The Browns’ hiring of Moneyball maven Paul DePodesta bodes well for the innovative use of data in decision-making rather than gut feelings, groupthink, or rigid adherence to conventional wisdom, which often leads to a conservative form of futility known as “playing not to lose.” But rather than speculating just yet about what kind of models, […]
I get that Joe Thomas is tired of upheaval every year or two, but I really hope he stays on. There’s no way the team could come close to replacing that kind of consistent excellence at the key left tackle position. Of their eight possible unrestricted free agents, the Browns will probably lose at least two […]
Nothing like a Brown Cleveland’s catastrophic 2015 season is officially over, and it was nothing like fans were led to expect, such as when Jimmy Haslam declared in August that “no doubt we have a better team” than the one that went 7-9 but lost its five games of 2014. Nothing like laying a 3-13 […]
In two days the Browns’ 2015 will be over, and the real drama will unfold. Heads will roll. It’s just a matter of how many and whose. The most important question is whom the Haslams will bring in to lead the franchise’s football operations into an uncertain future. It’s a mark of how dysfunctional this […]
Back in December 2011, which seems like ancient history for followers of this high-turnover franchise, a debacle featuring Browns QB Colt McCoy prompted the NFL to strengthen its protocol for handling concussions. Obviously concussed from a hit by repeat offender James Harrison, McCoy returned to the field and threw a game-losing interception. By not evaluating him promptly, […]
The most pleasant surprise of this sad season has been the emergence of veteran tight end Gary Barnidge, who today was named the Browns’ Player of the Year by the Cleveland chapter of the Pro Football Writers of America. After years of limited pass-catching production, pigeon-holed by many as a marginal blocking tight end, Barnidge […]
No head-to-head match-up could be any closer than that between the Browns and their opponent today, the Kansas City Chiefs. Each team has won 11 times, with a pair of ties sprinkled in. Neither team has won as many as three in a row in the course of the Browns-Chiefs rivalry. Even considering just the […]
Of the 1,010 games the Browns have played in the regular season and playoffs, the greatest Browns victory of all took place on this date, Christmas Eve, in 1950. On the frozen field of Cleveland Municipal Stadium, amid Lake Erie winds of 28 mph, Paul Brown’s first NFL squad won the league championship in a […]
I’ll try not to remember this 30-13 loss in Seattle, which drops the putrid 2015 Browns to 3-11. But if I do, here’s what will likely stick in my mind: Johnson Bademosi again saw serious work at cornerback, and again got beaten repeatedly. Until this season, Bademosi was almost exclusively a special teams ace, with […]
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Sad. Considering how hard fans fought to preserve the cultural legacy of the Browns, it’s a pity that the current management has not seemed to keep the faith. Their priorities are elsewhere, and it’s not like the on-field results vindicate their approach. Tony Dick was, by all accounts I’ve seen, a solid successor to the […]
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