Category: Cleveland Browns (Page 88 of 114)

Bill Livingston debunks whatever case might be left for Trent Dilfer.

In each game lately with Dilfer are long stretches where it’s like driving through Kansas on a day when the twisters aren’t out. A whole lot of nothing. The Browns, for example, got their first first down of the second half over five minutes into the fourth quarter.

Read the whole thing. It’s making me think it’s time for Charlie Frye.

FINAL SCORE Lions 13, Browns 10. TIM’s TAKE? Might be the worst Browns game I’ve seen since…well…last year. Reuben Droughns had a good game, 100 yards, but that’s it. We made Garcia look like Tom Brady. There was so much mediocrity on the Browns side of the ball, I thought I was watching beige paint dry.

PRE-GAME TAKE – Livingston sums my thoughts up well in his prediction for a Browns win, 5-2.

Pandemonium reigns after Phil Dawson’s game-winning kick late in overtime.

This could be one of those very ugly games that makes us wish the Bengals-Steelers game were on instead. Kickoff at 1. See you then.

GARCIA STARTS – A duel of stifling mediocrity in store. Dilfer vs. Garcia. Ugh.

8.51 1st – Browns 3, Lions 0. Good drive ends with what else…Dilfer getting sacked on 3rd & goal. Droughns looked VERY good on the drive. Great catch by Braylon Edwards for a big gain, who looked like he hadn’t been in the hospital a few weeks ago.

END OF 1st – Browns 3, Lions 0. TIM’s TAKE? Aside from big play at end of the quarter, Garcia’s Lions mostly look like Garcia’s Browns from last year. Impotent. Droughns having a great half already.

5.26 2nd, LIONS SCORE, Lions 7, Browns 3. Garcia scores on 4th & goal rollout. Previous drive petered out on a missed field goal, this one looked better. Browns defense bent and broke.

ENSUING Kickoff, TOUCHDOWN RETURN….JOSH CRIBBS. NO FLAG. Browns 10, Lions 7. Pretty unbelievable turn of events.

2 MINUTE WARNING, Browns 10, Lions 7. Weird game. Lions seem to be able to drive when they want, currently on a good drive after Browns KO return TD.

HALFTIME – Browns 10, Lions 7. TIM’s TAKE? Still a weird game. Half ends on Dilfer throwing a pick off a tipped ball, then Lions incompetence letting the clock run out. Strange game.

9.29 3rd qtr – Lions 10, Browns 10. Lions kick a field goal after a Browns punt. Man, this is a boring game. Garcia shoulda been called for intentional grounding on the 3rd down.

START OF 4th, Lions kick FG, Lions 13, Browns 10. The mediocrity is overwhelming.

13.11 4th – Dilfer throws another pick. Browns force a punt on ensuing possession. Mediocrity almost breathtaking.

On the old Brownies front, maybe Jeff Garcia starts, but Kevin Johnson certainly will.

Former Browns receiver Kevin Johnson is starting for the Lions ahead of first-round pick Mike Williams out of USC and leads the team with 17 catches for 133 yards. Johnson moved into the starting lineup when 2003 No. 2 overall pick Charles Rogers was suspended for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy. The Lions’ other first-round receiver, Roy Williams, is listed as questionable with a quadriceps injury.

KJ is one of those guys whose departure I never really understood.

…and…

Garcia would love to face his former team at Cleveland. “It’s exciting to me,” Garcia said. “Obviously, my experience last year was not one I would have hoped it would have been.”

Still no decision on whether or not he’ll start in place of Joey Harrington.

The Browns rushing strategy just gets more ridiculous the closer you look.

No team in the AFC has run fewer times than the Browns’ 104. They’re the only AFC team without a rushing touchdown.

It’s as if Muarice Carthon thinks Dilfer is Dan Marino.