Abishai100
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The Cleveland Browns are an iconic NFL team and have boasted the Hall-of-Fame calibre QB Bernie Kosar in its gritty and fan-Americana history.
In the era before the Super Bowl, the Browns won the 'NFL Championship' a whopping 4 times [1950, 1954, 1955, 1964] but since then have only boasted 6 strong AFC Central/North division-titles [1971, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989], never reaching the Super Bowl.
The Cleveland Browns of recent years have been simply horrible. They were 1-15 in 2016 and 0-16 in 2017, becoming only the second team in NFL history to post a completely defeated season (NO WINS!).
However, the Browns have been 'aching' to restructure and revitalize entirely around the hope-rejuvenating NFL Draft.
Many sports-writers are claiming that the Browns' showing in the 2018 NFL Draft was much more impressive/inspiring than fans realize...
Could this year's draft raise the Browns out of their pit-of-failure and offer NFL fans a turn-around cheerful story to embrace...and finally start getting over the 'American hangover' caused by Tom Brady's 5-time Super Bowl winning titan-like New England Patriots (now that the Pats have lost tough 3 Super Bowls --- 2 to Eli Manning's NY Giants and 1 to last year's backup-QB Nick Foles led teamwork-orchestrated Philadelphia Eagles)?
Ain't football like a video-game?
GO MADDEN!
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American NFL fans want something seriously worth-watching now that many are claiming that Brady's boorish new millennium Patriots-era might be in its proverbial 'trophy-polishing sunset.' Sports-writers and fans want to know why cheerleaders are still being recruited or why the NFL Draft is still 'exciting.' The struggling NY Giants picked up Penn State's gifted RB Saquon Barkley, but the Cleveland Browns picked up the much-touted high-pick QB Baker Mayfield (from Oklahoma) who some are comparing to...Bernie Kosar(!).
Americans remember the glory days of late 1980s football, when play was about leadership, teamwork, great coaching (if not shining coaches like Vince Lombardi), and terrific TV broadcasting. That's the era when the Bernie Kosar QB'd Cleveland Browns consistently performed well, winning their multiple division-titles and yielding exciting playoff-games against the Buffalo Bills, the New York Jets, and the Denver Broncos.
Browns fans like to admire their 'classic Kosar Browns paintings' which maybe hang in their living-rooms. Cleveland is a very 'American city' but in the age of TV, it seems anyone can access the 'culture of local fanfare' just by switching on the NFL on Sunday. So even if you're a Miami-fanatic Latino-American, you may have enjoyed iconic Dan Marino vs. Bernie Kosar Dolphins-Browns games from the late '80s on television(!). That's why sports-writers around the country like to speculate if the Browns' ambitious/aspiring 2018 Draft picks might be the necessary 'feather' to lift the team out of hell and back into some kind of (necessary) 'fanfare-spotlight' that the entire nation can embrace.
Americans frustrated with the modern era of team-spirit destroying free-agency might be hiding water-guns and NRA cards as 'testaments' of their 'libertarian/individualism' stances against new age 'media empire fat-cat ethos.' These 'American fanatics' want to sit back and meditate privately about the golden age of Kosar-era Browns and simply don't want to speculate if the 2018 Draft might 're-energize' the entire league now that Brady's media-doll Patriots are in their twilight-years (arguably).
As anticipated, the Browns wanted to reorganize their entire pyramid, so they used the Draft to choreograph a lineup-cleanup at strategic orientations. So, they got a QB, a RB, a great DE, a T, and other aspiring position-players. It seems the Browns want to send NFL fans the neat message, "Recruiting can help a team simply re-awaken!"
After all is said and done, if Brady's Patriots close out their millennial-domination with 1 or 2 more Super Bowl titles (before Tom Brady finally retires), no one will remember or care about the struggling Cleveland Browns' thinking-man's 2018 NFL Draft. However, it's the sort of media-highlighting that makes the Browns' potentially-momentous NFL Draft a refreshing 'sign' of reborn sandlot-fanfare. The world ain't ending, so we still worry about the Sunday impact of NFL folklore (and the 'armchair-warrior' friendly Browns can deliver that sort of 'fan-sweetened sports'). That's why I always enjoyed playing with the Browns as my favorite NFL video-game team (in Nintendo's Tecmo Bowl and EA Sports' Madden NFL).
As for me, I'm willing to take non-monetary spiritual bets. If Baker Mayfield is a dud and the 2018 Browns produce yet again nothing worth watching/following, I'll concede that my early-pick darling/underdog Eagles' win (with backup-QB Nick Foles --- that's why they were 'underdogs') in Super Bowl 52 was simply...an entertaining rarity. On the other hand, if Mayfield surprises folks and the Browns start to turn heads and shine for NFL TV fans, then I'll assert that my 'hypothesis' that Brady's Patriots are truly deflating is absolutely certain.
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CLEVELAND BROWNS 2018 DRAFT REVIEW
In the era before the Super Bowl, the Browns won the 'NFL Championship' a whopping 4 times [1950, 1954, 1955, 1964] but since then have only boasted 6 strong AFC Central/North division-titles [1971, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989], never reaching the Super Bowl.
The Cleveland Browns of recent years have been simply horrible. They were 1-15 in 2016 and 0-16 in 2017, becoming only the second team in NFL history to post a completely defeated season (NO WINS!).
However, the Browns have been 'aching' to restructure and revitalize entirely around the hope-rejuvenating NFL Draft.
Many sports-writers are claiming that the Browns' showing in the 2018 NFL Draft was much more impressive/inspiring than fans realize...
Could this year's draft raise the Browns out of their pit-of-failure and offer NFL fans a turn-around cheerful story to embrace...and finally start getting over the 'American hangover' caused by Tom Brady's 5-time Super Bowl winning titan-like New England Patriots (now that the Pats have lost tough 3 Super Bowls --- 2 to Eli Manning's NY Giants and 1 to last year's backup-QB Nick Foles led teamwork-orchestrated Philadelphia Eagles)?
Ain't football like a video-game?
GO MADDEN!
====
American NFL fans want something seriously worth-watching now that many are claiming that Brady's boorish new millennium Patriots-era might be in its proverbial 'trophy-polishing sunset.' Sports-writers and fans want to know why cheerleaders are still being recruited or why the NFL Draft is still 'exciting.' The struggling NY Giants picked up Penn State's gifted RB Saquon Barkley, but the Cleveland Browns picked up the much-touted high-pick QB Baker Mayfield (from Oklahoma) who some are comparing to...Bernie Kosar(!).
Americans remember the glory days of late 1980s football, when play was about leadership, teamwork, great coaching (if not shining coaches like Vince Lombardi), and terrific TV broadcasting. That's the era when the Bernie Kosar QB'd Cleveland Browns consistently performed well, winning their multiple division-titles and yielding exciting playoff-games against the Buffalo Bills, the New York Jets, and the Denver Broncos.
Browns fans like to admire their 'classic Kosar Browns paintings' which maybe hang in their living-rooms. Cleveland is a very 'American city' but in the age of TV, it seems anyone can access the 'culture of local fanfare' just by switching on the NFL on Sunday. So even if you're a Miami-fanatic Latino-American, you may have enjoyed iconic Dan Marino vs. Bernie Kosar Dolphins-Browns games from the late '80s on television(!). That's why sports-writers around the country like to speculate if the Browns' ambitious/aspiring 2018 Draft picks might be the necessary 'feather' to lift the team out of hell and back into some kind of (necessary) 'fanfare-spotlight' that the entire nation can embrace.
Americans frustrated with the modern era of team-spirit destroying free-agency might be hiding water-guns and NRA cards as 'testaments' of their 'libertarian/individualism' stances against new age 'media empire fat-cat ethos.' These 'American fanatics' want to sit back and meditate privately about the golden age of Kosar-era Browns and simply don't want to speculate if the 2018 Draft might 're-energize' the entire league now that Brady's media-doll Patriots are in their twilight-years (arguably).
As anticipated, the Browns wanted to reorganize their entire pyramid, so they used the Draft to choreograph a lineup-cleanup at strategic orientations. So, they got a QB, a RB, a great DE, a T, and other aspiring position-players. It seems the Browns want to send NFL fans the neat message, "Recruiting can help a team simply re-awaken!"
After all is said and done, if Brady's Patriots close out their millennial-domination with 1 or 2 more Super Bowl titles (before Tom Brady finally retires), no one will remember or care about the struggling Cleveland Browns' thinking-man's 2018 NFL Draft. However, it's the sort of media-highlighting that makes the Browns' potentially-momentous NFL Draft a refreshing 'sign' of reborn sandlot-fanfare. The world ain't ending, so we still worry about the Sunday impact of NFL folklore (and the 'armchair-warrior' friendly Browns can deliver that sort of 'fan-sweetened sports'). That's why I always enjoyed playing with the Browns as my favorite NFL video-game team (in Nintendo's Tecmo Bowl and EA Sports' Madden NFL).
As for me, I'm willing to take non-monetary spiritual bets. If Baker Mayfield is a dud and the 2018 Browns produce yet again nothing worth watching/following, I'll concede that my early-pick darling/underdog Eagles' win (with backup-QB Nick Foles --- that's why they were 'underdogs') in Super Bowl 52 was simply...an entertaining rarity. On the other hand, if Mayfield surprises folks and the Browns start to turn heads and shine for NFL TV fans, then I'll assert that my 'hypothesis' that Brady's Patriots are truly deflating is absolutely certain.
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CLEVELAND BROWNS 2018 DRAFT REVIEW