Displaced Cleveland Fan

This game should not have been close. No one thought it would be, hence the threat of a TV blackout. Surprisingly it was close. Yet the Browns still came up short.

The game started well. The Browns scored first when Brady Quinn hit Mohamed Massaquoi for an 11-yard touchdown pass. According to @OfficialBrowns, it was the team’s first opening-drive touchdown in 35 games. They fell behind 13-7 at halftime, completely lost control of the game in the third quarter, and despite 17 fourth quarter points, they could not come back.

The Browns are now 1-11. Keeping pace are Tampa Bay and St. Louis.
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The Cleveland Browns have signed second-round pick Brian Robiskie. For more information about it, you can read the story on Cleveland.com.

This is great news, not just because Robiskie should be a solid receiver for (hopefully) Brady Quinn to throw to, but he is the last of the Browns’ draft picks to be signed. That means all of the rookies the Browns picked will be there for the start of training camp. New GM Kokinis and Coach Mangini are at least off to a good start.

It’s nice to have news like this when the Indians are so rotten.

Day 1 of the NFL draft for the Browns was… interesting. I’ve seen a lot of chatter online about how awful these picks were. But I think this is mostly just hyped-up overreacting.

Here are the newest Cleveland Browns:

Alex Mack - C (California)

This seemed like a bizarre pick. First, the Browns traded out of the 5th spot where the Jets took Mark Sanchez. They then had the 17th pick. They traded down to the 19th. Then traded down again to the 21st where they drafted Mack.

Honestly, by this point, I was hoping they would take Chris Wells. Maybe not the best pick, but it’d be great to root for the Buckeye star in Cleveland. This really would have been unlikely. I expected them to add either a defensive lineman or a linebacker. Instead, they picked a center.
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