Erik Cassano wrote an excellent piece a couple days back about the Indians insistence on piecing together their bullpen with risky veterans and reclamation projects. That column, writes Gary Benz, could have just as easily been written about the Browns approach to the offensive line. With the 2007 free agency period set to begin on March 2nd and the college draft set for April 28-29, there is a fair amount of speculation over whether the Browns would consider drafting Wisconsin tackle Joe Thomas. Don

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Good piece this morning from Cris Sykes, who begs and pleads with Phil Savage ... to just be right this off-season. This franchise cannot afford another go round of more misses than hits, and can't afford anything less than excellence at the top of the first round. Simply put, everyones job is on the line, and this team continues to lose segments of the fan base each season. How the Browns should attack free agency and the draft is open for debate. The importance of how they fare is not.

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Man, a great piece here from Mansfield this morning. In it, he thoroughly and comprehensively addresses the question he's been getting from our readers on e-mail. What would YOU do to repair this Browns team? Mansfield lays out his blueprint. For free agency. For the draft. And for the coaching staff. And what he proposes is not only realistic, but leaves us with a pretty intriguing squad for the 2007 season that would have me personally pretty optimistic.

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