Got to thinking about the Browns schedule, which came out a while back. Every year when I covered the Browns I'd do a summer rundown on the upcoming slate. This year's rundown is in Thursday's Beacon Journal, and it's online here.

Here's an excerpt, which I suppose is just sooo exciting and interesting that it will spur everyone to immediately call up the story online. Sheesh, the things you got to do anymore in this business …

"There was a time when predicting an NFL team's success (or lack of) based on a schedule was not that difficult.

In a not-too-distant past, teams did not yo-yo from one season to the next, go from good to bad or bad to good overnight.

These days, it's a little tougher to predict what will happen in the fall during the summer. Evidence: The Browns schedule last year, when three of the first four games seemed brutal in June but in September turned out to be merely a minor annoyance.

That being said, there is one clear conclusion to draw from the Brown schedule for 2008: It's brutal."

Here's the actual schedule:

Preseason:

August 7 - New York Jets - 730pm
August 18 - New York Giants - 8pm
August 23 - Detroit Lions - 4pm
August 28 - Chicago Bears - 730pm

Regular Season:

September 7 - Dallas Cowboys - 415pm
September 14 - Pittsburgh Steelers - 815pm
September 21 - Baltimore Ravens - 415pm
September 28 - Cincinnati Bengals - 1pm
October 13 - New York Giants - 1830pm
October 19 - Washington Redskins - 415pm
October 26 - Jacksonville Jaquars - 405pm
November 2 - Baltimore Ravens - 1pm
November 6 - Denver Broncos - 815pm
November 17 - Buffalo Bills - 830pm
November 23 - Houston Texans - 1pm
November 30 - Indianapolis Colts - 1pm
December 7 - Tennessee Titans - 1pm
December 15 - Philadelphia Eagles - 830pm
December 21 - Cincinnati Bengals - 1pm
December 28 - Pittsburgh Steelers - 1pm

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