You probably saw the Browns lose to the Dolphins in their 2013 season opener. You probably have some opinions on it too. So if you need to, look elsewhere for your recaps and rants. What you find here will probably be quirky, disjointed, and of moderate significance only.1. The Browns allowed only 20 yards rushing, […]
Thanks to my dad, and fortified by tailgate BBQ and beer with the local Browns Backers club, I witnessed the Browns’ preseason debut game in Detroit last night. You can find full recaps elsewhere, but suffice it to say that it always feels better to win, even if the final score isn’t the main point […]
It was heartpounding, it was inches from agony, it was slow and sloppy and a sliver-thin in its final score. Yes, it was a characteristic Browns win, a 17-16 home squeaker over the Dolphins. No doubt that the Browns’ defense kept them in the game by keeping the Miami backs and receivers in front of […]
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 […]
It can’t be the Browns’ worst season if they beat Pittsburgh. Three games remain before we can say where the 2009 Mangini weenies will rank alongside 1975, 1990, 1995, and the six teams winning five or fewer games in the latest decade. Could they still be the worst squad in the Browns’ long history? Nah. […]
Being a Browns fan these days means awaiting the next, previously-unthinkable new way for a team to meet defeat. Yesterday’s worthy contribution to this panoply of pathos: blowing a three-touchdown lead to a 1-8 team and allowing a rookie QB to throw for five TDs and 422 yards, the third most ever allowed by the […]
Guess I was too superstitious to post this earlier, but over the past two weeks the thought came to mind distressingly often. What else could go wrong? The Browns were already 1-7. A national laughingstock. An organizational Superfund site. A national storyline spun off the idiotic idea of a silly, self-aggrandizing fan (boosted by 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 […]
I won’t rehash. You saw it, didn’t you? Here are a few statistical reflections and such: No running back who gets the ball at least once a game has a higher rushing average than Jerome Harrison. He also ranks fourth among backs in receiving average (five catch minimum). When the Browns run the ball, it’s […]
Ugh. What a letdown. Up two TDs in the second half. Couldn’t finish. Offense off-kilter. Defense beaten. Swept by a dreaded division demon. Against a tough rookie, Joe Flacco, the Browns brought pressure early, stuffing many a run, but they couldn’t reach the QB enough. They didn’t force any substantial mistakes. The offense stuffed it […]
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