The trade for quarterback Tyrod Taylor was a very savvy one, and it illustrates the unpublished roadmap that the Browns are following under new GM John Dorsey.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 […]
So many moves, so much change, so how best to cast myself back into the blogging of the beleaguered Browns? With a personal note, I guess. So much news and so many views have already been tweeted and podcast by a whole ecosystem of characters large and small. My voice seems tinny and distant, but […]
A mere 381 days ago, I announced that this was officially the worst Browns team ever and the worst time to be a Browns fan other than “The Move.” In the meantime, the team has won exactly one football game. They would somehow have to win another one just to be good enough for Coach […]
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 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 […]
Got a hunch or a hope who the Browns will soon draft? Go on the record to win a signed copy of my paperback, Brown for the Count: A Compendium of Cleveland Browns Lists, straight to your mailbox. Just use this form to name up to 11 players you think the Browns will select at some point […]
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. […]
Open letter to the other NFL teams who may be interested in a cut-rate QB we’ll help you pay for: Don’t wait for us to release Brock Osweiler. We expect a bidding war, just not one structured to relieve us of much of that $16 million he’s getting this year regardless. Perhaps you’re looking for […]
Word is the tall drink of water the Browns acquired from Houston this week may not last here longer than a cup of coffee. He wouldn’t be the first. In fact, according to my research, he’s the 60th quarterback the Browns have signed since returning to the league in 1999. Many of them never made […]
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