Amateur Football Player Is Standing Outside Of The Browns Facility Until They Give Him A Try Out

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Monte Gaddis watched Ray Farmer walk out of the Cleveland Browns’ complex on Wednesday. “I didn’t know where he was walking,” Gaddis told cleveland.com. It didn’t take long for Gaddis to solve the puzzle. Farmer was headed straight for the 23-year-old, who spent the first three mornings of the week outside of the facility, sign in hand, hoping for a chance at a tryout.

“I was like, ‘Oh, snap. He’s coming to me,'” Gaddis said. “I had to take a few breaths just to get things right.” Gaddis explained his reason for standing outside of the Browns’ building. Farmer, the team’s general manager, told him he could have chosen a different way to get his message across to the organization. “I told him I felt this was the best route I had since I didn’t have an agent or anything,” Gaddis said. “I told him, ‘Hey, it got you to come across the street to talk to me. I think I did a good job.’ He chuckled, so it was a good feeling.” The two chatted for a few minutes. Farmer asked Gaddis to submit some game tape. He advised the former Maryland walk-on and Towson standout to bring the film on Thursday, but Gaddis went home, retrieved the necessary tape and returned to Berea to deliver it to the team’s personnel department.

Gaddis said he didn’t plan on occupying his usual real estate on the pavement across the street from the football complex on Thursday. He intended on leaving the sign that reads “overlooked Cleveland native,” “starving for my first shot” and “why not?” at home.

Now, he’ll just wait for that call. “The one thing I’m waiting for is that tryout,” Gaddis said. “That’s all I’m waiting for. I know they’re going to love me. The city is behind me. I have all of the support. I just hope the coaching staff feels the same way. “I’m just going to keep praying.”

Listen I want to be on Monte Gadiss’ side here, I really do. To stand outside the Cleveland Browns facility until they give you a try out is a noble pursuit of a dream. But where I’m completely confused is why he’s not out there right now. Did he get a try out? Because as far as I can tell the Browns GM basically gave him the “don’t call us we’ll call you treatment” and Monte was totally cool with it. If you’re going to stand outside in the cold and rain waiting for a try out you can’t leave before you get that try out. You’ve completely undermined yourself, Monte. Now the Browns know they can simply say “we’re watching the tape” and be done with you. Come on man, you just got out smarted by the Cleveland Browns, do you know how difficult that is to do? Ray Farmer probably walked inside the facility after meeting with you and did a little fist pump because he was finally on the right side of a deal. Your tape is probably sitting in the trash in that building right this second, like when a guy passes out his mix tape on the sidewalk. What a waste.

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Don’t really seem to match up. But then again we already established the whole getting outsmarted by the Browns thing so I can’t say I’m shocked.