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Cleveland Browns (2007 & prior)

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Ocho Cinco cerveza

Best served cold with humble pie

Monday, September 17, 2007 Dennis Manoloff

Plain Dealer Reporter
Chad Johnson should have been celebrating late Sunday afternoon.
The Bengals' one-of-a-kind receiver did what he came to do, catching a touchdown pass and leaping into the Dawg Pound.
Oh, by the way, he finished with 11 receptions for 209 yards and became the Bengals' all-time leader in receiving yards.




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Cleveland Browns attribute win to players-only meeting


Monday, September 17, 2007Mary Kay Cabot
Plain Dealer Reporter
Browns players attributed their big victory over the Bengals in large part to a players-only team meeting that took place Monday, following the 34-7 rout by Pittsburgh.
"Everybody looked at themselves in the mirror and we simply said, 'We're going to do it,' " said Browns kick returner Josh Cribbs. "We said, 'If you don't, you can leave the room or get out of the organization, but first see that you're doing everything you can to help this team win a football game.' "




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Cleveland Browns' Jamal Lewis leaves Cincinnati Bengals and doubts behind

With 216 yards, Lewis still has the speed to run past defenders

Monday, September 17, 2007 Jodie Valade

Plain Dealer Reporter
For the record, Jamal Lewis wondered, too.
The Browns running back wasn't entirely sure either, wasn't positive that the speed was still there so long after he won the NFL's Offensive Player of the Year honors in 2003, if the 28-year-old still could churn for long-yard games like he once did.




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Cleveland Browns quarterback Derek Anderson quiets quick critics

Success after opening-drive failure impresses fans, confident teammates
Monday, September 17, 2007Mary Kay Cabot
Plain Dealer Reporter
The boos began for Derek Anderson after he went three-and-out on his opening drive - and the Brady Quinn chants were sure to follow soon.
Instead, Anderson, the unknown player who gets no respect, put up points on nine of his next 13 possessions - including five touchdown passes - to lead the Browns to an unlikely 51-45 victory Sunday over the Cincinnati Bengals.




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Canton

Browns discover offense ? big time ? to stun Bengals
Monday, September 17, 2007
By Steve Doerschuk
Repository sports writer

CLEVELAND Looking from the lower bowl, where every fist was pumping, to the Dawg Pound, which was going berserk, to the upper deck, where a chain of high fives was smacking all the way, to the west game clock atop Cleveland Browns Stadium.

Time left: 9:59.

And on the scoreboard under the Cleveland Clinic sign: CLE 48, CIN 38.

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Lewis breaks out with 216-yard day
Monday, September 17, 2007
By Steve Doerschuk
repository sports writer

BEREA Jamal Lewis had a long time to think about where he?s been and where he?s going ? just on one play.

For a moment while he was running 66 yards for the touchdown that gave the Browns a 41-31 lead on the way to Sunday?s 51-45 win, he was back in 2003.

Four years and two days ago, he rushed for a league-record 295 yards for Baltimore, against the Browns.


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Anderson takes charge, with great results
Monday, September 17, 2007
By Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

CLEVELAND The play isn?t used often by the Cleveland Browns. It?s the victory play, where the quarterback takes the snap and kneels down as the final seconds run off the clock.

Derek Anderson had one request ? an ultimatum, really ? for referee Peter Morelli. The third-year pro from Oregon State was keeping the game ball.


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Big day thrills Edwards
Monday, September 17, 2007
By Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

CLEVELAND By the end of last season, No. 17 was public enemy No. 1. Browns receiver Braylon Edwards was the one fans took their frustrations out on for another season of bad football.

Coincidentally, after a 30-0 loss last year to the Bengals at Cleveland Browns Stadium, Edwards vented his frustration and called out the offensive line. He challenged Head Coach Romeo Crennel.

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Browns: Player of the game, and more
Monday, September 17, 2007
TODD PORTER

PLAYER OF THE GAME

Derek Anderson had his back against the wall. He was named the starting QB after Charlie Frye was traded to Seattle. With half the town wanting to see Anderson fail so first-round draft pick Brady Quinn could play, Anderson made the questions go away. He completed 20-of-33 passes for 328 yards and a franchise-tying five TD passes. Anderson missed his first five passes but settled down after that. It helped that he wasn?t sacked, and he knew where to throw the ball sooner than QBs of Cleveland?s past.

UP AND DOWN

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END ZONE: Bengals fans go home early
Monday, September 17, 2007
STEVE DOERSCHUK

How about this for a change of pace: Bengals fans left early instead of Browns fans.

The exodus began when the Browns took a 13-point fourth-quarter lead.

It was hard to tell during the game, because the team?s colors are so similar, but a pregame walk indicated there were about 10 Browns fans for every Bengals fan.

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SPORTS SPOTLIGHT: Savage's pieces come together in impressive display
Monday, September 17, 2007
SPORTS SPOTLIGHT
TODD PORTER

CLEVELAND On his way out of the stadium, Phil Savage had a Browns ball cap pulled down near his eyes. His Cleveland Browns sports jacket was buttoned. Last week, when the Browns were a national punch line, was the time to dress incognito.

Savage is the same man most every week. He doesn?t get too high, nor too low.

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Lewis runs to daylight
Gets 216 yards on 27 carries

By DAVE HACKENBERG
BLADE SPORTS COLUMNIST

CLEVELAND - Cleveland Browns fans shouldn't have much trouble recalling the last time Jamal Lewis rushed for 200-plus yards in a game. In fact, they should have little trouble remembering the only two times he had done it prior to yesterday. Both came during the 2003 season for Baltimore against Cleveland. He went for 295 yards in an early-season game in Baltimore and for 205 yards late in the year at Cleveland.

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Morning Journal

Offensive outburst starts up front
By David S. Glasier, Journal Register News Service
09/17/2007




CLEVELAND -- In a home locker room full of smiling faces, some of the biggest smiles yesterday were on the faces of Cleveland offensive linemen after the 51-45 shootout victory over Cincinnati.


Left guard Eric Steinbach spent four seasons with the Bengals before joining the Browns as a free agent in March.

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Morning Journal

Lewis rushes to Browns' aid
JEFF SCHUDEL, Morning Journal Writer
09/17/2007




CLEVELAND -- The Browns know exactly how the Bengals felt yesterday when Jamal Lewis ran threw them for 216 yards, because not too many years ago Lewis was doing it to them.


In 2003, when Lewis played for the Ravens, he set an NFL record by rushing for 295 yards against the Browns. Later that season he rushed for 205 yards in the game in Cleveland.

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Morning Journal

Bengals get defensive after loss
BOB FINNAN, Morning Journal Writer
09/17/2007




CLEVELAND -- After watching the tapes of the Browns-Steelers game in Week 1, one could understand if the Bengals' defense came in a little overconfident.


But after the Browns rolled up 554 total yards, had a 200-yard rusher in Jamal Lewis and amassed 51 points, the Bengals might want to re-assess their defensive schemes.

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