There's alot of things that Hiko is. Subtle is definitely not one of them, and his take this week on a sloppy Super Bowl and the Sheryl Crow shampoo commercials that accompanied is as hard as nails. In this week's "Moot Points", Hiko also rehashes the Buckeyes National Championship Game loss and takes a long hard look at Troy Smith as potentially the Browns next quarterback. RIP Aunt Ada.

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To Gary Benz, yesterday's Super Bowl served as a sobering reminder as to exactly just how far the Browns still are away from competing for a championship. In his latest, he asks the question: how many players currently on the Browns roster could start for the Bears or Colts? Gary doesn't doubt that fan optimism will return with the start of free agency and April's draft. But he stresses to practice realism over optimism as we head into a 2007 season likely to once again be rough on Browns fans.

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Believe it or not, there was a time when Cleveland Browns offensive linemen were known for being more than swinging saloon doors to the backfield. Long before LeCharles Bentley blew out his knee on the first contact drill of training camp, long before the team bought Joe Andruzzi and Cosey Coleman based on their Super Bowl name recognition and not their actual ability, long before Ross Verba tried to make his life into a movie ("North Dallas Forty" ... or was that "Debbie Does Dallas"?), there was Gene Hickerson. And in a move that was long overdue, Hickerson was elected to the Hall of Fame yesterday. Papa Cass touches on this Browns legend in this Super Bowl Sunday piece.

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Phenomenal column from Papa Cass here today. In it, he takes a closer look at Cleveland's triumverate of head coaches: Romeo Crennel, Mike Brown, and Eric Wedge. The three men have one thing in common - this is the first head coaching gig for each of them. All three men are learning on the job, and are struggling with pushing the psychological buttons necessary to take things to the next level ... a practice that can only perfected with the experience they lack.

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