This statement is a bit much, “great team”? Come on now… The fans do seem to be dedicated & the Browns have a lot of football tradition. I think it’s great for football if they’re winning.

But let’s be honest here, they have stunk horribly for years. The front office also never has seemed dedicated to building a winning team during those years.

That are Browns fan. Because a lot of people I know that aren’t surely weren’t thinking that. Actually the thought process was that Pat Shumar doesn’t know what he’s doing, doesn’t know how to use Hillis, Holmgren needs to retire, and the Browns are a joke.

I believe in players being paid what they’re worth, but you don’t get a new contract by pretending to be sick and injured during the season and screwing all your teammates just when the team was just starting to gel. Joe Thomas earned his salary on the field! He earned respect, too–something Hillis knows nothing about.

Stay classy Joe.

I remember that he went fishing with his dad on draft day instead of being in New York. The Raiders took a train wreck Russell and left a franchise cornerstone like Thomas on the board.