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June 28, 2011Free Agency Not Likely To Offer Much for the Cavaliers
June 28, 2011When he isn’t pulling half-ton trucks, compact cars or four-wheelers around rural Arkansas, Browns running back Peyton Hillis is mentally preparing for the upcoming season. All of the glitz and glamor that have come with the autograph sessions, television and radio appearances, and gracing the cover of the most popular sports video game franchise in the history of the industry mean very little to a guy who has his sites set on one thing.
A Super Bowl in Cleveland.
Hillis is just the latest in a line of relatively new Browns players who have not only embraced the city in which they play, joining the likes of fellow second-year starters Joe Haden and Colt McCoy. In a recent interview with Browns beat reporter Mary Kay Cabot, Hillis said that he would “not be happy” until the Vince Lombardi Trophy found a home alongside Lake Erie.
The host of the now famous “Camp Colt,” McCoy recently told Cabot that no one within the Browns organization would accept another 5-11 season; it would be the third consecutive season with said record. With a season under his belt and additional weapons at his disposal, McCoy is expected to take another step in his career and help the Browns return to a level of prominence – one that has not been sustainable since their return in 1999.
With the current labor negotiations hindering player-coach contact, McCoy took it upon himself to hold multiple “camps” at the University of Texas as well as one in Cleveland where he and teamates could learn the intricacies of the West Coast offense – a scheme used by new head coach Pat Shurmur. The veteran players have even gone as far as to pay for the free agents and rookies (including wide receiver Greg Little) to attend.
Naturally, the goal-setting Hillis attended the camps. The only difference: Hillis arrived inside of a truck rather than pulling it with a chain tied to his chest.
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(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
6 Comments
I love the camps McCoy has been doing, his moxy, leadership and most things about him! Hillis is a warrior… That said, I can’t wait for the season! Aaron likes to rip Colt for having the comraderie building camps (why?????).
As much as Aaron G/Fedor RIP McCoy ALL the time, here are the facts:
^ 1st 6 games for Colt: 92.9 QB Rating / 5 TD’s / 3 INT’s.
^ Final 2 games for Colt: 34.3 QB Rating / 1 TD / 6 INT’s
Keeping in mind that Colt’s shoulder was never 100% the whole year from the major injury in his last bowl game at Texas, he suffered the dreaded high ankle sprain and was not even supposed to play last season! Not to mention that Hillis was playing with cracked ribs the last couple games and was barely an option.
Keep slamming away WKNR and keep wondering whty your rating continue to suck. Mix in the hanging up on callers and other high points, you would most likely wonder why anyone listens? Oh, that’s right, they have NO LOCAL sports talk competition on the radio…it has gotten bad, really bad!!!
Again, NO – I do NOT & would NEVER work for such a weak station. For some reason, deep down I thnk things might change over there? Then again, Brinda has risen from the ashes and is a fixture as a mop up guy & late night crumudgeon!?
Hope the vets told Little to park legally and not embarrass the Browns. Never too early to start knocking the knuckle out of a young guy’s head.
Why are the camps infamous?
Let’s hope Massaquoi has been working on his hands since this little incident:
http://mlkshk.com/r/3ZZ5
That ball hit him right on the numbers…
@3: I was wondering that too. Famous. Fabled. Something like that… infamous… did we get in trouble with the league or something?
can’t wait to see the Albino Rhino rumble through the AFC north again….http://bit.ly/kUBpES