COUCH TRUMPS COLLINS

One brief follow-up to the NFL Network’s all-Browns programming yesterday. Their listed schedule included a “Six Days to Sunday” episode featuring “Randy Lerner and the Cleveland Browns front office as they prepare for the Miami Dolphins.”

But that’s not what they showed. Instead, it was an older episode, “The Browns Are Back,” about the 1999 rebirth, including the exhibition win over the Cowboys and the Opening Day “game” against the Steelers.

It sure looks like someone, maybe even Randy himself, persuaded the league’s network to make the late switcheroo. Given that the John Collins/Phil Savage fiasco played itself out subsequent to the Dolphins game, it makes perfect sense that Randy would feel embarrassed about the footage of that dysfunctional front office seeing the light of day in hindsight.

And I mean really embarrassed. So embarrassed, it seems, that showcasing top draft pick Tim Couch and the 43-0 blowout loss to Pittsburgh is preferable. Hmmmm.