Sunday, November 7, 2010
BL live blog: Hillis fumbles
You have to take the good with the bad. Hillis is an imposing back who can wear out a D. But he also fumbles too much. Hopefully this fumble doesn't drain the early emotional advantage the Browns had gained.
BL live blog : Browns get the ball back
If the Browns can score again it starts to look like a blowout.
Let's see if Colt and Hillis can keep it up.
Let's see if Colt and Hillis can keep it up.
BL Predicts: Week Eight vs the Patriots
It is difficult to imagine the Browns coming up with a gameplan that will allow the team to overcome the talent gap they have vs the Patriots.
Putting pressure on Tom Brady is the key but that won't be easy. The Browns have also had an extra week to prepare, and that may give young Colt McCoy the edge he needs to put the ball in the endzone a few times.
Hard to imagine a W no matter in spite of the afterglow of the Saints win and a long bye week.
BL Predicts
Patroits 35
Browns 17
The Brown Log's record year to date is 3-4
Putting pressure on Tom Brady is the key but that won't be easy. The Browns have also had an extra week to prepare, and that may give young Colt McCoy the edge he needs to put the ball in the endzone a few times.
Hard to imagine a W no matter in spite of the afterglow of the Saints win and a long bye week.
BL Predicts
Patroits 35
Browns 17
The Brown Log's record year to date is 3-4
Monday, November 1, 2010
Randy Moss to Cleveland?
Fat chance. The Browns have shown that they intend to build a team
around character even if it means diluting the talent pool. The Brown
Log has often disagreed with this Ted Stepien-like strategy of
character over playing ability, because it's damn near impossible to
find 53 choir boys even in relatively puritan professions, let alone
pro-football. For example, trading Kellen Winslow as part of the
Browns "character cleansing" program was clearly an error. All of
that said, Moss is clearly a very troubled young man, whose personal
problems could easily create a cancer inside what appears to be a
rapidly improving Browns team.
around character even if it means diluting the talent pool. The Brown
Log has often disagreed with this Ted Stepien-like strategy of
character over playing ability, because it's damn near impossible to
find 53 choir boys even in relatively puritan professions, let alone
pro-football. For example, trading Kellen Winslow as part of the
Browns "character cleansing" program was clearly an error. All of
that said, Moss is clearly a very troubled young man, whose personal
problems could easily create a cancer inside what appears to be a
rapidly improving Browns team.
So, there is no way Cleveland will sign Randy Moss, and that is
exactly the right strategy.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
The NFL Politburo
With the Browns in an off week, the BL will start a new feature we've been thinking about from some time: The NFL Politburo, a regular feature that will explore the labor issues pending in 2011 between owners and players.
NFL owners are men who in private industry made fortunes for themselves in the free market system. However when they arrive to the NFL they morph into communists, in favor of imposing central controls and limits on the free market.
Most fans feel more anger towards the players, whom are very well paid. The Brown Log with this regular feature will dig into this issue point by point, trying to help fans understand the real villians in the pending labor issue. The problem rests firmly with the owners of today's NFL teams who wish to more deeply impose communist principles onto NFL players. Apparently NFL owners simply do not trust themselves to operate in a free market. They need rookie salary limits, salary caps and exemption from free markets. Pro football can be a brutal game in which the average player's career lasts 3 years. So please don't blame the players for fighting for the free market.
The real solution to the NFL's labor issues would be to remove anti-trust protection from the NFL and let the free market rule.
This Yahoo article does a great job of summing it up.
Here is an exerpt:
Which side is better positioned to withstand a work stoppage?
The owners, based on simple economics. In theory, they could reduce their operating expenses by 50 percent (an estimated $4.4 billion) via the elimination of player salaries and benefits and the temporary layoffs or salary reductions of various other employees. Meanwhile, thanks to the terms of the extensions to the lucrative TV deals the league has with DirecTV and several broadcast networks, the owners would continue to receive payments during a lockout – though the money would eventually have to be repaid via credits for future games. Still, that’s a serious cash-flow advantage that would, again in theory, allow the owners to realize more than 50 percent of their revenues (nearly $4 billion) and, therefore, to cover their operating expenses for an entire season if necessary. Players, meanwhile, would theoretically be much more financially stressed in the short term, and the relatively short career span of NFL players would make the prospect of missing games even more unpalatable.
Bottom line: The owners are going flaunt the free market, take advantage of their monopoly position that they have thanks to their anti trust exemption and crush the players, period. In a nation built on free market principals, it's astonishing that there is not outrage over the socialist behavior of NFL owners.
Finally, here is some insight from Browns linebacker Scott Fujita, who shared his dismay after meeting NFL commish Roger Goodell. Goodell has been brilliant as the leader of the league but in the labor issue he is stuck in the unenviable position of having to cowtow to the communists he answers to, aka the NFL Politburo....
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Browns QB dilemma???
While the press debate and the Brown's coaches agonize, the BL asks,
"What QB dilemma"
"What QB dilemma"
Colt has played better than Delhomme by a longshot and while Seneca
Wallace has played well, Colt has made fewer mistakes.
Based on what we've seen, Colt is the best QB on the Browns right now,
start him next week.
Case closed
Sunday, October 24, 2010
BL Live Blog: David Bowens
Bowens second touchdown seals the win. Nice upset win and a brilliant job by Mangini and his staff. Seely's special teams were great and Rob Ryan's D kept superbowl QB Drew Brees off balance all day long.
Great win!!!!!
BL Live Blog: hats off to Dawson
The Browns did their best to blow the field goal chance with a 6 yard loss on the run by Bell and the 5 yard penalty by Steinbach but Dawson took care of business.
Special teams have been huge. This game is almost won now.
BL Live Blog: No wide receivers?
No problem!
Throw to the quarterback. Big time trick play and gutsy call at an absolute critical moment. Nice pass by Hillis to McCoy.
This W belongs to Mangini.
BL Live Blog: nice run but...
... don't run out of bounds please!
Hillis is rumbling at the right time
Hillis is rumbling at the right time
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