Let’s assume that the Haslams don’t fire Hue Jackson, the coaching staff, and the front office during or after the upcoming season. It goes against type, I know, but bear with me here. Let’s assume we won’t have yet another new crew of decision-makers coming in to clear out the roster to make room for […]
God knows it’s a cliché, but he really looks like an ordinary Joe. No way you’d see Joe Schobert walk into the room and figure him for a Pro Bowl middle linebacker. Maybe a sixth-grade social studies teacher. Maybe a whitewater rafting guide, fit, fresh-faced, and friendly. But in fact, the only 2017 Cleveland Brown to […]
When the Browns swapped a fourth-rounder and future seventh for three-time Pro Bowl WR Jarvis Landry, they knew the ex-Dolphin would signal a seismic splash on several levels. Foremost is his sheer productivity. In his four pro seasons, Landry has never missed a game, despite touching the ball 565 times on receptions, returns, rushes, and […]
The trade for quarterback Tyrod Taylor was a very savvy one, and it illustrates the unpublished roadmap that the Browns are following under new GM John Dorsey. Why trading for Taylor was so savvy He is an experienced starter with a winning record. The Browns went all last season without a QB on the roster […]
So many moves, so much change, so how best to cast myself back into the blogging of the beleaguered Browns? With a personal note, I guess. So much news and so many views have already been tweeted and podcast by a whole ecosystem of characters large and small. My voice seems tinny and distant, but […]
A mere 381 days ago, I announced that this was officially the worst Browns team ever and the worst time to be a Browns fan other than “The Move.” In the meantime, the team has won exactly one football game. They would somehow have to win another one just to be good enough for Coach […]
In the past 11 weeks, not only have the Browns lost every game this season, but three people I know in real life, all middle-aged guys like me, have sustained and survived major cardiac events. Sadly, former Brown John Thierry is gone at 46. The former Bears first-round pick suffered a heart attack Friday. He […]
The regular season kicks off in just a few hours, and the Browns are perched on a very strange fulcrum. It’s Year Two of Hue, Sashi, and the Moneyball youth movement. Today’s battle at the Stadium features a pair of 7s from northwest Ohio. Wearing the gangrene and urine is Big Ben The Unindicted, the […]
Yep, I’m back, now that the Browns have already won double the games they did last season, since I’m counting preseason, and after last night why wouldn’t we, right? Recently an old friend found the pictured Stephen Stills album at a used record store, and he figured I should have it. The first real concert […]
Got a hunch or a hope who the Browns will soon draft? Go on the record to win a signed copy of my paperback, Brown for the Count: A Compendium of Cleveland Browns Lists, straight to your mailbox. Just use this form to name up to 11 players you think the Browns will select at some point […]
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