Comments on: TEXT MESSAGES FORCED WINSLOW SETTLEMENT

By: DemonioAzul

DemonioAzul — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:34:55 +0000

How is this not worse than anything a team has been accused of recently? Cheating’s bad, but even at its worst does it really compare to pressuring a player to cover up that he’s contracted an infectious, potentially life-threatening disease? Why isn’t the League (if not the CDC) all over this?
This strikes me as outrageous. And more than a little creepy.

By: brauneyz

brauneyz — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:56:03 +0000

I still don’t see why K2 has to pay anything to these morons. I’m not a lawsuit-happy kind of person, but it sure seems to me he ought to be paid for his suffering, not still fined. Color me confused.
Oh yeah, Browns suck. Execute ‘em all and start over.

By: chip

chip — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:46:23 +0000

“rumors regarding his condition, which included (as posted by Deadspin and elsewhere) ”
lol…elsewhere?
wonder who else would do such a thing…

By: bennydawg

bennydawg — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:26:19 +0000

Savage should be fired for stupidity, lerner should sell the browns to somebody who gives a damn. DA will never lead the browns to the playoffs let alone the super bowl. Let Quinn play so we can see if he can do the job if not trade him and get something out of him. just do something other than stand there on the sidelines like crennel does. like a giant bump on a log.

By: egypt123

egypt123 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:59:40 +0000

Yeah, like Savage didn’t know anything about the text messages or Browns mgmt. telling Winslow to keep quiet PRIOR to his suspension. Dipwad!

By: bigblue59

bigblue59 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:48:08 +0000

Its Ohio the whole state is an infection
The Browns and the Bengals are both infected with losing

By: Bud Grant

Bud Grant — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:37:39 +0000

Opie Cunningham? Don’t you mean Richie Taylor?

By: Burritto

Burritto — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:27:49 +0000

What awful management.
If you were Phil Savage, what would you rather have to deal with: the continuance of the staph problem that everybody knows about, or a scandalous mess in which you come off looking like an insane dictator trying to implement state radio?

By: thomase66

thomase66 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:59:07 +0000

It took real balls for Winslow to speak out like he did.

By: VonClausewitz

VonClausewitz — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:54:31 +0000

I guess this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. The team was willing to use Winslow as a scapegoat. In fact they had planned on it knowing it was unjust. Only when the truth came out did they realize they were in a losing position and changed their spin. Winslow, regardless of any past issues that may have made him a convenient excuse, was right. There’s a clear need for organizational changes at the Browns or Winslow needs to walk. The organization has fallen down the slippery slope of failing to balance their interests against the interests of the players. If they had acted ethically these interests would have been aligned and there’d be no need to play the situation. That’s why it’s called ethics. Now they’ve gone and demonstrated publicly that they don’t understand the team concept nor have the moral character to get others to rally around their standard. And they wonder why the team has struggled. Someone needs to be fired. It needs to be visible and it needs to come from the top.

By: Kotite

Kotite — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:49:37 +0000

I believe the military term is AWOL.

By: mrmagoo

mrmagoo — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:35:23 +0000

Phil Savage must be 4 feet tall to generate the power trip he seems to be on.

By: RJMarrella

RJMarrella — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:23:40 +0000

dirty….

By: jmclarkent

jmclarkent — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:00:14 +0000

At the end of the year, we will learn that Romeo’s decision to remain loyal to Derrick Anderson was due to the fact that he was recovering from a Staph infection in his throwing arm…

By: JimmySmith

JimmySmith — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:58:48 +0000

G.M. Phil Savage should be fired as soon as possible.

By: jasar13

jasar13 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:57:06 +0000

Carry on soldier.

By: DC_Bengals_Fan

DC_Bengals_Fan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:26:13 +0000

I’ve never been a Winslow fan, but I wish he would have nailed these assholes. He actually handled the whole thing reasonably professionally, and the idiots try to silence him with threats to cover their asses.
Screw that. They had no chance of making the case that gentle cursing in the direction of a PR person deserves a suspension, unless they’re willing to state that no cursing ever occurs in that locker room. And Goodell shouldn’t have even let that be part of the suspension since they clearly added that after the fact when their case fell apart.
The $25,000 is a way for the Clowns to save face, and he shouldn’t have given it to them. It was probably the mature thing for him to do, I will say, but to hell with that.