UDFA rookie Desmond Harrison named starting left tackle The Browns have been graced with a series of sustained success at left tackle. Just six men — Lou Groza, Dick Schafrath, Doug Dieken, Paul Farren, Tony Jones, and Joe Thomas — were the primary starters for 58 of the team’s first 68 seasons of play until […]
We have crossed that fulcrum of the NFL year when accession turns more toward attrition. The raft of draftees and nearly all of the FA signings and trade acquisitions are already on board the 90-man roster. Things look flush. Optimism runs rapidly through fans’ hearts. The depth chart does seem rather deep! Or rather, it […]
One approach the John Dorsey-led Browns have decidedly not emphasized in 2018 is watching holdover talent learn and grow within the system they hope takes root. No, rather, they’ve clearly scrutinized every man on last year’s team and applied a strict value methodology. So far we’ve seen Starting DT Danny Shelton traded to the Patriots as […]
Let’s assume that the Haslams don’t fire Hue Jackson, the coaching staff, and the front office during or after the upcoming season. It goes against type, I know, but bear with me here. Let’s assume we won’t have yet another new crew of decision-makers coming in to clear out the roster to make room for […]
God knows it’s a cliché, but he really looks like an ordinary Joe. No way you’d see Joe Schobert walk into the room and figure him for a Pro Bowl middle linebacker. Maybe a sixth-grade social studies teacher. Maybe a whitewater rafting guide, fit, fresh-faced, and friendly. But in fact, the only 2017 Cleveland Brown to […]
When the Browns swapped a fourth-rounder and future seventh for three-time Pro Bowl WR Jarvis Landry, they knew the ex-Dolphin would signal a seismic splash on several levels. Foremost is his sheer productivity. In his four pro seasons, Landry has never missed a game, despite touching the ball 565 times on receptions, returns, rushes, and […]
The trade for quarterback Tyrod Taylor was a very savvy one, and it illustrates the unpublished roadmap that the Browns are following under new GM John Dorsey. Why trading for Taylor was so savvy He is an experienced starter with a winning record. The Browns went all last season without a QB on the roster […]
The regular season kicks off in just a few hours, and the Browns are perched on a very strange fulcrum. It’s Year Two of Hue, Sashi, and the Moneyball youth movement. Today’s battle at the Stadium features a pair of 7s from northwest Ohio. Wearing the gangrene and urine is Big Ben The Unindicted, the […]
Yep, I’m back, now that the Browns have already won double the games they did last season, since I’m counting preseason, and after last night why wouldn’t we, right? Recently an old friend found the pictured Stephen Stills album at a used record store, and he figured I should have it. The first real concert […]
In a different way than the released RGIII, Browns quarterback Cody Kessler is “The Third.” As in, things come in threes. As in, third time’s a charm. Or maybe as the “rule of three,” a writing principle that such groupings are somehow punchier, one way or another. “C” is the third letter of the alphabet. […]
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