Are the Browns Better?

I like a lot of these analysts, but sometimes they ignore stuff.  The most significant single factor in improvement from one year to the next is what the previous season's experience, and another year with NFL trainers have done for second, third, and even fourth-year players.

If you use a static model which ignores this most common and strong upward trend, your evaluation is utterly worthless.

Of course they've improved, in almost every area!  Little stopped the drops and enters his third season.  Gordon and Benjamin now have a season under their belts.  Norwood is a third-year player--this is just the wide recievers.  It takes very little imagination to see that each will be better.  C'mon, man!

In response to an article about what TRich's mother said about the horrendous pain he was in last season (which I told you about because I have had those injuries), this one clown kept bringing up his stats.

You know these guys.  People are talking, and he's insecure, so he has to try to sound smart or something.  So he says something that he once heard some smart person say, and looks around at everybody, hoping they've all fallen silent and are staring at him because they're so impressed by his genius.

I copied and will paste below the best response to this I found:

"I simply can't believe some people.

I would just love to crack the ribs on a few of you guys, then subject you to the same pounding TR got for 15 weeks.

Then ask you how you felt about his "poor production".

I mean really, you have some nerve.

Many of you questioned how badly he was really hurt. Several people claim he could never take the field if the extent of his injuries and the pain he played through were true. Saying a normal person would have difficulty walking and breathing let alone running and taking hits.

Well every indication is that the injury was real, the pain was real, and he just manned up like few players, and few people, ever have. He slept sitting up because it hurt too much to lie down.

Yeah, but he sucks because he chose to do his best to play and contribute what he could.It's hard to fathom what must run through the brains of the people who turn their noses up at what he did last season."

What he said!

Late note: Players want to play.  Coaches are supposed to know better.  Shurmer was a major butthead not to bench him.