Terry Pluto on the Browns' Front Office Shake-Up

Here's a link to Terry Pluto's analysis of the Browns' recent front office shenanigans. This article wasn't in this morning's Beacon Journal, but instead appears in the "Direct from Pluto" e-mail newsletter that you can sign up for it at the Ohio.com website. (It's free). Suffice it to say that Terry Pluto makes swiss cheese out of Collins' argument that Savage is a budget buster, and makes it pretty clear that he believes this was a naked power grab by Collins. Here's a quote:

"The Collins-Savage problem was about power. Collins was telling media reporters that Savage 'never had a job this big before.' He said that for the record last Friday, and it was reported in the Beacon Journal. Savage had been working in player personnel duties for Ozzie Newsome with the Baltimore Ravens before being offered the Browns' GM job. Well, Collins never had a job this big before, either. If the Browns were $25 million over the cap, or even at cap level -- then Collins might have had a point. But the team is more than $25 million UNDER the NFL cap. They didn't get there by accident. Someone did something right. It started the year before Savage arrived and continued this season under Savage."

Savage comes off very well in Pluto's analysis. In fact, Pluto notes that one of the reasons that the media appears to have taken Savage's side is that he never once said a bad word about Collins.