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It's a place for the team to put out PR. It's not designed to be objective.

While fans would love breakdowns, they would also be available to opposing teams. Those sort of things are kept in house for competitive reasons.

Most fans aren't overly concerned about X's and O's. Those that are interested have plenty of other resources available.

There are plenty of websites covering the Browns. While your ideas would be nice for fans, it's not the team's focus. While fan interaction can be a positive, from the team's perspective, it can also be a negative. I imagine with Watson it'd be fairly horrendous. Hey DeShaun we've got a great fanbase, ignore those thousands of comments on our official website calling you a scumbag.

I think Bull Dawg hit the nail on the head. You might wish to consider that the Cleveland Browns also used to host a message board. With the team doing so poorly at the time, a lot of the posts were negative about the team. As such they stopped hosting a message board. When a corporation spends money it is to support and further their product. That is not a conducive environment for getting non bias information.

They have content during the season. The off season not so much.

Right, and one shouldn't expect that. They aren't a independent news source. They are fine with player bio info, draft recaps, game summary, ticket info, etc.

I totally agree with you.

This is all by design and intent.
They don't want fans voicing their thoughts, they just want them to stay excited and buy things. It's a business, not a community. The community devoted to that team exists separate and outside of that site and those offices.

I don't think I've been on the Browns official website since Zac Jackson used to write for them and they would post weekly polls asking fans to vote on the likely outcome against the upcoming opponent.

The polls would typically read something like this:

1) Couch throws for 5 TDs, Browns roll
2) James Jackson scampers for 3 TDs, Browns win
3) Phil Dawson drills last second FG to win
4) Steelers eek out victory on questionable call

Lol remember when the original message board was on their website? They did give us huge perks on Dawg Talkers Day

Yep. Us old timers were there. That was the honeymoon phase. LOL

Definitely remember, but this was before the league decided that they needed to homogenize all of the team sites. When that happened, the official boards went away everywhere (as best I know... I don't believe any team still maintains a message board) and all team sites became "cookie cutter" sites where only colors and logos differ; same as game day experiences and stadium decorations.