Category: Cleveland Browns (Page 80 of 114)

Next in line to give Braylon Edwards a self-flagellating slurp job…Bud Shaw.

What he shared has been so obvious for long enough I think he showed restraint in not going door-to-door with a megaphone.

Yeah. Some restraint. Kid plays in seven whole games…can’t get more obvious than that. Give the kid a blog so he can whine 24/7. Shaw continues to amaze.

His timing suffers more because the past two receivers to talk themselves up were knocked down and dragged around Heinz Field as if they got a shoe caught in the saddle. Just because Northcutt and Antonio Bryant talked better games than they played shouldn’t reflect on the No. 3 overall draft pick.

Actually, yes, it should reflect on the No. 3 overall pick, given that just about every top pick the Browns have taken since 1999 has pretty much TANKED. In fact, every Browns top pick should automatically be given the benefit of NO doubt, the Browns should take every top pick and put them in a god damn wheel chair, pretend they are paraplegics, because that’s how low the expectations should be for every damn one of them. Let alone when they start flapping their mouths in response to a media just dying to create a story out of a crappy season, let alone when every other receiver on this team has a smack vs. delivery quotient that is just outta the park.

Man, the sports media in this town must be bored out of its mind. You guys need to get out more…didn’t you know Lebron James plays here? How much whining does he do?

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.

Mary Kay Cabot in today’s Braylon Edwards story is the story, clearly taking advantage of a young kid who’s having a frustrating year on a bad team, who most certainly would otherwise have not gone down this road but for the fact that Mary Kay is trying to make news.

Browns top pick Braylon Edwards finally said it: Just give me the darn ball.

That’s the only quote I’m taking from the story because he flaps his lips so damn much in this PD interview, it’s impossible to take anything out of it that stands out. He just goes off. And off. And off. And off. He’s like T.O. in training.

And yeah, he finally just “said” it, as if it popped out in a vacuum involuntarily like a belch, and Mary Kay just happened to be there with a tape recorder. Read the story. Mary Kay Cabot clearly is just baiting the kid, sticking a tape recorder in front of his face, hoping he’ll just keep the verbal diarrhea flowing enough to get her story to the front page above the fold of the PD sports section. She places her questions to Braylon in the story without quotes, as if questions fall out of thin air for Braylon, (“Edwards was asked…” really!?!?) as if she isn’t actually creating the story herself, making news rather than covering it. Every question is leading her interviewee all the way, like some cocaine dealer who knows she’s dispensing an addictive drug, i.e. the undivided attention of the media, and she just drips it out, drop by tantalizing drop, until Braylon is flapping his mouth completely out of control.

I like Braylon Edwards, I think he’ll be a weapon in the Browns offense for a long time, and he’s probably the best athlete on this team already. But he should SHUT. HIS. MOUTH. And as for Mary Kay, nice touch. You tryin’ to create another T.O? That’ll get you on ESPN’s Around The Horn, won’t it? When the sports media wrings its hands over these spoiled brats in professional sports, they need to take a long hard look in the mirror…this is precisely how they are created.

Trent Dilfer has calibrated his quality of play almost perfectly. He keeps doing just enough to keep himself from getting canned, but stinks just enough to lose a lot of games. His numbers yesterday really don’t look all that bad. 17-34, 253 yards, 1 TD, 1 pick. But he missed key throws at key points, especially the wide open Braylon Edwards post that would have made the score 14-0.

And of course, it just keeps the Charlie Frye drumbeat going.

Just one of them from the ABJ.

Browns receiver Braylon Edwards had knifed between two defenders on a skinny post. Nothing except well-worn sod separated Edwards and the end zone about 60 yards away. It was late in the first quarter and the Browns already owned a surprising 7-0 lead over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night. All quarterback Trent Dilfer needed was a strike. In baseball parlance, he threw a 98-mph fastball to the screen. The pass sailed past Edwards’ outstretched hands.

There were several of these moments last night, including Northcutt’s drop near the end of the half. Story of the Browns for the last, oh, 12 years?