Hire A Damn Tackling Coach, No Hire Five of them

Gutless tackling was a Browns feature last season. Your new coach Romeo is hiring guys from college, Rutgers for Christ Sake. Coach you now have a team that can't or doesn't have the will to tackle. Hire a couple of mean ass tackling coaches from the National Football League or perhaps a mugger off the Cleveland waterfront. Trade for Rodney Harrison and Jeremia Trotter, Ty Law is a free agent pick him up. The Browns and other NFL teams have coaches carrying coaches carrying coaches playbooks. The NFL is nearing flag football. There should be a fifteen yard penalty for running out of bounds to avoid a collision. Stopping the clock in the last minute of a game is a special case. If there were such a rule there would be fewer obnoxious offensive Hot Dogs like Terrill Owens and Randy Moss running their mouths off to draw attention to themselves at the expense of their team.

"Tackle football" is the games original name not pushing and shoving and running out of bounds. The games growth and success was based on blocking and tackling. Not stunts pulled to become a porn celebrity.

Getting rid of the best tackler in your secondary, Robert Griffin seems on odd way to fix a chronic problem. If the Browns had just tackled reasonably well they would have won half their games. What if they had tackled well?

There are some books on the fundamentals of football published in the 1940's by the US Navy. My midget league Coach Red Dulaney showed me the fundamentals of blocking and tackling in those books when I was 12 years old. I used those fundamentals to become one of, if not the best open field tackler in the NFL, as well having been voted the best blocker and the best tackler in the Southeastern Conference by the SEC Head Coaches. I don't remember missing a half dozen tackles in my entire football career

I know what it takes to tackle and what it takes to block and what it takes to win having won the last World Championship ever won by a Browns team. The fundamentals of tackling and blocking have not changed since those US Navy books of the 1940's nor have they changed from the beginning of "tackle football."

The fact is the 2004 Cleveland Browns couldn't tackle well enough to win. Unless they learn how to tackle before the 2005 season they won't be any better no matter who is coaching.