Don, thanks for the link to the Cleveland site. Here's some posts I made:
"Hass is a fantastic WR who won the Fred B. Award his senior year in college, yet he was thought to be too slow to make it at as a WR at a major college. Had to walk-on at OSU. So much for what the "experts" know. He doesn't have great speed, but he's not slow. Players like Anquan Boldin and Jerry Rice actually ran slower 40 yd times, but Boldin and Rice are black and Hass is white, so there you go. He's bigger and taller than most of the Seahawk WR's, but none of the gameday Seahawk WR's are called undersized as they are black and Hass is white. Hass also performs very well in agility drills, runs great routes, ALWAYS gets open, and catches just about everything his way. He produces, hence the Freddy B. award. In contrast, the Browns WR's are terrible at catching the ball, just like the Seahawk WR's, just like many if not most of the WR's in the league. It's getting pretty pathetic. Meanwhile, another talented white WR, Mike Hass, wastes away on yet another PS while the NFL is filled with (mostly black) WR's who are "great athletes" and can "run really fast" but CAN'T SEEM TO CATCH THE FOOTBALL. Hey Browns fans, you see Austin Collie, you know, the great (white) rookie receiver for the Colts who gets open, runs great routes, and has great hands? Hey Browns fans, you see Wes Welker, you know, the one who is definitely too slow (4.65 40 yd dash) for the NFL, yet always gets open, runs great routes and has great hands? That's right, you've got another Wes Welker, Austin Collie, future Steve Largent and Freddy B. out there just bursting at the seems to get a REAL chance to play on Sunday. His name is Mike Hass. You can find him on the Seahawks PS. Like most NFL football teams, the Seahawks are too dumb to play a great (white) WR when he's been handed to them on a cheap plated silver platter. BTW, do you know why Welker ended up at NE? The Pat Coaches noticed that none of their "speedy" DB's or Safeties could cover him."
"Since 2000, every Fred B. (FB) winner--save one--has been drafted in the 1st or 2nd round. Since 2002, every FB winner--save one--has been awarded a rookie contract of more than $30,000,000. Charles Rogers, the 2002 winner ran the fastest 40 yard time out the FB bunch, yet he has been the biggest flop so far. Fitzgerald has the SLOWEST 40 yard time of any winner, yet he is the best receiver in the NFL. You get that? The slowest FB Winner has been the biggest producer. There's been only one white WR who has won the award since 2000. No, he's not the slowest guy of the bunch and his agility times are very good, but he's making the mistake of playing while white. Unlike all the others, he got drafted in the 6th round and has been relegated to the practice squad. The black FB winners make 30 million+ and the white FB winner gets about 90k. Savvy?
If you compare Hass to the current Brown WR's, he's bigger than Stallworth, Furrey and Stuckey, and about the same size as the others except for Cribbs. His 40 yd time is comparable to Cribbs, Stuckey and Robiskie. Hass definitely has a better 40 yd time than Massaquoi, but is "slow" and "ordinary" because he is white. Certainly, he has way better hands than Massaquoi and Stuckey, 2 WR's in the top ten for dropped passes as of 10-26-09 per the Washington Post. Clearly, Hass runs better routes than any Browns WR and has much, much better hands. Like I wrote before, Hass is comparable to Welker and Collie, 2 very good white receivers who get open and catch the ball. Hass, like Welker and Collie, is much better than the current crop of Browns WR's, but as I said before, he's playing white, which is a big hurdle to overcome at the WR position in the NFL. In fact, I'm really surprised Collie has been allowed to play, and Welker barely got a scholarship at a 1A college and was very fortunate to get a shot to play in the NFL. Hass just needs a real opportunity to play. Watch Collie and Welker. If you like how they play, you will definitely like how Hass plays.
Finally, do a web search for "Mecca for dropped balls." There's a really good article that illustrates what I'm trying to convey. Although the black WR's on the Browns (and TE) are on the most dropped balls list, the writer of the article seems to blame 2 white guys, the QB and Furrey for the problem. Yet, he admitted that Royal was known for drops, and if you do your research, Massaquoi was also known for dropping easy balls in college. The writer even praised Massaquoi for his play and admonished Anderson for rifling the ball. Hey Browns fans, Hass never had a problem catching balls from Anderson, just your (black) WR's. Ah, but it's easy to blame the white players isn't it? Can't be the totally inept play of the Browns WR's. No way. Or way?"
