Author Archives: Dave Algase

COUCH TRUMPS COLLINS

One brief follow-up to the NFL Network’s all-Browns programming yesterday. Their listed schedule included a “Six Days to Sunday” episode featuring “Randy Lerner and the Cleveland Browns front office as they prepare for the Miami Dolphins.” But that’s not what they showed. Instead, it was an older episode, “The Browns Are Back,” about the 1999 […]

BROWNS FAN FRIDAY

Set up your Tivo, VCR, sons and daughters in front of the NFL Network on Friday, as the programming is all about the Browns. Here’s the shorthand schedule: Noon: “Six Days to Sunday” focuses on the first Bengals game of 2004. This was the the week that Chad Johnson toyed with Browns defenders by sending […]

SETTING THE TABLE

Assuming that the Browns’ free agency signings are complete, and barring any player trades, here’s my quick-and-easy draft need table. It shouldn’t be terribly shocking to anyone, but it may be useful in stimulating some discussion, or — better yet — as a reference for that mid-draft and post-draft analysis. Definitions: Critical — a first-day, […]

ROSTER REMARKS

Half of the numbers between 10 and 19 are taken, none of them by a quarterback. LeCharles Bentley is listed as 00. My understanding is that the league must give special permision to use that number, and I haven’t heard any announcement about that. If it comes to pass, he’d be the first 00 in […]

PREMATURE HACKULATION

Here’s an excerpt from a lengthy Boston Globe piece from last Thursday about the negotiations for WR David Givens, the Patriots free agent who ended up signing with Tennessee. Dolphins general manager Randy Mueller was first to call and [Givens’ agent Brad] Blank told him they needed to know if at least $20 million over […]

WILLIE COMES AROUND, GOES AROUND

Bill Belichick’s team, citing salary cap constraints, bids good-bye to its star linebacker, who had been with the team since it drafted him in the first round out of USC well over a decade ago. It sounds like a specific sentence, but — remarkably — it now applies to two different players. This year, it’s […]

ANALYSIS VIA ANAGRAM

Knowing LeCharles Bentley wanted to play for the Browns, Phil Savage figured he was sellable, hence try. Past porous lines were cause for gastric upset, but with this signing the bellyache relents. And just to settle any doubt as to what position he’ll play: he’ll be a sly center. To those yearning for a potential […]

ALL-TIME PRESIDENTIAL TEAM

In keeping with my penchant for utterly meaningless symbolic diversion, here are my nominations for the Browns’ All-Time Presidential Team. QB Wilson “Bud” Schwenk RB Ron Johnson RB Tom Wilson TE Arthur Cox WR Kevin Johnson WR Michael Jackson T Chet Adams T Houston Roosevelt Hoover G Robert E. Jackson G Tre Johnson C Arthur […]

POUNDING FATHER

Big Ted. The man is a bear. Or at least he was. He was also a 49er, Bronco, Bill, Patriot, and Raider. Listed at 365 pounds, he’s now the heftiest Cleveland Brown on record. He’ll also be the only Cleveland Brown older than me, and for that, I love him already. He’ll be 38 when […]

HALLEN WHEELS

If the Browns’ newfound penchant for bringing home local talent was not already abundantly clear, add 31-year-old Bob Hallen to the mix. The newly-signed center/guard from Mentor and Kent State brings experienced depth to the interior line. He is now the eighth current player with Ohio roots that Phil Savage has brought to the Browns […]