Found October 31, 2011 on Waiting For Next Year:
I am left wondering a great many things after the Browns game yesterday.  But I’m thinking maybe I don’t have as much wonderment about the Browns as about some of the fans and critics in the media.  I don’t know what a lot of them were expecting from this team going into San Francisco as ten point underdogs.  More importantly, I can’t figure out what anyone gets out of sarcastically ripping the team for four straight hours without so much as a hint of constructive criticism.  Just because you can type bad punchlines about a struggling team for an entire game, doesn’t make you any more right about the progress (or lack thereof) of the team.  It certainly doesn’t add anything of value to the universe either.  I can honestly stand a banged up, under-performing, developmental team more than I can stand some of the people who critique them anymore. I am not defending the Browns play or them losing.  This is not a “In Holmgren We Trust” diat...
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