TIME TO KICK THOSE KICKERS TO THE CURB

By STEVE KING

One of the most fun things to do on this website, Browns Daily Dose, is to read between the lines of quotes and see what members of the Browns really meant – that is, what they are actually thinking – regardless of what they said.

Indeed, it’s not necessarily what thy said that matters. Rather, it’s how they said it.

And when you apply that to Freddie Kitchens’ conference call with the Cleveland media on Sunday, it’s clear that the Browns head coach is worried sick about his team’s kicking – or lack thereof. His football brain tells him to just keep working hard for rookie Austin Seibert and Greg Joseph. The Browns drafted Seibert, and Joseph was their kicker last season. Those are their “ins” to the job. Those are their redeemable qualities.

But in his inner brain, which is directly connected to his soul and reveals his inner-most thoughts, tells him those no way the Browns can go forward with those two guys.

As such, then, it’s clear that the team, with Kitchens’ full endorsement, is going to bring in other kickers to look at as soon as early this week.

And can you blame Kitchens and the Browns?

Wouldn’t it be a shame if the Brows lost a game, or multiple games, because of their kicking. They go out and assemble this star-studded cast of players, and then it all goes down the drain because their kickers can’t kick.

If Seibert and Joseph can’t make kicks on 80-degree summer nights in practice games, then how can they be expected to make them on those cold, windy days at FirstEnergy Stadium, or in the tricky winds at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field, with possibly the AFC North title on the line?

They can’t. Of course not.

This problem was there even before training camp started. The Browns kept thinking it would change. Well, it did. The problem has gotten worse.

Enough is enough.