BR1986FB wrote: One of the most noticeable changes during OTA's was Eric Mangini. Apparently he's able to just concentrate on coaching and not all of the other BS. “He can concentrate on just being a football coach, a damn good football coach,” one player noted.

Probably some undrafted free agent trying to suck up to the ole coach.:dodgy:

Al Capone wrote:

BR1986FB wrote: One of the most noticeable changes during OTA's was Eric Mangini. Apparently he's able to just concentrate on coaching and not all of the other BS. “He can concentrate on just being a football coach, a damn good football coach,” one player noted.

Probably some undrafted free agent trying to suck up to the ole coach.:dodgy:

Kinda like the dick you suck trollboy

Just let it be known I have always been on that Mangini bandwagon!!!!!!

The Leader the Browns Need?

By Zac Jackson
FoxSportsOhio.com
Posted May 20, 2010


BEREA -- That he carries some scars from a miserable 2009 doesn't make Jake Delhomme unique in his new locker room.

But a lot of things he brings -- the resume, the twang, enough big-game experience to earn instant credibility in the huddle -- aren't just unique. Ask anyone around the Browns and you'll probably hear that they're needed. Very much so.

Into the game's most important leadership role, the one the Browns haven't been able to quite figure out for 11 years and counting, steps a guy who's not afraid to fling it -- and not afraid to talk about the times he's flung it to the other team. He's a guy who brings a little moxie and a lot of wisdom into what's likely his last NFL chance, and he's not going to allow himself to think about anything other than making the best of it.

"I just want to be a part of helping turn things around here," Delhomme said Wednesday, the Browns' third day of organized team activity (OTA) practices this spring. "I'm 35 years old, I'm going into my 14th NFL season. I play this game for one reason and one reason only -- to win."

He signed with the Browns in March, a time at which he acknowledged "it would have been very easy to walk away and go home or to go hold a clipboard some other place." That's because the guy who pushed the Carolina Panthers' franchise to new heights in seven seasons there was pushed out, and in Cleveland he sees an opportunity where he's not the only guy looking for redemption.

"For me it's a fresh start," Delhomme said. "I loved six of the seven years I had in Carolina. Last season just wasn't a lot of fun. Being here, it's very refreshing. I've been here since March 15, since our first day working out. I think we can all gather from my accent that I might have a little battle on my hands, but I feel like I've had some new life injected into me."

In 2008, Delhomme led the Panthers to a 12-4 record and the NFC's second seed. He melted down in the divisional playoffs, throwing 5 interceptions in an Arizona upset.

Starting with that playoff debacle he's 4-8 in 12 starts since, and his sub-60 quarterback rating last fall was by far the worst in any season of extended work in his career. He was released this winter, and he came back to Cleveland after initially visiting and leaving without a contract because he was convinced that he wasn't done playing.

"I played so poorly in that playoff game that I spent my whole offseason convincing myself that I wanted to win back everyone," he said. "That was a little too much. I have to play loose and free and I didn't do that. I wasn't myself."

Another offseason of change for the Browns led them to look past the 8 touchdowns and 18 interceptions Delhomme threw last season and take a chance on a guy who amassed a 58-40 record as a starter in Carolina and took the Panthers to the Super Bowl when the Browns' head coach, Eric Mangini, was coaching the defensive backs on the other side. The Browns saw a guy who'd entered the league undrafted, cut his teeth in his home state of Louisiana as a backup and then handled a variety of things -- even the fallout after his struggles -- remarkably well in Carolina.

“When you bring someone in, you look at the body of work," Mangini said. "Jake has an outstanding body of work.”

He's had an outstanding work ethic, too, and he's gone out of his way to get familiar with his new teammates. That's no easy task considering his projected starting receivers, Mohamed Massaquoi and Brian Robiskie, were playing Pop Warner ball when Delhomme was breaking into the NFL and playing with the Amsterdam Admirals in NFL Europe in 1998. But Delhomme insists he's the one feeling like a kid again.

"We're all overgrown kids," he said. "We're lucky enough to be playing football a long time. I enjoy meeting all these guys...finding out what makes them tick."

Browns Pro Bowl tackle Joe Thomas said Delhomme has been "a consummate team player. He jumped right in, fit right in. He was leaving his family every week to be with the team and try to learn the system. He's a guy who has a great deal of experience in this league. People look up to him and respect him."

"He studies hard, and on the field he slings the ball like a rookie," Thomas said. "He comes in and takes things very seriously but at the same time he fits in really well with the guys."

The Browns believe they're a team entering 2010 with some momentum after winning four straight to cap a 5-11 2009 season. A reborn Delhomme figures to be one of the biggest factors in whether or not they're able to extend that.

"He’s got great energy," Mangini said. "I don’t like making comparisons, but I will. He reminds me a little bit of (Brett) Favre that way, in terms of he enjoys practice, he enjoys being around the guys. He is able to be serious and still keep things light, it is really important to him. He has a good rapport with offensive guys, defensive guys and you just see it in their interaction in the weight room and all the different areas. It’s positive; it’s really positive.”

Delhomme joked that he's enjoyed his short time on the field this week after spending two months "inside lifting weights -- or watching guys lift weights."

"It's been lots of fun," he said. "I'm just excited to help whatever way I can."

Follow Zac Jackson on Twitter @FSOhioZJackson, and check out his reports on all of Cleveland's sports teams on http://www.foxsportsohio.com!


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Jake Delhomme the leader? You've got to be shitting me? If you clown fans are looking to him to be your leader, you're in for a long season. hahaha LOL.

The only thing he's going to lead is the interception catagory.

Al Capone wrote: Jake Delhomme the leader? You've got to be shitting me? If you clown fans are looking to him to be your leader, you're in for a long season. hahaha LOL.

Says the man whose team is lead by a fat rapist who doesn't have the respect of his own teammates anymore. Nicely played.

Benny The Jet wrote:

Al Capone wrote: Jake Delhomme the leader? You've got to be shitting me? If you clown fans are looking to him to be your leader, you're in for a long season. hahaha LOL.

Says the man whose team is lead by a fat rapist who doesn't have the respect of his own teammates anymore. Nicely played.

What are you talking about? Right now, they are lead by an even FATTER QB (Leftwich) who is the stunt double for that dude from Keenan & Kel. Their QB situation is WORSE than ours right now.

I got an idea: How about we just ignore Capone's posts? The fact that everyone keeps responding to him is the reason he keeps trolling. No "your momma" jokes are going to keep him away. Just ignore him. That simple.

dat dude wrote: I got an idea: How about we just ignore Capone's posts? The fact that everyone keeps responding to him is the reason he keeps trolling. No "your momma" jokes are going to keep him away. Just ignore him. That simple.

That's too complicated for some of these middle schoolers on here to comprehend. They simply haven't reached that level of maturity yet...

What They're Saying...

By Fred Greetham
OBR Browns Reporter
Posted May 20, 2010


BEREA—Several of the newly acquired Browns players spoke as they came off the field after OTAs on Wednesday.

QB Seneca Wallace on the young receivers – “They’ve been great. They’re on the field early and they’re staying late. They are doing everything they can to show they can play.”

Wallace on playing time at QB – “I wanted to get an opportunity and a shot. That’s all I can ask for and I have that here.”

QB Jake Delhomme on his mindset – “I just want to contribute to the Cleveland Browns and be a part of turning things around. I’m 35 and have played 14 seasons. I just wasn’t to play and win. There’s no better feeling than coming into a locker room after a win and mission accomplished. I just wanted a chance to compete and that’s what I have here.”

Delhomme on new scenery – “For me, it is a fresh start. I loved six of the seven seasons I had in Carolina. Last season was not a lot of fun. I feel that I have a new beginning and it’s starting fresh.”

New cornerback Sheldon Brown on joining the Browns – “I welcomed the trade a lot. Tom (Heckert) was with me in 2002 when he drafted me. I feel like a rookie coming to the Browns, but at the same time and am a mentor to all of the young guys.”

Brown on last season – “It was a good season for me, but I’m looking forward to the future and this season.”

TE Ben Watson on joining the Browns as a free agent—“You always like it as a player when a team and

http://cle.scout.com/2/971495.html

Nordonia High grad Jason Trusnik knows how good he's got it with Cleveland Browns: Terry Pluto
By Terry Pluto, The Plain Dealer
May 20, 2010, 8:14PM

Sometimes, we need a summer football story like this from the Browns' organized team activities in Berea.

Rather than all the focus on the restricted free agents who are not in camp, we need to hear from one who did sign his contract, who did show up.

We need to think about Jason Trusnik, the kid from Nordonia High School who was so highly regarded as a football player for the Knights that he received zero scholarship offers.

None.

It wasn't that long ago that he watched the Browns train at Berea, where he collected autographs from Bernie Kosar, Michael Jackson and Eric Metcalf. He attended nearly all the games with his father, Leonard, who was a season-ticket holder.

When he played at Division III Ohio Northern, he kept his dreams of pro football to himself. Yes, Ohio Northern plays in the same Ohio Athletic Conference as Mount Union, and the Polar Bears have a strong, small-college program.

Joshua Gunter / The Plain DealerJason Trusnik, left, celebrating a sack last season with Mike Adams, knows he is living a dream by playing in the NFL for his hometown team.Yes, he was a two-time Division III All-American, a dominant defensive player. But the OAC to the NFL?

It has happened to a precious few, such as John Carroll's London Fletcher and Mount Union's Pierre Garcon, but they are the exceptions.

Come draft day, no NFL team called Trusnik's name.

"It was the same story that I heard coming out of high school -- not big enough, not fast enough," he said.

Then Trusnik smiled and sort of shrugged. He was wearing his Browns uniform. He had just finished working out with the starting team at outside linebacker. This is his fourth NFL season.

Who'd have ever believed it?

He made the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent. A coach named Eric Mangini loved Trusnik's tenacity on special teams. That was his role for three seasons in New York. Mangini became Browns coach, and when he talked trade with the Jets, he asked that Trusnik be included in the deal for receiver Braylon Edwards.

It seemed like an afterthought, but Trusnik showed up, and injuries to other linebackers ushered him into the starting lineup for 10 games. He started at outside and inside linebacker.

"Coach Mangini likes hard-working players," he said. "I don't take this for granted. It's every kid's dream who plays Pop Warner or plays in high school to be where I am now."

That's why Trusnik didn't hesitate when offered a $1.7 million contract for 2010. He was in the same restricted free-agent spot as Matt Roth, Abe Elam, Jerome Harrison and D'Qwell Jackson. None of them has signed, as they are looking for long-term contracts.

Trusnik doesn't talk about other players' contract talks. His highest salary before was $460,000, so to go to $1,700,000 is a healthy raise for a guy who was never supposed to make the NFL.

"I just know that I needed to be here," he said. "I know how hard it is to make the league and how hard it is to stay here."

Trusnik also knows the NFL is a cruel place for those who aren't stars. Most contracts are not guaranteed. Veterans can be cut at any moment. Players such as himself can be replaced easily if they are viewed as high maintenance. But if they are willing to play several positions, produce on special teams and support their teammates and coaches, they can have a significant pro career.

"To play for my hometown team, that is a dream come true," he said. "It's also why I take time to sign autographs for kids. I remember when I was like them."


http://www.cleveland.com/pluto/blog/index.ssf/2010/05/post_8.html

pkebker wrote:

dat dude wrote: I got an idea: How about we just ignore Capone's posts? The fact that everyone keeps responding to him is the reason he keeps trolling. No "your momma" jokes are going to keep him away. Just ignore him. That simple.

That's too complicated for some of these middle schoolers on here to comprehend. They simply haven't reached that level of maturity yet...

What post? It is so much easier to read this thread when his post come up hidden.

Sonofanump wrote:

pkebker wrote:

dat dude wrote: I got an idea: How about we just ignore Capone's posts? The fact that everyone keeps responding to him is the reason he keeps trolling. No "your momma" jokes are going to keep him away. Just ignore him. That simple.

That's too complicated for some of these middle schoolers on here to comprehend. They simply haven't reached that level of maturity yet...

What post? It is so much easier to read this thread when his post come up hidden.

That would be great in a perfect world but then someone decides to quote him and you have to read his bullshit anyway. I've been guilty of quoting the dumbass myself.

All Eyes on Delhomme

By The Sports Xchange

Posted May 21, 2010

Can new Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme turn back the clock to 2007?


All eyes will be on Jake Delhomme now through the end of August to learn whether he can turn back the clock and prove his disastrous 2009 season with the Carolina Panthers was a fluke.

Coach Eric Mangini and team president Mike Holmgren are convinced the Delhomme that threw eight touchdown passes and 18 interceptions last season is not the same guy they are paying $7 million in 2010 to play for the Browns.

Holmgren and Mangini say Delhomme and Seneca Wallace will battle to be the starter, but on Wednesday, the first day OTAs were open to the media, Delhomme got the bulk of the work followed by Wallace and then rookie Colt McCoy and Brett Ratliff.

Delhomme looked in command while calling plays and throwing the ball.

"He's got great energy," Mangini said. "I don't like making comparisons. But I will. He reminds me a little bit of (Brett) Favre in terms of enjoying practice and being around the guys. He's able to be serious and still keep things light. He has good rapport with the offensive guys and defensive guys. You see it in the weight room and all the different areas."

Spring practice is a far cry from what real football is like because players are not in pads and Delhomme wasn't dealing with snarling pass rushers, but his throws were on the money. Three passes in particular stood out; one was a lob in the deep right corner of the end zone to Brian Robiskie. Cornerback Eric Wright had tight coverage on Chansi Stuckey on another play, so Delhomme threw the ball so that Stuckey had to extend his arms. He threw the ball perfectly, where only Stuckey could catch it. He made a similar throw intentionally low to the ground to Robiskie with Sheldon Brown all over the second-year receiver. Robiskie caught the ball for a touchdown.

"When you change to a new team you do get a fresh start," Delhomme said. "To be here is very refreshing. It's like you get new life injected into you.

"It could have been very easy to walk away and go home or go hold a clipboard some other place, but I wanted a chance to compete. That's all I ask."

Delhomme and the Panthers played for the NFC championship after the 2008 season. Delhomme threw five interceptions against Arizona in that championship game. On Wednesday he said he put so much pressure on himself the next season to atone for letting down his team and Panther fans he never got back into the groove.

Delhomme was 4-7 as a starter in 2009 before a hand injury ended his season. Prior to 2009 he was 50-31 as a starter with the Panthers. He was 10-5 as a starter in 2003 when Carolina was in the Super Bowl. He was 11-5 in 2005 and 12-4 in 2008.

Delhomme played only three games in 2007 before an elbow injury ended his season. He had Tommy John surgery to repair it and bounced back to complete 246 of 414 passes for 3,288 yards, 15 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 2008.


NOTES, QUOTES

--WR Brian Robiskie, last year's second-round draft pick from Ohio State is looking like a different player from a year ago when he caught only seven passes.

Robiskie has been smooth and comfortable running routes in OTAs. He is catching the ball consistently. Coach Eric Mangini is hopeful Robiskie will make a big jump in his second year.

--LB Matt Roth is one of five restricted free agents sitting out the voluntary OTAs. The others are linebacker D'Qwell Jackson, running back Jerome Harrison, fullback Lawrence Vickers and safety Abe Elam.

Elam and Jackson want multi-year contracts. Roth wants to be traded. General Manager Tom Heckert said Roth will not be dealt.

"It's like that with everybody," Heckert said. "Normally when guys are unhappy with their contacts, the first thing out of their mouth is give me a new deal or trade me. It isn't the first time we've heard that and it won't be the last."

Roth played six games and recorded four sacks for the Browns after being picked up on waivers from the Dolphins late in the season.

Heckert said he is reluctant to give long-term deals to the players holding out because neither he nor team president Mike Holmgren saw them play last season.

--Josh Cribbs was at the Akron Browns Backers banquet Monday night to receive the Player of the Year award from the Cleveland Chapter of the Pro Football Writers of America.

Before entering the banquet hall the Browns' special teams star and Wildcat quarterback was cornered by reporters covering the Browns. He was a regular at Cavaliers playoff games and was asked about Cavs star LeBron James possibly playing elsewhere next season.

"I watched him every game," Cribbs said. "It won't be the same without him. He's The King here. LeBron James is King being in this city and growing up in Akron.

"If he goes anywhere else he'll just be a phenomenal, extraordinary athlete, but he will not be The King in any other city but Cleveland."

--Scott Fujita, who played the last four seasons with the Saints, knows Browns new quarterback Jake Delhomme as well as anybody.

"I've known Jake for a long time and have nothing but respect for him," Fujita said after an OTA practice. "I think I've played him eight or nine times and lost to him almost every time.

"I like having him on my side. I've played with some great quarterbacks (including Drew Brees in New Orleans), but Jake is a great guy, great in the locker room and a heckuva competitor. He's had some injuries the last couple years, but watching him come back and work the way he has this offseason, he looked sharp. I know he's in great shape because I've been running with him almost every day."

QUOTE TO NOTE: "Feels like a rookie. You put in a lot of different terminology, a lot different from the terminology I had in Philadelphia. I'm in the playbook a lot and it's tough. It's

http://cle.scout.com/2/971632.html

Good to see, so far, about Robiskie. He was a major reach where he was selected but hopefully he AND Veikune can give us some value.

It wouldn't shock me to see RB James Davis be the odd man out and be released by the Browns. There is a serious logjam at RB now.

I would hate to see Davis let go. Really haven't seen enough of him yet. Maybe Jennings instead.

It's hard to have too many RB's, but if one were to go, it would probably be Jennings

Wallace: This is not the WCO
by Site Staff of theOBR.com,
May 22, 2010 at 11:29pm ET


Contrary to many reports the Browns are not changing over to a West Coast offense.

It was assumed they would become a West Coast team because team president Mike Holmgren coached the West Coast in Green Bay and Seattle a total of 17 years. Then he traded for Seneca Wallace, who played in a West Coast offense under Holmgren in Seattle. Jake Delhomme has also played in the West Coast.

But the Browns aren't using it, Wallace says.

"The offense seems good," Wallace said. "It's different. Obviously, it's not the West Coast offense and I have to get used to the terminology and the things we do offensively, so it's a learning process. Every time we get on the field, that's what we'll do."

Wallace wants to play quarterback, but at the very least he will be involved in some plays with Josh Cribbs in Wildcat formations. One could line up as a quarterback and the other as a wide receiver.

http://cle.scout.com/a.z?s=149&p=9&c=2&cid=971900&nid=4853243&fhn=1

Not running the offense both QB's know?? I don't believe it will be completely not used. Maybe Wallace's comments were more of a smokescreen?

Off topic...but in today's PD, Pluto wrote that he is impressed with the WRs in OTAs. Robiskie has made a big improvement.

Yeah, Robo has seemed to step up, so far. He needs to show he's close to worth where they drafted him.

Around the NFL: Browns trying to retool offense
By Steve Doerschuk
CantonRep.com staff writer
Posted May 22, 2010 @ 09:49 PM


R&R can be painful. Watching game tapes of the Raiders’ and Rams’ 2009 offenses, for example, easily rates a flagrant roughing-the-eyeballs flag.

In a league built for offense — the Saints led the 2009 parade with 510 points — only St. Louis and Oakland failed to reach 200.

To a large extent, eight other teams and their fans felt their pain. These teams failed to reach the league standard for minimal respectability, 300 points.

The worst of these eight was Cleveland with 245.

The crying need to reach 300 — the 12 playoff teams averaged 412 points — is part of what led to Browns President Mike Holmgren standing on the team’s practice field earlier this week, assessing Head Coach Eric Mangini’s modified squad.

Last year’s dearth of scoring digits is why Gil Haskell, Holmgren’s longtime play-calling guru, is one of the busiest consultants in America and now working with Browns offensive coaches.

It is why Holmgren gambled a ton at quarterback after the Panthers basically said Jake Delhomme is done.

Much is being asked of Delhomme, who, to his credit, seems to have himself in great shape and looked very sharp — compared to last year’s Browns quarterbacks anyway — during a practice open to writers.

In a red-zone drill, Delhomme sailed a pass to the right corner of the end zone, where it evaded tight end Robert Royal’s fingertips. Delhomme smacked his hands in disgust.

It was one of the few uncatchable balls Delhomme threw all day. Most seemed more than catchable. Sizzle and precision were the rule.

On a throw over the middle into the end zone, Eric Wright, the team’s best cornerback, was right on wideout Chansi Stuckey’s tail. Delhomme, though, went to Stuckey, whistling a throw that would elude Wright only if it forced Stuckey to dive. Stuckey did, and he caught the ball, which Wright came close to tipping as he, too, dove.

A perfect pass and catch. Try finding 10 of those on the 2009 highlight film.

Royal and Stuckey were apt images of the range of possibilities with Delhomme.

Royal hadn’t set any records as a pass-catching tight end in two previous stops, making a career-high 33 grabs for Buffalo in 2008. Playing hurt for much of his first year as a Brown, with quarterbacks Holmgren eventually cut loose, Royal caught three passes in his last nine games.

Seeing Delhomme miss him brought all of this to mind.

Watching Delhomme deliver the mail to Stuckey was something else. Maybe last year’s receivers can actually get somewhere with this year’s quarterback and system. Maybe the receiving corps was tweaked just enough to make a difference.

The biggest offseason addition by way of targets was tight end Ben Watson.

His career in New England was somewhat strange for a Round 1 pick in 2004. He has been a bit fragile. Last season was the first time he played in all 16 regular-season games. He is no Antonio Gates, averaging 33 catches during the last five years.

Yet Mangini speaks of Watson as if he is a first-round talent who still has upside that will show any minute now, even though he turns 30 in December.

“I think his best football is ahead of him,” Mangini said.

Watson caught everything thrown to him in the practice we saw this week. He seemed fast and spontaneous, making moves the moment the ball was secured.

Socially, he seems to be tip-toeing. Maybe it’s not easy going from the team of the decade to the team whose 2000s record was better only than Detroit’s.

“It’s obviously different to wear different colors and to just up and move,” Watson said. “It’s hardest for the family, packing up your whole house, leaving your friends, moving to a new place. But that’s the way the league is.”

Delhomme and Watson seemed to work well together. When asked about his new quarterback, Watson gave a polite response.

“He’s obviously an established player in this league.”

In this case, though, what would anyone have him say.

Can his best football really be ahead of him after leaving Tom Brady?

Now, that calls for some Mangenius.

DEAR WATSON MEMORIES

Snippets of Watson’s past that have the Browns hoping:

• Season opener, 2009: Six catches, 77 yards in a 25-24 win over Buffalo.

• Nov. 13, 2008. Eight catches, 88 yards against Mangini’s Jets.

• Dec. 7, 2008. After Seneca Wallace leads Seattle to a 14-3 lead, New England begins a rally with a touchdown catch by Watson.

• Oct. 7, 2007. Watson makes life miserable for Browns strong safety Sean Jones, finishing with six catches for 107 yards and two TDs in a 34-17 win.

• Nov. 26, 2006. Watson’s touchdown catch late in the fourth quarter broke a 10-10 tie in a win over the Bears.

• No. 13, 2005.. Trailing 16-15 in the final minute, Watson beat a safety and got both feet inbounds on a 17-yard touchdown pass. The Pats’ other TD in the game was a 16-yard pass over the middle to Watson.

The problem with Watson’s career has been the number of games between snippets.

A COUPLE OF LISTS

Scout.com ranked the Browns top 10 young players with the greatest upside: 1, C Alex Mack; 2, CB Joe Haden; 3, QB Colt McCoy; 4, WR Mohamed Massaquoi; 5, RB Monterio Hardesty; 6, NT Ahtyba Rubin; 7, safety T.J. Ward; 8, FB-RB Peyton Hillis; 9, LB Kaluka Maiava; 10, WR Carlton Mitchell.

Glaringly absent was 2009 No. 36 overall draft pick Brian Robiskie. We’re not writing off Robiskie. The combination of his talent, a veteran quarterback and an offense with a stronger rudder now that Holmgren is “helping” work in Robiskie’s favor. It was just a spring practice, but he looked very good when we were watching him the other day.

Pro Football Talk’s rankings of coaches on the hottest of the hot seats: 1, John Fox, Panthers; 2, Tom Cable, Raiders; 3, Lovie Smith, Bears; 4, Tom Coughlin, Giants; 5, Mangini.


http://www.cantonrep.com/sports/x1070022395/Around-the-NFL-Browns-trying-to-retool-offense

I may be late on this news but PFT is reporting the bouncer Jenning's punched in the mouth will not be filing charges. They reached an "agreement". So now who goes in our packed backfield, Jennings or Davis. And when will Harrison sign.

iclfan2 wrote: I may be late on this news but PFT is reporting the bouncer Jenning's punched in the mouth will not be filing charges. They reached an "agreement". So now who goes in our packed backfield, Jennings or Davis. And when will Harrison sign.

I think BOTH could be gone and Harrison will sign eventually. He's only hurting himself and giving Hardesty a chance to shine.

Harrison decision to holdout is not making any sense to me. He knows he has no leverage in contract negotiations, so he's not going to get a new contract. And this is the first season is has a chance to be the real #1 RB, and he's blowing his opportunity by letting Hardesty get all the spring reps. Here's his chance and he's missing it...

Five Cleveland Browns returning players who might shine in 2010
By Tony Grossi, The Plain Dealer
May 24, 2010, 11:30AM



CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As Browns organized team activity practices head into their second week, news is scarce. This is the time for predictions and analysis.
Thus, here is a list of five players returning from the 2009 roster who have the potential for the biggest improvement in impact on the team in 2010.

• Brian Robiskie: The second-year receiver dressed for 11 games as a rookie and caught passes in only three of them. If one OTA practice open to the media is any indication, he should at least quintuple his season total of seven catches.

• Ahtyba Rubin: The team was 4-1 after he took over for injured Shaun Rogers at nose tackle. Entering his third season, his emergence could move Rogers to right end in the three-man front.

• Matt Roth: He had four sacks in the six games he played after joining the team via waivers from Miami on Nov. 25. His addition, plus the insertion of Rubin, improved the run defense immensely. If he would just play out the season and prove his short-term run was no fluke, his request for a long-term contract should be met.

• Chansi Stuckey: He suffered culture shock after joining the Browns in the Braylon Edwards trade with the Jets on Oct. 7. He didn't catch a pass until his fourth game and wound up with 19 receptions. With a fresh re-start in the program, he should develop into a reliable slot receiver for an experienced quarterback like Jake Delhomme.

• Evan Moore: From the time he was elevated from the practice squad for the 12th game, this 6-6 tight end proved to have the surest hands on the team. He finished with 12 catches in five games -- one more reception than free agent pickup Robert Royal had in 13 games. Moore should benefit from the addition of tight end Benjamin Watson and give Delhomme an additional option in red-zone situations.


http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b4fTf