[Elvis]

The firing of Rob Chudzinski is one of the least sensible things i've ever seen.

They had Chud, Norv Turner and Ray Horton and fired them all after one year only to replace them with Pettine?

I don't get that one...

[Elvis]

http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.s ... build.html

Cleveland Browns' Mike Pettine: 'Your building has to be unified' and 'it's hard to be at this point'

Mary Kay Cabot

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As Mike Pettine's seat grows warmer, the gloves are starting to come off.

The embattled Browns coach revealed Monday that there's tension inside the walls of the Browns facility with the team tumbling to 2-10, and that the different factions must come together to turn the club around.

He was not specific about which departments are at odds, but made it clear that the problems are systemic and run far deeper than just the coaching staff.

"We have to be brutally honest with ourselves and brutally honest not just looking in the mirror but to other parts of the building as well because if you're going to be successful, your building has to be unified,'' Pettine said during his press conference. "That's a big part of it. That's where the plan starts, and that to me hopefully will drive what changes need to be made.

"Sometimes you fall into the trap of 'let's just make change.' Well, let's make damn sure the changes we're making are the right ones that are going to get this ship turned and headed in the right direction."

Asked if the building is unified, Pettine said, "It's hard to be at this point. It's human nature. When things don't go well, everybody has a tendency to kind of bunker in and get into that mode. I think we all want what's best for the Cleveland Browns. we all have ideas on how to get it done, and we need to be collaborative and we need to make sure that we're picking the best ideas and pushing those agendas moving forward.

"I can't sit here and say, 'Absolutely, we're all on board, 100 percent.' That's not reality because when things don't go well, everybody has their opinions and their reasons why, but it's going to come down to a brutal self-assessment and to be able to have the strength to make tough decisions and trust them and move forward.''

Pettine, who's team was blown out 37-3 by the Bengals on Sunday, acknowledged that all is not rosy inside an organization that has lost seven straight games for the worst mark in the NFL. Asked if there were issues with owner Jimmy Haslam, team president Alec Scheiner or general manager Ray Farmer, Pettine didn't specify. But he stressed there are issues that must be addressed.

"When you have the record that we have, if there's not tension in the building, there's a problem,'' he said. "That's what losing does to you. When you're paid to be successful, when you're paid to win in a bottom-line business and we're not, of course there's going to be tension. When you have passionate, competitive people that want to get it done right and it's not, there's going to be.

"It's part of it, but we have to make sure that we stay very clear-headed with it. It goes back to an accurate assessment of, 'What are our problems?' I said it yesterday. If you've got a problem with your heart, you don't perform a lobotomy, so you've got to make sure we identify what the exact problems are and get them fixed.''

Again, Pettine was not specific about what he meant. Folks assume that he's at odds with Farmer, but that's not necessarily the case. The two had their issues last year, especially when Farmer was texting his opinions to coaches during games. But Farmer served his four-game NFL suspension for that and the two have been more on the same page this year.

[Hacksaw]

Glad Snisher didn't draft Johnny Football.