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Sports Columns

Browns sorting out their QBs

By STEVE BROWNLEE Journal Sports Editor Maybe I’m a little late to the party, but I got thinking about the Cleveland Browns quarterback situation last week and into this week. Specifically, some of the pundits like Mike Greenberg of ESPN were flabbergasted that Shedeur Sanders was left ...

Key to a good offense is the line

Watching some pro and college games last weekend got me thinking about offensive lines. Like the old Washington Redskins “Hogs,” these are the guys who are often overlooked in the success of any team’s offense. In fact, thinking about it more, if you look what I’m breaking down as ...

Packers’ loss might double

I had a throwaway line — at least I thought it was at the time — in one of my Armchair QB picks last week that seems to still be reverberating this week. It was in my pick of the Green Bay Packers winning at Cleveland, I said: “Even as a (Detroit) Lions fan, but maybe right now more ...

Epidemic of QB injuries

There’s always seems to be an epidemic in the NFL. Which certainly beats the pandemic we had to endure just a short five years ago. This time around, it’s a familiar theme — injured starting quarterbacks. My count — confirmed on multiple websites — shows five top signal callers ...

Go for 2? Naw, just go for 1

I’ve been kicking around end-of-game situations and when NFL teams should go for a 1-point extra-point kick vs. a 2-point conversion run or pass. First off, though it might not be exact, I go under the assumption that 1-point kicks are converted 100% of the time — not quite true, ...

Did anything interesting happen in offseason?

Ho hum, it’s just another season starting in the NFL this week. Oh wait, that’s right, the Green Bay Packers decided to turn the entire NFC North Division on its head exactly one week ago by trading for Dallas Cowboys’ defensive superstar Micah Parsons. Sure, the Packers won’t have ...