Last Sunday, the Cleveland Browns secured their sixth win of the season by defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 27-19. At 6-7, the team is still mathematically in the playoff hunt, although their odds are not good. A win is a win, but Cleveland’s performance was disappointing, even at this stage in the season. Overall, the team […]
Arrright, it’s gettin’ real. Training camp is behind us. So is the starters’ last tuneup game, a decidedly mixed bag. We can now see much more about this team’s strengths and vulnerabilities. But I’m not quite ready to slice and dice all that just yet. Why boil it down for the other NFL teams, who […]
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 […]
It looks like the Browns organization is learning from past mistakes —which is a relief. Baker Mayfield was impressive in his NFL preseason debut. On just 22 touches, he threw for 212 yards and two touchdowns, going 11 for 20. But according to Ken Zampese, the Browns QB Coach, Tyrod Taylor is still their guy this season. In […]
Count me solidly among the growing number of Browns fans and NFL observers who really like what we’ve seen from new GM John Dorsey and crew this off-season. It’s been an aggressive, multi-front effort to improve the roster top to bottom. But it’s not all Dorsey’s doing. Clearly the Haslams have unshackled their purse strings […]
John Dorsey has been proactive in his bid to revive the fortunes of the Cleveland Browns. The Browns became the second team in NFL history to record a 0-16 campaign in 2017, resulting in the departure of Sashi Brown. Hue Jackson and the majority of the coaching staff managed to remain in their positions, despite […]
In the past 11 weeks, not only have the Browns lost every game this season, but three people I know in real life, all middle-aged guys like me, have sustained and survived major cardiac events. Sadly, former Brown John Thierry is gone at 46. The former Bears first-round pick suffered a heart attack Friday. He […]
The first question that new Browns defensive coordinator Gregg Williams fielded from the local media came from veteran beat writer Tony Grossi. I found it fascinating enough to transcribe. Grossi: Gregg, you sound like a straight shooter so let’s cut to the chase. How have you changed since the suspension? Williams: And we’re not here […]
Several former Browns could be suiting up in the playoffs this weekend, when the final eight teams all compete to advance to the conference championship games. Among them are four of Cleveland’s first-round picks, two second-rounders, and one third. Four of these ex-Browns were signed as unrestricted free agents by these playoff teams. Saturday: Seattle […]
We interrupt this radio silence to announce the nadir. Flashing irrational hope that things won’t — couldn’t! — get any worse, we simply take sad note that the Browns are today a worse football team than they’ve ever been other than the existential crisis of 1995 and the three-year hiatus, it’s now the worst period […]
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