Cleveland Browns (2007 & prior)

[NFBuck]

Right now we are sitting with the 3rd pick.

Bring on Jordan Palmer. :(

That wouldn't shock me. The sad thing is that I really think Frye could develop into a pretty damn good NFL QB if he had some time to apprentice and wasn't thrown to the wolves behind an OL that couldn't block a defense stocked with amputees.

 

[NFBuck]

Dispatch

BUCCANEERS 22 BROWNS 7
Another stinker for Browns
Monday, December 25, 2006
James Walker
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Browns receiver Joe Jurevicius walks off the field after the loss to the Buccaneers.
CLEVELAND ? Forget about the Grinch.
It was the Browns who stole Christmas from their fans for the second straight year.

Best line from that article...

The Browns need a large mop to clean up the mess they've become.

Ken Dorsey, come on down. If you haven't found God, I suggest you do so.:ohwell:

 

[leek]

Browns need to spend their draft picks and free agent money on linemen, LOTS of linemen

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

ABJ

Dazed Browns fans feel ho-ho-hopeless

Santa fails to deliver a victory as Cleveland gets sacked

By George M. Thomas

Beacon Journal sportswriter

CLEVELAND - Although many Cleveland Browns fans were in the Christmas spirit at Sunday's game, some said the team deserved a lump of coal for its performance this season.
There was no holiday treat. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Browns 22-7 at Cleveland Browns Stadium.
The 4-11 Browns have shown few sparks in a season that started with the usual high hopes, only to have them tempered on the first day of training camp when prized free agent LeCharles Bentley, a Cleveland native, went down for the year with a knee injury.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

ABJ

SEASON'S BEATINGS

Browns lose game, second quarterback

By Patrick McManamon

Beacon Journal sportswriter

CLEVELAND - The Browns have established a new Christmas tradition.
Embarrass themselves, disgrace their history, let down their fans.
All wrapped up in one 60-minute package that seems like it takes four weeks to get through.
So it has been the last two seasons for the home-town team -- two games on Christmas Eve, two embarrassing losses.
A year ago, the Browns could put salve in their wounds by saying at least they lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion.
Sunday, they lost 22-7 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- a 3-11 team when the game started.
``It wasn't a very good showing,'' coach Romeo Crennel said, again showing he has mastered the understatement of the obvious.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

ABJ

Owner can be thankful for fans, but not team

By Terry Pluto

CLEVELAND - Exactly what are the paying customers supposed to think of their Cleveland Browns?
And Randy Lerner should know that.
His family may own the team, but it belongs to the fans -- who keep buying enough tickets for every game to be a sellout since the team returned in 1999.
The story wasn't that there were perhaps 20,000 no-shows at the game, but that about 50,000 still showed up on Christmas Eve -- even if some wore bags over their heads.
What are the fans supposed to think after watching the Browns lose 22-7 to Tampa Bay? The Bucs entered the day at 3-11 and had lost 7-of-8.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

ABJ

View from Pluto

Offensive guards are team's weakest link

By Terry Pluto

Scribbles in my Christmas notebook as Tampa was embarrassing the Browns 22-7...
? What is the weakest spot on the Browns? That's like trying to find the baldest spot on my head -- plenty of places to look and find no hair. But I've decided. It's the offensive guards. A year ago, GM Phil Savage signed veteran Cosey Coleman and Joe Andruzzi to bring some stability to the line, which they did. But now, both are beat up -- and probably both will need to be replaced.
? Here's why I say it's the guards: The Browns are seeing a lot of pass rushes right up the middle. The running game also has faltered, and the guards are key blockers for the backs. In fact, the Browns have stopped pulling their guards out on sweeps because they are too slow to get in front of the back and block somebody.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Canton

Who stays? Who goes?
Monday, December 25, 2006
By Steve Doerschuk repository sports writer


BEREA What if they moved Survivor Island to Put-in-Bay?
The cast would be the roster of the Cleveland Browns. The winners would be the toughest of the last men standing in this season of attrition.
With Sunday?s game against the Buccaneers not in the books by press time, these were among the notable survivors.
HANDY MAN JOSHUA CRIBBS
Granted, it would never happen in a league that tries crazy things as often as Cleveland goes to Super Bowls. But wouldn?t it have been entertaining to see what Cribbs could have done in a half at quarterback in, say, the super-dull home loss to Denver in which the offense trickled out 165 yards?

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Canton

On christmas eve, browns fans again get their lump of coal
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
SPORTS SPOTLIGHT TODD PORTER

T?was the day before Christmas, and all through the Stadium, not a Cleveland fan was stirring, in fact, they said, we hate ?em. All the losses were hung on the season without care, in the hopes that Troy Smith soon would be there. The players were nestled all snug in their Hummers, while they could care less this season?s been a bummer. And Crennel in his jacket and Savage in his cap, they?re about to settle down for a long draft-day nap. When out on the field there arose such a clatter, I woke up from my keyboard to see what was the matter. There before my eyes the point suddenly came home, the Browns can?t find the end zone.

CLEVELAND
hat about sums up Sunday.
Four dropped passes. A pooch punt. Two interceptions. A blocked field goal and two turtle doves. Say this for the Browns: They didn?t hurt their draft position. Of course, they didn?t gain any trust from fans after Sunday?s debacle.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Canton

Another humbug for Browns fans
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
By STEVE DOERSCHUK

A Browns fan wears his own special holiday bag over his head during Sunday?s 22-7 Cleveland loss to Tampa Bay at Cleveland Browns Stadium. The Browns have now lost their past two Christmas Eve games to the Steelers and Bucs by a combined score of 63-7.​

CLEVELAND Derek Anderson?s season of hope ended with his nightmare before Christmas.
The 6-foot-6 quarterback entered Sunday?s 22-7 loss to Tampa Bay having sold many Browns fans that he is a better option than Charlie Frye.
During a slow walk through the muni tailgate lot before kickoff, more than a few agreed with Mark Nedlik, a 36-year-old bartender at Skinny?s in Euclid. ?Anderson definitely looks like a better quarterback,? Nedlik said near the warmth of a grill fire. ?He has more pocket and field awareness.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Canton

More Braylon trouble
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
BROWNS NOTEBOOK STEVE DOERSCHUK

CLEVELAND Weirdness follows the Browns to the finish line.

On defense, you?d have thought either 38-year-old Ted Washington or 35-year-old Willie McGinest would have bowed out by now.
Both played in Game 15 Sunday. Defensive linemen Orpheus Roye, Alvin McKinley and Ethan Kelley, linebackers D?Qwell Jackson and Andra Davis, and defensive backs Brian Russell, Gary Baxter, Leigh Bodden and Daylon McCutcheon did not.
?It is what it is,? McGinest said after a 22-7 loss. ?We?re not gonna make excuses for who?s here and who?s not here. The young pups who were in there did good.? As for the offense, you?d have thought either Braylon Edwards or Kellen Winslow Jr., both coming off knee surgery, wouldn?t have lasted.

 

[k_stone_69]

Again, these guys FUCKIN SUCK.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

BROWNS NOTEBOOK
Dorsey says he?s ready for action
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
James Walker
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



CLEVELAND ? The porous offensive line has brought the Browns to this situation: playing the emergency quarterback.
Charlie Frye, who entered the season as the Browns? starter, was in the locker room with a splint on his injured right wrist after the 27-7 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, and No. 2 quarterback Derek Anderson joined him with a sling on a separated shoulder.
That left emergency quarterback Ken Dorsey fielding questions about whether he?s prepared to finish the season. "The way I look at it is, I?m a professional and it?s my job to be ready in any situation," Dorsey said. "It?s not the first time this happened to me."

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ABJ

Dorsey returns to fill-in position

Backup likely to start Sunday with Anderson, Frye sidelined at QB

By George M. Thomas

Beacon Journal sportswriter

CLEVELAND - Browns quarterback Ken Dorsey will find himself in a familiar position when he takes snaps against the Houston Texans on Sunday afternoon -- that of fill-in. He will replace Derek Anderson, who suffered a shoulder separation in the 22-7 loss Sunday to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
But the way the fourth-year signal caller from the University of Miami speaks, he has little problem with assuming that role, a surprising observation in that in his prior three years, he has started just 10 games, the last being against the Tennessee Titans on Nov. 27, 2005. In that game as quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, he went 23-for-43 for 192 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. In fact, he doesn't seem fazed in the least.
``The way I look at it, as a professional it's my job to be ready in any situation. It's not the first time this happened to me,'' he said. ``I feel like I'm going to prepare and try to get ready for next week. I feel like I owe it to the city and I owe it to the guys on the team to prepare the best I can and play the best I can.''

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[Buckin' A]

Let me ask the Browns faithfull out there (if there are any of us left)....Is Romeo the guy to lead this team? I hate to see them keep changing coaches, but the attitude doesn't seem to be much different than it was and the team doesn't seem to be improving.