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I only cut and pasted the part on the Browns. He talks about 4 teams on the rise. I love the part of the article that he states the "Broncos are still screwing the Browns". For some reason I thought that was funny as hell. Like someone else said, it is nice to see us getting some love from the media. Hopefully it will continue to be positive stuff. Go Browns!


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Rich Eisan - NFL.com
Admit it, people. You stuck a fork in the Browns after their mind-numbing season-opening loss to the Steelers, didn't you? I did. On NFL Total Access, Terrell Davis did, announcing it with certainty. We all did. Some of you had Romeo Crennel practically running off his resumes at Kinko's. But, clearly, it wasn't his fault. It was Charlie Frye's fault. I mean, how else to explain the team's remarkable turnaround? The minute they banished their opening-day starting quarterback to the Pacific Northwest, the Browns offense has been on tilt. Derek Anderson is playing like Brian Sipe, Jamal Lewis like, well, Jamal Lewis, version 2K, and Braylon Edwards has turned into the big-play threat Cleveland hasn't seen since, well, coming back to life … in 1999. The offense has helped right a listing ship despite that ship listing a defense ranked 31st overall.

This Browns team has moxie that no one knew it had, rebounding from the horrid loss to the Steelers by blitzing the Bengals with 51 points. On Sunday, Cleveland took apart the Ravens in every phase of the game from the coin toss to the final gun. This came on the heels of a disheartening loss to the Raiders that a die-hard Browns fan friend of mine still blames on the Broncos. How? Well, you see, the Raiders beat Cleveland in Week 3 with the very same ploy –- negating a place kicker's crucial field goal by calling a timeout at the very last second –- that the Broncos used to beat the Raiders the week before. My buddy, Jeff Schaffer, emailed me with a new twist to a familiar Lake Erie lament: "The Drive, The Fumble, now The Timeout –- the Broncos are still screwing the Browns, they just used Lane Kiffin as their instrument of torture this time."

No matter! Crennel’s crew overcame the bad mojo by dismantling the team that personifies bad mojo for the Cleveland Browns –- the former Cleveland Browns. It was a stunning win that brought the Browns back to life at 2-2 ... just like the Oakland Raiders.

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This came on the heels of a disheartening loss to the Raiders that a die-hard Browns fan friend of mine still blames on the Broncos. How? Well, you see, the Raiders beat Cleveland in Week 3 with the very same ploy –- negating a place kicker's crucial field goal by calling a timeout at the very last second –- that the Broncos used to beat the Raiders the week before. My buddy, Jeff Schaffer, emailed me with a new twist to a familiar Lake Erie lament: "The Drive, The Fumble, now The Timeout –- the Broncos are still screwing the Browns, they just used Lane Kiffin as their instrument of torture this time."

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I know the time out and subsequent block were killers, but we'd be loving it if we'd missed the first one and regrouped to make the one after the time out to win it. Teams try to ice kickers all the time. An NFL field goal unit should be able to execute a 40-yarder regardless.

You're right about the OL, but he gives a lot of props to Chud and Winslow.

Edit: Sorry, I thought I was reading the feeling blue article. My bad.

I watched Sipe play and they are not comparable.

Brian has grounds for a law suite .. Make it class action , I want in on this

LOL no they are not,,,

I knew Brian Sipe. I watched Brian Sipe. He's NO Jack Kennedy.

Sipe was a better QB, plain and simple. He was more athletic, more of an accurate passer, didn't scare the hell out of me when he dropped back to pass as DA does.

I agree with the person who posted before you, if anything DA resembles Vinny moreso then Sipe.

Then again DA is also a version of Philcox as well, either way, he still doesn't compare to Sipe.