Dawn has now broken on the NFL’s 2017 league year, AKA the start of free agency. And we’ve sure seen suddenly just where the Browns are drawing the line. Because that’s what it comes down to: where do you draw the line? If Terrelle Pryor can’t meet you there, think a few steps ahead. They […]
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 […]
The Browns organization was embarrassed and dismayed by their 1-15 record this past season. Expectations for the second year of the Sashi Brown/John DePodesta/Hue Jackson team — and the sixth year of the Haslam regime — are for a quantum leap toward success. It’s pithy to say that there’s nowhere to go but up, but […]
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 […]
Fourteen years ago today, the Browns last participated in the playoffs. They couldn’t stanch a Steeler comeback. The season ended there, near the Confluence, as it did in their previous post-season appearance eight years earlier as the original Browns. This current playoff drought is approaching double the length of that 1994-2002 dry spell that included […]
Back during training camp, or 21 weeks ago, I set various statistical over/unders for the Browns’ upcoming season. Feeling brave? Then let’s take a peek at how the reality compared to my August estimates, shall we? Percent of starts made by rookies Over/under: 46 player-games, or 13.1%. Actual: 74 player-games, or 21%. OVER. With 14 […]
On this, my last chance to comment on the Browns in 2016, I have appallingly little to offer. But I need to thank those who have fed my Browns fandom through this famine. Foremost is my father, who, truth be told, practically dragged me to a game this year. Fortunately, it was last week’s Christmas […]
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 […]
The baby Browns discovered a new way to not net a win, letting the Dolphins slither into the end zone in overtime. It’s now been 288 days and counting since Cleveland last won a football game of any kind. They were an inch away yesterday, depending on where the ball met the shoe of the […]
The season-opening loss in Philly added to the Browns’ long cascade of calamity. But the Week 2 opponent reminds us of the worst twist of the dagger ever to strike the hearts of Cleveland football fans. The very existence of the Baltimore Ravens derives from supreme treachery. We should never, ever forget that fact. The […]
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