or nobody else wants them.As far as injuries - With the exception of the stupid K2 thing last year, injuries are just a matter of bad luck. The only luck Cleveland has. Don't worry squeeler fan, things will turn around in Cleveland and you'll find yourself torn between rooting for Frye and that team that you have zero geographical ties to.Clearly, this is your first time reading one of my posts. I won't hold it against you

Just some guy who works for me and lives out of state. I swear to God, some days I could choke the guy to death with a chain made up of dead kittens tails tied together....

Congratulations on another 6-10 season Browns fans. Between bad talent, poor off season acquistiions and injuries you all really have something great to look forward to. Oh well, I guess Arizona fans need someone to watch the playoffs with.

I think Indy picked up Betts. I never thought much of him though. He was the worst 300 yard a game passer in the history of the NCAA.

Tell that to Dilfer's Super Bowl ring.

I absolutely think the world of Biggs, but I'm hard pressed to see him in an NFL uniform. Regardless of what your wives and girlfriends tell you, size matters and I don't think people will look past his size.As far as Rohr, I don't think he has the size to play in the NFL. Middle linebackers in the NFL are absolutely huge people with speed to burn. Jay worked hard and gave it all he had, he just doesn't have the natural talent necessary to take it to the next level.

There is a photo of the guy who knifed him below his on that web page. Looks like the government let one escaped from Area 51.

I was at M-boro last year for the game. Akron did not play that well and still dominated the game. There was never a point in the game when one might have thought that MTSU would win. Looking back, that game should have been a warning shot for how bad Getsy played mid season last year, not the CMU second half.In terms of the most embarassing loss, don't we all remember the "Divine Intervention" game against Can't State in 2003 . Winning by 14 with approximately 6:30 to go and end up giving up 17 in that period of time. Hell, a first down would have won the game and we couldn't even get one. Only through divine intervention could Can't have won that game.

I'll trade you North Texas for Cincy in the win category. 8-4 is the correct answer though. Akron is 2-0 against Cincy since moving to D-1A. The odds are against 3-0. I have a really good feeling about this upcoming football season.

Your hunch is correct Capt. Kangaroo. I believe it was a nice time for eveyone who attended.....especially the social at the Winking Lizard. The Athletic Development staff should be congratulated for the nice event. The addition of Pat Kreger and Gary Bogue to the Athletic Department will do wonders for alumni relatiions. These two have been to big time schools and understand how to get things done. Most importantly, they understand what should be done. They have been at the school for less than a year and I believe in five years they will pay off dramatically.It was nice visiting with everyone at the Winking Lizard. If you were there and you are a poster, it was nice to talk with you even though I have no idea who any of you are on the board.

I love it! This is a good example of why readership is down in newspapers. They don't use enough color when they write. The author should have typed, "Derrick Williams ached to get back on the football field so much so that he cried like a tenth grade girl who just got dumped by the guy who broke her cherry while watching one practice from afar." I guess newspapers get what they pay for.I hope Penn State if full of mental midgets like this guy whey we play them next year.

This is a serious question......Did he whistle and dance?

Anyone not reading the signature line of Quickzips is really missing something funny.

Thanks for the old schedule DrZ. Jeff is a good friend of mine and introduced me to Mrs. GP1 (redhawk). Ten years later, she still thanks her luck stars she met such a great guy and I really can't blame her. I crack myself up.

Not to sound too "pos"..............but we're the defending MAC champions and I think we are infusing a lot more overall talent in 2006 than we're losing from 2005. Unless you're Can't, every college program loses some key seniors. Don't waste your time arguing with an idiot like M-B. This guy wants nothing more than for the football program to fail so he can say, "I told you they should have never fired Owens and not hired UAM." Some people love misery and he is one of them.Anyhow, I just came back in to agree with you that this schedule is not so bad. Rhoades had his hands tied as far as what he could do. It isn't his fault......and there is really no fault to assign to any current or former Athletic Department employees. Anyhow, what else could he have done. By contract, eight of the games scheduled were scheduled before he got here. Playing CMU on the road should not be a surprise because we played them at Akron last year. I'd rather play them early in the season before the weather sets in to upper central Michigan. With the exception of three months in the summer, they experience two types of weather, bad and worse. Akron wins....maybe.I see no reason why Akron can't be 3-2 after the first five games. By the way, I just looked at a press guide and while Thomas was at Akron, those schedules looked very similar to this schedule. This is even better because we tricked another D-1A team to come to Akron to play us instead of teams like Cal Poly and Howard. Nice work Mack Rhoades.Cincinnati was a game Rhoades had little to do with. Teams don't schedule games by pulling names out of a hat. This game was scheduled long ago. This game had to be scheduled early in the season so it would not conflict with the Big East and MAC schedules.A really good thing about this schedule is an OPEN date on 10-14. The Zips did not have a free week last year and I think it really hurt them mid season. If you all remember, Getsy had a sprained thumb during the CMU game and I think a week off would have helped him to get healthy and prevented us from watching some bad QB play mid season last year. After the OPEN date, they play Miami. Perfect timing. We get to play a divisional team at home a week after a week off. The odds of a Zips win just skyrocketed. Akron wins.I love the fact that we are playing Toledo. This game also should not be a surprise. Toledo is a top notch team and we should be playing them. Who else would you want to play......Eastern Michigan , NIU.......Again , Ball State.....Again ? I'm not one bit scared to play Toledo. I also like playing them at the Glass Bowl. The Glass Bowl is the best place to see a game in the MAC and they draw great crowds. To be the best, you have to beat the best....this is our chance. By the way, I heard from someone at the Athletic Department during the NIT when there was still a certain employee employed at Akron that they were going to play at Toledo. To say that this game would have never happened is just being intellectually dishonest. Toss up, but a great game to watch.Then two games at home to get us into the championship run, BGSU and Buffalo. Both teams will be bad next year. Akron wins both.Then OU on the road, another bad team. Akron wins.WMU at home, another bad team Akron beats to sure up the MAC East.Zips worst case, Akron goes 6-2 in the MAC and still ends up in the MACC. I really see this as a 7-1 MAC season. What other MAC East school is going to have six conference wins and wins over Akron, the best team in the MAC? See everyone in Detroit. :macc:

All right!!!!!!!!!!! You'll still be my bitch Z-P. In fact, I am going to call you M-B from now on for My Bitch.

Where were you when I lost the election for the biggest A-Hole on the board? Thanks for nothing.You people are just humorless. I'll be back in the fall when football starts. I can't take it any further......

I can't decide which is more funny, Adam Morrison crying or this response to my post. I think ZipAnalyst is on his period.I think ZipsNation may be on my side on this one.

http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/24/adam-morrison/I'm putting this photo galary up for two reasons, first and most important, it is really funny. Second, I want to make a point about the feminization of the American male. Enough said about the funny part, the photos speak for themselves.I am absolutely horrified by the amount of crying I am seeing from athletes in general these days. It makes me want to already. Every game I watch, there is some kid crying at the end of the game after a loss. If they can't find a kid crying, they find one with his head in his shirt pretending to cry. It's really become silly already. I would urge all television directors and newspaper editors not to show this silly behavior. It only reinforces it and makes is seem OK.Adam Morrison wasn't just crying, he was blubbering like an 8th grade girl who just got dumped by her boyfriend. I hope he is embarassed by this rediculous display. Next year, the veterans on the NBA team he plays for are going to have an absolute field day making fun of him with these photos. I developed an instant dislike of Adam Morrison after watching his silly display last week.I used to see this stuff at my nephew's high school football games and I think the parents think it is sweet when they cry. It's not! Thank God my nephew never cried like a little girl. If I was a high school coach, I would have a long talk with the kids about crying after losses before the season started. If any kid was crying after a loss, they would run the next day until they had something to cry about. Not only would the kid run, but the other kids would have to stand there and ridicule the crying boob while he ran. I think one day of that would put an end to crying the remainder of the season.The American male needs to become much more masculine. Stop with the crying. Stop with the shaving your arms and legs like girls. Be men already.

He can always get a job returning kicks for the Browns in a couple of years.

Good topic, but I wouldn't want the coaches to base decisions on states. I would want them to look at the best players possible regardless of their home state. Your suggested states do seem to fit with what the program is doing though, but they seem to get quality from the mid-atlantic states as well.There is no evidece that recruiting only local or native Ohio players serves any benefit to the program. It did not increase attendance and it did not increase winning during the years prior to Brookhart.Marshall won a heck of a lot of games in the MAC with kids from all over the country. We should do what Marshall did. They were the best program for most of the time they were in the MAC.If you want to take it one step further, look at Ohio State. Regardless of opinions about them, they are one of the best college football teams in the country. Look at their roster. They draw players from all over the country because they want the best players.