Whenever the Browns prepare to play the Jets, my thoughts drift back to my first time at the Stadium, January 3, 1987, which just so happened to be the greatest Browns game ever. Second-year QB Bernie Kosar came of age by throwing for 489 yards, and the Browns rallied from 10 points down late in […]

Have you noticed? … … Coach Davis (no relation, by the way) is so determined to get rookie RB William Green untracked, he will keep him in the entire first half no matter what happens. Stuffed again on third-and-short? Way to run hard into that pile. Chop-block penalty wipes out a first-down pass play? Looked […]

Obviously lots of discussion has circulated about Tim Couch. Is he the QB to lead us to the promised land? Did we overcommit to a player who’s really not that talented? I’m not sure. Brian Sipe lacked many obvious physical tools and looked iffy on the field for several years before shining as the league […]

BROWNS 34, TEXANS 17 The Browns were favored to win against this expansion team, and, after losing three straight, they absolutely needed this home game to save their season. Surviving a mediocre first half and a banged-up secondary, the Browns found a way to get the job done. These were the keys: 1)Superior special teams. […]

Twenty mintues ’til kickoff, and I’ll make my bold prediction for today’s game. As mercilessly reported by Gregg Easterbrook, The New York Times is 0 for 608 in guessing the final score of NFL games. That’s a baseline with plenty of upside for me. So here goes: Jamel White gets over 150 combined yards, and […]

You have to admire Otto Graham, the Browns’ first and greatest quarterback. By giving interviews and appearing at this weekend’s Legends festivities, he again shows the fearless self-assurance that helped him lead the franchise to its initial glory days and eventual acceptance into the NFL. Graham, 80, knows he has Alzheimer’s disease, a degenerative dementia […]

Welcome to the beginning of this expansion weblog. I’ve been keeping another blog for a few months now, and I plan to continue sharing my general thoughts and impressions there. But no specific topic is more appealing to me than the Browns, the team I’ve followed religiously since I was ten years old. My dad […]