All’s quiet on the brown-and-white front
For a team that is 0-3 on the season and 5-14 over its last 19 games, all is refreshingly quiet in Berea.
After three close losses, the Browns are focusing on Sunday’s game vs. Cincinnati, trying to figure how to get not only their first win of the season, but how to beat the Bengals in Cleveland for the first time since 2007 (aka when we didn’t know how horrible Derek Anderson is at quarterback).
For a change other teams are dealing with quarterback issues: Buffalo, Arizona (ha!), and Carolina to name a few. And, for the most part, those media members who are interested in the temperature of the office furniture have moved on to Miami, Jacksonville and San Francisco.
This must be what it’s like to follow a real NFL team, looking ahead to the next game and wondering:
- How Eric Wright will bounce back?
- How the Browns will game plan for Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco, a particular thorn in the Browns’ side over the years?
- Can Peyton Hillis have another day like the one he had in Baltimore?
- Will the wide receiving trio of Mohamed Massaquoi, Brian Robiskie and Chansi Stuckey have more than three catches combined?
- Can the defense bring some pressure on a declining Carson Palmer?
- Can the Browns finally hold on to a second-half lead and close out a game?
After more than a decade of distractions, hoo-haa, motorcycle crashes, “teeny, tiny fractures,” debates over which lousy quarterback gives the team the best chance of not being embarrassed and everything else, it’s nice to be able to focus on football for a change.
This is something we could get used to around here.
Now about that 0-3 record …
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