Some quick facts and impressions about yesterday’s signing of K Shayne Graham. Given a prolific and popular placekicking predecessor in Phil Dawson, it makes a lot of sense to bring in a veteran who’s known both success and failure in the league. I’m old enough to remember Dave Jacobs and Jerry Kauric. Graham’s longest stint […]
If this news doesn’t stir this derelict blog, I may as well pull the plug, because nothing ever will. Seems my old high school classmate has just been named the HMFIC of our very own Cleveland Browns! Here’s what I wrote nine years ago when Rob Chudzinski joined Butch Davis’ staff as the tight ends […]
Of the many mystifying choices that should result in Pat Shurmur’s dismissal a month from now, this one has escaped notice: the Browns are overusing their workhorse running back. That’s right, Trent Richardson is carrying too much of the load. This diminishes his effectiveness and carries real risks for the longevity of this franchise skill […]
This piece in the New York Times is a detailed, well-informed, and fair-minded preview of the Browns’ upcoming season. Author Andy Benoit eschews the anti-Cleveland snark so common in outsiders’ analysis but spares no mercy for players he finds lacking: On Colt McCoy: Holmgren’s selection of Weeden upset the incumbent quarterback Colt McCoy, but contrary […]
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 […]
Starting LB Chris Gocong’s season-ending and career-threatening Achilles injury is the latest example of one of the NFL’s primary defects: the outsized role of injuries. The human toll in pain and disability is the primary consideration, and of course my sympathies lie with Gocong for impact the torn right Achilles tendon will have on his […]
The development of the new Browns offense will be the most fascinating storyline to follow this summer and fall. Any time you draft seven guys on that side of the ball — including a starting quarterback and a runner hyped as the best such prospect in half a decade — and bring in an experienced […]
Put me firmly in the camp that wants the Browns to keep both Colt McCoy and Seneca Wallace as the backups to rookie Brandon Weeden, who will most likely officially be named the starting quarterback in a matter of days. Clearly the team’s braintrust deemed the QB position in need of upgrade. McCoy lacked support […]
Can Colt be the guy? Frankly, I just don’t know. I really hope so, as he’s the most likable Browns quarterback since Kosar. He also comes very cheap for a starting quarterback, being just a third-round pick in the front half of his rookie contract. But no, he hasn’t lit the league on fire or […]
So the Browns trade up to get back into the second round to fill a position of need. Then the draftee tears his ACL and misses his entire rookie year. Where have I heard this before? This is just the kind of sad, uncanny coincidence to stir an old Browns blogger out of hibernation. But […]
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