Report says team will pursue Penn State's Bill O'Brien: Cleveland Browns InsiderMary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com The Penn State coach was an assistant with Bill Belichick in New England before going to State College, Pa., for the 2012 season. |
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Tom Reed, cleveland.com What was a meaningless game in the standings turned into a nasty affair on the field Sunday afternoon. |
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Tom Reed, cleveland.com Lewis hardly resembled the human white flag some expected when it was announced Friday the Browns would start him because of shoulder injuries to Brandon Weeden and Colt McCoy. |
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In Jimmy Haslam and Joe Banner, Cleveland Browns fans have no alternative but to trust: Terry PlutoDec 30, 2012
Terry Pluto, cleveland.com There is one difference between this mass firing and all the others since 1999. It's no longer the Lerner family doing the hiring and firing. |
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Browns will pick sixth overall in draftDec 30, 2012
The Browns know that they will have the sixth pick in the NFL draft in April. What is unknown is who will be in the Browns' draft room. After Cleveland's 24-10 loss to Pittsburgh on Sunday, the Browns (5-11) finished tied with the Cardinals (5-11) for t… |
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Bud Shaw, cleveland.com The Browns fought long odds in Pittsburgh Sunday while their coach, Pat Shurmur, fought what looks to be impossible odds. |
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Matt Loede, brownsgab.com The 2012 season ended for the Browns Sunday with yet another loss to the Steelers, but as usual, there are a lot more questions about who will be around next season to lead them. Pat Shurmur stood on the podium and refused to be put in a position to say… |
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Steelers finish on 'positive note'Dec 30, 2012
Steve King, clevelandbrowns.com PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers finished the 2012 season with a 24-10 victory over the Cleveland Browns at Heinz Field Sunday. |
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A loss to Pittsburgh and an off-season of change is a vintage Cleveland Browns new year: Terry PlutoDec 30, 2012
Terry Pluto, cleveland.com For the most part, Shurmur's Browns played hard and kept games reasonably close. Not that it mattered as far as returning for a third season. |
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We'll be putting all our GIFs for the day here, from every last person in the league—coaches, players, mascots—breaking out that one dance move they've been saving up all year, to a referee in New Orleans thinking he could pick his nose because no one… |
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Browns-Steelers Postgame NotesDec 30, 2012
PITTSBURGH -- Here are the postgame notes from Sunday's Browns-Steelers game. |
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Our long civic nightmare is over. Well, the teams still stink and there’s a question as to whether the next coach of the Browns will know his arse from a facemask, but at least a guy we KNOW doesn’t know his arse from a facemask is soon to be the ex-c… |
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Glenn Moore, cleveland.com Join our post-game show with cleveland.com's Glenn Moore and The Plain Dealer's Dennis Manoloff. |
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Wrap-up: Steelers 24, Browns 10Dec 30, 2012
My thoughts on the Pittsburgh Steelers' 24-10 win over the visiting Cleveland Browns: What it means: The Steelers (8-8) ended a three-game losing streak and avoided their first losing season since 2003. In what is expected to be coach Pat Shurmur's fina… |
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Steelers up 10-3 at halftime over BrownsDec 30, 2012
Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com The Steelers scored a touchdown, which ought to be enough. Ben Roethlisberger’s 1-yard pass to Leonard Pope gave the Steelers a 10-3 lead just before the end of the first half, and considering the Browns were content to run out the clock, that might be … |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Pairing up divisional rivals in Week 17 was supposed to guarantee drama. But as in other precincts, that didn’t quite work out in Pittsburgh, as the Browns and Steelers are playing a dreadful game befitting two teams which won’t make the playoffs. One… |
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13 Questions for 2013Dec 30, 2012
Well, it's official. The Browns are under new management, from the owner all the way down to the head coach and, probably, most of the assistant coaches. What an unpredictable year in Cleveland professional sports this has been! Nonetheless, we'll attem… |
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Cleveland Browns likely short list of GM candidates includes Arizona's Steve Keim and Buffalo's Doug WhaleyDec 30, 2012
Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com The Browns will begin interviewing GM candidates soon. The list might include Buffalo's Doug Whaley, Arizona's Steve Keim and Jason Licht and Kansas City's Jay Famer. |
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Browns have focused their search on a narrow groupDec 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com In June, when former Eagles president Joe Banner appeared on PFT Live to discuss his plans for the future, he said he intends to land with a team that requires a turnaround. There’s no way to turnaround the Browns without turning the page on the current… |
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Steelers-Browns inactivesDec 30, 2012
Here are today's inactives for the Browns-Steelers game: BROWNS: RB Trent Richardson, QB Brandon Weeden, QB Colt McCoy, CB Sheldon Brown, TE Jordan Cameron, LB Adrian Moten and OL Jarrod Shaw. STEELERS: QB Byron Leftwich, NT Alameda Ta'amu, WR Justin Ki… |
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Wake-up: Is Arians on Browns' radar?Dec 30, 2012
Here is what is happening around the division heading into this season's final regular-season games: RAVENS: After being selected to his third Pro Bowl, running back Ray Rice rewarded his blockers by giving them each 46-inch flat screen televisions. &qu… |
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NFL Week 17: Game previews and picksDec 30, 2012
Plain Dealer staff, cleveland.com Get our experts' picks on the Browns-Steelers game, plus capsule previews and Dennis Manoloff's predictions for the other games on the final Sunday of the NFL regular season. |
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Browns at Steelers: Keys to the GameDec 30, 2012
Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com Just because the standings say the game is meaningless, though, does not make it so. Fans in both cities, no matter which team has the upper hand at the moment, subscribe to the notion that Steelers-Browns transcends won-lost records. If the game were p… |
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Chris Morris, cleveland.com Plain Dealer artist Chris Morris and the Plain Dealer sports staff present "Browns Town, an Illustrated Journal of the 2012 Cleveland Browns season" every weekend with the preview section for that Sunday's game. |
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Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com Browns GM Tom Heckert knows he will be in demand if he ends up leaving Cleveland. |
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