My Browns Preview

After reading various NFL previews from Peter King, John Clayton, and Len Pasquirelli I have decided that they don't know jack, especially about the Cleveland Browns, so I will go ahead and make my own preview.

Now we all know Butch Davis basically took Cleveland for all we were worth the last 4 years. For that he is an awful man and will hopefully burn in hell one day. He left us with a shell of a team, and a laundry list of crappy ass draft picks (outside of the Couch pick, that was money). Thankfully the Browns organization decided to do something about this midseason last year. We got rid of Davis and cleared out the front office (who will all also hopefully burn in hell one day). After the awful 2004 campaign we went out and got ourselves some serious management, stealing Phil Savage from the Baltiwhore's front office and Romeo Crennel from the Patriots (the NY yankees of the NFL).

Now Crennel and Savage have done what they can this offseason to erase 4 years of mistakes. And honestly, I think they've done it. Lets take a look at some of our players.

Offense

Trent Dilfer - Super bowl quarterback
Reuben Droughns - Thousand yard rusher
Antonio Bryant - Explosive & underachieving (until now), winner of the Biletnikoff
Braylon Edwards - Most talented player in the 2005 draft
Kellen Winslow - Biggest piece of crap ever
Terrell Suggs - Destroyed Ray Lewis on first play of the season last year, and for that I love him
Dennis Northcutt - Shifty playmaker who can take it to the house anytime
Lee Suggs - Must have the worlds weakest ankle cause it takes him 4 weeks to recover from a sprain, has been out at least 1 game the last 3 years with an ankle sprain
William Green - Could be surprising, but has yet to show Cleveland fans any sort of passion for the game
Joe Andruzzi - Toughest guard in the game
Charlie Frye - Homegrown future of the franchise

Defense

Matt Stewart - good acquisition, can play the OLB strong
Kenard Lang - Our best defender, but is having trouble getting used to the 3-4
Andra Davis - could be good? there was talk about all pro then he had a mediocre season last year
Sean Jones - Been burned a couple of times in preseason, but has the talent to be all pro
Brian Russel - hard hitting strong safety, another good pickup by Crennel
Gary Baxter - one of the leagues 10 best corners, but he used to be a Raven, so im not convinced
Daylen McCutcheon - Headcase, but hes got experience

This is a solid core, Romeo and Phil will build a championship team of these guys. It probably won't be this year, but it will be soon.

Now to break down the schedule.

Sep 11 Cincinnati W 17-10 Romeo is a better black coach than Marvin
Sep 18 @Green Bay W 24- 13 Favre throws 3 picks, 2 of which we return for TDs
Sep 25 @Indianapolis L 14-38 Will need the by week after this one
Week 4 BYE Tie
Oct 9 Chicago W 17-7 Who the hell are they gonna use for a QB????
Oct 16 @Baltimore L 10-14 Jamal wont go buck wild on us, but we never beat these bitches
Oct 23 Detroit W 24-10 Skittish ass Garcia will be playing by this time and overextend his mangina by trying to singlehandedly beat us.
Oct 30 @Houston W 19-16 We have to beat these guys, right?
Nov 6 Tennessee L 24-14 Billy Volek and Drew Bennet are gonna rock our secondary
Nov 13 @Pittsburgh W 13-10 Rothlisberger will SUCK this year. Guarantee
Nov 20 Miami W 17-7 They suck ass, plain and simple
Nov 27 @Minnesota L 24-10 Daunte doesnt need Moss to throw for 300 yds and 3 tds
Dec 4 Jacksonville W 17-3 I really cant even name 5 players on this team. Do they even have fans?
Dec 11 @Cincinnati L 14-10 The battle of ohio and black coaches will be split this year
Dec 18 @Oakland L 14-27 Moss and Collins will be the #1 fantasy duo this year, and our DBs wont do jack to stop that
Dec 24 Pittsburgh W 9-6 Defensive struggle with Big Ben doing the Stillers in at the end.
Jan 1 Baltimore L 17-10 Could be wrong on this, but we suck against them.

Overall record: 9-7, miss the wild card by 1 game. But a great rookie effort from Crennel and co.

Oh and the Pats will do no better than 9-7, that is a guarantee.