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Cleveland Browns running back Jamal Lewis questionable for game against St. Louis Rams
Saturday, October 27, 2007 Mary Kay Cabot
Plain Dealer Reporter
Browns running back Jamal Lewis no longer sounds confident he will play Sunday in St. Louis.
Backing off his bye-week stance that he definitely would be ready, Lewis admitted Friday he's not sure if his strained right foot will be up to it.
"I'll know more on Sun day morning," he said. "Of course, I want to, but let's see how the foot feels. I'll just play it by ear. I'll wake up on Sunday, and it might be killing me. I'll wake up on Sunday, and it might feel great. We'll see how it goes."
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Line leads Cleveland Browns' defense to last in NFL
Saturday, October 27, 2007
BROWNS INSIDER
Line leads defense down to last in league
Browns defensive coordinator Todd Grantham acknowledged Friday that the team's defensive-line woes have impacted the whole unit, which is ranked 32nd - last in the NFL. The first thing you have to do to be successful is win the line of scrimmage," said Grantham. "When that doesn't happen, number one it affects the linebackers, it affects how you call the game and it affects basically everything that you're doing.
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Defense looking for redemption
Unit's struggles are being masked by offense's success
Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:05 AM
By James Walker
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
BEREA, Ohio -- Winning masks a lot of problems, and that has been great news for the Cleveland Browns defense, which is ranked last in the NFL this season.
Lost in Cleveland's respectable 3-3 start is that its defense, expected to be a strength, has regressed in nearly every facet entering a game today against the St. Louis Rams (0-7). The Browns haven't stopped the run (149.5 yards), allow tons of yards through the air (263.4) and can't keep teams out of the end zone (22 touchdowns allowed).
It has been brought to the forefront because the Browns offense is leading the team to victories. The defense allowed 45, 13 and 31 points in three wins this season.
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Success, friendship of Cleveland Browns teammates Derek Anderson and Joe Thomas have a connection
Sunday, October 28, 2007 Mary Kay Cabot
Plain Dealer Reporter
St. Louis
-- During the bye week last weekend, Browns quarterback Derek An derson and left tackle Joe Thomas hopped in the car and made the eight-hour trip to Madison, Wis., to visit their mutual offensive coordinator Paul Chryst.
They watched the Badgers beat Northern Illinois, visited Thomas' old house and roommates, and spent time with Chryst's family. They also discovered they function almost as well together off the field as they do on it:
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Ridenour on the Browns
Big men on campus making it big in NFL
Browns, Rams benefit from Oregon State's arrival
Published on Sunday, Oct 28, 2007
Steven Jackson remembers when he and Derek Anderson arrived at Oregon State as freshmen in 2001. In terms of football players, Corvallis, Ore., might as well have been Munchkinland.
''Before our class, they had little guys playing running back and quarterback,'' Jackson said. ''We looked like giants on the campus.''
In some ways, they still are. Anderson, Jackson and Cincinnati Bengals receivers Chad Johnson and T.J. Houshmandzadeh are poster boys for an Oregon State program that had 12 of its players make NFL opening-day rosters.
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Feel-good Browns face hornless Rams
Sunday, October 28, 2007
By Steve Doerschuk
Repository sports writer
ST. LOUIS For once, the Browns are the bullies.
St. Louis is the team singing the blues.
Orange helmets held high, the Browns are a blustery 3-3, good enough to feel as though four years of 19-45 is ancient history.
The Rams are at their lowest low, 0-7 for the first time since the franchise debuted 70 years ago as the Cleveland Rams.
Rookie left tackle Joe Thomas reflects the mood of the high-scoring Browns.
"I'm just having a blast out there," he said.
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Dawson's long trip with Browns comes full circle
UPDATE: 6:24 PM, Saturday, October 27, 2007
By Steve Doerschuk
Repository sports writer
ST. LOUIS Here at the Gateway to the West, Phil Dawson struts in as Cleveland?s lone ranger.
The 32-year-old place-kicker is the last Brown standing from the only other time Cleveland played here in the expansion era ? Oct. 24, 1999.
Tim Couch, Wali Rainer, Rahim Abdullah, John Thierry ... like so many others, gone into the orange sunset.
?I was a first-year player trying to find my way,? Dawson recalled of the ?99 game. ?I don?t remember much.?
Quarterback Tim Couch picked a fight with a Rams linebacker.
?I don?t remember that,? said Dawson, who was fighting for his life, never sure when Head Coach Chris Palmer might replace him.
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