Browns release Jamal Lewis

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pkebker

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Feb 17, 2010 5:26 PM
Good Riddance.
Feb 17, 2010 5:26pm
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wes_mantooth

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Feb 17, 2010 5:31 PM
Damn it!!!! I really thought that he would have a "break out" year for them this coming year.
Feb 17, 2010 5:31pm
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ytownfootball

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Feb 17, 2010 5:36 PM
He said he was done with like 4 games left last season.
Feb 17, 2010 5:36pm
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thedynasty1998

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Feb 17, 2010 5:40 PM
I thought he retired?
Feb 17, 2010 5:40pm
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Feb 17, 2010 6:44 PM
Good move. Or if not release him, make him a short yardage back. Who are they pursuing?
Feb 17, 2010 6:44pm
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Eric Taylor

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Feb 17, 2010 7:38 PM
Not much will come of it, but LT's name has popped up.
Feb 17, 2010 7:38pm
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pkebker

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Feb 17, 2010 7:39 PM
77Legend wrote: Good move. Or if not release him, make him a short yardage back. Who are they pursuing?
...Harrison, Davis, Jennings.....
Feb 17, 2010 7:39pm
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Feb 17, 2010 9:21 PM
Do not touch LT. You just go from one back over the hill to another.
Feb 17, 2010 9:21pm
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Al Capone

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Feb 17, 2010 10:12 PM
Don't Lewis have a criminal past. Cincy or Baltimore will pick him up.
Feb 17, 2010 10:12pm
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gerb131

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Feb 17, 2010 10:17 PM
He will retire soon anyways.
Feb 17, 2010 10:17pm
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bigdaddy2003

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Feb 17, 2010 11:42 PM
Nah, Baltimore doesn't need him. If I was Pittsburgh I would try and get him. They need something better than Mildly fast Willie and Mendenhall.
Feb 17, 2010 11:42pm
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Feb 18, 2010 12:17 AM
Last time I remember, we are still the only franchise to win 6 Super Bowls, 2 out of the last 5, not bad IMO. We do not need Lewis. But we do need to get better in running the ball, but that starts with the offensive line.
Feb 18, 2010 12:17am
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Feb 18, 2010 12:36 AM
Al Capone wrote: Don't Lewis have a criminal past. Cincy or Baltimore will pick him up.
Unlike most of the criminals that some NFL teams have a tendency to gravitate toward, Jamal has a whopping total of one incident with the law. His culpability was so grievous that the charge, which carries a mandatory minimum 10-year federal prison sentence, netted him a whopping four months.

To make a long story short...

Jamal grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood in Atlanta, and although most of the people he grew up with joined gangs and either ended up in prison or dead, Jamal was on the up-and-up. He went off to UT, stayed clean, and went pro after the 1999 season. At some point between the time he left UT and was drafted, he was back in Atlanta and started dating a woman. She was actually an undercover DEA agent who was getting information on a lot of Jamal's old friends. She asked Jamal if she could borrow his cell phone, he let her, and she walked away and set up a drug deal for the purpose of conducting a sting down the road. Under an extremely bizarre section of federal drug law, Jamal was technically considered to be culpable for what transpired when someone borrowed his phone and set up a drug deal.

That's pretty much the extent of his criminal history right there. Someone he was seeing asked to borrow his phone and Jamal, being a nice guy, agreed. What a horrible person he is.:rolleyes:
Feb 18, 2010 12:36am
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Feb 18, 2010 12:38 AM
77Legend wrote: Last time I remember, we are still the only franchise to win 6 Super Bowls, 2 out of the last 5, not bad IMO. We do not need Lewis. But we do need to get better in running the ball, but that starts with the offensive line.
Yeah, I never said the Steelers were bad. I didn't know they had a bad O line though.
Feb 18, 2010 12:38am
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Feb 18, 2010 9:01 AM
NNN,

that's pretty shitty. Dude gets used and gets netted prison time in the process
Feb 18, 2010 9:01am
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Feb 18, 2010 9:45 AM
Was the right thing to do for the browns.

He said he was gonna retire, but many of us figured he was just talking in the heat of the moment of being on an atrocious team and his injury. I figured he would reopen the door later and he did not too long ago.

Browns werent sure if he would stick around so why not cut him?

he was a great back...but he lost his explosiveness through the hole. When a back loses that, regardless of if he is a big back or not, his career is done. Ya simply cannot just plow guys over. Many think that is all he, and guys like bettis, did but that wasnt the case.. they had enough quickness to get to and thru the hole and then power over DB's and LB's.
Feb 18, 2010 9:45am