Category: Cleveland Browns (Page 91 of 114)

Today, both the PD and the Baltimore Sun do stories on Trent Dilfer’s return to Baltimore on Sunday. They’re both saying that Dilfer is handling it well, toning himself down from Monday to today. The Sun has my favorite quote, from Romeo Crennel.

“I think that the human nature side of him says that he will be emotional,” Crennel said, “but because of his experience, he will be able to control that. Then, if he is not able to control it, I will try to control it for him.”

The PD’s Dilfer story doesn’t go with this quote…why the hell not? It’s fantastic. For such a straight shooter, old-school guy, Crennel is proving very quotable.

In a long line of running backs who have torched the Browns in recent years, Ravens RB Jamal Lewis stands alone. His career average vs. the Browns is 147.6 yards per game, including the outrageous 295 yard game in 2003. He’s not talking much this week about that, even though the Baltimore media is baiting him.

“You can’t really say, ‘Oh, it’s the Browns, and I’m going to go out and get 200 yards,'” Lewis said. “You never know. That’s why I went in last year like, ‘These guys know what we’re going to do. We got all these yards against them before. They’re not going to let that happen again.'”

“The only thing that made me say that back then was that I have a friend [Andre Davis] over there, and we were just talking on the phone,” Lewis said. “I said that to him. At the same time, it wasn’t supposed to go that far. He was supposed to let that phone conversation go as far as that phone. It went and backfired.”

I don’t even remember the guy’s name who torched the Browns running defense last week. Was it Thomas Jones? Jones Thomas? What was his name? Anyway, running defense has been, and still is, the Browns biggest weakness.

What’s with all the mystery injuries lately? I’m guessing Braylon Edwards is gone for the season.

“They did give us a window of probability that he’ll be back in four to six weeks,” said his father, Stan Edwards. “But don’t hold him to that. He’s doing much better, though. This could have been much worse.”

This team is going to be so different next year. You’re gonna have Edwards and Kellen Winslow showing up at camp together, and a no-longer-rookie Charlie Frye. Don’t get used to this 2005 Browns team, folks. It seems that 2006 has been pre-ordained as the year they emerge as an actual team.

That is, unless there’s more mystery injuries.

Is Brian Billick insane? Are the Ravens out of control? To answer this, The Baltimore Sun seeks the advice of..

– Joel Freeman, who has been a professional counselor, behavior analyst and author for more than 25 years. Freeman, founder of the Freeman Institute (a company that specializes in business and personal development)…

– Peter Favaro, a forensic psychologist out of Houston who has worked with a number of athletes through the years, disagrees. Favaro, author of Six Critical Steps to a Calmer Life…

I can’t decide if this is a CSI episode or Dr. Phil. Hilarious.

Why do we care what happens to Lee Suggs? Why is he even on this team? Why is this even bad news? It’s not even news, let alone bad. As far as I can tell, Suggs has made his entire NFL career on two big games in garbage time a couple seasons ago. And that is IT. This line said it all in today’s PD.

Suggs has missed 18 of 36 NFL games because of injuries.

Cut him. Get another back. Sultan McCullough struck me as about 8 million times better than Suggs, let’s get him off the practice squad and in the game.