The day after a loss is never a good day in the NFL, especially when it’s the team’s fourth straight defeat to open the season.
But the Browns made the most of a bad day on Monday by waiving troubled linebacker Armonty Bryant.
The move came just as Bryant became eligible to be activated after his four-game, NFL-imposed suspension for performance-enhancing drugs had ended. But he wasn’t going to be playing for the Browns anytime soon, because he was reportedly ready to be suspended again for a misdemeanor drug conviction.
Yahoo!!!
Whoopee!!!
All right!!!
Head coach Hue Jackson has enough problems on his hands trying to get this team turned around. The last thing he needs is another headache, and Bryant is nothing more than a headache. Jackson is trying to change the culture with the Browns, and to do that, he’s got to weed out all the knuckleheads. Their culture stinks. It reeks. It’s rotten.
So it’s time to throw it – them – out.
Like Bryant.
Like wide receiver Josh Gordon.
Like quarterback Johnny Manziel, the biggest knucklehead of ’em all.
Good riddance to all of them, collectively and individually.
The Browns don’t need you.
When asked about Bryant’s release, Jackson tried to dance around the issue. But the more he did, the more revealing he ended up being.
“I don’t want to direct it at just one person,” Jackson said. “We are laying the right foundation here. I is important to do it the right way. We have a standard that we want to hold our players to, our organization to – coaches, players, everybody. We have an expectation, and that is the direction we’re going in.
“It is not just directed at Armonty or anybody. I just think that is the way (Executive Vice President of Football Operations) Sashi (Brown), myself, Jimmy and Dee (Haslam) see this as we move forward. That is the way we are going to conduct it.”
Browns fans can only hope the team keeps conducting it that way.
