One of the ironies of yesterday’s Trent Richardson trade is that he won’t be playing for the Browns this Sunday in Minnesota, where the Browns acquired the third overall pick they felt they needed to draft Richardson last year. As with Butch Davis keying on Kellen Winslow II in 2004, the Holmgren/Heckert regime was willing […]
Quite a news day in Berea, with dual shockers. First, Chud named third-stringer Brian Hoyer as Sunday’s starting QB, as the local kid leapfrogs Jason Campbell to replace injured Brandon Weeden. Hoyer, like Chud, is a Jesuit-educated longtime Browns fan. Of course, that’s not the reason for his elevation from inactive to first-string. It’s that […]
Some quick facts and impressions about yesterday’s signing of K Shayne Graham. Given a prolific and popular placekicking predecessor in Phil Dawson, it makes a lot of sense to bring in a veteran who’s known both success and failure in the league. I’m old enough to remember Dave Jacobs and Jerry Kauric. Graham’s longest stint […]
Lots of news pegs going into this weekend’s season opener, but now that rosters around the NFL are down to 53 men, here’s a list of former Browns who made the cut (and didn’t) with other teams. It’s interesting to reflect on our past moves and compare previous expectations with the current assessment of the […]
Not often at all will you find a pair of players at the same position, traded for each other straight-up, who then hit free agency and sign with the same third team on the same day. From even comparison to direct competition. The second pre-season game is when many such roster skirmishes and depth chart […]
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 […]
Dizzy from the swirl of off-season transactions? The helpful handle I grab is to match incoming and outgoing players by position. Such an at-a-glance view makes it easier to analyze the net effect on the roster, while also signaling where the next moves might come. Unmatched outbound players indicate a probable positional need yet to […]
Now that both of the Browns’ leading tacklers, inside linebackers D’Qwell Jackson and Eric Barton, are shelved for the season, the active roster stands at 52, leaving one available job, even after this week’s promotion of rookie LB Marcus Bernard from the practice squad and signing of veteran LB Josh Stamer as a street free […]
The new Browns braintrust gets an A for the sheer number of holes they plugged on draft weekend. Just how well all those holes were plugged will take longer to figure out. I winced as the Seahawks snatched Curry just ahead of the Browns. But that’s because I had already abandoned hope for a trade […]
At the risk of treating a player like “a piece of meat,” I bring you this list of “sandwich” Browns, those who have taken two tours in Cleveland, interrupted by a stint with at least one other team. Quality standards require sandwichers to have played in at least one regular season game at each stop, […]
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