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With the uncertainty surrounding veteran receivers Braylon Edwards and Donte Stallworth, the Browns continue to add depth to the position. On Tuesday, they signed six-year pro Mike Furrey, who spent the past three seasons with the Lions and his first three with the Rams. Furrey's signing comes on the heels of the Browns drafting Brian Robiskie and Mohamed Massaqoui in the second round of the draft and adding David Patten, Devale Ellis and rookie Jordan Norwood of Penn State as free agents. Stallworth will be arraigned May 21st on DUI manslaughter charges and Edwards, the subject of trade rumors, has been mostly absent from the team's off-season conditioning program.

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May 6, 2009  07:39 AM ET

The same reason every other team does??

May 6, 2009  08:04 AM ET

Furrey is a good slot WR. Ill miss his hard work here in Detroit.

May 6, 2009  08:10 AM ET
QUOTE(#2):

Furrey is a good slot WR. Ill miss his hard work here in Detroit.

He worked for General Motors??

May 6, 2009  08:18 AM ET

Well Edwards can't even catch the swine flu......

May 6, 2009  08:29 AM ET
QUOTE(#1):

The same reason every other team does??

Chico. well stated. do these writers get paid for this stuff?

May 6, 2009  08:38 AM ET

On Tuesday, they signed six-year pro Mike Furrey, who spent the past three seasons with the Lions and his first three with the Rams.

I guess thats makes you a pro.

May 6, 2009  08:39 AM ET
QUOTE(#4):

Well Edwards can't even catch the swine flu......

lol ...great stuff!

May 6, 2009  08:41 AM ET
QUOTE(#3):

He worked for General Motors??

lotta good that did them...Furry is a decent receiver will help out cleveland

May 6, 2009  09:23 AM ET

I'm glad ManKok has built depth in the WR front.. it was a glaring need last year, since we'll need viable #2 and #3 options if Braylon "Sir Drops-a-lot" Edwards repeats his 2008 performance. I just wish I felt better about the defense.

May 6, 2009  09:58 AM ET

What a stupid headline! Umm, because one of their starters will soon be "renting" Michael Vick's former digs and the other can't catch a cold if he was butt nekkid on the Frozen Tundra.

May 6, 2009  10:28 AM ET

So that they'll have at least one still out of jail and capable of catching something by September??

May 6, 2009  11:36 AM ET

The Browns need depth at every position, and not just depth but skill as well.

May 6, 2009  11:47 AM ET
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I guess thats makes you a pro.

Pops, I thought professionals got paid for what they did and amateurs did not.

Am I reading to much into this?

May 6, 2009  11:52 AM ET
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So that they'll have at least one still out of jail and capable of catching something by September??

Steeler, what are you, some kind of Internet lawyer? What is it with the fine print? Codicils, stipulations, riders, clauses, addendums, provisos, provisions, prerequisites specifications, riders, caveats, qualifications.

We have wide receivers. Can we leave it at that?

Don't you have a business to run? Can you leave the Browns to ManKok? They can drive into Lake Erie without you. It's not too far.

May 6, 2009  12:05 PM ET

There is no point to having the uniforms numbered from 1-99 if you do not use them all..That is reason enough in and of itself. The alternative to so many WRs is to do like the Bucs and set aside 8 numbered uniforms for the QB position........If you add too much depth at the OL of DL positions there is not enough room on the bus seats from the Airport to the Hotel for away games.....Those guys are just too big....Loading up on WR is the most cost effective way to go.

May 6, 2009  12:12 PM ET
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There is no point to having the uniforms numbered from 1-99 if you do not use them all

50, you let me use irrational numbers and I can solve all this just using 1-2. Heck, I can handle all 32 teams. Forever. No number recycled. Every number gets retired.

The power of math.

"Root 2 drops back and throw to root 3 who slips a tackle from sin( 1 )...."

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In mathematics, an irrational number is any real number that is not a rational number???that is, it is a number which cannot be expressed as a fraction m/n, where m and n are integers, with n non-zero. Informally, this means numbers that cannot be represented as simple fractions. It can be deduced that they also cannot be represented as terminating or repeating decimals, but the idea is more profound than that. As a consequence of Cantor's proof that the real numbers are uncountable (and the rationals countable) it follows that almost all real numbers are irrational.[1] Perhaps the best-known irrational numbers are ??, e and ???2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_numbers

May 6, 2009  12:15 PM ET
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50, you let me use irrational numbers and I can solve all this just using 1-2. Heck, I can handle all 32 teams. Forever. No number recycled. Every number gets retired.The power of math."Root 2 drops back and throw to root 3 who slips a tackle from sin( 1 )...."-----In mathematics, an irrational number is any real number that is not a rational number???that is, it is a number which cannot be expressed as a fraction m/n, where m and n are integers, with n non-zero. Informally, this means numbers that cannot be represented as simple fractions. It can be deduced that they also cannot be represented as terminating or repeating decimals, but the idea is more profound than that. As a consequence of Cantor's proof that the real numbers are uncountable (and the rationals countable) it follows that almost all real numbers are irrational.[1] Perhaps the best-known irrational numbers are ??, e and ???2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_numbers

i actually read that. Now my head hurts. Is it just coincidence that math is a four letter word?

May 6, 2009  12:23 PM ET
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i actually read that. Now my head hurts. Is it just coincidence that math is a four letter word?

The Internet is a sterile medium.

Give me five minutes with a chalkboard and you would be a believer. You would exclaim "We have to call the Commissioner!"

May 6, 2009  12:49 PM ET
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He worked for General Motors??

No - Ford. He owns the Lions.

 
May 6, 2009  12:53 PM ET
QUOTE(#17):

i actually read that. Now my head hurts. Is it just coincidence that math is a four letter word?

Trust me - no coincidence. I majored in math.

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