K-Who?

So the Browns are 2-0 against superior teams without Kellen Winslow Jr/II.

Steve Heiden was instrumental in today's Browns win with 3 grabs for 73 yards, making him the leading receiver. He also dropped a ball while getting the Kordell Stewart treatment over the middle from a Jacksonville linebacker. He set up the Browns second touchdown drive with a perfect cross route on 4th & 1, scampering 51 yards to the Jacksonville goal line.

Shaun Rogers devoured the Jacksonville offensive line, recording a team-high eight tackles with a sack and a blocked field goal. Seen several times sucking oxygen, Rogers was the beast that the Browns beleaguered run defense needed today. Jacksonville still managed 113 net rushing yards, but many of them were racked up by David Garrard, who scrambled past some of the most unathletic linebackers in the NFL.

In response to the last point about David Garrard, I have officially renamed Andra Davis, the V Gap. You heard about the A gap or the C gap, well, he's the V Gap. If you can't figure out what the V stands for, well, it rhymes with the capital of the Canadian province Saskatchewan.

Phil Dawson was methodical as usual, burying a chip shot, a sand wedge, and a 7 iron. He hasn't missed a field goal under 50 yards this season thus far. Good for you, Phil.

Last week, in a post on a message board, I noted the seven times that DA threw an incomplete pass on first down and it was followed with a Jamal Lewis run that never went more than five yards. This week, it only happened twice. Chud must have seen my post and realized that it doesn't work. Adjustments make fans happy. Today, some adjustments were made.

Other credit goes to: Lawrence Vickers for some good blocks to open holes for Jamal Lewis.

After 67 false starts against the Giants, the Browns have committed just five penalties in two road games. Today, the one penalty was Shaun Rogers for consuming David Garrard into one of his many fat rolls a little too long after Garrard released the ball. Because we won, it's excusable. But, it was a huge play that could have cost us the game.

Derek Anderson and the Browns were a meager 3/12 on third down, while Jacksonville was 10/19. While forcing 19 third downs is nice, that's a few too many first downs to allow.


So, taking into account everything from today's game, let's trade Kellen Winslow. It's bad enough that Braylon Edwards sounds like a one of those cymbal-clanging monkeys that used to be popular as gag gifts every time DA is told to run a pass play and the ball is not thrown to him. DA plays a more relaxed and confident game when he only has to deal with one whining nagger in the lineup.

Winslow has to have some kind of value. He'll get us a decent draft pick to build our horrendous linebacking corps with. Some may consider this a rash maneuver and blame the Savage front office for not being able to handle bad boys. Let the Eric Wedge-Brandon Phillips comparison commence. However, at some point, you have to distinguish between talent and a team cancer. Winslow, as far as I'm concerned, is a bit of a cancer. While he does have lots of talent, Heiden's hands might be just as good and he can actually block. He's not the big play threat that K2 is, but he has a much better field demeanor than Winslow.

DA is a fragile-minded quarterback. That's why, unlike the way Tony Romo can handle Terrell Owens and Carson Palmer can handle Ocho "Chad Johnson" Cinco, Winslow's negative and selfish attitude affects DA more than it would affect most other QBs. For that reason, if DA is going to be our guy, then one of them has to go. Obviously this isn't a Rick Manning-Dennis Eckersley situation, but, the fact remains that DA has played his best two games of the season while Winslow sat. That's not just a coincidence.

K2's Soulja Boys May Keep Him Out Monday

The self-proclaimed soldier, Mr. Kellen Winslow Jr./II, might not play this Monday night against the Giants. Why? Well, I'll let youuuuuuuuuu decide.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/10/10/winslow-has-swollen-um-parts/

From PFT: "A league source tells us that the talk among the Browns is that tight end Kellen Winslow landed in the Cleveland Clinic because his balls swelled to the size of grapefruits."

At least somebody on the team has a pair. Well, maybe he's grown a pair. I didn't think that it was the time of year for grapefruits.

This incident seems, at least on the surface, to be less blameworthy than his motorcycle escapdes that left him with a torn ACL.

This begs the question, what would cause one's testicles to grow to the size of grapefruits? We can rule out steroids as a factor, so at least K2 is clean in that regard. Maybe Bon Scott could give us a little insight. Interestingly enough, one of the running Chuck Norris jokes is that he does not teabag women, he potato sacks them. So what would K2 do? You can't really say that he grapefruits them. Could you argue that he juices them? Or, would that be what OJ did to Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman?

Either way, this could mark the first time in sports history that a player has not participated in a game because his balls were too big. Barry Bonds asks how such a phenomenon could be possible. In any event, K2 should share his testicles with the rest of the team, in a non-Kaz Tadano kind of way. This pales in comparison to the injury that Romeo Crennel coaches through every week. Not having any balls is certainly much worse than having a pair that are too big.

A true gauge of if they are big enough is to have Derek Anderson throw them to Braylon Edwards. If Braylon can actually catch them, well, then yes, they probably are too big. Maybe the Browns sideline will spend the duration of the game shaking bags of marbles to keep K2's head in the game.

However, if Winslow does play, and has a big game, maybe the Browns should play the rest of the regular season under a different name. The Cleveland Brown Giants sounds appropriate.

2008-2009 NHL Season Preview

Being that Mr. Rich Swerbinsky has given me the opportunity to write for his site, I will respect that the content on his site is, by default, under his possession, so I will just link the season preview column that I wrote.

http://www.theclevelandfan.com/article_detail.php?blgId=3771