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Cleveland Browns (2007 & prior)

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Canton

Browns starting to create playoff buzz
UPDATE: 11:10 PM, Monday, October 29, 2007
BY Steve Doerschuk
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

BEREA Jamal Lewis helped Baltimore win a Super Bowl five years after the team left Cleveland.

Seven years later, in his first year with the reincarnated Cleveland Browns, Lewis is still waiting to get back to the big game.

Yet, with the Browns in decent shape at 4-3, Lewis can?t bring himself to talk playoffs.

?I can?t even say that word right now,? Lewis said. ?I?m not even gonna speak on that.?

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Canton

BROWNS REPORT
UPDATE: 11:01 PM, Monday, October 29, 2007


Spinning 4-3

Browns Head Coach Romeo Crennel says 4-3 ?gets our heads above water.?

His first winning record as an NFL head coach gives his team a .571 winning percentage.

Just for fun, consider what .571 means to a Major League Baseball team. It projects to 92.5 wins over 162 games.

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Canton

On good side of .500
Monday, October 29, 2007
By STEVE DOERSCHUK

ST. LOUIS A road win. A winning streak. A winning record. The Cleveland Browns?

The temptation after Sunday's 27-20 win was to ask Romeo Crennel if he's going charter jet or stretch limo to Disney World.

"We kind of needed it," Crennel said, meaning the win, not the junket.

You knew Joshua Cribbs' hyperactive emotions would be stoked after his team, which had four wins all last year, went to 4-3.

"It lets us know we no longer have to dwell on the past," Cribbs said. "At this point last year, I mean, where were we?"

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MJ

Crennel won't let players get comfortable
JEFF SCHUDEL, Morning Journal Writer
10/30/2007




BEREA -- Only three players remain from the team of 2001, which was the last time the Browns were 4-3 after seven games. Coach Romeo Crennel's new mission is to convince the other 50 players that a 4-3 record isn't so hot, even for a team that was 2-5 just a year ago.


Presumably the three holdovers from six years ago -- Phil Dawson, Orpheus Roye and Steve Heiden -- already realize what Crennel will remind his team tomorrow before practice for the Seahawks resumes.


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MJ

Browns take another defensive hit
JEFF SCHUDEL, Morning Journal Writer
10/30/2007



BEREA -- As if the Browns don't already have enough problems trying to stop opponents, now they might have to stop them without their leading tackler.


D'Qwell Jackson limped off the field in the first quarter in St. Louis with a sprained ankle. Jackson, in his second season, leads the Browns with 60 stops.

He made three tackles before the injury inside the Edward Jones Dome forced him to miss the rest of the game. Whether he can play against the Seahawks Sunday won't be known until later this week.

Another linebacker, Kris Griffin, was knocked out of the game with a strained Achilles. Griffin leads the Browns with 11 special teams tackles.

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Dispatch

Browns' comeback effort pleases Crennel

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:34 AM
By James Walker


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



BEREA, Ohio -- The Cleveland Browns are developing three intangibles -- chemistry, maturity and confidence -- and it shows in one important tangible area: the standings. The Browns won two in a row for the first time in four years with Sunday's 27-20 victory over the St. Louis Rams. Coming off a bye week, Cleveland fell behind 14-0 midway through the first quarter and finished by outscoring the Rams 27-6.

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muffler dragon;976650; said:
I hope they have a good week of preparation, because this next game could be a doozey.
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"It's a doozey!"




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jwinslow;976416; said:
The browns? :huh:
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No, Cleveland. Cincy fans have always been obsessed with Cleveland. They're jealous of the popularity of the Browns. Ever since '95, they've been jealous of the success and popularity of the Indians. And they're jealous because Cleveland has an NBA team, whereas Cincy only has the lowly Bearcats.

I remember going to a Browns-Bengals game about 4 years back at Paul Brown Stadium. Bengal fans had all of these printed t-shirts saying "Cleveland Sucks, Couch swallows" or other variations of the same tune. (ala Ohio State w/ Michigan). They even had towels that said "Cleveland Sucks." You never find that in Cleveland, unless it's in reference to Pittsburgh. (which in of itself is an example of inferiority complex).
 
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CPD

BROWNS VS. SEAHAWKS Sunday, 4:05 p.m., Cleveland Browns Stadium, WJW Ch. 8 Grossi's scouting report.D5



Browns' playoff road paved with Seahawks



Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Browns victories over Seattle are rare, but the good news is they always portend a playoff appearance.
They have advanced to the postseason in each season they defeated the Seahawks -- 1980, '82, '89 and '94. The bad news is they've lost 11 of 15 meetings.
The Seahawks arrive Sunday after their bye week with the same 4-3 record as the Browns. Their path to the postseason is much easier because the NFC -- much less the NFC West -- is lacking a super power.




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Canton

Seattle has old friends
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
By Steve Doerschuk
Repository sports writer

The Browns are on a roll, poised to make the lakefront rock Sunday.

?Our fans have been excited all year,? Head Coach Romeo Crennel said. ?If they are even louder, I would appreciate it.?

Seattle has a quiet edge no other 2007 visitor to Cleveland Browns Stadium can match: Legal spies who know too much.


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Canton

Lewis sees it?s not all pass with Chudzinski
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
By Steve Doerschuk
Repository sports writer

BEREA Running back Jamal Lewis didn?t know Rob Chudzinski from Terry Robiskie.

He knows him now, and is starting to like him.

The Browns? win at St. Louis was a defining moment in the Lewis-Chudzinski relationship.

Trailing 14-3, Chudzinski, in his first year as offensive coordinator, stuck with the run. Lewis carried five times for 34 yards on a nine-play, 67-yard touchdown drive.

Momentum reversed. The Browns won, 27-20.

Lewis admits he wondered how Chudzinski would try to get out of a big hole.

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MJ

Offense has been FANtastic
Jeff Schudel, Morning Journal Writer
10/31/2007




For the first eight years of the Browns return to the NFL, players would always say the right things about playing home games, about what an advantage it was to play in front of such loyal, knowledgeable fans, but the evidence suggested otherwise.


Not always, but often by the fourth quarter -- if not sooner -- Cleveland Browns Stadium was as empty as downtown on a Tuesday night, and with good reason. Not only were the Browns losing game after game, but they were bad and boring game after game.

Times have changed. Games are exciting. The stadium should be rocking when the Browns and Seahawks kickoff Sunday at the unusual 4 p.m. starting time. Tailgaters will have an extra three hours to get limbered up, and the fans that go simply to enjoy good football will be looking for the Browns to stay on the heels of the Steelers in the AFC North.

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