Before I delve into the details of each of the Browns’ penalties this season, here’s an overview of the official tallies, which do not include penalties that were declined or offset by opponents’ fouls. Only once in 12 games were the Browns clearly the less-penalized team. In sum, the Browns have been flagged 95 times […]
In the NFL, penalties don’t correlate well with winning or losing. Why not? In theory, penalties reflect getting outplayed by an opponent or a lack of discipline or concentration. Those factors, plus the consequences of the penalties themselves, ought to track at least somewhat with a team’s overall success rate. Contrary to that, it’s easy […]
For those of us who remember when the Browns couldn’t convert any short-yardage runs — even resorting to a double-handoff reverse from the Pittsburgh goal line a few years back — it sure seems like this team is vastly improved in this crucial area. And even though the defense remains very sketchy, one of its […]
The Browns have now played 878 games in their history. Only three of them (0.3%) have ended with the score 33-30. All went to overtime. Two of them are the Browns’ most recent wins. They are sandwiched around a loss at Pittsburgh. The third one was a loss at Pittsburgh.
With half the regular season in the books: Nobody has thrown more passes for 20-plus-yard gains than Derek Anderson (33). No wide receiver has more rushing yards than Joshua Cribbs (53). Cribbs also has 1,026 kickoff return yards, tops in the league. His average of 30.2 yards per return is 24 percent better than his […]
If not for a systematic bias by the NFL schedule-maker, the odds that the Browns would start the regular season at home for each of the nine years of the expansion era are one in 512, or 0.2%. The weather is one obvious explanation. Looking at the final four regular season games of the year, […]
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