Browse the Browns’ weekly media release long enough, and you too might realize these strange things:
- In all four of the Browns’ exhibition games, the winner scored 20 points.
- The Browns have opened their season with the Saints twice before. Each time (1968 and 1987), Cleveland ended up winning 10 games and going deep into the playoffs.
- Not only do the Browns have to compete with strong Steeler and Bengal teams to have any playoff hopes this year, they actually risk losing their edge in the all-time head-to-head records against each of them.
- Of the 22 Browns who started the last Saints game in 2002, only two will suit up for the Browns on Sunday (Tucker and Roye).
- Charlie Frye already has the best winning percentage (.400) of the nine Browns starting quarterbacks since 1999.
- The front office is making a great point to emphasize the Browns “successful roots,” yet among retro uniform changes they list, the helmet’s color change is not acknowledged.
- Three members of the secondary (‘Cutch, Russell, and Ralph Brown) were also teammates at the same high school.
- Another member of the secondary, Antonio Perkins, earned a master’s degree in the off-season.
- The Browns netted exactly 1,000 yards in the preseason.
