I will go into a greater dissection of this season tomorrow or Tuesday in between time spent preparing for an excursion to Phoenix.

However, I will mention that ESPN's Craig Mortensen reported that if Romeo Crennel wants to keep his job, he's going to have to make so changes in his coaching staff.  Gee, ya think?

But do we really believe that's what's wrong with this team to start?  As I wrote earlier this week, there are Godzilla sized holes to fill on this team and then beyond that there is an issue of depth.  Too many times this since their return, the Browns have been content to fill the frontline with a decent player and then pray that the back-up didn't go down.  Ya think Jeff Faine would have looked good filling in for an injured LaCharles Bentley this year?

But as I said, we'll chat more tomorrow.  Until then after seeing the debacle in Houston today, I can only say: thank god it's over.

Do we even need to wait for the final game before we begin to debate what it is the Cleveland Browns need?  Santa certainly didn't bring them what's essential this week.

So once again, Browns fans have to wade through the disappointment, suck it up and deal with a "wait until next year" attitude.  Ummmm…yeah…My thoughts exactly - same ol' song and dance.

Shall we look at how since the team's return how the Browns have gone about building their football team?  No, it's not depressing…completely…At least by the last three choices - although the jury is out still on Braylon Edwards.  Now that he seems as if he's got his head and mouth straightened out, it looks as if Kellen Winslow is everything advertised.  Personally, I like Kamerion Wimbley more and more each time I see him.

But here's my very public plea to the Browns powers that be; that's you Phil Savage.  It looks as if you're going to have a top five pick once again.  This team has never, ever seriously addressed the left tackle position.  And it would seem that there will be a stud LT available in the upcoming draft, so say the experts.

Mel Kiper Jr. calls Wisconsin's Joe Thomas, "huge, quick, athletic with a logn wingspan."  How about dominating on a team that went 11-1?  He's used to the weather (although moving from Cleveland from Wisconsin might be considered a trip to the tropics) and smashmouth football.

When you look at how the Browns have been put together since their return, on offense it's been all wrong.  I only played a couple of years of organized football, but even I know that the game is won in the trenches - in this case the lines.  Yes, they tried to address the lines with the likes of Brittle Courtney Brown and Gerald "Ten Cents" Warren.  Last I checked, Brown was injured once again and Warren was still guilty of collecting a paycheck.

But the offensive line - especially at the left tackle - position has gone virtually ignored, an amazing feat considering that they made Tim Couch, a quarterback, the first pick of the 1999 draft.  I wondered who they sincerely believed would protect him behind a sieve of an O-line that leaked worse than the levees meant to protect New Orleans.  Scarier still: the problem still exists.

Why can't Reuben run?  Why are the Browns down to Ken Dorsey at QB.  Why doesn't the offense go?  If you have to ask, you haven't been paying attention.

And apparently neither has the Browns brain trust.  Hopefully that changes on April 28.

I haven't tooled around sports teams lockerrooms long enough to know whether what I witnessed yesterday after the Browns 22-7 butt-kicking courtesy of the juggernaut that is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was common.

That part of me that is jaded about pro athletes probably says, no, what Browns Joe Jurevicius did yesterday is far from common.  You see, Jurevicius spoke from the heart.

When the two-ton gorilla in the form of Braylon Edwards was just a couple lockers down,  Jurevicius showed professionalism blended with emotion, a unique combination.  For the uninformed, reports say that Coach Romeo Crennel benched the former first round draft pick after he showed up late for a team meeting.  Edwards apparently informed the FOX broadcast team that he had a dislocated thumb.  Ummmm…yeah.  I'll concur with my ABJ colleague Patrick McManamon and toss in my "whatever."

You see, Edwards doesn't get it. From the minute he showed up with the camera crew on draft day to explain how he planned to market himself, you knew that the game wasn't thing that it was about the bling.  With Edwards it seems to be all about the money, the fame and him getting the ball.  He'd probably see the ball more if he didn't drop it so often.

Contrast that with Jurevicius.  Yes, he's a hometown guy, having been born in Cleveland and attended Lake Catholic High School in Mentor, so he gets a pass in some corners for that for wanting to come back to a team wallowing in mediocrity to try to show some of these players who don't understand what Cleveland Browns football should be.

But when an emotional Jurevicius told the media that he knew how fortunate he was.   That he knew what Cleveland Browns football meant.  That he knows that this city more than any other deserves a championship team, it came from the gut.  The words weren't hollow, they weren't contrived and they weren't unheard by those members of the media who have lived here for more than a minute or who came back here to work.

Yes, while Edwards worries about things other than what transpires on the field and it shows on the field, players such as Jurevicius and others who are giving blood, sweat and tears have to deal with an utter lack of professionalism.

Unless he turns it around next season, I'm officially ready to label Edwards General Manger Phil Savage's first huge draft bust.

It's been a busy weekend, other than missing some much cherished family time during a holiday time, I also enjoyed it immensely.  That's still an adjustment in coming from reviewing movies to sports.  I worked plenty of Saturdays - primarily due to matinees of kid flicks in the morning hours - throughout the year, but an entrie weekend.  Ummm…unless someone was giving otu an Oscar, I avoided it like the plague.  I also spent a number of weekends bored out of my dome, so shall we say this was….ummm…invigorating.

Of course it's never that when you have to sit through the debacle known as a Cleveland Browns football game. One of my assignments today was to talk to fans for a story in tomorrow's paper.  While there is plenty of passion left for the team (the Browns organization had best thank the pigskin gods that this is a football town), there is an apathy developing in some as well.  I'm sure it was heightened after that 22-7 loss.

How can I tell?  Gee, LeBron James' head imposed on a uniformed Ozzie Newsome?  Think that's a dead giveway.  Then there was an entire group of guys from 15 to 59 who showed up with Heinen's grocery bags to don should the Browns looked bad.  They came out before the end of the first half.

Incidents such as these are reason for the Browns to play closer attention to what they're putting on the field. Do I think this team is completely void of talent?  No.  Offensively in Braylon Edwards, Kellen Winslow and Joe Jurevicius (who is the prototype slot receiver - savvy, tough and reliable) there is a core there.  Some would have added Charlie Frye and Reuben Droughns to that mix.  I do not.

Frye is a iikeable enough guy with toughness and heart, the type of players that Browns fans love because let's face it, in Northeast Ohio you gotta be tough.  But until his performance today, Derek Anderson earned the right to challenge for the starting QB job.  As for Droughns, he's not the same guy we saw last year and some of that may not be his fault given that the consistent problem with this team has been the offensive line.  Something this organization has been unwilling to pay for until signing LaCharles Bentley last year.  It's a trend that dates back to the Art Modell years.

Here's a tip:  the offense goes nowhere without a powerful line with an attitude.  There's a kid in Wisconsin who plays left tackle named Joe Thomas (gotta love that last name) the Browns need to seriously look at him as they prepare to overhaul the team's weakest link once again.  If for some reason the Browns aren't drafting high enough, they should look at another Big Ten OT out of Penn State, Levi Brown.

It's clear that unless this sieve is fixed in the near future that the Browns' offense will enjoy little in the way of sustained success.

And yet there's plenty that's been going on.  Forgive me folks, but I've been trying to find my sports voice on this blog.  Movies are one thing; I'd been doing them for ages.    Sports.  Well sports are something that I'm knowledgeable about and I'm used to bellying up to the bar with a few folks and just dishing.

I think I finally found the solution…Anyone want a beer or whatever beverage you choose to consume at your local watering hole and we can finally talk some sports.  Again my apologies.

I love it when people blame the media for reporting problems that other people create.  In this case I'm talking about he New York Knicks - Denver Nuggets brawl that took place last Saturday and with the dishing out of fines Monday was set to die.

Then little Stevie Francis of the Knicks has to open his hole and make the asinine statement that this fight's coverage is race-biased.  PLEASE.  I'd sincerely like to know what alternative universe Mr. Francis resides.  Wait, it's one where you have a multi-million dollar salary and you're coddled from the moment someone realizes you're good with a ball until the day you've used up all of those skills.

Francis doesn't get it.  A few players are to blame for the NBA's image woes.  Without mentioning any names (Ron Artest), they single handedly ensured that the any on-court fracas would get maximum coverage when they leaped into the stands to go mano y mano with fans.  While I don't deny there's an element of racial bias in some news reports, sorry this isn't one of them.

It was an ugly sight watching a group of players go after one another (but, hey at least they didn't go after any fans), but it was a story - primarily because the NBA has that thugh image that's perpetrated by a few individuals with questionable character.

I also don't buy into the media race bias because I've seen plenty of hockey fights or muggings end up on ESPN's SportsCenter.  Todd Bertuzzi anyone?  Then there's the numerous bench-clearing brawls that hit the airwaves during baseball season.

Francis' comments go back to that little being coddled thing.  When someone wipes your nose for you for most of your life, you only possess a sense of entitlement and never ever a common sense compass.

Whenever you read ridiculous statements such as that, it always helps when someone else makes sense.  For that, it was good to hear members of the Cavaliers act as a voice of reason on the topic.

You'd think that USC and its vaunted invincible football program filled with future endorsement kings would take care of business against UCLA yesterday.  Think again.  Yeah, I know it was a rivalry game.  Yeah, I know in rivalry games that you can throw everything out the window.   But c'mon.  They blew an opportunity to end the arguing around what has become the BC Mess this year.

Who's the true No. 2?  Who deserves to face Ohio State?  Should Michigan be crowned No. 2 this evening and be given a rematch on Jan. 8 in Glendale, Ariz. I say skip the game.  There's nothing new here.  Of course that's not reality, but it's common sense.  Or let's try this:  how about a playoff.  Gee, dare to dream.  Dare to believe that the NCAA would actually do something that's logical and good for the game.

They hide behind wanting to do what's best for their student-athletes and argue that extending the season would ask to much of them.  HOOEY.  They don't want to give up the cash cow that is the bowl system.  Not that many of them matter anyway.   I know I wait with bated breath every year for the Holiday Bowl.  That's right up there with folding my underwear.

The funny part is that they wouldn't have to give up their bowls.  Those programs that qualify for an extra game with their impressive six wins could still play in their toilet bowls.  But the ones that truly matter could be used as part of a playoff system - that way everyone would be happy and we wouldn't have this debacle every year.