Tribe Drops Tenth Straight in 11-3 Loss to Tigers
September 24, 2009I Can’t Take Much More of This!
September 24, 2009
Just as the Indians have found their way to the bottom of the standings in the AL Central, the Cleveland Browns have followed suit and find themselves at the bottom of Sports Illustrated’s Power Rankings for week three of the season.
Take it for what it’s worth – these rankings are just from one writer (and to his credit, a writer not named Peter King). That being said, Banks seems to know things about the NFL, and though I haven’t watched any of the teams ranked 21-32, based on all the clamor around these parts I can’t imagine that any of the other teams can be a lot worse off than the Browns are currently.
So what say ye, folks – are the Browns the worst team in the NFL at this point. Are they worse than the Matthew Stafford led Lions and the St Louis Rams, who lost 9-7 to the Deadskins. At least we have tassle-laced headgear!
Note: For what it’s worth, ESPN has the Browns at 29, at least for this week. Yes we can! Yes we can!
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Yes, they’re the worst. I don’t want to say so. I am already waiting for next year on this team.
Let’s out it this way: I would take Detroit’s roster (minus Dennis Northcutt….I hold grudges) over ours at the moment. The Rams? No way. So we aren’t the worst, but we aren’t all that far off.
I’d also put KC behind us… for now.
Ill go with 30th. Rams and Chiefs are worse now… that being said, we have the potential to be last in the next two weeks. 2010 draft party at my house. Bring your disdain
Heres something that i just dont really get concerning “worst roster” comments….other than winslow and stallworth, this is essentially the same group of players that last year was a sleeper for a deep playoff run. Are those two players literally the difference between a projected 10-6 season and a projected 2-14 season?
I’ll take Stafford, Kevin Smith, and Calvin Johnson over Quinn, Lewis, and Braylon anyday of the week and twice on Sunday…you know, cause that’s when the games are played. Hell, I’d prob take Cassel, LJ, and even Dwayne Bowe as a package over ours. The Rams have Stephen Jackson, which almost makes up for Bulger and…who is there #1 WR, Donnie Avery?
In the NFL, a week by week ranking, makes absolutely no sense to me. That’s taking the most fickle sport and magnifying the capriciousness to the level of absurdity. Then again, me being upset about it just fortifies the whimsicality of it all.
In the NFL there is no worst team. There is no best, either. (College football and Las Vegas have all that ranking crap.)
A championship route like the NFL’s is not about determining “the best,” unless the best simply means the winner of the Super Bowl. Some like to take last year’s winner and say they are the champs and, therefore, the best, but the system does not work in a knock-off-the-champs kind of way.
The best is an irrelevant yardstick in pro football, unless you take the MVP race for “player with best season (?).”
The Brownies have probably statistically lowered their chances (as much as possible at this stage) of being in the Super Bowl. Their biggest problem is that they are not a good example of football and, thus, not fun to watch.
You guys can quibble about and make excuses for “the roster” ad infinitem. Where were you the past four years when Phil Savage was building such, or this past April when Mangini picked “smart” players at the expense of REAL players?
The National rankings of the Browns/Indians will remain the same as long as two words define their franchises: LERNER/DOLAN.
Now you can go back to your annual lamenting of “the roster”.
I’m not really sure what the roster has to do with the article I wrote, which is what these comments are supposed to be about. I wrote about rankings, and stringy hats. :/
The comments about Mangini and his fines are spot on. Thats hipocrisy at its best! Whether those rumors about agents steering clients away from the Browns is true or not, seeing what Mangini is all about would most likely steer me away. I dont mind hard work, but that BS is garbage. Practice what you preach. What a piece of work.
Realize that if it wasnt for the Lions, the Browns would be the laughingstock of the NFL right now. And if the Lions beat Washington this weekend, watch out.
I dont see this getting any better anytime soon.
I for one haven’t hacked on the FO for their choices in the year’s draft because IT’S WAS THIS FREAKING YEAR. The number of instant impact players in the NFL is very small, and thus I’m actually willing to give things time.
Denny: team rankings–>quality of team—>roster quality. DET roster > CLE roster. I know you get the connection, but I love a good flow chart.
The Browns (again) have the least capable team in terms of moving the ball. Sure, defense wins Super Bowls, but we will be unable to consistently move the ball and score this year, just like last year.
I think Peter King is a loser, too. Unfortunately, his prediction on the Browns record may be accurate.
The only bright spot for the Browns this year is that Kellen Winslow is gone, and he has taken his un-ending “insightful dialogue” with him.
I think we’re the worst.
I look at the “other” bad teams and see more productivity by those teams offenses. Or, the fact that have at least someone regarded as a threat/playmaker even if they lack production. (Ex. Rams – Steven jackson) If I’m a D-Coordinator, playing the Browns has to feel like an extra bye week. And no Braylon, I don’t consider a WR who led the league in drops a play”maker”.
@ CJG – I’m “waiting for 2012” when the Mayan Day of destruction will supposedly end my suffering as a Browns fan.
@ B-bo – I agree, the number of instant impact players out of the draft is very small…
Whew, and to think we could have rolled the dice on that wild somoan flying around the middle of the Cincy D-Fence with 12 tackles, 2FF, and a sack.