This piece in the New York Times is a detailed, well-informed, and fair-minded preview of the Browns’ upcoming season. Author Andy Benoit eschews the anti-Cleveland snark so common in outsiders’ analysis but spares no mercy for players he finds lacking: On Colt McCoy: Holmgren’s selection of Weeden upset the incumbent quarterback Colt McCoy, but contrary […]
Thanks to my dad, and fortified by tailgate BBQ and beer with the local Browns Backers club, I witnessed the Browns’ preseason debut game in Detroit last night. You can find full recaps elsewhere, but suffice it to say that it always feels better to win, even if the final score isn’t the main point […]
Starting LB Chris Gocong’s season-ending and career-threatening Achilles injury is the latest example of one of the NFL’s primary defects: the outsized role of injuries. The human toll in pain and disability is the primary consideration, and of course my sympathies lie with Gocong for impact the torn right Achilles tendon will have on his […]
Incoming Browns owner Jimmy Haslan III took center stage yesterday. The affable, self-assured presence of the truck stop magnate in itself signaled a culture change for the Browns. I’m posting my takeaways here, not because many folks are reading this (the revival of a long-languid blog is no overnight blossom), but to get my initial […]
A mere 31 years ago today, the Browns opened their season with a bang, downing the Atlanta Falcons in the Hall of Fame exhibition game in Canton. It was the first game for the orange and brown after the fateful Red Right 88 playoff loss by the Kardiac Kids, and they looked promising in their […]
Obsessive Browns fan, prone to perceiving patterns and observing oddities, even inanities of name and number, takes note of the following: Never in history have the Browns had more than one Josh or Joshua on the team. In fact, before Cribbs hit the scene running, the only Josh on their all-time roster was QB Josh […]
The Browns will be sold. It’s a visceral reminder that no matter how much time, attention, and money we fans invest in our team, it all dwells within a high-stakes corporate framework that transcends the prerogative of the hoi polloi. News of Randy Lerner’s imminent deal to surrender the franchise to Pilot Corporation CEO James […]
The development of the new Browns offense will be the most fascinating storyline to follow this summer and fall. Any time you draft seven guys on that side of the ball — including a starting quarterback and a runner hyped as the best such prospect in half a decade — and bring in an experienced […]
Put me firmly in the camp that wants the Browns to keep both Colt McCoy and Seneca Wallace as the backups to rookie Brandon Weeden, who will most likely officially be named the starting quarterback in a matter of days. Clearly the team’s braintrust deemed the QB position in need of upgrade. McCoy lacked support […]
Here it is, late July, when optimism is at its cyclical peak. On the cusp of training camp, the team is fully stocked with some 90 players, all presumably healthy. Phil Taylor, the exception, even seems more likely to play most of the season than it first appeared when his pectoral muscle tore this spring. […]
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