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Saturday, August 22, 2009
A touchdown would be nice
If the Browns break their offensive touchdown drought tonight against the hapless Detroit Lions, surely a celebration will be in order. A dance? A backflip?
No sense acting like they’ve been there before. It’s been 75 possessions, after all, since Jerome Harrison went 72 yards against Buffalo virtually untouched last November.
That was a fateful night in team history for other reasons, of course. After that Monday night win, General Manager Phil Savage sat on the team bus and issued the profane e-mail response to a fan that contributed to his firing at season’s end.
Rest easy, though. Quarterback Brady Quinn says the team has made scoring touchdowns a priority. It’s “obviously vital to us at this point,” Quinn told the Akron Beacon Journal. “It’s one of our keys this week.”
If Derek Anderson has a hand in ending the seven-game scoring drought, his chances of winning the quarterback derby could improve.
Then again, the Lions were 0-16 last season, so scoring just one touchdown probably won’t be enough to satisfy anyone, including head coach Eric Mangini.
“I want to see good football,” Mangini told the ABJ. “That’s what I’m looking for. The urgency for me is to improve.”
If someone does a dance, it probably won’t be Quinn.
“I’m horrible at dancing, so I’ll leave that to the guys who score the touchdown,” Quinn told the Akron newspaper. “If I would happen to run one in, I don’t know, I’ll think of something then.”
