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Greg Popelka

mike phipps cardIt can be easy for a writer to compile a list, and perhaps flesh out each item with a sentence or two. And that’s fine, unless it becomes a rehash of what a half dozen other writers have already put out there. Actually, I say that’s fine, but that’s assuming the list represents some minimum level of forethought.

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Jonathan Knight

browns steelers 2009As we struggle to survive another season with the new-era Browns, one way we can try to get through it (besides alcohol or heavy medication) is to look back at the best individual weeks of the Browns’ new era to remember times in recent memory when this particular week didn’t suck.

Following the events of last week, by now Browns fans are probably bored with the concept of their team defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers.

And yet it’s still probably a good idea to reflect back on some of these occasions, just so we don’t begin taking them for granted.

So let us travel back to four years ago this week, when the Steelers came to town on a Thursday night for an experiment in what football would be like if played inside the freezer in your garage.

Put simply: it was cold. Really cold. As cold as a well-digger’s belt-buckle...on Venus.

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Gary Benz

Browns-Raiders 1If the Cleveland Browns have indeed finally turned a corner toward a lighted street and not another darkened alley, then they'll look back at the sloppy victories against two struggling teams that constitute a legitimate win streak as the first signs. The Browns' harder-than-it-had-to-be yet not-as-close-as-it-appears 20-17 win against the Oakland Raiders on Sunday was notable not because the Raiders are Kansas City Chiefs-level awful, though they're close, but because it almost has never mattered how awful the Raiders are when playing

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Jonathan Knight

brownie elfUseless nuggets of information from Sunday’s Browns game that you can certainly live without…

OFFENSIVE MACHINE: The 475 yards of offense the Browns tallied was their highest total since compiling 554 in the 51-45 win over the Bengals in 2007. It was the second time this season the Browns topped 400 total yards - they also did it in Cincinnati in Week 2.

LATE-GAME LOSERS: This was the only post-4 p.m. Sunday game the Browns will play in 2012. They’d lost their previous six games with 4:00-hour start times dating back to 2009.

BIG PLAYS, PART 1: Mohamed Massaquoi’s 54-yard reception in the third quarter was the Browns’ third play of 50 or more yards this season. The other two were touchdown receptions of 71 and 62 yards by Josh Gordon.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIELD: Excluding the kneeldown on the game’s final play, the Browns reached Oakland territory on seven of their nine possessions. The Browns only had one three-and-out on Sunday after six the week before.

BIG PLAYS, PART 2: Rod Streater’s 64-yard touchdown pass was the longest play the Browns have allowed this year, the fourth of more than 50 yards.

DEFENSIVE BREAKDOWN: After six weeks of steady improvement, the Browns’ defense slipped on Sunday. They allowed 429 total yards - the fifth time this year an opponent topped 400 - after not permitting more than 321 in their last five games. Despite that, the Browns managed to out-gain their opponent in total yardage for just the second time this year (Week 2 in Cincy).

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Thomas Moore

2012 12 browns raiders winThe Cleveland Browns headed to Oakland on Sunday with many of their fans and the rest of the NFL questioning whether or not they have what it takes to actually finish a game when given the opportunity.

With 9:31 left in the game and holding a three-point lead, the Browns huddled on their own six-yard line with opportunity – and the Raiders defense – staring them in the face.

Quarterback Brandon Weeden shrug off what had been, up to that point, a rather unspectacular day to drive the Browns 94 yards in 14 plays, leading the Browns to a touchdown drive and effectively sealing the win.

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