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• Browns stats you probably haven't seen, with good reason

  Each year I update a little spreadsheet of Browns stats since their 1999 return. Don't ask me why. Maybe it's so I can, in excruciatingly exacting detail, understand just how it is that I am still waiting for a return to championship football... Posted Feb 19 2010, 09:02 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, stats, history

• A premonition too preposterous to ... oh, wait!

  Guess I was too superstitious to post this earlier, but over the past two weeks the thought came to mind distressingly often. What else could go wrong? The Browns were already 1-7. A national laughingstock. An organizational Superfund site. A national... Posted Nov 17 2009, 10:56 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, game notes

• Practice players to pluck

  Now that both of the Browns' leading tacklers, inside linebackers D'Qwell Jackson and Eric Barton, are shelved for the season, the active roster stands at 52, leaving one available job, even after this week's promotion of rookie LB Marcus... Posted Nov 11 2009, 12:27 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, transactions

• A Phippsian flop

  Via PFR, we find that Derek Anderson had the worst statistical performance of any NFL quarterback in the first half of any of the past 34 seasons . Not since 1975, when the Browns' own Mike Phipps began the year tossing 10 interceptions with nary... Posted Nov 03 2009, 02:28 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today

• Follow the money

  While we wait another day for the Mangenius' QB Roulette Wheel to slow down, this factoid may steer the smart betting onto 3 rather than 10: If over 30% of the Browns' offensive snaps this season are taken by someone other than Brady Quinn, the... Posted Sep 29 2009, 11:51 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today

• A seven-for-one stunner

  The new Browns braintrust gets an A for the sheer number of holes they plugged on draft weekend. Just how well all those holes were plugged will take longer to figure out. I winced as the Seahawks snatched Curry just ahead of the Browns. But that's... Posted Apr 27 2009, 09:22 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, transactions, draft

• Pocketing passers

  Heading into this weekend's draft, the Browns have needs aplenty: safety, wide receiver, and outside linebacker, for starters. But how exactly will the new regime staff the sport's most important position? Fortunately, Cleveland now has two quarterbacks... Posted Apr 24 2009, 07:12 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, draft

• New regime churn rate

  The sole remaining Brown acquired in the PHD era (2001-04) was one of his most ridiculed choices, long snapper Ryan Pontbriand. The last pre-Butch player is kicker Phil Dawson. It's natural that a roster turns over as players age and as new regimes... Posted Mar 18 2009, 08:33 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, stats, history

• King's treat

  Steve King, now writing for the OBR, types a tremendous piece, Deja Bill , among the best Browns articles I've ever read. Useful connections attach two generations and set the stage for Eric Mangini's turn as the Browns' head coach. Apt conclusion... Posted Mar 16 2009, 02:56 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, history

• You say Poteat, oh?

  Browns teams of recent years have featured certain repeated stock characters. These include the Illusory Rookie Rushing Phenom (Hill, Prentice, Gay, Green, Barclay, Thomas), the Receiver Who Used To Be A Quarterback (KJ, Frisman, Alston, Cribbs), the... Posted Mar 10 2009, 05:33 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, transactions

• Phil's roster: how much better is it?

  So Randy swung his big axe, and the first cut was the Player-Picker-in-Chief himself, Phil Savage. The strained forced marriage of Savage and Crennel in the end devolved into dysfunction all around. Few doubt that the departing duo are both knowledgeable... Posted Dec 29 2008, 09:26 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, transactions, front office

• Unholy Toledo

  I've long pined for the day that a former Toledo Rocket would take the field with the orange and brown for the first time in my memory. There was rookie GM Phil Savage's clever 2005 offer sheet to Chester Taylor , which the Ravens opted to match... Posted Dec 21 2008, 08:07 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, game notes, history

• Cancel the ambulance, call the mortician

  While schedule strength and rancid response to raised expectations contributed mightily to the Browns' dropoff from a year ago, it is injuries -- and the subsequent failure to adequately backfill the roster -- that account for much of the difference... Posted Dec 21 2008, 12:16 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today

• Browns-Bengals: a do or dialogue

  Once again, I've traded thoughts about the upcoming game with a gentleman named Sportz Assassin over on AOL Fanhouse . Here's a brief preview of Sunday's pivotal Browns-Bengals matchup: Sportz Assassin: The Battle Of Ohio. Can we still say... Posted Sep 25 2008, 08:30 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today

• Hello, yellow

  Among their other dubious distinctions, the Browns are tied for the league lead in penalties. Last season they were third, behind only Arizona and Oakland. Let's break this down a bit. Here's the details on all 31 infractions, including those... Posted Sep 24 2008, 04:14 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, stats