This pretty much tells me Braylon Edwards needs to shut up.

There appear to be several factors contributing to Edwards’ quiet rookie season. He missed the first two weeks of training camp in a contract holdout. He sat out two games with an infection. He seems to have little game-day chemistry with Dilfer.

The Browns have played 9 games. Given all this other stuff, that’s not enough for Braylon Edwards to be getting a mouth on him. I don’t care how talented he is.

ESPN focuses on the special teams battle in Ann Arbor this weekend. Ted Ginn Jr. really has turned around what started out as a disappointing year.

Is there a better rivalry than Michigan vs. Ohio State? And the weather just turned nasty, too.

Watching the game at Southside last night in Tremont, a new Cavs cheer developed. The Cavs were down by 8 in the first quarter. They looked sloppy, came out a bit uninspired. The bartender began to read the specials menu to us…romaine salad, a quesadilla, and a chicken sandwich.

Right about the time she said, “chicken sandwich,” the Cavs started to turn it around. It was amazing. One minute, they looked listless and down by 8 points, the next minute, after the utterance of the words “chicken sandwich”, they were flying up and down the court. We began yelling “chicken sandwich!” at the television whenever the Cavs made a good play, or were about to. Donyell spots up for a three? CHICKEN SANDWICH! Drains it.

After a short period of confusion (why are we saying chicken sandwich?) soon the entire bar was shouting “CHICKEN SANDWICH” at the television whenever the Cavs ran out on a fast break. The best invocation of the chicken sandwich was when Lebron grabbed what appeared to be a half court ally-oop, and while the ball was in the air heading to Lebron, a chorus rose up, “CHICKEN SANDWICH”, which resulted in the thudering dunk.

I think I’m gonna keep this one.

To have Lebron James and Larry Hughes on the court at the same time just. Isn’t. Fair.

After 2 points in the first quarter…TWO…Lebron ends up with 37. Ridiculous. Hughes scores 22 points, all of which accounts for 59 of the Cavs 114 points. Lebron had 10 rebounds, Hughes had 8 assists.

How are teams going to defend this pair? There were times last night when the Wizards simply had to double and triple Hughes. This will continue. Who’s left to cover Lebron? Vice versa? If I’m a defensive coordinator on an NBA team this year, I circle every date the Cavs are on the schedule, and I sub-contract a team of experts to work on this problem like some kind of Manhattan Project, because that’s the only way you’re gonna solve it.