The latest Cleveland Browns news and notes from around the NFL in the Saturday Dawg Chow.
The Cleveland Browns began playing professional football in 1946, which makes this their 76th season of action.
And in all that time, the Browns have had only one quarterback pass for 4,000 yards and throw at least 30 touchdown passes in a single season, with both being accomplished by Brian Sipe in his MVP season of 1980.
It seems almost impossible to believe that no one else has reached that mark in franchise history, especially since the NFL has continued to rewrite the rule book to favor offenses and the passing game.
The closest anyone not named Sipe to hitting the 4,000-yard mark wee Bernie Kosar (3,854 yards in 1986) and Baker Mayfield (3,827 in 2019).
As for touchdowns, Derek Anderson (2007) and Frank Ryan (1966) came the closest with 29 each, but they could not hit the mark, Anderson because of a late-season flameout, Ryan because the season was only 14 games.
With the Browns turning to Dorian Thompson-Robinson, their third starting quarterback this season, Sipe’s team records are safe for another year.
And at the rate the Browns are going when it comes to finding a viable quarterback, it could be a long time before someone surpasses Sipe at the top of the franchise leaderboard.
Dawgs By Nature:
- Myles Garett: ‘I’m not trying to rebuild’ (Thomas Moore) – Cleveland defensive end eager to hear the team’s plans to turn things around in 2025.
- Browns vs. Bengals: Week 16 Need to Know (Thomas Moore) – Cleveland turns to Dorian Thompson-Robinson as they try to avoid being swept by Cincinnati. Here is everything you need to know about the game.
- NFL Picks Week 16, and media picks for Browns vs. Bengals – Brace for a shootout (Chris Pokorny) – The DBN staff predicts the Week 16 games, plus the national media make their predictions for Browns vs. Bengals.
- NFL draft order: Browns rooting guide for Week 16, best case scenario would be game-changing (Jared Mueller) – The Browns NFL Draft position could change drastically this week.
- Browns should trade Myles Garrett? A counterpoint to that idea (Curtiss Brown) – There haven’t been Myles Garrett rumors per se but the rumblings in the media and fans are starting to swirl.
- Browns 2025 QB options: Pick your poison between 3 vets with Achilles injury history (Jared Mueller) – Kirk Cousins is all of sudden available, Deshaun Watson is rehabbing and Aaron Rodgers could become available.
Cleveland Browns:
- Nick Chubb’s foot injury ‘hurts’ Browns running backs coach Duce Staley (Beacon Journal) – Duce Staley was a running back long before he was a running backs coach. So the Cleveland Browns running backs coach, better than most, empathized with the comeback Nick Chubb went through to get back on the field.
- Myles Garrett might want out if the Browns can’t show him a plan for winning now (cleveland.com) – Myles Garrett, for the first time in his eight-year career here, indicated he might want to go elsewhere to win a Super Bowl if the Browns can’t demonstrate their plan for winning now.
- Browns seem especially bad at picking a good quarterback (Browns Zone) – What is it about Cleveland and quarterbacks? Has there ever been an NFL team more inept at finding one than the Browns? Seriously. This isn’t brain surgery. It only seems like it with the Browns.
- Browns DE Garrett wants to know team’s QB plan, offseason agenda (ESPN) – Despite enduring another season of double-digit losses, Browns defensive end Myles Garrett wants to continue his career in Cleveland. But the NFL’s reigning Defensive Player of the Year wants to know definitively that the Browns have a plan to place him on a winning team soon.
- City to invoke Modell law against Browns move (NEOtrans blog) – Cleveland City Council President Blaine Griffin confirmed this week that the city will invoke the state’s Modell Law to stop the Cleveland Browns from leaving the city for a new stadium site in suburban Brook Park. He also said the city and county are in a joint effort to keep the team playing its home games downtown with Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne leading the fight.
NFL:
- How Texans’ Laremy Tunsil learned from draft day nightmare (ESPN) – It was 7:47 on the night of the 2016 NFL draft when Laremy Tunsil’s phone began to buzz. He glanced at it but ignored the notifications, thinking it was fans blowing him up before the draft. The left tackle out of Ole Miss turned his focus back to his family and the moment of a lifetime in the green room at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago.
- Is this the year the Chiefs’ flaws finally keep them from the Super Bowl? (The Ringer) – With Patrick Mahomes under center and Andy Reid calling plays, the Kansas City Chiefs have been able to deal with a lot to win back-to-back Super Bowls. Could this year be a different story?
- NFL put Pittsburgh Steelers in bind with grueling schedule, but they aren’t the only ones (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) – Three games in 11 days has become two games in five days — with premier opponents in each one.