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Cleveland Browns (2007 & prior)

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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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BROWNS INSIDER
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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BROWNS
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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Cleveland Browns | Browns 27, Rams 20

Browns 27, Rams 20

10.28.2007

Access NFL.com for final statistics from Sunday's win.
ST. LOUIS -- Two in a row. Finally.
The Browns came from behind Sunday to get their first road win of the 2007 season, getting 3 touchdown passes from Derek Anderson - 2 to Braylon Edwards - and a pair of late defensive stops to beat the Rams, 27-20.
Edwards tied a career-high with 8 receptions as the Browns rallied from an early 14-0 deficit. They've now won consecutive games in the season for the first time since 2003 and are 4-3 on the season for the first time since 2001.
The Rams slip to 0-8.


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Bengals Brown-out

Fates of ailing Bengals and surging Browns in unexpected reversal from a few years ago

By Staff reports

Monday, October 29, 2007
Ohio's two National Football League teams are headed in different directions.
"We finally have our heads above water," Cleveland Browns' coach Romeo Crennel told his team after beating the St. Louis Rams 27-20 on Sunday. "Now we have to make sure we keep them there."



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Browns rally to edge past Rams

Braylon Edwards has a good day: 8 catches, 2 TDS for 117 yards.


By Sean McClelland
Staff Writer

Monday, October 29, 2007

ST. LOUIS ? Who knows where this all leads, but the Cleveland Browns like the drive so far.
They overcame a 14-0 first-quarter deficit Sunday to beat the St. Louis Rams 27-20 for their first road victory. Now 4-3, they have won back-to-back for the first time since 2003. Not since 2001 have they been above .500 this late.



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BROWNS CAPTURE WATERSHED WIN Defense digs in, hangs on, earns redemption
By Marla Ridenour Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Monday, Oct 29, 2007
ST. LOUIS: A 27-20 victory Sunday over the winless St. Louis Rams could be remembered as the day Cleveland's long-struggling franchise finally put its head above water.



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Browns survive helmet gaffe Emotional Edwards apologizes for actions after victory over Rams
By Marla Ridenour Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Monday, Oct 29, 2007
ST. LOUIS: Braylon Edwards was spared from agony.
Sunday at St. Louis, the 24-year-old Browns receiver committed an almost unthinkable Dwayne Rudd-like mistake.
Believing the third quarter had ended, he took off his helmet to celebrate a 19-yard catch that included running over a Rams defender. The unsportsmanlike conduct penalty set the Browns back to the Rams' 41-yard line, but Phil Dawson hit a 45-yard field goal to give the Browns a seven-point lead with 10:35 to go.



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Jurevicius' clutch catches key to Browns' win Wide receiver grabs third-down conversions on important late drives
By Marla Ridenour Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Monday, Oct 29, 2007
ST. LOUIS: His right knee is banged up from what he calls ''wear and tear,'' making some wonder if he'll need surgery in the offseason.
No matter his aches and pains, the Browns know they can count on Joe Jurevicius on game day.


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Browns have winning record, winning streak

Posted by Tony Grossi October 29, 2007 00:54AM

Categories: Browns

St. Louis -- The Browns can score with anybody now. That, they knew.
But can they get to where they want to go with a defense that causes your blood to boil?
The Browns gave up nearly 400 yards of offense and 24 first downs to a crippled St. Louis Rams team that was further depleted by the loss of three offensive starters during the game.
"It doesn't matter, if you win," said Browns defensive lineman Shaun Smith.
That was the bottom line Sunday as the Browns departed joyfully out of Edward Jones Dome with a 27-20 victory.




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