There's alot of credit to go around for yesterday's big win in Atlanta ... but no one may be more deserving of praise than defensive backs coach Mel Tucker. Tucker has done an amazing job with the secondary despite losing Baxter, Cutch, and Bodden. Bodden, Jones, and Pool have all developed nicely on his watch, and he shot down the Falcons yesterday with the CB trio of Holly, Perry, and Brown. The Rhino weighs in on Mel T.

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The last time the Browns and Falcons played was the final game of the 2002 regular season, and it was a home win by the Browns that secured their only playoff spot of the new era of Browns football. Four years have passed, but the key to defeating the Falcons has remained the same - stop Michael Vick and the vaunted Falcon running attack. The Hornless Rhino is here with his preview of this afternoon's Browns game.

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Now that Maurice Carthon's head has been delivered to us on a platter, Charlie Frye seems to be emerging as the scapegoat du jour for the Browns' offensive woes. In recent weeks, there has been a rising chorus of Frye bashing, and some of it is plainly justified. The Rhino weighs in with his thoughts on #9.

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The ghost of the Butch Davis regime continues to mock us from beyond the grave. We could have had LaDainian Tomlinson in the 2001 draft. He was there for the taking at the third pick. But Davis, in a preview of the personnel management disasters that were to come, balked and took Gerard "the nicest guy ever arrested" Warren. Warren is now living life to the fullest in Denver. Tomlinson is on the fast track to the hall of fame in San Diego. The Browns ... well, look at the record.

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