Author Archives: Dave Algase

Cake for four

Several ex-Browns birthdays today. Each of these guys had good NFL careers, with their best seasons being played for the benefit of other teams. Oddly enough (or is it evenly enough?), their birth dates are separated by exact decades: Tony Peters is 55 Mark Bavaro is 45 Earl Holmes is 35. And Bob Briggs is […]

Egregious Snub Publishing Nitwits

So according to ESPN, the Browns never had a first-round pick before Tim Couch came along. And Baltimore? Well, their draft lineage is the one that includes Ozzie Newsome, Clay Matthews, Eric Metcalf, yes, even Steve Everitt! Granted, more than half of the top picks between ’68 and ’95 failed to pan out. Still, they […]

Far-flung fields

This is only tangentially related to the Browns, but I had no idea that Condoleezza Rice used to date Rich Upchurch. Rice: the National Security Adviser during the worst security failure in U.S. history, then the Secretary of State during a precipitous decline in American prestige. But, hey, she’s a heckuva Browns fan. Upchurch: a […]

What’s high in the middle…

When a runner like Jamal Lewis is your workhorse, and your young QB lit it up last year largely because he managed to get the ball out of there promptly, the interior of your offensive line is especially important.See, Lewis has size, but he’s not your typical pounder in the mold of Bettis, Duckett, and […]

Meet the Browns

Before baseball season hits full stride and April Fools Day diminishes the credibility of anything you might read, here’s a quick recap of Browns news since the Pro Bowl. This off-season’s moves could prove enough to send this team over the top. (I might say the same thing about my Detroit Tigers, but time will […]

The holdout that backfired

Brady Quinn’s rookie holdout was the worst decision of his life. And given some of the situations this young celebrity has found himself in, that’s saying something. If this wasn’t perfectly obvious at the time last summer, the new contract and vote of confidence for Derek Anderson cements the deal. Let me count the reasons. […]

The phantom ’40s

The official site’s Steve King, whose pieces on Browns history are generally pretty decent, strikes a Browns-versus-the-NFL note in reporting on the league’s rebuff of Senator Sherrod Brown’s request to have AAFC statistics recognized by the NFL. Funny, though, he never mentions the records kept by the team itself. Yes, it’s true. The Cleveland Browns […]

Keep Lewis new with tag?

The Browns’ key free-agent-to-be, Jamal Lewis, will clearly be rewarded handsomely for his outstanding 2007 debut season in Cleveland. But it will be interesting to see exactly how his contract negotiations play out. Lewis will be 29 when next season starts, but the big back proved he still has plenty to offer. In essentially 14 […]