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• What this win changes

  It can't be the Browns' worst season if they beat Pittsburgh. Three games remain before we can say where the 2009 Mangini weenies will rank alongside 1975, 1990, 1995, and the six teams winning five or fewer games in the latest decade. Could they... Posted Dec 11 2009, 10:02 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes

• Coaching up coach

  Being a Browns fan these days means awaiting the next, previously-unthinkable new way for a team to meet defeat. Yesterday worthy contribution to this panoply of pathos: blowing a three-touchdown lead to a 1-8 team and allowing a rookie QB to throw for... Posted Nov 23 2009, 01:37 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes

• 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

• 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

• Another Monday Night delight

  I won't rehash. You saw it, didn't you? Here are a few statistical reflections and such: No running back who gets the ball at least once a game has a higher rushing average than Jerome Harrison. He also ranks fourth among backs in receiving average... Posted Nov 18 2008, 02:11 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes, stats

• Swept up

  Ugh. What a letdown. Up two TDs in the second half. Couldn't finish. Offense off-kilter. Defense beaten. Swept by a dreaded division demon. Against a tough rookie, Joe Flacco, the Browns brought pressure early, stuffing many a run, but they couldn't... Posted Nov 03 2008, 09:10 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes

• The 3-4 Browns

  The beleaguered and wildly inconsistent Browns have now won three of their last four games, putting them in the thick of the playoff hunt. It came right down to the last play, but in defeating Jacksonville, 23-17, they just knocked off a solid playoff... Posted Oct 27 2008, 07:04 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes

• The booted booting call

  Before we delve into the fuller dimensions of today's costly loss to Washington, I again need to take Romeo to task for his game management. Let's look at just one decision: trying for a game-tying 54-yard field goal on 4th-and-10 with 32 seconds... Posted Oct 19 2008, 07:21 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes

• Giant killers

  Must be a full moon. But, hey, those come every month. When's the last time the Browns upset the Super Bowl champs by 21 points? Hell, when's the last time they beat anyone by three TDs? The answer: November 20, 2005 -- Browns 22, Miami 0. Only... Posted Oct 14 2008, 12:23 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes

• An ugly unloss

  Funny, the Browns win their first game in 273 days, and I have little to say. The 20-12 victory in Cincinnati was as unimpressive as it was necessary. Yesterday confirmed that the Browns are a talented team prone to underperform. I have little doubt that... Posted Sep 29 2008, 06:47 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes

• De-generation

  So my four-year-old son, wiped out from an afternoon frolicking at a birthday party, settles onto his dad's lap during the third quarter of yesterday's Browns game. He knows I like the Browns. He wants them to do well. He's even a member of... Posted Sep 22 2008, 07:31 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: Fan Focus, game notes

• Old dawg, no tricks

  This is not why we lost the game, but it is an easy and important point to make: Romeo remains a victim of the overly conservative mindset of too many NFL coaches. Here is how he chose to conclude the Browns' only possessions of the second half. The... Posted Sep 07 2008, 10:06 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes

• In advance of Sunday's big opening game, I exchanged email with a Cowboys blogger on AOL Fanhouse today. He posted the result here . I'm posting it here: Sportz Assassin: Cleveland certainly was a pleasant surprise in 2007. What are your expectations... Posted Sep 05 2008, 04:38 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: The Team Today, game notes

• Eight is enough

  In a season full of "signature" wins, Sunday's whiteout shutout may have been the most encouraging of all. The Browns blanked the Bills in a blizzard, freezing them out of the playoffs while icing their sixth straight road win. With plenty... Posted Dec 17 2007, 09:16 AM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes

• Breed's hut hut hike

  Way back in college freshman English, writing on a passage from Walden , I drew what I thought was an uncanny analogy with something from my personal experience, a probable arson fire that destroyed a tennis club I had frequented. The prof, a campus legend... Posted Dec 12 2007, 07:29 PM by Ace Davis' Cleveland Browns weblog Filed under: game notes