Browns CB Baxter tears patellar tendons in both knees

I guess the team did win a Super Bowl title -- just in Baltimore as the Ravens.

Tough break for Cleveland.

 

That's the first thing I thought of. God, it looked like somebody shot him the way he just dropped.

 

Bad math. But then again, maybe you're thinking the 1996, 1997 and 1998 Browns were playoff contenders. I guess by that logic, the NFL's team in LA has a shot this season.

Looks to me like beginning in 1994 the Browns have had two playoff teams in 10 years. Grant it, that is horrid, but you have to consider the circumstances in 1995 and what the NFL did to the Browns when they granted them a new franchise.
(See: "False Start" by Terry Pluto.)

Anyway, that's a pissing contest.

I can't help it but I do think there are pieces currently in place to help this team succeed in the near future. On defense, corner back Leigh Bodden, safeties Sean Jones and Brodney Pool, linebackers Kamerion Wimbley, Andra Davis and D'Qwell Jackson and defensive linemen like Simon Fraser are all developing young players with talent.

Youth resigns on offense as well, but they've proven in the past they have playmaker potential — Winslow, Edwards and Frye. Offensive line is serviceable (needs to be addressed in draft and get healthy... hello injured all-pro center) and Ruben Droughns had an 1,000 yard season last season thanks to fullback Terrell Smith. There is a problem on offense and by firing Maurice Carthon (or forcing him to resign) it is being addressed.

Look, 1-5 is bad, I'm tired of the losing, I'm tired of how the offense has performed and I'm tired of all the injuries but Christ All Mighty this attitude of woah is the Browns is getting old. Woah is a lot of teams in the NFL, but this is only the second season of the Crennel-Savage era. I believe in these two, their football knowledge and their commitment to returning the Browns to the elite of the NFL.

 

Thank you, Phil Savage. But when you add the Browns ineptness to everything else that goes on in this town, there's every reason for the woe-is-me attitude to hang here like a storm cloud.

 

Mo Carthon's firing will have little if any impact on the tailspin.

 

See, I knew we'd agree on something!

 

Like someone else said earlier, the countless draft errors made by Butch Davis will have ill effects for years to come.

Part of the problem on offense, too, is that Reuben Droughns doesn't scare anybody. He's a bruiser who will pick up a few yards after contact, but he's not going to outrun anyone.

Of course, it would help if they had a semblance of an o-line. Shaffer is a bust.

 

Whoever looked at footage of William Green, reviewed his history and said, "That's someone we should draft in the first round," should be enshrined in the Hall of Idiocy.

 

With a 9-7 record, and they pulled a game out of their ass to get in. They had no business being there.

 

That was the main photo on the best story Peter King's ever written for SI. An indictment of astroturf, it appeared in the issue with Joe carter on the cover celebrating his world series-winning homer.

 

It's the NFL. Lots of teams pull games out of their asses. Sometimes, you're as close to 11-5 as you are to 5-11. Rememeber week one that year? Dwayne Rudd chucking his helmet after he thought he sacked Trent Green? Yeah, that one went the other way. Damn, at least that team was exiciting to watch. This is slowly eating away at my soul.