Heading into this season, I was with the majority of Browns fans in my belief that the defense was going to be pretty good ... and that the offense would continue to struggle.  Well, here we are, seven weeks in, and the Browns are the 1998 Rams recreated.  And the defense stinks to the high heavens.  In his latest, Mansfield Lucas tries to decipher for us exactly what is wrong with the defense.  And if they stand a chance of getting any better as we head into the holidays.

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Hiko checks in with the bye week edition of The Browns Outsider, and this week he talks about the nice problem of having two young quarterbacks with some market value across the league.  Hiko also peeks ahead to this weekend's game at 0-7 St. Louis, and admits to being scared by this game, even though the Rams don't really give him any reason to be.  Hiko also says that meaningful December football could be in the offing ... but it all comes down to the team's defensive line.

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Derek Freaking Anderson.  Wow!  18-25, three passing TD's, one rushing TD's, and NO interceptions.  DA has 14 TDs, and is on pace to chuck almost 40 TD's this season, and put the cappers on a monster fantasy football season.  And after starting the season atop Nick Allburn's "Zeroes" standings ... DA is now making a run at the offensive line, Braylon, Cribbs, and K2 atop the "Heroes" standings.  Nick takes a look at last weekend's standouts and disappointments in his latest installment of "Heroes & Zeroes".

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It's time again for The Browns Outsider here at TCF, and former Miami denizen Hiko took extra pleasure in this past Sunday's win over the Dolphins behind 41 points from the Browns newly explosive offense.  And like most of us, he's tiring of the Browns porous run D, and begs for some changes from Romeo and Todd during the bye week.  And as always, Hiko takes us through the game one quarter at a time, providing his humorous, yet insightful analysis along the way.

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