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January 31, 2012A fun little project we are undertaking here and at Cleveland.com to come up with the best Browns players the team has had since 1999. Today we are doing offense first.
Enjoy this little trip down memory lane!
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Mack, Faine, and Fraley. I would have voted for Pontbriand if he’d been on the list and if there had been four choices available. Guess that’s two if’s too many.
Did anyone else find that a totally depressing exercise?
This poll made me more depressed than I’ve been in some time. Man have we sucked. Aside from Joe Thomas, that list is pretty sad.
Am I the only one who got all nostalgic for Barry Stokes?
picking QBs was the saddest thing I’ve ever done. Wow, we’ve been bad.
For me, it was Scott Rehburg. Will never forget the story of him missing a game with the flu and hiding under the trainer’s table with an IV bag in while his teammates heckled him. What pitiful stewardship of this franchise we have had to endure
Told the WFNY fellas this this morning, but seeing Roger Chanoine’s name made me spit out my coffee…guy wasn’t the worst, but loved hearing Douk Dieken try to pronounce his name
O’hara should be on the center list. We didn’t use him enough at C considering that was what he was better at (instead of OG), but he was good when we played him there (and besides, Bentley never played a down for us and he’s on the list). I’d take him 3rd after Mack/Faine if it was possible.
picking WRs may have been just as depressing or moreso.
i mean, i hate Cribbs at WR, but had to vote him WR3 on that list. who else was I going to put there? Little (not enough time), Northcutt (can’t forgive him for the Pitt playoff drop yet), Braylon (haha)?
and I love Kevin Johnson. really do. but to think he’s the best WR we’ve had in 13 years is sad.
the answer is none.
Anyone else notice that Rex Hadnot is listed twice for RG?
I’m sick over this.
Sometimes it is best to let the memories stay buried, the deeper the better.
The running back list was pitiful…just pitiful.
Voted joe Thomas for all 3 LT
I Hadnot, but thanks for letting us know 😉
Ross Verba is a close 8th on the list after 7 Joe Thomas’
Oh, I more than enjoyed. I am filled with gratitude.
Thanks, Al, wherever you are, for buying Carmen’s narrative about how he built the 49ers into a juggernaut. And thanks, Carmen, for Dwight Clark. Smooth.
Thanks Al and Carmen again, for Butch. And his mini-me Garcia.
And thank you Randy, for the weirdly phobic Genu-wine Personnel Savant. OK, that was slightly better but the bar was scraping the ground, man.
And thanks again Randy, for caving to a publicity campaign to fire your president and make sure phobic guy had all football say.
And again, Randy, for overcompensating to the Real Football Guy. He’d been called a genius for 2 weeks in NY, so must be the real deal. And give him all the power before you search for a GM. Right after he gets canned and feels shafted. No worries.
I am quite sure I could have pulled out a generic draft publication and done no worse for 10 years. And saved the costs of scouts, tests, and road trips.
Wow, filling that out was depressing.
All seriousness – our best 4 WR (in my book) have been KJ, Braylon, Northcutt, and Greg Little (in one season). That’s so depressing. So was the QB trio of Garcia, Colt, and Holcomb – a couple good games puts you at the top of the list in Cleveland.
The only positions that weren’t *horrible* were LT, LG, C, and perhaps TE. And only 1-2 of those were what you’d call good.
The worst part – if you took only the best of the past 13 years in Cleveland and made an offense out of them, they’d still be near the bottom of the league. That’s just pathetic.
Ha! Bentley!?
The most abysmal list of QB’s I’ve ever seen assembled before my eyes…
That was about as fun as getting kicked in the balls…
I call shenanigans on this poll. It forced me to make selections in every position when I honestly couldn’t name one outstanding player. It’s also pretty sad that you can’t even definitively name the top 2 wideouts in 13 years.
Seriously, the top two QBs in 13 years are Kelly Holcomb and Derek Anderson…ay yi yi!
Darren Chiaverini, ftw.
Running backs did it for me. Such a lack of production.
Jeez I can’t even remember a lot of these guys…
Sad. Just sad.
Can I pick six tight ends and Josh Cribbs instead of three tight ends and four wide receivers?
Wow…those receivers…just, wow…
Filling out this poll was harder than any exam that I took in college or high school.
Seems that depressing is the common sentiment around here when taking this. Filling out the WRs depressed me then selecting the QBs put me over the edge.
Kevin Johnson Andre Davis, and Dr. Quincy Morgan, M.D. were my selections. Love Cribbs, but not as a WR.
The pain of so many repressed memories bubbling to the surface….aaargh.Good thing it’s supposed to be 60 degrees, or I’d be trying to hang myself with my computers power cord.
As a joke, I put BQ as best QB, but seriously every single one was bad.
Dave Wohlabaugh feels embarrassed. Because his name is misspelled, yes, but mostly because he’s grouped with players like Melvin Fowler.
Wow…if this wasn’t the best way to show what an absolute lack of talents we’ve had in 12 years at almost every position!!!!!! When Derek Anderson is your vote for QB as he was for me (he led them to best record and playoffs…) you know it’s bad! How come other teams are always able to bring in new talent?
This is a wonderful reminder of why the Browns have only made the playoffs once since 1999. Wow… those lists are just awful. When I saw that list of players at WR I wanted to be a homer and pick my VT Alum Andre Davis for one of the spots. Then I realized the sad truth that he really is one of the top 4 WRs since the Browns came back. Maybe the defensive list will cause less pain.
Actually Derek Anderson never led the Browns to the playoffs. He put up their best record of 10-6, but that wasn’t good enough for the playoffs that year. Sad right?
That exercise just ruined my day.
as I recall, Anderson cost them a playoff spot with two panicky, brainlock red zone interceptions v. Cincy. Or maybe that was just a bad dream.
The Mythbusters proved that it was plausible, and we just confirmed it. You CAN polish a turd!
When do we get to pick the best Offensive Coordinator??? If you weren’t already in the depths of depression, that will surely do it.
We should be allowed to vote “Phil Dawson” for each and every one of these positions – except #1 LT.
Look at those choices and you see why this team has been so bad since it’s return. You are lucky if you can choose two guys at a position let alone three or four. The WRs are laughable. Wait perhaps a better word would be pathethic. Randy Lerner you out there?
I disagree. The RB list was full of 1year wonders (for the Browns), but at least that had that 1 year (or stretch). Most of the WRs and QBs on that list didn’t even have that.
Suggs (3 games stretch), Harrison (4 game stretch), Droughns/Jamal/Hillis(1 season each)
pretty sure you would have done better with said generic draft publication. picking off the top of “Mel’s best left list” would have done better at each slot.
I prefer to blame the Colts for resting their starters vs. their rival Tenn in wk17. sure, DA really deserves the blame, but I have plenty of animosity towards him already. he doesn’t need anymore.
umm, well Chud and Arians have since proven that it was the above list and not their coaching that was the problem.
That’s fair, I guess – and we would have a #1 and #2 choice. (The remainder is pretty grim, though.)
I did like Chud for the very brief time that he was here, and Arians admittedly had little to work with; but both got OC OJT in Cleveland (I believe), which has been the ongoing, continually frustrating trend here. Not sure that Mr. Noodle necessarily qualifies as an exception to this rule, but I do hope that his time as a HC and limited experience as an OC will prove more beneficial than his predecessors’ OJT.
Yes! Ignoring for a moment how pitiful it is to blame one’s own condition on the failings of others, I blame the Colts. For that very reason, I have never been able to cheer for the Colts since ’07. I was at the last game in ’07 (win against SF – with 1st guest appearance by BQ), and the whole stadium was rooting as hard for Indy as they were for Cleveland. (I loved the Browns helmets with Colts logos that fans were wearing that day.) Stupid Colts.
I’m glad that Tressel wasn’t hired as the Indy HC. That would have presented a moral conundrum.
That was brutal.