Browns teams of recent years have featured certain repeated stock characters. These include the Illusory Rookie Rushing Phenom (Hill, Prentice, Gay, Green, Barclay, Thomas), the Receiver Who Used To Be A Quarterback (KJ, Frisman, Alston, Cribbs), the Special Teams “Demon” Who Lacked At Linebacker (Lenoy Jones, Brant Boyer, Mason Unck, Kris Griffin) and the Thirty-Something […]
The first bombshell of the Mangini/Kokinis era has fallen, and Wheelie will be soldiering south. It’s sad in a way, because he’s a premiere talent, the best skill position player the Browns have had since, say, Eric Metcalf. (The Detroit Diva is close but has one more year in Cleveland — maybe — to prove […]
A Seattle-based blog is running with a good idea: a mock draft chosen by bloggers from each team. Though some of the choices so far are pretty wild, I am pleased to be able to represent the Browns and select linebackers Aaron Curry and Clay Matthews III in the first two rounds. If only it […]
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So Randy swung his big axe, and the first cut was the Player-Picker-in-Chief himself, Phil Savage. The strained forced marriage of Savage and Crennel in the end devolved into dysfunction all around. Few doubt that the departing duo are both knowledgeable guys, but each lacked certain management skills. Savage’s focus on hands-on scouting became an […]
I’ve long pined for the day that a former Toledo Rocket would take the field with the orange and brown for the first time in my memory. There was rookie GM Phil Savage’s clever 2005 offer sheet to Chester Taylor, which the Ravens opted to match, retaining their restricted free agent running back for another […]
Historically, nothing has ticked off Browns’ management more than losing to cross-state rival Cincinnati, the team founded by the exiled Browns’ coach and namesake, Paul Brown. Let’s review: 1984: Art Modell fires avuncular head coach Sam Rutigliano after the Browns lose 12-9 in Cincinnati to fall to 1-7. 1990: Bud Carson’s second year at the […]
While schedule strength and rancid response to raised expectations contributed mightily to the Browns’ dropoff from a year ago, it is injuries — and the subsequent failure to adequately backfill the roster — that account for much of the difference between 2007 and 2008. This season is more of a failure than last year’s was […]
Amid this broken season, we can at least add one positive break. Brandon McDonald’s 122 yards on interception returns last night broke the franchise record of 115 set by Bernie Parrish back in 1960. I’m not exactly doing flips about it, but it’s something. And it breaks the longest TD drought in team history.
So on Sunday I drove my family from Michigan to New York for a Thanksgiving Week visit to the in-laws. We stopped in Cleveland to break up the trip, visit friends, and watch the game. After one of the many lamentable plays fouled up by the Browns (I can’t recall which, there were so many), […]
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