Category: Cleveland Browns (Page 94 of 114)

Picked this up in the Chicago Sun Times regarding Bears defensive end Alex Brown, who’s getting pressure for failing to follow up his four sack performance against the Giants last year…

Brown will square off Sunday against Cleveland Browns left tackle L.J. Shelton, whom the Bears pursued for a while during the offseason. Shelton is steady but susceptible to an up-and-under move. Cleveland has been using a short passing game to control the ball through the air with veteran quarterback Trent Dilfer, and the Bears, with the league’s ninth-ranked run defense, would be well-served to disrupt Dilfer’s timing.

Susceptible to an up-and-under move? I love how the local paper is coaching the Bears…is Shelton putting this article up on his locker?

Apparently he got some rest in the bye week. But these numbers don’t look all that good.

Although Dilfer is eighth in the NFL with a 95.1 rating, he’s 20th in the league on third down with a 71.6 rating. He’s completed 14 of 26 attempts on third down for 53.8 percent. The Browns have also scored just one touchdown in six trips inside the red zone, settling instead for five field goals.

Depressingly familiar Browns stats, don’t you think?

The Browns told these four guys to not let the door hit them in the ass on the way out. But ESPN’s John Clayton writes that in Denver, early signs look very good.

The Broncos are a better defense with the additions of Gerard Warren, Courtney Brown, Ebenezer Ekuban and Michael Myers. In Cleveland, they might have been the Mistakes by the Lake. In Denver, the sky is the limit.

A change of scenery is sometimes all it takes, right?

The prospect of a good QB controversy overcomes Roger Brown.

Have the Browns been quietly giving backup quarterback Charlie Frye extra study work to digest during this bye week – as starting QB Trent Dilfer continues to heal from the battering he took last Sunday against Indianapolis? Hmmm.

Hmm, indeed. Note the utter absence of any sourcing. It’s a complete rumor, perhaps even started by Brown himself. Can’t really tell. Frye might be getting more homework because, well, it’s a bye week. Or not. Who the hell knows? Scene Magazine did a good story on Brown a few weeks ago, noting that rumors are his stock in trade.

Ah, the rumors. Columns like Brown’s are built on secondhand stories and anonymous sources. Speculating about upcoming moves or who doesn’t like whom in the clubhouse is Brown’s job. Yet the accuracy of what he peddles has long been open to debate, even among Plain Dealer colleagues. If there is one criticism of Brown that is troubling, it is this: He makes things up.

The PD already reported on Tuesday that Trent Dilfer is fine. Why is Roger Brown stoking the embers of a cooling QB controversy? Is he just making this shit up?