Category Archives: the team today

WHO NEEDS KIPER?

I don’t spend much time scouting college football players, so I’d be the last to claim status as a draft guru. But I do have some credentials: Last year a Browns beat reporter wrote “who needs Kiper when you have Ace Davis?” If only PHD had followed my advice in 2004! The way the first […]

PROCESS ENGINEERING

This report on Phil Savage’s Q-and-A luncheon is must-reading if you’re interested in understanding the front office perspective heading into the draft. The highlights: “Football temperament” is the hardest but most important thing for a scout to evaluate. The team has conscious of its purpose to “clean out some of the big bad apples and […]

GREENER PASTURES?

I’m all in favor of the new regime’s emphasis on good character as they remake the Browns’ image and roster. The margin of success in the parity-conscious and salary-cap driven NFL is perilously narrow, so an organization needs every possible intangible to work in its favor. Focusing on character — which is actually a cluster […]

TRADE TIDBITS

Good personal profile of Reuben Droughns here by Steve Doerschuk, the best of the Browns’ current beat writers, in my view. Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News talks with various NFL team execs about the four Browns linemen headed their way. Who is “best pure value among the four players?” Hint: he’s the guy not seen […]