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NOSE SMALL MATTER

Don't know if he'll amount to much, but it was nice to see that the Browns signed a nose tackle this week. Louis Leonard, a rookie released by the Chargers and Rams, shares his names with two of the greatest boxers in history and weighs roughly as much as both of them combined. By now it's...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 10-11-2007
ALL-TIME BROWNS/PATRIOTS TEAM

Here's my version of the All-Time Browns/Patriots team. Qualifiers must have played at least one regular season game for each team. Selections are based on their total career, including years with other teams. As you might expect, a few positions were fairly deep (DT, CB, P), while others (RB, S...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 10-05-2007
CAN'T HOLD A CANDLE

What's a blogger fan to do when the defensive line is even more of a liability than the much-discussed quarterback position? I actually hold out more hope for injured Orpheus Roye than I do for Mt. Washington, the oldest and heaviest defender in Browns history. The newcomer Smiths might be halfway...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 08-27-2007
LIKE 1984

According to the ratings system devised over at the P-F-R blog, the 1984 Browns rank first among all teams since 1970 in the inequality of their offense and defense, among teams with better defenses than offenses. In other words, no team since the merger had a better defense compared to their offense...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 08-21-2007
BACKS FROM THE PAST

Three former Browns celebrate birthdays today: Larry Poole, the former Akron Garfield and Kent State star, is 55. He averaged 4.4 yards per carry in his three years as a Brown during the Forrest Gregg era. Antonio Langham turns 35 today. The ninth overall pick in the 1994 draft started at corner as a...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 07-31-2007
COMINGS AND GOINGS

Former Browns Chris Rockins, Gregg Rakoczy, and Ernie Logan were each born on this date, three years apart. A few years earlier, Dave Atkins was also born on May 18. The Browns' running backs coach the previous two seasons, he's now "senior offensive assistant coach," which I think...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 05-18-2007
THE LAST BADGER

The last time the Browns drafted anyone from the University of Wisconsin, Joe Thomas hadn't even been conceived. Eight-nine Badgers have gone off the boards to other teams between the Thomas selection and the Browns' sixth-round pick in 1983: tight end Tim Stracka. I caught up with Stracka this...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 05-05-2007
TONY'S TRANSPLANT

Strange year for former Browns who wore #66. First the belated glory of Gene Hickerson's election to the Hall of Fame, tempered by the news of his dementia. Then yesterday, we learned that former left tackle Tony Jones recently had a kidney transplant at age 40. His problems began while he was still...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 03-23-2007
CUTTING TO THE CHASING OF THE 'CUTT

Here is my contrarian post of the month: I am a little bit sad to see Dennis Northcutt go. Is it because he was a great wide receiver? No. Because he still has untapped potential? No. Because he deserved to be a lifelong Brown? No. The answer is simply this: 'Cutt was the most exciting Browns player...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 03-17-2007
ANSWER ME THIS

I'm not quite sure why, but I'm keeping track of certain statistics achieved by the Browns since their 1999 resurrection. Perhaps it's a consolidated reminder of how god-awful this era has been, like the transcript of a hapless student. Or maybe it's because I haven't seen anyone...

Posted to Ace Davis' Weblog (Weblog) by acedavis on 01-12-2007

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