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Cleveland Browns (2008 Season)

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Canton

Browns will see a lot of Monday play this season
[FONT=Verdana,Times New Roman,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Cleveland now ready for prime time[/FONT]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
BY Steve Doerschuk
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

BEREA It's out. It's wild.

The Browns, snubbed to the tune of eight night national TV games in nine years, were assigned five such games for 2008 when the NFL released its schedule Tuesday.

Browns owner Randy Lerner could only guess recently whether the networks would judge his team ready for prime time.

"Look," he said then, "we played hard. We won games. I think we're a worthwhile team to watch, and therefore, I think we'll get that kind of attention."

But this kind of attention? Who knew?

The Browns were assigned:


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DDN

Palmer: Browns aren't ready for prime time

By Chick Ludwig
Staff Writer

Thursday, April 17, 2008
CINCINNATI ? Quarterback Carson Palmer tossed another log onto the "Battle of Ohio" fire on Wednesday, April 16, just to stoke the rivalry's flames in the offseason.
He saw Cleveland's 2008 schedule and noticed the Browns were awarded a franchise-record five nationally-televised games.


Palmer wondered what the Browns did to deserve all the prime-time exposure.
"I was as shocked as anybody to see that because they're still a ways away from being a ..."
Palmer's voice tailed off.



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ABJ

Browns will wait until late in draft General manager says team won't trade up, but wants cornerback
By Patrick McManamon
Beacon Journal sports columnist

Published on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008
BEREA: Looking for an inkling to the Browns' draft plans?
Think late round, and think cornerback.
Those are the major hints that Browns General Manager Phil Savage gave at his annual pre-draft news conference Wednesday.
Savage maintained his stance that he does not see the Browns trading up into the first day of the draft, and he said he hopes to find a cornerback.
''Obviously, it's a position that we're going to be interested in,'' Savage said.
Savage's draft discussion had a bizarre element to it. The Browns are without a pick in the first three rounds of the NFL Draft on April 26-27 because of trades for quarterback Brady Quinn and defensive linemen Corey Williams and Shaun Rogers.
But Savage ? a guy who built his resume on the way he picked players in the draft ? still dissected the draft position by position, listing the top players at each position even though he concedes that the Browns won't be picking any of them.



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ABJ

Browns hope to corner late rounds By Patrick McManamon
Beacon Journal sports columnist
POSTED: 02:48 p.m. EDT, Apr 16, 2008
Looking for an inkling to the Browns' draft plans?
Think late round, and think cornerback.
Those are the major hints that Browns General Manager Phil Savage gave at his annual pre-draft news conference Wednesday.
Savage maintained his stance that he does not see the Browns trading up into the first day of the draft, and he said he hopes to find a cornerback.
''Obviously, it's a position that we're going to be interested in,'' Savage said.
Savage's draft discussion had a bizarre element to it. The Browns are without a pick in the first three rounds due to trades for quarterback Brady Quinn and defensive linemen Corey Williams and Shaun Rogers.
But Savage ? a guy who built his resume on the way he picked players in the draft ? still dissected the draft position by position, listing the top players at each position even though he concedes that the Browns won't be picking any of them.



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CPD

Cleveland Browns' draft-day strategy: sit and wait


Thursday, April 17, 2008Tony Grossi
Plain Dealer Reporter
Don't expect one last surprise from Phil Savage on draft day.
The Browns general manager has nothing up his sleeves to improve on the team's first draft position of No. 122 overall in the fourth round.
"We're kind of content just sitting where we are," Savage said Wednesday at his annual pre-draft news conference.
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But what if . . .
Some team makes an unex pected trade of fer for quarter back Derek Anderson?
"I don't think anybody's going to call," Savage said. "I think they know he's off the table this year."
A highly rated player so entices Savage that he considers trading a 2009 draft pick to move up?
"I can't even create a circumstance in my mind that would get us into the top 63 picks," he said. "We've kind of eliminated that from our thought process. We're going to watch the draft like any observer of the NFL would and see how our board holds up."




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Canton

Browns thinking about potential draft moves
[FONT=Verdana,Times New Roman,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]But it would only be third round[/FONT]
Thursday, April 17, 2008
By Steve Doerschuk
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

BEREA One man's Mr. Irrelevant is another man's golden child.

So it is with the Browns' top pick in next weekend's draft, at No. 122 overall.

"This will be maybe the most celebrated fourth-round pick in the history of the Browns," General Manager Phil Savage said. "This guy's gonna get a parade, be introduced at a Cavs game and everything else."

Who will he be?

The Sporting News is posting a mock draft that says Cleveland will take Texas defensive tackle Frank Okam in Round 4, Boise State cornerback Orlando Scandrick in Round 5, Michigan linebacker Shawn Crable in Round 6 and Iowa linebacker Mike Humpal in Round 7.

Savage's projections are top secret, but he did shed some light Wednesday on general plans.


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Canton

Browns GM Phil Savage says schedule will 'generate a buzz'
UPDATE: 3:46 PM, Wednesday, April 16, 2008
BY Steve Doerschuk
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

BEREA There's a downside to drawing the glitziest schedule in the NFL.

Five night games on national TV were thrown at a Browns team that merely proved it could almost make the playoffs against a marshmallow schedule.

Browns General Manager Phil Savage shrugged today and said, "It beats the alternative."

Savage reacted to the Browns' schedule the day after it was released.

"I think it'll generate a buzz in the city that hasn't been here in quite a while," he said. "We went from zero Pro Bowlers to six and from zero prime-time games to five.

"That's progress."

Through most of the day, the Browns' schedule was the hottest story on nfl.com.

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Carson Palmer said:
"I think it's a lot of hype early," Palmer said. "Just like every year, there's hype around one or two teams early. It'll fizzle out once they start playing games."
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Is Carson talking about what happened to his Bengals last year?????

Poor golden boy is just pissed because one of his receivers just lost his ninth life (Henry) and the other is a premadonna prick (CJohnson) - while DA is getting a new stud wideout (Stallworth) to go along with a stud TE (Winslow) and a pro bowl receiver (Edwards).

Either way, we'll see him and his shit team twice this year to shut him up.
 
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CPD

Cleveland Browns won't pick until draft's fourth round, but for GM Phil Savage, that's not such a bad thing


Friday, April 18, 2008Tony Grossi
Plain Dealer Reporter
In his fourth year as Browns general manager, Phil Savage reached a personal watershed.
"I've already done two things that, at least in my mind, I felt I would never do sitting in this chair," he said during a respite at NFL league meetings three weeks ago. "One was to take a receiver in the top five, and the other was to trade away the first day of your draft."
Savage is an avowed draftnik who feels more comfortable beating the bushes of the deep South to scout college players than mingling with billionaire owners at lavish resorts.
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Nobody will have a more empty feeling than him on April 26 when the first two rounds of the NFL draft go by without the Browns making a pick. And then he will have to sit through the third round on April 27 and most of the fourth before announcing the Browns' first selection at No. 122.
The draft drought, of course, is the result of trades for quarterback Brady Quinn last year and defensive linemen Corey Williams and Shaun Rogers this year.
The Browns have never before been so depleted on draft day.
But it's happened with other teams, a lot more than you think. Seventeen times previously since 1970.




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Canton

No question on Browns QB
[FONT=Verdana,Times New Roman,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Anderson is the starter, Crennel says[/FONT]
Friday, April 18, 2008
BY Steve Doerschuk
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

GREEN With no hope beyond luck of sudden impact from the draft, Romeo Crennel focused on what he already has.

"My first- , second- and third-round picks are already on the team, working," the Browns head coach said Thursday during a stop at the Northeast Ohio Celebrity Luncheon Club.

Quarterback Brady Quinn and defensive ends Corey Williams and Shaun Rogers are involved in the offseason program that kicked off last month. Those three cost the Browns their top three picks in next weekend's draft.

"We feel good about the guys we have," Crennel said. "If you take a guy in the draft, it takes a while for him to develop."

Williams and Rogers were signed to reverse the fortunes of a defense whose coordinator lost his job. Unlike them, Quinn has barely played in the NFL.

In a post-speech interview, Crennel bluntly clarified where his quarterbacks stand.

"Derek Anderson is the starter," he said. "Brady Quinn is the backup."

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Canton

Browns' Crennel clarifies status of Bentley, QBs
UPDATE: 4:06 PM, Thursday, April 17, 2008
BY Steve Doerschuk

BEREA A lot of people are assuming it, but have you heard the boss say it?

Today, Browns Head Coach Romeo Crennel said it:

"Derek Anderson is the starter. Brady Quinn is the backup."

It was Crennel's response to a request to clarify the Browns' quarterback situation heading into spring practices. He had just finished a speech benefiting Boys and Girls Clubs of America at the Northeast Ohio Celebrity Luncheon Club.

During the question-and-answer segment of Crennel's talk, Crennel was asked to identify Anderson's and Quinn's strengths. The question happened to come from former Browns place-kicker Don Cockroft, who told the coach he was particularly interested in the take on Quinn.

"Derek Anderson is a big, tall, strong-armed pocket passer," Crennel said. "Brady Quinn ... the thing about Brady you notice is his leadership ability. Even when he was running our scout team ... he takes charge of those guys, and he leads those guys, and they perform for him.


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he Sporting News is posting a mock draft that says Cleveland will take Texas defensive tackle Frank Okam in Round 4, Boise State cornerback Orlando Scandrick in Round 5, Michigan linebacker Shawn Crable in Round 6 and Iowa linebacker Mike Humpal in Round 7.
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If the Browns do stay pat and do not trade up, I can live with this draft but I think Savage would have to be sure that the CB from Boise State would still be there in round five. I still like the CB from Boston College but I don't think he would last past round 4 and Okam is a nice DT for a round 4 pick.
 
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