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In order to retire as a Brown....This is on the Cleveland Browns Daily Radio show....will add links as they come...

WIsh he would stay and kick....LOL

Phil Dawson has announced his retirement from the NFL. He will sign a contract to retire as a Cleveland Brown.

"To have the opportunity to come back home and retire with the organization and the city that I love is incredibly meaningful to me," said Dawson. "It only seems right to have the opportunity to do this with the fans that have been so good to me and my family."


"We are thrilled that Phil Dawson wanted to come back and retire as a Cleveland Brown," said Dee and Jimmy Haslam. "He epitomizes the characteristics that we look for in our players - hardworking, professional, consistent and he was a pillar in the community. He is a great example for all current and future Browns."

Dawson appeared in 305 career regular season games during his 21 NFL seasons from 1998-2018. He ranks among the all-time NFL leaders in games played (seventh with 305), field goals made (eighth with 441), points scored (11th with 1,847) and field goal percentage (16th with 83.8).

Originally signed by the Browns in 1999, Dawson won the placekicking job during training camp and remained with the team through the 2012 season. He holds team records for most career field goals (305), highest career field goal percentage (84.0), most field goals in a season (30 in 2008), highest field goal percentage in a season (93.5 in 2012), field goals in a game (six on Nov. 5, 2006), most consecutive field goals made (29) and most consecutive games with a field goal (23). He scored 1,271 points with Cleveland, the second most by a Brown, and his 215 games are the third-most by a Browns player. In 2012, Dawson became the only Browns kicker selected to the Pro Bowl (Lou Groza was selected as a tackle).

A perennial team captain, Dawson also made a major impact in the Cleveland community. He teamed up with the Adoption Network to invite families who recently adopted children to each home game from 2008-12, so they could form new memories as a family. He was voted the 2012 Browns Player of the Year by the local PFWA chapter, the 2007 Dino Lucarelli "Good Guy" Award honoree by the PFWA, the 2006 Ed Block Courage Award winner by his teammates and the 2006 winner of the Doug Dieken Humanitarian Award for his charitable and community efforts.

Dawson, who played collegiately at the University of Texas, also played for San Francisco (2013-16) and Arizona (2017-18).

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Man, we could really use him and Joe Thomas for one last run.

Very cool! Welcome home, Phil!

Awesome Phil Dawson makes his return.

J/C

I don't doubt King John maybe able to sway him for one more year.

From I hear, we will need him.

That was an incredible kick. If I remember correctly, he had another one similar to that a couple weeks later?

In any case, best of luck to Phil in his retirement.

I had the opportunity to play golf with him in a charity outing several years back and I have to say he is one the nicest guys you would ever meet. He definitely needs to be in the ring of honor as well.

Welcome home, Phil! We could use you. The cherry on top of a classy career, one last bit of polish and shine.

Salute to our class act! He is a great one.

Yep, I'll bet the Browns will take a look and see if he has anything left. From what I hear the two kickers in camp are sucking big time.

All is Right with the World.

Back in 2010 in NO I met him after the game. Ran into a guy in a Saints jersey that wanted to bum a light for his cigarette and he mentioned one of his cousins played for the Browns. Being in the somewhat drunken state I was in, I ask who it was and if I could meet him as I thought he was BSing me. He said it was Phil Dawson and he was going over to meet him now and I could come along. Needless to say, he wasn't BSing. Got to meet him, super nice guy. Also got to meet Floyd Womack, that dude was huge, and split a cab back to the hotel with Jason Trusnik's family. "Grandma Trusnik" (that was her jersey) said she had been to every game that Jason played in.

Let’s just not let him leave the facility

I heard basically the same. Joseph as of yesterday was 15/15 on basic kicks, but like 1/5 or something stupid on simulated game kicks.

I really hope they consider brining in someone else TBH.

Welcome home, Phil! I got really excited for a minute. Thread title sux.

I like when our Men come home.

Yeah, kinda cool that guys liked it just because. Didn't win alot but just enjoyed what the city and fans offered.

A shot at the HOF possibly? Eventually?

Maybe someday, when the importance of kickers gets more respect from the voters.

Kicking Coach?

In comparison to HOFer Jan Stenerud Phil has more points and better accuracy.
There may be other circumstances to consider I don't know. It would be nice to see another brownie go in a year after JT!

He didn't have enough big game kicks.

Definitely an advantage kicking through KCs glory years.

Indeed. The next kicker to get in will be Vinatieri. It helps when you played with Tom Brady and Peyton Manning through their primes.

Clutch kicks in the Super Bowl mean a lot, no doubt.

He didn’t have the opportunities either. His kicks were big kicks to his fans. Fans who often had to look to the kicker on the team to root for someone who consistently excelled. Dude was money, and very often referred to as such. Vinatieri is loved, no doubt, but Dawson is beloved by his fan base. Maybe it means nothing for his HOF run, but I’m one of those fans so I believe it’s possible.

Phil Dawson is 1 of 3 of the most consistent, hardest working players we've had since 99 (Cribbs, Thomas).

I just realized that in the 1999 hall of fame game in Canton, Phil kicked the OT game-winner in our first game since the move.

Hall of fame game is tonight.... Phil announces this...,

Classy move by the Browns.

I like that it was his idea.

Browns Ring of Honor. Well deserved.

Not sure he has enough kicks in big games. A similar argument/issue that is keeping Clay Mathews out of the HoF.

Great career. Love the fact that he wanted to retire a Brown. So happy the organization made it happen.

I know it's a foolish thought but a part of me wants him to kick a few at camp, see how he does....

It stinks but it's what matters at the position. What you mean to a fan base doesn't mean much when writers from all over the country are voting.

Hey Phil is that you man.

Yet outside of his fanbase, no one really knows him.

Everyone knows Vinny.

I don't see Phil going