Just two good players. That's what Jesse Lamovsky says constitutes a successful draft. From Winslow and Sean Jones in '04, to Clay and Ozzie in '78, to Jim Brown and Gene Hickerson in '57 ... Jesse looks back on the most successful pairs of Browns same year draftees in the history of the franchise. An absolutely superb piece to start the week for us here at The Cleveland Fan.

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Mansfield checks back in this morning with the latest installment of his "Opie's Opus" series, where he's takes a detailed look at the Browns current roster for us here at The Cleveland Fan. Part II examined some of the deeper areas of the team. Today, in Part Trey, he addresses some of the areas on the team with some concerns ... most notably the defensive line and cornerbacks. T Minus 25 days till Draft Day.

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Great column here from Jesse today, as he examines the quarterback position of the Browns. Jesse's take is that Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson are simply not the answer. He calls for the Browns to make Brady Quinn the pick, and not to even bother with the charade of making sit for a year behind Charlie and DA. I'm with you on this one Jesse ...

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The NFL Draft is closing in and that can only mean one thing: Randy Lerner is talking again. In what is becoming a ritual nearly as reliable as the buzzards returning to Hinckley each spring, Browns owner Randy Lerner recently made the rounds of the local dailies by granting interviews to the Plain Dealer, the Beacon Journal and the Canton Repository. Randy had some very interesting thoughts about the current state of the team, and Gary Benz analyzes his statements in his latest.

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