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The Cleveland Browns officially have arrived.
The team that will be everyone’s trendy pick to win the AFC North (and cure polio) in 2008 will get lots of national exposure, with three games on ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
The Browns host the Giants on Monday, October 13, visit the Bills on Monday, November 17, and travel to Philly on Monday, December 15.
The Browns also host the Steelers on a Sunday night in September, and the Broncos on a Thursday night in November.
The end result is even more pressure on the organization to produce after an unexpected 10-6 mark in 2007. And that makes it even more important for the Browns to get off to a good start.
They’ve got four games and then a bye, with the Cowboys and the Browns’ three AFC North rivals starting things off. Anything worse than 2-2 would set the wrong tone for a team that the league apparently believes to be on the cusp of big things.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
So when is the schedule coming out again?
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April 15th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Intelligent Yinzer, thanks for the “roid” rage YouTube video of Winslow. Good stuff. He’s such an idiot.
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April 15th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Who”s starting Courtney Loves boy freind or Anderson>
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April 15th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
No problem. Although this is my favorite Browns video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC3xNSiRTDc
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April 15th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Cleveland’s suppoosedly unstoppable offense scored just 9 points more than the Steelers last season. And the steelers were without Hines Ward and Santonio Holmes for 3 games apiece and their starting LT for 4 games. It also didn’t help the steeler offense to play on a field made of oatmeal.
The bottom line is Cleveland’s defense is still suspect and the offense is not as great as everyone thinks. Derek Anderson threw a ton of INTs. How will he do with big expectations and with Brady Quinn still looking over his shoulder?
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April 15th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I like turtles.
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April 15th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Let’s not forget, no matter how bad the Browns are, they are actually a national draw. People are going to watch them whether they win, lose, or just totally trainwreck a game.
Let’s also take into consideration how water-downed it is to actually play a prime-time or a national game. Sunday Night, Monday Night, earlier Thursday night games. Way too many options. This isn’t Frank, Don & Howard only on Monday Nights. Every team almost has to have a prime-time game. Even the Cardinals.
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April 15th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Hey, bleedsorangandbrown,
Don’t ya just love it when all these Browns haters gang up and pontificate about how terrible the team is. I predicted them at 9-7 for last year and was labelled everything from a nut case to a commie. All I did was look at the O line and Jamal Lewis. Now I’m looking at the newly reconfigured D line and I see the same 10-6 as last year, regardless of this year’s opponents’ ‘07 W-L. Some folks just seem to think that nothing ever changes in the NFL. Well, folks, ask the players. They’ll tell ya: NFL=not for long. So dis ‘em all you want. Just be sure and tell us in December how wrong you were (not likely since non-grass-sniffers usually vanish when their nonsense is debunked)
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April 15th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Wow — 56 comments for … the BROWNS???????????
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April 15th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Oh, never mind. Not all the comments were FOR the Browns.
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April 16th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Good luck this year Brownies & fans–you guys have suffered too long.
Build on what you did last year, and get into the playoffs.
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April 16th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Does anyone here think that maybe the 2008 Browns are going to end up like some combination of the 2007 Jets and the 2007 49ers? The Niners had super-high expectations and the Jets made the playoffs because of a really easy schedule. Also, Phil Savage did a bunch of fancy hand-waving with free agent acquisitions to distract from the fact they have no draft choices. This Browns team is a HUGE red flag to me.
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April 16th, 2008 at 8:50 am
The Browns won all of 1 (ONE!) game against a team that finished with a winning record. Is it really that suprising they could finish 10-6 when they managed to beat 9 teams with losing records?
Even the Bengals won more games against teams with winning records and the Bengals were horrible last year.
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April 16th, 2008 at 8:54 am
All I can do is smile…. especially at the Steeler fan’s comments.. Being a life long Browns fan, I’m obviously biased, but also the first to admit that until it’s won on the field, nothing is deserved.
With that being said, gotta love the nervousness of the Stillers “nation” coming though in the comments. A team that has done nothing to go forward in the offseason, means your going backward in this league.
100 mil $ drama queen big ben “wants a big receiver”, the o-line is “rebuilding”, your looking for a “franchise back” in the draft, and Polumalu (whatever) has to cut his hair..
The Browns, who also won 10 games last year, held on to all key personal, and addressed their key areas of weakness (d-line). Did they take a risk? sure what team doesnt with every move made free agency or draft? Is someone better than Corey Williams or Shaun Rogers going to be available at 56 & 87? They both have allot of years ahead of them and warrant the picks.
The Browns also protected themselves, in terms of QB play, by holding onto both Anderson and Quinn.
The Jets and 49′rs that EVERYONE LOVES to talk about, did not do this, which is why they had a crap season.
Lets just see what happens this year… big fat smile ;-).
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April 16th, 2008 at 10:29 am
best part of the deal will be watching the Clowns fall flat on their face. Then NFL has been praying that the Clowns would finally bounce back. They have done their best to make it happen from the beginning with the extra draft picks, allowing the team to keep its name and history (which Baltimore did not get to do), giving them a team after a few year hiatus (which did not happen in St. Louis, Baltimore etc) only to watch the Clowns flush all of their advantages down the toilet. It took the Clowns stealing a Baltimore personnel man to finally have some success. And if you would guess that I am a Ravens fan you would be right. The Clowns stink, their city is a joke, and sooner or later the rest of the team will develop meticillin resistant staph from being next to a polluted lake. I’ll stop hating on the team when Tony Grossi stops keeping Art Modell, one of the stalwarts of the NFL responsible for its explosive growth, out of the Hall of Fame. He sure belongs in there before Paul (just build another museum) TagliBUM who will be remembered for setting us up for the labor strife that will be coming to a theater near you in the next couple of years.
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April 16th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
The bermanism is NORSE, not NORRIS. And he uses it for the NFC north, not the AFC north.
don’t be a yinzer.
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April 19th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
The Browns have a lot to live up to this year but I think they have turned the corner. The trades for the defensive linemen were better than anything available in the draft. The future is NOW.
Phil Savage is doing a great job of rebuilding this team in only 3-years. Finally Cleveland will be one of the elite teams in the NFL again. The 1st barrier they need to get past it to beat the Steelers and tie up the all time record. After that I want to see them pound Pittsburg into the ground for the next 10-years. That will put the all time record back the way it used to be.
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