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Addition By Subtraction: Edwards To Bite Big Apple

Posted: 7th October 2009 by Christopher Maher in NFL
"Addition by subtraction"ùPaul Brown The legendary Hall of Fame coach is credited with this phrase, having used it to justify releasing players who did not meet his standards. "Nothing good ever happens after midnight"ùcommon saying After the Braylon Edwards nightclub incident following a loss to the Bengals, which may have Cleveland's former diva with the dropsies facing criminal charges, it would not have been surprising if Eric Mangini had simply released Edwards outright. Instead, ...

Destroying The Village In Order To Save It: Quinn Needs To Play

Posted: 20th September 2009 by Christopher Maher in NFL
I'm too young to have served in Vietnam. Too many lives were wasted there for no reason. Gen, William Westmoreland (known by the left as "Waste More Land") once defended eviscerating a hamlet in Vietnam by saying "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Gen. Eric Mangini might be dropping the Napalm on many Browns fans in the 2009 season for the same reason. You wanted Brady Quinn, you have ...

Meet The New Browns; Same As The Old Browns

Posted: 14th September 2009 by Christopher Maher in NFL
We just got fooled again. For 30 minutes of football, the Browns, in the words of former head coach Butch Davis, played their guts out. While the offense continued to lack the competency it has not consistently shown since the days of Lindy Infante, the D was actually (gasp) pressuring the quarterback, keeping All-Pro Adrian Peterson in check, and thanks to Browns MVP Josh Cribbs (no one can or will come close ...