Smart, young Browns impressive on and off the field
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By STEVE KING
The main story?
It’s an obvious one, in that the Browns and the rest of the NFL teams continue to put their heads down and march toward a season that seems doomed from the start.
And if the season actually happens – which, I still insist, has an ice cube’s chance in you-know-where – then the play will be historically poor because no team will have practiced enough. You can’t just show up and play. This is not a pick-up game in the neighborhood park, but I’ll betcha it will look like that. Virtual football? Yeah, that will be a sight, won’t it?
I desperately hope I’m wrong. I really, truly do. No one wants a disaster. I hope, with the help of a miracle handed down by God, that what transpires is something remotely resembling the quality of pro football to which we have grown accustomed over the last 100 years, since the last pandemic occurred.
But in the meantime, while we’re all waiting to see with some morbid curiosity if this ends up looking like a train wreck, it’s also clear the Browns have assembled a sizeable core of young players who are as intelligent and well-spoken as they are talented. That counts for something, and it’s something very good, both now and for the foreseeable future. It’s a building block, a cornerstone.
You can tell it every time you hear these players talk, as we did Tuesday when there were Zoom interviews with two of the best of that group, running back Nick Chubb and cornerback Denzel Ward of Nordonia High School and Ohio State.
They don’t utter the gobbledy-gook known as coach-speak. Instead, what they say is thought-provoking, and conveyed in complete sentences.
Nice. Very nice.
I can’t get past the thought that it sounds a lot like the Browns of the mid-1980s, when young, smart and talented guys began paving the way for the club to have lots of success for five straight seasons.
This is not saying that the current group will accomplish all or even any of those lofty things. Still, their persona is a step – actually, a really big step – in the right direction, and with the way things have gone for the Browns in this nightmarish expansion era, that’s something the fans can embrace while they wait – and watch – during all this craziness.
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- “Odell Beckham Jr. renews commitment to Cleveland: ‘We got unfinished business’” (BrownsZone)
- Regular Season Games in Five Weeks (Browns Daily Dose)
- Missing Cleveland Stadium (Browns Daily Dose)
- “Browns survey season ticket holders for comfort level about returning to FirstEnergy Stadium” (WKYC)
- ‘The Corner Brothers’ Frank Minnifield and Hanford Dixon
- “JC Tretter advocates players’ rights must be protected” (92.3 The Fan)
- “Baker Mayfield Named The Best College Quarterback Of The Last Decade” (BrownsDigest)
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