Eric Mangini: Dead Man Walking?
The Browns 30-6 blowout by the Bears could end up being remembered for one thing. It was the day owner Randy Lerner decided to finally take responsibility for the mess he created.   General Manager George Kokinis was removed from the facility in Berea on Monday, hopefully the first move of many.   Lerner reportedly stood in the tunnel outside the locker room and gave a “Staredown” to every player and coach as they came off the field at halftime.   While Lerner said he wasn’t going to fire Mangini this week, he did say he wants to bring somebody with a strong f

What can we get for Braylon Edwards?
I haven't posted here in awhile, but I was busy. Anyway, it's a question worth asking. How much can we get for Braylon Edwards? A case of Schlitz? Two cases of Bud Light? An extra set of shoulder pads? Edwards has done just about everything a professional athlete can do, short of going on a three-state killing spree, to blow up his career. NFL wide receivers have become known as a strange and egotistical lot, but Edwards is quickly climbing up the food chain of prima donna wide receivers who need their butts kicked from one end of the room to the other. His latest flameout, with a noted friend of LeBron James, comes on top of one of his worst perfor

Climbing out of the Wreckage
Three weeks in and that ledge is looking pretty good right now.   It’s actually difficult to encapsulate just how bad this team looked on Sunday. From the coaching to the players, it was even uglier than most people anticipated. The 34-3 final score would make the casual observer think the game was closer than it actually was.   Let’s look at some stats.   The Ravens gained 479 total yards to the Browns 186; they outgained the Browns on first downs 28-11. The Browns were 3-12 on third downs, the Ravens 4-11. The Browns made no attempts to convert on f

Browns/Broncos: Quitting Already
That game just sucked all the life out of the season for me.       CUE ORCHESTRA   A man sits on his porch, enjoying a beautiful late summer day. The sun is shining, birds are singing and the man sits back with a comfortable sigh. Then some clouds roll in and a bird poops on his head.   Yep, that’s about how the day felt for me.   It was no surprise to me, given the way the offense played in the first half, that the def

Facing Down the Broncos
The Browns made a poor showing the first week of preseason against a good team, following that up with a fine performance against a much weaker team.   The similarities between the first two weeks of the regular season and the first two weeks of the preseason are pretty obvious from a scheduling standpoint. Now let’s hope they stay similar from a performance standpoint.   After wetting the bed in Green Bay, head coach Eric Mangini took his team to task the following week and a much better looking team took the field against