You’ve read this before on brownsdailydose.com, and you’re going to read it again.

That is, the Browns have the best radio announcing team in the NFL in Jim Donovan and Doug Dieken. As bad as the Browns have been in the expansion era – and they’ve been really bad – the duo of Donovan and Dieken has been that good. Those two guys are 16-0 every season.

Why, then, the Browns several years ago gave the preseason TV rights to Cleveland’s WEWS (Channel 5) over competitor WKYC (Channel 3), is something I will never understand. Bad move. Really, really bad move. For in giving the rights instead to WKYC, they would have been able to use Donovan as the play-by-play man since he is he sports director there. What a treat that would have been – and was for the many years that WKYC had the rights.

Oh, well.

That having been said, if I can’t have Donovan do the games – he will work on radio with color analyst Dieken to begin their 20th season together – I am glad that Jay Crawford (play-by-play) and a guy by the name of Tim Couch (color analyst) – perhaps you’ve heard of him – will call the games on TV.

You may have never heard of Crawford, but he has some good credentials, having worked the last decade at ESPN before being part of the network’s purge of employees last year. He’s also covered the Ohio State Buckeyes on WBNS-TV in Columbus.

But more than anything, the product of Sandusky Perkins High School and Bowling Green State University is a lifelong Browns fan. I like a guy whose voice inflection will immediately let me know if the Browns are ahead or behind as soon as I turn on the game. Gib Shanley and Nev Chandler were like that, and so is Donovan. That counts for something – a lot of something, really.

I’m also anxious to hear the opinions of Couch, who, despite the fact he wasn’t the franchise quarterback the Browns hoped he would be, still played well enough to be the best passer – by far, actually — the club has had in the expansion era.