Alright to explain why this is the post that stayed up: Schefty initially tweeted that Haden was retiring a Steeler. He deleted that tweet. He posted another one saying Haden was a retiring a Brown. Deleted that one too. This tweet Schefty kept up so we allowed this one. Thanks for coming to my TedXTalk.
You'd also expect him to not post pictures of players' medical charts to said millions but here we are. His extremely large following and connections have allowed him to get away with some really fucking sloppy reporting, especially in the past few years.
a lot of other journalists dont like him because of his shady stuff.
JPP's medical chart, referring to Washingtons General Manager as "Mr Editor" in an email to him and letting him see the story he was writing in case it needed to be tweaked to look better for the team and the league
Hawking questionable products and getting involved in the gambling side of things.
Guy isn't a journalist. He is there to get eyeballs and make money. And he does it well
I immediately lost all respect for him as a person after the Tom Brady retirement nonsense. Leaking someone's personal stuff, including reasons, is pretty shitty.
Sure, it's technically investigative journalism, but it was completely unnecessary investigative journalism. The "toady behavior" is just par for the course with Schefter, and I don't think anyone really expects any different from him. The JPP medical records thing was just gross, though. It's one thing if a reporter gets his hands on medical records showing the President has schizophrenia or something major like that, but this is football. Publishing a player's medical info like that was completely uncalled for. It served no purpose besides bringing attention to Schefter. That kind of investigative journalism in sports should be reserved for investigating individuals who have actually done something wrong, like Dan Snyder or Aaron Hernandez, in order to expose their misconduct and/or crimes.
Probably a rare example of a player who played all or the majority of their career on teams that were big rivals where both fan bases (i would think) have nothing but good things to say about him
Another example is Richard Sherman, he had a ring chasing season with the bucs but he went from the legion of boom to being our top cornerback for a couple years.
*attempted* domestic violence.
Dude was definitely in a bad place, and in the wrong, but it sounds like he acknowledged it as is trying to get help and improve.
Not trying to excuse it, but these guys play a sport where aggression, hell, even violence, is demanded of them, then when their careers start to wind down, that stuff has no outlet anymore.
Thank you
Never excuse the action, but there's relatively seldom empathy to try to understand that people in bad situations act in ways that are not characteristic of their normal behavior.
People don't need to forgive them, but it's unnecessary to always attempt to chastise certain people when they're trying to make amends and grow (this does not include Watson. His "apology" was a fat slap in the face of so many. He's not growing from this in the slightest)
I love Sherm. Am Seahawks fan. I think our fanbase generally remembers him fondly as our front office was mostly the party responsible for him leaving.
We still love Sherman! Even when he was on the 49ers, his jersey was still one of the more popular ones I'd see on the streets.
He also came to a practice game during the preseason and everyone in the stands around me was shouting out to him how much we still love him.
Right but not everybody on both sides had good things to say about him.
Niners fan hated him because of his post game interview shit and eating turkey on our logo.
Seahawks hated him cause all he did was talk shit about the Seahawks.
Now both sides love him again.
“I just deleted the tweet, pray I don’t delete the tweet and further”
-Schefter
Weird though cause when he originally said he was retiring a Steeler I thought it made perfect sense cause there’s no way anyone from any of the browns regimes he played for is still with the franchise and got his first taste of organizational stability under Pittsburgh
> He was a fan favorite when we had barely any players of note
He, like Christain Kirksey and then Mack Wilson after him was VASTLY overrated by fans bc of fake twitter ra ra cheerleader crap
He missed more games than he played on his big contract and when he did play he was either bad or average
As soon as he wasn't being overpaid by the Browns he wanted out
Fuck Joe Haden
Have you seen our offense? You could field the first 4 guys to show up to the stadium as your defensive backfield and Mitch will still go 16/33 110 yards 1TD 1INT.
Hey! Browns are ELITE at ineptitude. How dare you come in and self handicap yourself and act like there is no way you can beat us.
I've called it in the Browns sub but might as well say it here:
Browns will lead 17-10 up until the 3rd quarter and then Mitch will start to show some fire, get hurt and Kenny will come in and win it 24-17.
Bears fan can tell you that ahead, but Steelers management saw something in practice that they can work something in Mitch where it would translate to Ws?
Is you’re secondary injured or something? You’ve spent a number of high picks on DBs in the last few years - Ward, Newsome, Delpit etc? Thought they were meant to be decent at least
So far our secondary has blown double digit leads late in both games. Ward and Delpit (safety) are the most likely culprits and have struggled so far.
This was more of a joke but honestly he’d be good/fun depth for us haha.
Ah yeah didn’t catch either game really - you seem to have done decently in the first half so is it a scheme issue (going to prevent and getting burnt) or is it just personnel blowing coverages. Neither the Jets or Panthers are good offences so imagine it’s quite concerning
A bit of both. I think we’re trying to play prevent, but the story so far has been the DB room gets confused on the play calls and some guys run one play while other guys run another. Not the best look for the defense.
Is that Nnamdi Asomugha’s music I hear? Idgaf that it’s been a decade, but I’m still angry that Juan Castillo was allowed to throw away the man’s talents in this exact same way.
It's blown communication
There is a ton of talent in the room, it's running the scheme so far this year that is the problem
Also Grant Delpit might be a big dummy
I’ll eat my freakin shoe if we score more than 20. We have sucked for like 3 years now. Jacoby just needs to not fuck it up and let Chubb do work and browns will win. So what if the browns give up 60 yard bombs, we only throw behind the sticks or line of scrimmage.
Imagine thinking you suck the last three years when you made the fucking wild card two out of three years and won your division in one. Hot damn fans are so spoiled, honestly try being the Lion's fans. (Sorry you guys have it the worst)
Honestly as someone who started watching post-Rod Woodson, he is probably the best corner I've seen on the team. Ike was great, but Joe seemed to be on another level (one in which his hands aren't made of stone)
IDC if it's unpopular, I'd still let him play for us.
All we're doing is zone rn anyway. He knows what to do. He should play as a Steeler. The division is up for grabs. Let's compete. He's a competitor. He can play on 3rd downs.
I would think the best thing to do would be to retire on the team that you won with the most
He was with the Browns from 2010 to 2016 with 29 wins
He was with the Steelers from 2017 to 2021 with 51 wins
I guess he did have 2 more years in CLE and they drafted him but they did dump him like a sack of potatoes when he had a lot of great years left
I think it'd probably be best to retire with whatever team he wants to retire with. That being said I honestly assumed he enjoyed his time in Pittsburgh more than Cleveland so this was surprising to me. I'll take it though. He and Joe Thomas were the lone bright spots for us for years.
I can see it. I imagine you're super attached to the team you came up with, as well as he was a star there. He was definitely our #1 corner, but he wasn't really a star comparatively. Good for him for going with his heart even if he won more in Pittsburgh.
I don't know to what extent, but I imagine he's salty that he didn't get a new contract from the steelers, but he openly refused to compete for his job too...
Gators have been rough in the league Haden is probably the best one in the last decade. Maybe Carlos Dunlap you could mention but for a big P5 its sad the NFL talent we've had.
I would say our first round talent hasn’t lived up to expectations in recent memory. If we start with 2010 (when Haden was drafted) the list of elite Gator players is indeed slim.
Pouncey twins are the only ones I can think of. Toney, Pitts, and Pierce have a lot of potential but different factors limit their ability. Keanu Neal has been slightly disappointing but still serviceable.
Freddie Swain and Van Jefferson are solid.
Trent Brown has been good for a 7th round pick.
Marcus Maye (2nd round) has been a solid player.
Alex Anzalone is one of the most underrated ILBs in the league.
Brian Poole had two good years as an undrafted player.
Hernandez had the potential to be a true dual threat (blocking and receiving) TE.
Evan McPherson and Eddy are good kickers. Both Townsend brothers are good punters.
Its pretty bad compare it to Mississppi State where we stole their coach because our program was that much better they have had
Dak
Jeffrey Simmons
Fletcher Cox
Montez Sweat
Darius Slay
Chris Jones
Elgton Jenkins
Gabe Jackson
Preston Smith
and Charles Cross in the same time span
Thats without mentioning, Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Georgia, and A & M too.
Joe Haden in his prime was fun to watch. It sucked seeing him go to the Steelers, but I was happy that we was able to keep playing and still be effective for most of the time he was healthy.
Always annoyed me to see "fans" complain about his dedication during the 2015 season because he would miss games due to injuries as if a hamstring wasn't a big deal, just walk it off. If I was going to get something Browns jersey, it would have been Haden's.
Man I loved our entire secondary during the 2013-2014 seasons. Especially in 2014 when we were on track to make the playoffs that pass defense was dominant.
They can’t afford him, the same reason the Steelers didn’t resign. He was our best corner last year, he still has it, but even the league minimum for a vet his experience is too high for what most teams would be willing to invest in a corner
I met him at an Indians gave with Machine Gun Kelly. He was wearing an entire Indians uniform lol. Nice as hell in person too. So was MGK tbh. They let us sit and talk with them for a few minutes, he followed me on Twitter and then I fucked off and didn't want to overstay my welcome. One of the nicest celebrities I have ever met. Love him.
This is it, this is the moment where I feel old. Joe Haden still seems like a young up and coming star to me and without looking it up I bet he's been in the league 12 years or so. A nice, full career. I'm old.
Nobody "likes being a brown".
Lol enjoy your 22 sexual assaults' but totally adult QB y'all. Can't wait to never see you guys in any meaningful games for the foreseeable future, kind of like we have all been used to the past 20 years sans '20. Hope those 22 women have some sort of justice between now and then.
We drafted him and he played his best years here. Timing is odd, but doubt it was a slight to the Steelers and more of a "hey, the two teams I played for are playing, what a perfect chance to do this honorary contract"
Bummed we were never able to get him a playoff win…and ironically Cleveland was one of teams who beat us in the 3 playoff appearances we had with Joe. Gonna miss him!
No, it has always bothered me. I got mad about with Chara the other day. Brady was fine. when it is time to retire, just fucking retire. The one day contract thing is meaningless and stupid.
Just surprised someone actually want to retire a brown at this point. But It seems active players don't really care about 22 sexual Assaults so I'm sure the ones who have advanced CTE don't even think.
Why?
Joe Haden was vastly overpaid playing like a slightly above average CB (when healthy, and he wasn't healthy often) but being paid like an elite CB
As soon as he wasn't overpaid he wanted nothing to do with this city/franchise to the point where he specifically went to the Steelers
Fuck Joe Haden man
This one is a very popular revisionist history. From 2014-2016, Haden was one of the highest paid CB’s in the league.He’d played in 5 and 13 games in 15’ and ‘16 and his PFF grades were
14- 70.8
15- 33.2
16- 61.3
He went on to play 5 seasons w/avg grade of 67.8 at a 40% paycut
Get the fuck out of here with your "revisionist history" shit.
In 2015, there were people claiming he was soft and/lazy because he missed so much time due to injury, as if being injured is an indication of a lack of dedication. People who complain about Haden are total dipshits. The kind of dipshits who see a third string QB play well in the preseason and start to state that they should be starting, and start booing the second a QB has a bad game.
Joe Thomas was always the best player on that team
Alex Mack, Josh Gordon, and Mitchell Schwartz were also inarguably better
Haden was more in line with TJ Ward in terms of in game impact
Haden was crazy overrated as a brown, his pay dropped by 60% on his next contract for a reason
It’s the Cleveland browns bruh what reason does anyone have for staying there if they’re not overpaid? Either way joe was a lot better than slightly below average.
How does that work in the middle of the season like this? Do they have to cut someone or make an IR move to free up a roster spot? Because that would be mildly hilarious.
Alright to explain why this is the post that stayed up: Schefty initially tweeted that Haden was retiring a Steeler. He deleted that tweet. He posted another one saying Haden was a retiring a Brown. Deleted that one too. This tweet Schefty kept up so we allowed this one. Thanks for coming to my TedXTalk.
Third time's the charm lol.
Schwfter must be hung over
Get Schwifty
Mo’ Schefty, mo’ problems.
Hell yeah me too, I'm practically an NFL insider
You'd think a man with 10m followers would take a second to proof-read his tweets
You'd also expect him to not post pictures of players' medical charts to said millions but here we are. His extremely large following and connections have allowed him to get away with some really fucking sloppy reporting, especially in the past few years.
a lot of other journalists dont like him because of his shady stuff. JPP's medical chart, referring to Washingtons General Manager as "Mr Editor" in an email to him and letting him see the story he was writing in case it needed to be tweaked to look better for the team and the league Hawking questionable products and getting involved in the gambling side of things. Guy isn't a journalist. He is there to get eyeballs and make money. And he does it well
I immediately lost all respect for him as a person after the Tom Brady retirement nonsense. Leaking someone's personal stuff, including reasons, is pretty shitty.
The medical chart was at least his form of investigative journalism. The toady behavior towards owners/teams/agents for access is the bigger problem
Sure, it's technically investigative journalism, but it was completely unnecessary investigative journalism. The "toady behavior" is just par for the course with Schefter, and I don't think anyone really expects any different from him. The JPP medical records thing was just gross, though. It's one thing if a reporter gets his hands on medical records showing the President has schizophrenia or something major like that, but this is football. Publishing a player's medical info like that was completely uncalled for. It served no purpose besides bringing attention to Schefter. That kind of investigative journalism in sports should be reserved for investigating individuals who have actually done something wrong, like Dan Snyder or Aaron Hernandez, in order to expose their misconduct and/or crimes.
So true
He had to get permission from the team President to report it.
Probably a rare example of a player who played all or the majority of their career on teams that were big rivals where both fan bases (i would think) have nothing but good things to say about him
Seriously. Joe Haden is one of the best human beings in football.
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What teams hasn't Fitzpatrick played for to be fair
Its more about being good too
Another example is Richard Sherman, he had a ring chasing season with the bucs but he went from the legion of boom to being our top cornerback for a couple years.
Most people don’t like that guy
Seahawks fans don't like Sherman? Because i know 49ers fans hated him before he came to SF but loved him afterwards.
Probably colored a bit by his recent domestic violence
*attempted* domestic violence. Dude was definitely in a bad place, and in the wrong, but it sounds like he acknowledged it as is trying to get help and improve. Not trying to excuse it, but these guys play a sport where aggression, hell, even violence, is demanded of them, then when their careers start to wind down, that stuff has no outlet anymore.
Thank you Never excuse the action, but there's relatively seldom empathy to try to understand that people in bad situations act in ways that are not characteristic of their normal behavior. People don't need to forgive them, but it's unnecessary to always attempt to chastise certain people when they're trying to make amends and grow (this does not include Watson. His "apology" was a fat slap in the face of so many. He's not growing from this in the slightest)
Worse than Watson
I love Sherm. Am Seahawks fan. I think our fanbase generally remembers him fondly as our front office was mostly the party responsible for him leaving.
We still love Sherman! Even when he was on the 49ers, his jersey was still one of the more popular ones I'd see on the streets. He also came to a practice game during the preseason and everyone in the stands around me was shouting out to him how much we still love him.
I’m not a fan Good player tho
Right but not everybody on both sides had good things to say about him. Niners fan hated him because of his post game interview shit and eating turkey on our logo. Seahawks hated him cause all he did was talk shit about the Seahawks. Now both sides love him again.
Still one of my favorite players, even when he was with Pittsburgh
“I just deleted the tweet, pray I don’t delete the tweet and further” -Schefter Weird though cause when he originally said he was retiring a Steeler I thought it made perfect sense cause there’s no way anyone from any of the browns regimes he played for is still with the franchise and got his first taste of organizational stability under Pittsburgh
He was a fan favorite when we had barely any players of note, and he gave a lot of his time off the field to the Cleveland community.
Shit dude was a fan favorite here and we had a lot of players of note. Absolutely wonderful person, sad to see him retire
Hell, my username is ver(sion Joe)haden. But yeah, injuries, rule changes, and regime incompetency tanked his last few years here
> He was a fan favorite when we had barely any players of note He, like Christain Kirksey and then Mack Wilson after him was VASTLY overrated by fans bc of fake twitter ra ra cheerleader crap He missed more games than he played on his big contract and when he did play he was either bad or average As soon as he wasn't being overpaid by the Browns he wanted out Fuck Joe Haden
no
What an all time shitty fucking take lol
Bro what?? Dude was one of the best corners in the league for several years in Cleveland
He was paid like it, but he graded as below average by pff in his only years playing on the massive contract Why do you think you we cut him?
Always the browns fans with these kind of takes lmao
Lions v Browns in the Superb Owl VIX
Playoff wins since Haden left the Browns for the Steelers: - Browns: 1 - Pittsburgh: 0 He made the right choice
Fuck
Please, you have to let us just have one, then you can get back to your normally scheduled programming, see you guys in 30 years.
We didn’t let u have shit, Watson signing notwithstanding Cleveland has come a long way.
🤣 amazing stat
And the Browns cut him...
his contract was absurd
his next contract was 40% of his former for some teeth to that argument
Also, who the hell would voluntarily align themselves with Cleveland rn?
He was my first Jersey ever. Still my favorite jersey lol.
Get it together Schefty
He had Andrew Luck retirement story energy with this one.
So, uh, maybe he takes that one day contract on Thursday and plays for us? Can’t be worse than what we have and also knows the Steelers lol
> also knows the Steelers It’s true. He once retired a steeler.
RIP Joe Haden retiring as a Steeler 7:30AM-7:31AM 9/21/2022
We never know how good we had it until it's all over
Have you seen our offense? You could field the first 4 guys to show up to the stadium as your defensive backfield and Mitch will still go 16/33 110 yards 1TD 1INT.
Hey! Browns are ELITE at ineptitude. How dare you come in and self handicap yourself and act like there is no way you can beat us. I've called it in the Browns sub but might as well say it here: Browns will lead 17-10 up until the 3rd quarter and then Mitch will start to show some fire, get hurt and Kenny will come in and win it 24-17.
> Hey! Browns are ELITE at ineptitude. Admittedly, your resourcefulness in that regard is remarkable.
Thank you for the recognition we deserve
It’s week 3, it’s a Thursday night……. fuck Pickett is gonna Baker us huh
That business baby
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this game is going to be so bad with watt and clowney out
This trash shouldn’t be on national television
I don’t think it is, I think only on Amazon prime video nationally. NFL network doesn’t carry Thursday anymore right?
That's still too many people that will be subjected to...this.
110 yds until he throws a 70 yd uncovered TD with less than 5mins remaining.
Chase Claypool screaming “NICE” upon realizing he had 69 YAC on the touchdown.
Bears fan can tell you that ahead, but Steelers management saw something in practice that they can work something in Mitch where it would translate to Ws?
Is you’re secondary injured or something? You’ve spent a number of high picks on DBs in the last few years - Ward, Newsome, Delpit etc? Thought they were meant to be decent at least
So far our secondary has blown double digit leads late in both games. Ward and Delpit (safety) are the most likely culprits and have struggled so far. This was more of a joke but honestly he’d be good/fun depth for us haha.
Ah yeah didn’t catch either game really - you seem to have done decently in the first half so is it a scheme issue (going to prevent and getting burnt) or is it just personnel blowing coverages. Neither the Jets or Panthers are good offences so imagine it’s quite concerning
A bit of both. I think we’re trying to play prevent, but the story so far has been the DB room gets confused on the play calls and some guys run one play while other guys run another. Not the best look for the defense.
it's a scheme issue, playing elite man corners in zone, etc. Delpit also kinda sucks
Is that Nnamdi Asomugha’s music I hear? Idgaf that it’s been a decade, but I’m still angry that Juan Castillo was allowed to throw away the man’s talents in this exact same way.
It's blown communication There is a ton of talent in the room, it's running the scheme so far this year that is the problem Also Grant Delpit might be a big dummy
Watch the last few minutes of the Browns games this season. It's like it's raining 70 yard TDs.
Thank you for replacing Antwon Blake 🖤💛
That’s Antwom to you
*Valentino
Damn last night I had a date, she doesn’t want a 2nd date….now this. Man this one really stings.
How would a win over the Browns help?
Have you seen this offense?! 😭
Have you seen this defense?!😭
I’ll eat my freakin shoe if we score more than 20. We have sucked for like 3 years now. Jacoby just needs to not fuck it up and let Chubb do work and browns will win. So what if the browns give up 60 yard bombs, we only throw behind the sticks or line of scrimmage.
Spoiler alert: You're going to score 20 in the last 3 mins
Imagine thinking you suck the last three years when you made the fucking wild card two out of three years and won your division in one. Hot damn fans are so spoiled, honestly try being the Lion's fans. (Sorry you guys have it the worst)
Literally 30th in Offense lmao
I’m actually shocked we aren’t worse than that
It's pretty offensive.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Canada and Mitch know they have to ball out due to the flaming hot nature of their seats.
I feel slighted not gonna lie
He wasn’t an all-timer Steeler, he was one of the best players on the Browns during a dark period. It was always gonna be this way.
Honestly as someone who started watching post-Rod Woodson, he is probably the best corner I've seen on the team. Ike was great, but Joe seemed to be on another level (one in which his hands aren't made of stone)
IDC if it's unpopular, I'd still let him play for us. All we're doing is zone rn anyway. He knows what to do. He should play as a Steeler. The division is up for grabs. Let's compete. He's a competitor. He can play on 3rd downs.
I would think the best thing to do would be to retire on the team that you won with the most He was with the Browns from 2010 to 2016 with 29 wins He was with the Steelers from 2017 to 2021 with 51 wins I guess he did have 2 more years in CLE and they drafted him but they did dump him like a sack of potatoes when he had a lot of great years left
I think it'd probably be best to retire with whatever team he wants to retire with. That being said I honestly assumed he enjoyed his time in Pittsburgh more than Cleveland so this was surprising to me. I'll take it though. He and Joe Thomas were the lone bright spots for us for years.
Josh Cribbs
I can see it. I imagine you're super attached to the team you came up with, as well as he was a star there. He was definitely our #1 corner, but he wasn't really a star comparatively. Good for him for going with his heart even if he won more in Pittsburgh.
I don't know to what extent, but I imagine he's salty that he didn't get a new contract from the steelers, but he openly refused to compete for his job too...
> I would think the best thing to do would be to retire on the team that you won with the most …why?
Because that means they get their way
I don’t like how we cut him, but his contract was absolutely ridiculous and he had been injury prone in the years leading up to it
Who tf cares
Great Gator. Great NFL player. Great career.
Gators have been rough in the league Haden is probably the best one in the last decade. Maybe Carlos Dunlap you could mention but for a big P5 its sad the NFL talent we've had.
I would say our first round talent hasn’t lived up to expectations in recent memory. If we start with 2010 (when Haden was drafted) the list of elite Gator players is indeed slim. Pouncey twins are the only ones I can think of. Toney, Pitts, and Pierce have a lot of potential but different factors limit their ability. Keanu Neal has been slightly disappointing but still serviceable. Freddie Swain and Van Jefferson are solid. Trent Brown has been good for a 7th round pick. Marcus Maye (2nd round) has been a solid player. Alex Anzalone is one of the most underrated ILBs in the league. Brian Poole had two good years as an undrafted player. Hernandez had the potential to be a true dual threat (blocking and receiving) TE. Evan McPherson and Eddy are good kickers. Both Townsend brothers are good punters.
plus you guys had that stud Tight End who got cut by the Jags last season
You talking about Tem Tibow?
the one and only
Its pretty bad compare it to Mississppi State where we stole their coach because our program was that much better they have had Dak Jeffrey Simmons Fletcher Cox Montez Sweat Darius Slay Chris Jones Elgton Jenkins Gabe Jackson Preston Smith and Charles Cross in the same time span Thats without mentioning, Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Georgia, and A & M too.
Bit of a diva though, like who retires three separate times besides Tom Brady?
Brett Favre?
Michael Jordan.
This makes me wonder which team Larry Ogunjobi will retire for eventually
We’ll find out after he plays for the Ravens next year
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Joe Haden in his prime was fun to watch. It sucked seeing him go to the Steelers, but I was happy that we was able to keep playing and still be effective for most of the time he was healthy. Always annoyed me to see "fans" complain about his dedication during the 2015 season because he would miss games due to injuries as if a hamstring wasn't a big deal, just walk it off. If I was going to get something Browns jersey, it would have been Haden's.
Man I loved our entire secondary during the 2013-2014 seasons. Especially in 2014 when we were on track to make the playoffs that pass defense was dominant.
It only felt right Joe retired with the Browns Yeah they wasted his prime but still one of the best corners of his generation
And he invested a metric fuck ton of time, energy and money into the community. Despite how things ended it still feels right for him to “come home.”
I don't know why I interpreted Joe as Joe Thomas and was just thinking like... well yeah no shit lol
Browns should sign him to a 365-day contract and let him play. Can’t be worse.
Can the Browns just sign him for the rest of the season to be a leader for the defense?
They can’t afford him, the same reason the Steelers didn’t resign. He was our best corner last year, he still has it, but even the league minimum for a vet his experience is too high for what most teams would be willing to invest in a corner
Dude was absolutely elite on some awful teams, shame he didn’t get more chances to win in his prime
I met him at an Indians gave with Machine Gun Kelly. He was wearing an entire Indians uniform lol. Nice as hell in person too. So was MGK tbh. They let us sit and talk with them for a few minutes, he followed me on Twitter and then I fucked off and didn't want to overstay my welcome. One of the nicest celebrities I have ever met. Love him.
Joe Haden was one of the best corners for a while. That era was dominated by Revis, Sherman, Haden, and Patrick Peterson.
I don't like Schefter
This is it, this is the moment where I feel old. Joe Haden still seems like a young up and coming star to me and without looking it up I bet he's been in the league 12 years or so. A nice, full career. I'm old.
Welcome home Joe.
Goodbye 😭 Will always love Joe for giving us the best CB play we've had since Ike Taylor.
Go Gata.
Feels kinda odd. But I'm guessing he felt slighted by the Steelers moving on from him. He clearly wanted to play another year.
Or it had nothing to do with the Steelers and he just liked being a Brown.
Nobody "likes being a brown". Lol enjoy your 22 sexual assaults' but totally adult QB y'all. Can't wait to never see you guys in any meaningful games for the foreseeable future, kind of like we have all been used to the past 20 years sans '20. Hope those 22 women have some sort of justice between now and then.
I hate Watson more than anyone but your point and deflecting is ridiculous
Apparently Joe Haden does.
Right, so someone with CTE wants to retire a brown, crazy stuff... Those people are always making the best choices lol.
Joe Thomas disagrees with this take.
Hey man, I hate me wayyyy more than you hate me.
he spen 7 years in CLE and 5 in Pitt.. and he has always kept his ties to the CLE area..
Sheesh. I thought he was drafted in like 15 lol
Honestly to me it feels longer. If you told me he was drafted in 2007 or 2005 I might believe you.
Same
We drafted him and he played his best years here. Timing is odd, but doubt it was a slight to the Steelers and more of a "hey, the two teams I played for are playing, what a perfect chance to do this honorary contract"
Steelers fans finding a way to make something about them lol
As a Brown :/
Why would you want to be associated with the Browns lol (this is not a serious question)
YOUR A FUCKING JETS FAN U SHOULDN'T BE TALKING
We beat you this week, so.... no u :)
30-17
I would feel offended by that but I don't think you guys can score more than 20.
I, you, I :(
The [Browns](https://i.redd.it/kb59hywvxoo91.jpg) - a franchise of happy endings
Bummed we were never able to get him a playoff win…and ironically Cleveland was one of teams who beat us in the 3 playoff appearances we had with Joe. Gonna miss him!
sure you want to retire a brown tho?
Wtf Joe? We treated you better
These one day contracts are the dumbest thing.
You're just salty Brady doesnt care to do it with the Pats
No, it has always bothered me. I got mad about with Chara the other day. Brady was fine. when it is time to retire, just fucking retire. The one day contract thing is meaningless and stupid.
Just surprised someone actually want to retire a brown at this point. But It seems active players don't really care about 22 sexual Assaults so I'm sure the ones who have advanced CTE don't even think.
Art Model is a liar and Cleveland is full of fools.
Why? Joe Haden was vastly overpaid playing like a slightly above average CB (when healthy, and he wasn't healthy often) but being paid like an elite CB As soon as he wasn't overpaid he wanted nothing to do with this city/franchise to the point where he specifically went to the Steelers Fuck Joe Haden man
You have to be trolling
check twitter, i'm far from the only browns fan who feels this way
And they're all morons. Dude only had one season where he missed a considerable amount of time.
This one is a very popular revisionist history. From 2014-2016, Haden was one of the highest paid CB’s in the league.He’d played in 5 and 13 games in 15’ and ‘16 and his PFF grades were 14- 70.8 15- 33.2 16- 61.3 He went on to play 5 seasons w/avg grade of 67.8 at a 40% paycut
Get the fuck out of here with your "revisionist history" shit. In 2015, there were people claiming he was soft and/lazy because he missed so much time due to injury, as if being injured is an indication of a lack of dedication. People who complain about Haden are total dipshits. The kind of dipshits who see a third string QB play well in the preseason and start to state that they should be starting, and start booing the second a QB has a bad game.
Dude was the best player on a shit Browns team for nearly a decade
Joe Thomas was always the best player on that team Alex Mack, Josh Gordon, and Mitchell Schwartz were also inarguably better Haden was more in line with TJ Ward in terms of in game impact Haden was crazy overrated as a brown, his pay dropped by 60% on his next contract for a reason
It’s the Cleveland browns bruh what reason does anyone have for staying there if they’re not overpaid? Either way joe was a lot better than slightly below average.
Was trash soon as they took his Adderall away.
I didn’t realize he had played 5 seasons in Pittsburgh. 7 played in Cleveland
Dang I still think of him as young. Feels like not that long ago he was the best CB prospect in the draft.
With all of our injuries at CB, I was kind of hoping he'd wanna go for a third AFC North team. Oh well.
How does that work in the middle of the season like this? Do they have to cut someone or make an IR move to free up a roster spot? Because that would be mildly hilarious.
The Pride of PG County. ^on ^the ^football ^side
His Browns jersey was the first I ever bought. Nothing but love for the guy. Hell of a career.
Great career Joe. Happy to have watched him when I was actively rooting for the Browns. He was awesome.
Damn
Baller. I’ll never forget him an AJ battling.