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Why the Browns four wins were deceiving
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08:00 AM ET 07.25 | Sympathetic Browns fans point to the team's defense ranking among the top 10 in total yards allowed, numbers that may be deceiving. [Opponents' total offensive yards] were often diminished because teams led the Browns on the scoreboard and milked the clock. ... [The] Browns' four wins last year were all over teams struggling at the time, and with each team hampered by quarterback problems. Cleveland's 2011 wins: 27-19 at Indianapolis with Colts' quarterback Kerry Collins brought out of retirement because of Peyton Manning's neck injury; 17-16 over Miami and mediocre Dolphins' QB Chad Henne; 6-3 over Seattle and Seahawks' backup QB Charlie Whitehurst; 14-10 over Jacksonville and the Jaguars' struggling rookie QB, Blaine Gabbert.
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'stats are for losers' - case in point.
TxHeat
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"You are what your record says you are."
- Bill Parcells
Otis B. Driftwood
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Deceiving ?
What they're actually worse than that ?
Robataille
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Other than that, things are looking pretty sweet.
Wawa-we-wa
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Things are looking down for The Browns!
Not4Nutten
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Like the folks at Kentucky and Mississippi State who play football in the mighty SEC, Browns fans can bask in the glories of the Steelers and Raens and say: "Go AFC North!"
Joe Mammy
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I think you're thinking about Ole Miss... Not Mississippi State.
Robataille
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The 4 wins were deceiving; just how bad were they?
Mangler.
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Mississippi State leads the Nation in longest tenure of consecutive Bowl Victories.
-Joe Mammy
Robataille
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That's what I thought when I read the headline. I was pretty surprised that the article agreed with us.
Debbie Does
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Word... I must admit... I haven't actually read one of these Browns articles, ever.
Robataille
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Can we zoom out on that picture of Mike Holmgren? I wanna see if there's a salt shaker on the table in front of him.
Debbie Does
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QUIET YOU!
Wamu
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Yes!!! Keep Mike Holmgren around and they will be worse this year!!!!
The Oldtimer
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Disagree. Stats help to tell the story, but they don't tell the whole story. I think only two of the four wins mentioned here were gimmes, but not the other two. And BTW, a perfect game in baseball against a cellar-team is still a perfect game and the performance of the winning team and pitcher matter, not the record of the loser. So, in that vein, a win for Cleveland was a win for Cleveland.
George W. Watson
Green Acres, IL
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LOL, that's good!!!!
The Oldtimer
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Probably more like a milkshake
DR_Universal
Charlotte , NC
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They seem to be choking on the "Mike Holmgren knows how to be a GM" kool-aid
jdeek
Issaquah , WA
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