Browns riff
Posted July 2nd, 2007 by Ron
Michael Silver of SI.com ranked the NFL owners in his most recent column. But he had an interesting note about Crennel and Savage.
Here is what he wrote:
22. Randy Lerner, Browns
Unlike the Glazers, who bought Man U because it was a shrewd business move, Lerner — at least as I see it — bought Aston Villa last summer because he has an incredible passion for footie. That's cool, unless you happen to be a Browns fan. Lerner, who lives in New York, is more likely to turn up across the pond than he is at Browns headquarters, where a source says general manager Phil Savage — having prevailed in a power struggle against former team president John Collins late in the '05 season — is now feuding with coach Romeo Crennel. It sounds like somebody needs to be yellow-carded, but who knows if Lerner is even paying attention? The Browns had a promising draft, but this is a dysfunctional franchise.
Now how Lerner isn't lower I don't know, but if Savage is now fighting with the coach whom he hired, I have to begin to question Savage. He got the team president fired but he has to have a coach … I think.
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
All this in-fighting, no matter what degree it is, is bad for the team. Maybe the two should part on good terms, and the Browns should bring in Bill Cowher now. It's a move that should've been made, oh…15 years ago, but better late than never. If Cowher had been hired instead of Belichick, the Browns never would've moved.