The considered word on the street is that the Cleveland Browns will be "aggressive" when free agency opens for real late Tuesday afternoon.
Well, thanks as usual to the working class journalists who brought you that pithy bit of analysis. Left undefined though is what does it mean to be "aggressive" and it is that very definition that will be the difference between whether this team continues to occupy the 8th circle of Hell for another decade or finally graduates to a few lesser levels on its march toward real honest-to-goodness mediocrity.
The AFC North is a harsh mistress; after all, it’s not known as the NFL’s Group of Death for nothing.
Josh Cribbs is one of those athletes that it's both easy to like and dislike at exactly the same moment. The liking part stems from the passion and work ethic he's brought to a Cleveland Browns franchise that lacked both, from the management ranks on down. The disliking part comes from the near constant disingenuous way he goes about making sure everyone knows how much passion and worth ethic he's brought to a Cleveland Browns franchise that lacked both.
I am not exactly a 
You have to hand it to the NFL. The annual meat market known as the Combine has started and it’s generating all the excitement that the NFL expected when it decided to invite noodnik reporters inside the ropes to watch anonymous-looking faux student athletes attempt to trade in on their three or four year commitment to do the minimum amount of academic work at various Division I schools while enhancing the athletic budgets of said schools so that they could then get on with their life’s work, a 3-4 year career in the NFL that starts with them getting drafted in the fifth or sixth round and ends with them as another Bill Belichick-inspired salary cap victim.