Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:35:59 EST

"it's best for all concerned" "he wasn't happy in a reduced role" "now we can all move on"

Comment by Craig Lyndall

Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:34:09 EST

It is starting to look bleek, but I want to see how they spin this today. How can the Browns possibly spin this move?

Comment by Johno

Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:30:12 EST

Craig, don't you get it? They cut Johnson because they just don't need him. If my beloved Browns are going to lose, the running game will handle matters nicely. This is so typical of the New Browns. When the Browns came back from the dead I actively rooted for them to suck because every losing season meant another top draft pick. I worked on the assumption that such a strategy would someday pay dividends. But now we're long past that honeymoon phase, and I'm starting to settle in for a long haul of lowered expectations. Kind of like being a Cubs fan, lovable loserness is attractive. And kind of like being a Red Sox fan (which I am), self-flagellation is good recreation. The Browns make it easy to have it both ways. So anymore when a draft pick fails to pan out, or the Browns send their best players away, I can't work up much outrage. It's all typical of the team's self-defeating management style. At this point I would hardly be shocked if the Browns traded Couch and Holcomb for Kordell Stewart, brought Ryan Leaf out of oblivion as backup, sent their entire recieving corps to Pittsburgh in exchange for a kicker, and sold the team to the Heinz corporation. It's not that a Superbowl bid would be unwelcome; I would probably have to be sedated for weeks. But man, the Browns organization are making it hard on the true believers.

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