This blog started way back in 2002, one wild ride of a season, which featured the last Browns playoff team. Until now. Second-year coach Butch Davis‘ pro peak started with Dwayne Rudd serving up a Kansas City win in the form of an ill-advised celebratory helmet toss just before the end of what should’ve been […]
Last year I noted a strange coincidence with a trio of Browns quarterbacks who all were drafted in the third round had first names beginning with the third letter of the alphabet wore uniform numbers that were factors of three. Charlie Frye, Colt McCoy, and Cody Kessler can now be neatly packaged into a triangular […]
Fourteen years ago today, the Browns last participated in the playoffs. They couldn’t stanch a Steeler comeback. The season ended there, near the Confluence, as it did in their previous post-season appearance eight years earlier as the original Browns. This current playoff drought is approaching double the length of that 1994-2002 dry spell that included […]
The season-opening loss in Philly added to the Browns’ long cascade of calamity. But the Week 2 opponent reminds us of the worst twist of the dagger ever to strike the hearts of Cleveland football fans. The very existence of the Baltimore Ravens derives from supreme treachery. We should never, ever forget that fact. The […]
July shall not elude us without extending birthday greetings to the four former Browns born on July 31. Tim Couch turns 39 today. The face of the reborn Browns franchise was cut loose over 12 years ago now, the victim of shoulder problems. The Kentucky quarterback suffered the growing pains of the expansion era, never […]
I wouldn’t be much of a Browns blogger without offering a brief appreciation of Tom DeLeone, the center of the Kardiac Kids who passed away yesterday at age 65. Like many on that fondly remembered team, including his roommate Brian Sipe, DeLeone was an overachiever. One of the smallest linemen in the league at 245 […]
Pro football was a different game and a different business 33 years ago. I won’t spell it all out for you except in relation to this obscure anniversary in Browns history. Whereas the Browns’ free agency period this year has been marked by the departure of players amassing a combined 116 starts last year, back […]
We don’t typically think in terms of large numbers of days. That’s what weeks, months, and years are for. But today marks the 10,000th day since a most fateful Browns season opener. It was September 4, 1988, and the three-time defending AFC Central Divison champion Browns kicked off a new season in Arrowhead Stadium against […]
Word comes from new head coach Hue Jackson that he’ll most likely serve as his own offensive coordinator and call the plays for the 2016 Browns. That means incumbent OC John DeFilippo is out, as is QB coach Kevin O’Connell. There’s no doubt that Jackson is a gifted offensive mind. His success in calling plays […]
I like challenges, and boy, what a challenge! — Browns head coach Hue Jackson, Jan. 13, 2016 Let the honeymoon commence! Congratulations are in order for the Haslams and their new executive team for landing their apparent first choice for head coach. But for the balance of today’s post, let’s look at what difference an […]
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