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| Posted: 03 Dec 2007 09:20 PM CST Click here to vote for the OBR's Gameballs and Goats! Media availability was pushed back to 2PM, and reporters found only two or three players in the locker room, so there won't be much in the way of thoughts from them appearing until Wednesday night at the earliest. Players have Tuesday off, although it's a day when the team often makes roster moves. Coming out of the time spent with Crennel, only the OBR's Fred Greetham and the Official Site folks cobbled together stories this afternoon. Here's what showed up on the newswire since this morning specific to the Browns, including our own stuff: Berea Report: Mistakes Doomed Browns - OBR (Fred Greetham)
If the Pro Bowl team turns out anything like the Miami Herald says it should, then Browns fans aren't going to be real happy later this year. Not only does the Herald deny Pro Bowl spots to every Cleveland Browns player other than Kellen Winslow, some of the commentary indicates that they don't even casually consider Browns players at some positions. Braylon Edwards and Derek Anderson are mentioned as also-rans, but that's it. For example, the author says that selecting Leon Washington of the NY Jets as the Pro Bowl return specialist is a "no-brainer", and doesn't even mention Josh Cribbs. Neither Eric Steinbach or Joe Thomas are mentioned as candidates on the offensive line, placing behind players like Logan Mankins, Jason Peters, and Tony Ugoh. If the Browns are worried about getting too much respect from the out-of-town media, they can rest their minds. OUT OF THE BLOGOSPHERE Things got busy out in the blogosphere this afternoon as Browns bloggers pounded out their thoughts regarding the team's loss in Arizona. By and large, they were unimpressed with the performance, or the officiating. December 3, 2007 Show - Moohead Radio A horrible call caps a horrible weekend - J-Beanie Dawg Pound Review: Browns 21 - Cardinals 27 - Dawg-Pound.net Browns vs Cardinals, the good, bad, and the ugly - Halftime Adjustments OBR News-o-Rama: 12/03 AM - Brick Hardmeat Winslow Soldiers A Catch, But You Didn't See It, And It Didn't Happen - Deadspin Too Many Mistakes - Cleveland Sports Perspective My Name is Kellen - Dwayne Rudd's Helmet A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE STATE OF MINNESOTA Do you really want a rabid Jerry Jones descending on the Twin Cities, seething with anger at your elected officials while pinching the hindquarters of every cocktail waitress in town? Do you have private airstrips capable of receiving Mr. Jones in a properly opulent fashion? Can you ensure that he is not touched by descending snowflakes? Can you serve a glass of 397-year-old Scotch at exactly 42.2 degrees Fahrenheit? Until you can answer all these questions with a confident "yes", you had better pony up the $700 million or so. And make it snappy. |
| Posted: 03 Dec 2007 08:33 AM CST UPDATE: OBR HAS FEWER INJURY-GENERATING EXPLOSIONS THAN EXPECTED Thanks everyone for the great feedback on the new-and-improved OBR Gameday Live stuff we cranked out yesterday. The new live blogging tool kicked butt, no one appears to have been permanently emotionally scarred and it was neat to get comments throughout the game. Between the new live blog and the in-page chat window, it's a cool way to experience the game (especially if you don't get it on TV). You can actually replay the live blog, check out the in-game polls and such, if you want. I'm looking forward to next week already! Here's some stuff from our first-wave of post-game coverage, plus Sirk's typically epic Cow Patties from Sunday morning. Expect a photo gallery, gameballs and goats voting and more to magically appear on the OBR front page this morning. We'll have a report from Berea this afternoon, and lots more stuff, because stuff is something we do. Brown Out in the Desert - Fred Greetham The Law of Averages - Frank Derry Fan View: *GASP, GASP, COUGH, COUGH* - Jeff Biletnikoff Browns-Cardinals: Game Notes - Fred Greetham Live Blog Replay - Slate Slabrock Sirk: Cow Patties from Columbus - Steve Sirk The Browns had a long plane ride home from Arizona, which will push media time back into the mid-afternoon today, so there will be some breathing room after the blast of news stories which hit last night and this morning. The themes, as you would expect, center around how the team's mistakes doomed them, and around the dubious nature of the game's final play, when Kellen Winslow couldn't pull down a TD pass in-bounds while getting a lot of contact from Arizona defenders. Here's a photo of that last play. My two pennies on this is that it's fairly impressive that the Browns took the Cardinals to the wire after having the very definition of an "off-game". If you want to know why the Browns lost, though, point to the thin defensive line and how the team couldn't stop an aging Edgerrin James with the game on the line. If you can't stop a mediocre running attack when you have to, you lose. That simple. That sort of thing doesn't make nifty column fodder, though, so it doesn't come up a great deal on on this morning's newswire. It's more interesting to ruminate about officiating, I guess. It's easier still to fuss and moan about the Browns' various bonehead moves, of which there were plenty. The latter is right in the Plain Dealer's wheelhouse, so there are three or four articles from them on the subject this morning. I'm still convinced this game comes down to who can block and tackle better, and the answer was "Cardinals" in the fourth quarter. The officiating is a wash over the course of a season and, in this game, within the game itself, as the Browns benefited from dubious calls as much as they suffered on the final play. With respect to Winslow's play, there's the expected amount of fussing regarding how the system may not have worked correctly since the rulebook states that the play wasn't reviewable. John Czarnecki goes so far as to say that "such debate is never good for the game". I can't say that it's a great thing, but I doubt that this will be remembered long in a league where the miraculous, horrific, and absurd seem to happen on a weekly basis. OUT OF THE BLOGOSPHERE
The Dolphins really do stink, at a level not seen since John McKay commented positively on his team's execution... Sometimes, it's best to just stay out of the hard NFL spotlight and drive around in circles. The media-saturated NFL is good at turning geniuses into dolts and dolts into geniuses. Sometimes it takes years, sometimes it happens in weeks... Rex Grossman outsucked Eli Manning on Sunday. Impressive...
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