The Cleveland Browns and Career-Threatening Injuries
I don’t know what it is about the Browns, but they seem to have their undue share of injuries which end up taking the careers of relatively young players. Last season, Gary Baxter had both of his knees explode on the same play. Dayleon McCutcheon was lost for the season after not recovering from his knee surgery. LeCharles Bentley’s patellar tendon exploded and as of yesterday, he has been ruled out of action for the second season since being signed to a huge free agent contract with the Browns.
I think maybe this will finally put the Browns’ unending uphill climb out of the basement in perspective. What other examples in the National Football League can you think of where a team signed players of the caliber of Gary Baxter and LeCharles Bentley only to lose both to career-threatening injuries. Said another way, you expect guys to perform at a pro-bowl level and all of a sudden your expectations have to be tempered to the point that it would be promising if they ever hit the practice field again.
How do you rebuild from catastrophes like this? Is it a curse? Is it just bad luck? Can you overcome it? How long until the fans just give up on this franchise?
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i hear LA is looking for a good team.
Never give up…I don’t care what anyone says i think eventually they can get it together.No other team has had more problems to fix than us.But i say if cincinatti can turn their franchise around than cleveland can to.No other city has the die hard fans that we do.never die………………..cardiac till the end.
Craig, I am getting very tired of your negativity towards the Browns. You sound like you are about to give up on them. You know that by the time the season comes around, they will have made some moves that will make you at least somewhat optimistic about the upcoming season. This is the time of year to be optimistic and think that somehow the Browns will be the Saints of last year and turn it around. You can’t tell me that you are surprised by LeCharles not playing next season. As a Browns fan you come to expect shit like that.
I am going to make a concerted effort to stay negative all year long in hopes of keeping my sanity this year.
I’ll give you something to stay negative about!