Meltdown AFC North - The Black and Blue Self-Inflicted ©

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A person from Pittsburgh is called a Pittsburgher

 

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Face it, we're all ultracrepidarians to a degree. Still, I note this...

 

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A person from Pittsburgh is called a Pittsburgher

Those morons call themselves Yinzers....and quite honestly they are from Pittspuke.

 

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Face it, we're all ultracrepidarians to a degree. Still, I note this...

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Change from playoff win..to regular season win

Insert Cleveland Browns

 

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Those morons call themselves Yinzers....and quite honestly they are from Pittspuke.

America's version of Tasmanians

 

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Just glad I lived long enough for Cleveland to win a championship in something....finally shut them up. That alone was worth celebrating.

 

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Just glad I lived long enough for Cleveland to win a championship in something....finally shut them up. That alone was worth celebrating.

Sounds tough

 

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80th birthday looming, Dick LeBeau still sees himself as a “Bengal and Brown guy”
Posted by Mike Florio on July 4, 2017, 11:48 AM EDT

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He’s a Hall of Famer best known for playing for the Lions and coaching with the Steelers. But Dick LeBeau, the soon-to-be 80-year-old assistant head coach of the Titans, identifies with a team that cut him, and with another that fired him, multiple times.

“I’ve always been really a Bengal and Brown guy at heart, like I am a Buckeye, because I am from Ohio and I like the Ohio teams,” LeBeau recently told Jim Owczarski of the Cincinnati Enquirer.

It was Paul Brown, then coach of the Browns, who drafted LeBeau before cutting him. And it was Paul Brown, then owner of the Bengals, who hired LeBeau to serve as defensive backs coach in 1980.

LeBeau initially spent 11 years with the Bengals, helping the team to a pair of Super Bowls and climbing to defensive coordinator. Fired after the 1991 season, he landed in Pittsburgh as defensive backs coach, again making it to the role of defensive coordinator. He returned to the Bengals in 1997 as defensive coordinator and assistant head coach, later becoming head coach in 2000. He was fired after three seasons.

The return to Pittsburgh in 2004 started LeBeau’s most successful decade in coaching, with a pair of Super Bowl wins. Nudged aside for Keith Butler in 2015, LeBeau joined the Titans, where he’s been for two seasons and counting.

With many making Tennessee a trendy postseason pick, LeBeau could still get to another Super Bowl before calling it a career. Regardless of what happens, he’ll likely still see himself as a Bengal and a Brown, despite those two gaudy Super Bowl rings that celebrate their despised rivals from Pittsburgh.

 

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Browns open as favorites to win the AFC North

Posted by Mike Florio on March 16, 2019, 11:07 PM EDT

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The Browns have arrived.

They’ve still won nothing of consequence. They haven’t been to the playoffs in 17 years and counting. But they’ve arrived.

Vegas knows it. Via ESPN.com, the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook has made the Browns +140 favorites to win the AFC North.

The Steelers are close behind at +160 (i.e., bet $100, win $160). The Ravens have +250 odds to win the division.

This places even more pressure on the Browns, who went winless in 2017 and won only once in 2016. The bar is now high, and the Steelers will be able to find plenty of motivation in the notion that no one believes in them. That could fuel the Steelers to do more than anyone expects them to do in 2019.

But that’s for down the road. For now, the Browns and their fans can enjoy something that hasn’t happened since the team re-entered the league 20 years ago: The Browns actually are expected to be successful next season.

 

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AFC North Notes: Dennard, Browns, Steelers


March 17th, 2019 at 9:50pm CST by Sam Robinson




Still unsigned, Darqueze Dennard remains an option for the Bengals. But the franchise looks to have given the cornerback a price point. The Bengals have not closed the door on a reunion with the sixth-year cornerback, according to Paul Dehner Jr. of the Cincinnati Enquirer, but they have since signed B.W. Webb and retained some of their own free agents. The most recent negotiations between Dennard and the Bengals revealed a disconnect, with the team viewing him as strictly a slot cornerback — and one they may not consider paying at the top-market slot price Justin Coleman just reset with the Lions. Dennard’s camp came in with an offer north of what Coleman just signed, proposing a deal north of $10MM per year with the Bengals, Dehner reports, adding the corner’s representation never came back to the table with the Bengals. The team was willing to keep Dennard at around $8.5MM AAV, but that was before reaching a deal with Webb. The new Bengal corner played for first-year DC Lou Anarumo with the Giants.
Dennard was scheduled to visit the Chiefs this weekend. Shifting first to a higher-profile AFC North situation, here is the latest out of this division:

• John Dorsey called Dave Gettleman on Monday to ask if Odell Beckham Jr. was indeed available. The Giants’ GM had twice said in 2019 he did not extend the wideout to trade him, but Gettleman told Dorsey he was, in fact, willing to move Beckham, Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com notes. Dorsey had several Beckham trades planned, but Cabot adds the talks never included Emmanuel Ogbah or Duke Johnson. Both of those pre-Dorsey Browns investments are now on the trade block.
• As for the player the Giants did obtain for Beckham, Jabrill Peppers profiled as one the Browns did not want to let go. Despite being a Sashi Brown-era draft choice, Dorsey wanted to keep the improving safety, per Cabot. But Cleveland’s second-year GM was not going to let Peppers stand in the way of acquiring Beckham. Gettleman was “adamant” about Peppers’ inclusion in this trade because of the Giants’ recent decision to let Landon Collins walk in free agency, Cabot adds. The Giants are planning a versatile role for the third-year safety. Peppers can be under Giants control through 2021 via the fifth-year option.
• The Steelers‘ acquisition of Mark Barron will likely not preclude them from using another early-round pick on a linebacker, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac (on Twitter). Pittsburgh did not elect to devote significant resources to replacing Ryan Shazier last year but has used four first-round picks on linebackers since 2013 — Jarvis Jones, Shazier, Bud Dupree and T.J. Watt. Shazier’s unfortunate circumstances may again prompt the Steelers to use a first-round choice on an off-ball ‘backer.
• Eli Rogers‘ latest Steelers contract is for two years, not one, the team announced. The auxiliary receiver may have a bigger role in Pittsburgh’s 2019 offense, considering Antonio Brown is out of the picture and Rogers is entering an offseason healthy. He tore an ACL in the Steelers’ 2017 divisional-round game and only played in three games last season.

 

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Didn't think about it until now but the AFCN is basically the Steelers versus three different versions of the Browns.

The new Browns
The old Browns (Ravens)
The older Browns (Paul Browns Bengals)

 

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AFC North winner history at a glance



Spam complete

 

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And.....Mitchell Trubisky

 

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Just a quick cameo appearance, prove I'm still alive. Wholesale changes with the Steelers roster closes the Big Ben era.



Thanks for the memories #7.

 

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Next era starts with #10 Mitch Trubiski: Lots to like based on these highlights.

 

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A person from Pittsburgh is called a Pittsburgher

They're also known as a 'Yinzer' (Slang for You'se - Jeff Fenech fav word)

 

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Yinzer

Are you sure? GG is a lifelong Steelers fan, he'd know mate.