It’s abundantly clear where Romeo places the blame for yesterday’s deflating loss to the woeful Raiders: the poor effort and performance of his own players. In his brief post-game comments, the beleaguered honcho threw most everyone under the bus. The guys in uniform anyway. The offense lacked “focus and concentration.” Regarding QB Derek Anderson, “there […]
The skill players sure did put up some gaudy numbers, but the Fantastic Five from this game aren’t DA, Jamal, Wheelie, Braylon, and JJ. They were good, no doubt, but I want to single out the guys named Thomas, Steinbach, Fraley, McKinney, and Shaffer. The difference from last week to this was immense, validating the […]
At the end of the 4-12 train wreck of 2004, the Browns’ quarterbacks were Jeff Garcia (injured reserve), Kelly Holcomb (unrestricted free agent-to-be), Luke McCown (rookie fourth-round pick), and Josh Harris (rookie waiver claim). Here are all the QB transactions since Phil Savage took over as general manager in January 2005. 2005: 2/22: Released Garcia […]
When you’ve been blogging for nearly five years, there may come a time when it turns out that you were actually right about something. Back on draft day, right after the Joe Thomas pick, I posted an item entitled “Round One Goes to Charlie,” in which I quoted Phil Savage’s previous votes of confidence in […]
Here’s an update to the projected roster I posted at the outset of training camp. Bold and strikethrough type indicate changes from the pre-camp view. This provides a quick glance at the impact that training camp had on Browns personnel, compared to the conventional wisdom as I saw it then. QBStarter: Charlie Frye Backups: Brady […]
What’s a blogger fan to do when the defensive line is even more of a liability than the much-discussed quarterback position? I actually hold out more hope for injured Orpheus Roye than I do for Mt. Washington, the oldest and heaviest defender in Browns history. The newcomer Smiths might be halfway solid, but looking at […]
‘Twas an interesting, enigmatic choice by Romeo to bench Wheelie at the outset of Saturday’s exhibition at Denver. One Watercooler poster heard radio analyst Doug Dieken say that “Crennel is disciplining Winslow for mental mistakes last week.” Beat writer Jeff Schudel reports thusly: The easy conclusion is Winslow was being punished for some rule infraction, […]
We all know how the Browns underplay and underreport injuries. Do I really need to review the litany of disappointing news and miscommunications? Well, perhaps I’m sensitized to this issue because I recently wrote an article (to appear in the October OBR magazine) detailing the Browns’ history with staph infections, but witness this news from […]
According to the ratings system devised over at the P-F-R blog, the 1984 Browns rank first among all teams since 1970 in the inequality of their offense and defense, among teams with better defenses than offenses. In other words, no team since the merger had a better defense compared to their offense — or, more […]
It’s mid-August, and the familiar dropping of flies has hit Berea. Tweaks, dings, bumps: the shorthand euphemisms for sprains, tears, soft tissue damage, concussions, and the like. Most noteworthy this week is the attrition in the linebacking corps. When the Official $ite features Chaun Thompson, the all-but-forgotten Butch-era reach now entering the last year of […]
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