I’ve always found it hilarious how much hand-wringing and panty-bunching occurs over preseason football games.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand why people - particularly Browns fans - get excited. Summer is still hanging around like an in-law who won’t take the hint and we yearn for any indication that there will soon be a time when humidity doesn’t oppress our will to live like a third-world dictator. Plus, we’ve all been worn down by the Indians’ annual dissolve and need a fresh start.
So when there’s suddenly football, we perk up and our pulse starts to quicken. And then, in our zeal, we go way too far and start to believe that how the Browns fare in their exhibition games in any way predicts how they will fare in the regular season.
And that, friends, is trying to rationalize an episode of Scooby-Doo.
Not surprisingly, for as much energy as we spend sifting through the rubble of each preseason scrum in the days following, we have no lasting memory of them the way we do for actual games, even post-1999 games. That’s because having any kind of lasting emotional memory of a preseason game is like looking back fondly at that time you vacuumed the living room.
That being said, there have been a handful of preseason games in the Browns’ long history that, like the NBA and Blockbuster Video, teeter on the brink of marginal relevance.
Browns fans, like some women out there, have a bad habit of falling in love with the wrong guy. More often than not, that guy is a quarterback. Charlie Frye and Brady Quinn each had cult followings in Cleveland. Neither had impressive skill-sets and neither made any kind of positive impact on the field, but that didn’t stop a sizable portion of the fan base from anointing them as saviors of the franchise- and bitterly pointing fingers at everyone else when those saviors turned out to be all-too-fallible.
It's always best to be overly cautious about what you read into a Preseason game, but there aren't too many negatives to take away from Cleveland's 35-10 win over a (supposedly) good team like Green Bay. 
Coming off a 4-12 season and with multiple rookies taking over at key positions, 2012 could be shaping up to be a rough season for the Cleveland Browns.
Passing any type of judgments on a team or players based on three or four series of the first pre-season game is pure folly and an exercise of a mad man. But let me say this: If, during the regular season or playoffs, any opponent is forced to play their 3rd and 4th string defense against our Cleveland Browns, well, Thad Lewis will surely carve them up real good.