We Browns fans are used to this. Losing home opening games. Blowing fourth-quarter leads. Inventing new ways to add to the annals of suckitude. I’d be inclined to give the Browns a pass here. New coaches, young team, abbreviated off-season and all that. But I’m not. Football is a bottom-line game. This was a highly-winnable […]
Lots of news pegs going into this weekend’s season opener, but now that rosters around the NFL are down to 53 men, here’s a list of former Browns who made the cut (and didn’t) with other teams. It’s interesting to reflect on our past moves and compare previous expectations with the current assessment of the […]
Not often at all will you find a pair of players at the same position, traded for each other straight-up, who then hit free agency and sign with the same third team on the same day. From even comparison to direct competition. The second pre-season game is when many such roster skirmishes and depth chart […]
He’s surer than I am that Delhomme won’t be back, but TheOBR’s Dave Kolonich makes an interestingly good point about Jake’s brief term as a Brown, concluding: Over the last brutal decade, Delhomme is the only Browns’ quarterback who didn’t set the team back or break our hearts. Simply put, he was never meant to […]
With a new labor agreement all but inked, it’s suddenly football season. A burst of signings and player movement has begun. Before I get into what this all entails for the Browns, I want to applaud the clause that ends the emergency quarterback designation and sets game-day rosters at 46. This will help –get developing […]
Football seasons come and go, but good books endure. Below is the most comprehensive list anywhere of books related to the Cleveland Browns — journalism, memoir, history, biography, photography, reference and more — even true crime and fiction. (Media guides, yearbooks, and books for juvenile readers are not included). These 70 titles are sorted by […]
Quick fact of the day: No non-quarterback in pro football history with at least as many career rushes as Josh Cribbs has gained more yards per attempt. (Number of former or current Browns in this stat’s top 100: Eleven.)
Few football observers expect much out of the Browns this season. The general consensus is that their ceiling — if all goes right — is seven or eight wins. But as Rick Gosselin, one of the best columnists in the business, writes, a quick start to the season can, and often does, build into a […]
Apparently it’s not only Browns partisans who believe that the NFL’s $7,500 fine of Lions DT Ndamukong Suh for his flagrant foul on Jake Delhomme was woefully inadequate. Here’s Detroit columnist Drew Sharp arguing that his hometown guy should’ve been suspended for that “irresponsible cheap shot.” [T]he NFL can’t blow off his on-field thuggery simply […]
I think Pete’s just trying to be provocative, but since he diminishes #16 as merely a special-teamer and, oblivious to the irony, deems Phil Dawson the new Browns’ MVP, I’ll go on the record here with my list of the most valuable players to wear the brown and orange since 1999. The criteria are inherently […]
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