Garrett’s goal: The Browns are hoping defensive end Myles Garrett does a whole lot more butt-whipping this season, especially with his sack-buddy Emmanuel Ogbah back healthy this season. Coach Hue Jackson challenged Garrett to take over games last season, and he showed flashes of it as the season wore on. Read more Njoku’s strides: Browns tight end David Njoku caught 32 passes for 386 yards and four touchdowns in his rookie season, mostly on instinct. His athleticism jumped off the screen, even when he wasn't doing his touchdown celebration, the Chief Slam. Coaches expect continued improvement in 2018. Read more Podcast: Dan Labbe and Mary Kay Cabot are back this week with a new Orange & Brown Talk podcast. Dan is fresh off a series of training camp observations in which one innocuous line about Baker Mayfield not being ready to compete for the starting quarterback job made national headlines. Mary Kay and Dan talked about how something like that happens and about the context of the observation. Listen to the podcast
PFF’s cornerback stats: Common knowledge to the standard football fan, the cornerback’s primary responsibility is coverage. Pro Football Focus tracked that and more in 2017, and Briean Boddy-Calhoun’s name popped up among the NFL’s best in a few of PFF’s advanced stats. Read more Schedules ranked: John Breech of CBSSports.com went through each individual game on each AFC North team's schedule and ranked it based on difficulty. What he found is that the Browns could be staring down another lost season. Read more Browns QB hype: Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon said that Browns quarterbacks Tyrod Taylor and Baker Mayfield are the most talented quarterbacks he's had in his time in Cleveland. Is Gordon right? Mary Kay Cabot and Dan Labbe talked about the Browns' quarterback situation and where it ranks as far as recent Browns quarterbacks go. Watch the video Born on this date: Bob Gain (1929); Mike McCormack (1930); Al Wilson (1977). - Scott Patsko, cleveland.com |