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.

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