The release of starting strong safety Donte Whitner tells us that even in the month following free agency, the process of pruning the Browns roster of highly-paid players that don’t fit well into the long-term plans continues apace. Whitner wishes that the move, if it was inevitable, would have been made earlier, so he’d be […]
Attentive Browns fans shouldn’t be surprised that we’re now in the process of losing more free agents than we’ll sign. The time to lock up talent is a year or two before their rookie deals expire, not days before 32 teams can freely compete for prime veterans with an increased salary cap. The dysfunction and […]
The Browns officially have their man, and at 6:30 p.m. they’ll introduce Hue Jackson as the team’s 16th head coach. The Bengals’ offensive coordinator will be the eighth man in this job since the Browns returned to the NFL in 1999, equaling the total from the old era, which lasted 50 years. The Browns have hired […]
The Browns head coach search remains in progress, seven busy days following the firing of second-year man Mike Pettine. I’ll use this space to update the state of the search, based on both official and reported developments. So here’s a list of the candidates, with the strongest and most likely contenders nearest the top: Bengals […]
Nothing like a Brown Cleveland’s catastrophic 2015 season is officially over, and it was nothing like fans were led to expect, such as when Jimmy Haslam declared in August that “no doubt we have a better team” than the one that went 7-9 but lost its five games of 2014. Nothing like laying a 3-13 […]
In two days the Browns’ 2015 will be over, and the real drama will unfold. Heads will roll. It’s just a matter of how many and whose. The most important question is whom the Haslams will bring in to lead the franchise’s football operations into an uncertain future. It’s a mark of how dysfunctional this […]
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Sad. Considering how hard fans fought to preserve the cultural legacy of the Browns, it’s a pity that the current management has not seemed to keep the faith. Their priorities are elsewhere, and it’s not like the on-field results vindicate their approach. Tony Dick was, by all accounts I’ve seen, a solid successor to the […]
The strange case of Dwayne Bowe encapsulates many of the problems with the current Browns. He’s the Chiefs’ all-time receptions leader among wide receivers, a big, athletic target signed in March to a hefty two-year contract that included $9 million in guarantees. Yet he’s been a healthy scratch for most of the season, despite the […]
The first and easiest quarter of the season has ended with the Browns a disappointing 1-3. But even that dismal record doesn’t fully bespeak the serious problems of this organization, from the top down. Over the next few days, I’ll take a look at a few of the key dynamics at work, starting today with […]
Following the league-wide cutdown to 53-man rosters and the formation of 10-man practice squads, certain obsessive fans may be interested to see which former Browns are still employed and where. I found 44 ex-Browns listed on various other teams’ rosters. LB Jason Trusnik — DolphinsWR Brian Tyms — PatriotsCB Leon McFadden — JetsWR David Nelson […]
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