He’s surer than I am that Delhomme won’t be back, but TheOBR’s Dave Kolonich makes an interestingly good point about Jake’s brief term as a Brown, concluding: Over the last brutal decade, Delhomme is the only Browns’ quarterback who didn’t set the team back or break our hearts. Simply put, he was never meant to […]
With a new labor agreement all but inked, it’s suddenly football season. A burst of signings and player movement has begun. Before I get into what this all entails for the Browns, I want to applaud the clause that ends the emergency quarterback designation and sets game-day rosters at 46. This will help –get developing […]
Football seasons come and go, but good books endure. Below is the most comprehensive list anywhere of books related to the Cleveland Browns — journalism, memoir, history, biography, photography, reference and more — even true crime and fiction. (Media guides, yearbooks, and books for juvenile readers are not included). These 70 titles are sorted by […]
Quick fact of the day: No non-quarterback in pro football history with at least as many career rushes as Josh Cribbs has gained more yards per attempt. (Number of former or current Browns in this stat’s top 100: Eleven.)
Few football observers expect much out of the Browns this season. The general consensus is that their ceiling — if all goes right — is seven or eight wins. But as Rick Gosselin, one of the best columnists in the business, writes, a quick start to the season can, and often does, build into a […]
Apparently it’s not only Browns partisans who believe that the NFL’s $7,500 fine of Lions DT Ndamukong Suh for his flagrant foul on Jake Delhomme was woefully inadequate. Here’s Detroit columnist Drew Sharp arguing that his hometown guy should’ve been suspended for that “irresponsible cheap shot.” [T]he NFL can’t blow off his on-field thuggery simply […]
I think Pete’s just trying to be provocative, but since he diminishes #16 as merely a special-teamer and, oblivious to the irony, deems Phil Dawson the new Browns’ MVP, I’ll go on the record here with my list of the most valuable players to wear the brown and orange since 1999. The criteria are inherently […]
So the Browns trade up to get back into the second round to fill a position of need. Then the draftee tears his ACL and misses his entire rookie year. Where have I heard this before? This is just the kind of sad, uncanny coincidence to stir an old Browns blogger out of hibernation. But […]
In the woulda, coulda, shoulda spirit of Browns fandom, we’re game for this P-F-R counterfactual replay of the strike-torn 1987 season. In a nutshell, labor unrest resulted in the cancellation of Week 3, followed by three weeks of replacement players. But what if that strike had never happened? The cancelled Browns game was a home […]
To heck with all the pseudo-scientific analysis of the upsides and backsides of every potential draftee. There’s no doubt which of the top safeties the Browns ought to draft. My evaluation system is simple and elegant: Do you want a safety named Eric or one named Earl?
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