CLEVELAND, Ohio (TheOBR.com) Good morning, Cleveland Browns fans!
As your ever-present morning webdork, I am here to bring you the very latest in Cleveland Browns news and rumors. Some days, I know what I want to write about well before I sit down, coffee in hand, to pen this Massive Morning Missive. For example, my exploration into the inner depths of the Brendan Sorsby saga and the impending question of Grant Delpit’s post-2026 future over the last two days were schemed up well before I wrote them.
Other days, I walk my office with no preconceived notion of what I want to write about, throwing myself on the mercy of the local and national media to provide me with something to riff on. First, I ignore the aggrebaiters and look at what legit original content is out there. Then I reject 90% of what remains because I don’t want to write about supplemental draft quarterbacks or actual on-roster quarterbacks, leaving me to peruse the remaining 10% of non-Sorsby-Sanders-Watson content from legit outlets for inspiration.
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Here, I’m hard-pressed. But I uncovered a few remaining nuggets that might be worth talking about.
DEION SANDERS HAS SOMETHING TO SAY
Everyone! Stop what you’re doing! Deion Sanders, aka Shedeur’s Dad, is communicating with the media. I know it’s quarterback-adjacent, but Deion was a corner, so I’ll use that as an excuse to let it through the Barry Filter.
According to Pro Football Talk, the first thing that Deion Sanders said was that Deion Sanders was wrong. Sort of.
Specifically, he talked to Covers.com and said he’s “happy with (Andrew) Berry, the GM, and what he’s doing”. He also said that he “doesn’t know all the intangibles that provoked that trade.” He added that “I’m happy with what they got”, which I sure provoked a sign of relief from Berea. It was not long ago that Sanders, for unknown reasons, appeared on a local podcast and said: “(Trading Garrett) don’t make no sense to me. That’s a once-in-a-lifetime man. That’s a once-in-a-lifetime man that you don’t see no more. I don’t get rid of that.”Alright, a change of tune on the subject of Myles Garrett, which doesn’t seem to have much relation to Sanders’ job as head coach of the ColoradoBuffaloes.
Then Sanders, also to Covers.com, let us know that the quarterback is somewhat dependent on his supporting cast to succeed. “I would have wanted him to perform a little better, but that’s not just an individual thing; that’s a team thing. A quarterback needs help tremendously from the offensive line, from the receivers, from the running game, from the coordinators as well.”
Fair enough, but now it looks like Sanders is meddling a bit through the media in terms of trying to create the impression that Sanders might have been ill-served by his supporting cast in 2025. And he’s right. But it’s impossible to tell how much the team’s offensive travails were due to the quarterback and how much was beyond his control. It leaves the look of Sanders’ father spinning his son’s performance, which doesn’t help Shedeur, the Browns or anyone. But I suspect it won’t stop.
THE BROWNS APPEAR TO HAVE LOST A GOOD ONE
In news that you wouldn’t be embarrassed to have missed, the Minnesota Vikings have hired former Browns front office executive Andrew Healy as their new Assistant General Manager. According to the Athletic’s Vikings writer, Healy brought together analytics smarts and good communication skills to improve the decision-making of the Cleveland Browns front office.
Per interviews with a dozen Browns employees as part of The Athletic article, Healy is one of the sharpest minds they’ve encountered, with one interviewee calling him “Probably the smartest guy I’ve worked with in sports”.
The general impression is that the Browns are worse off losing an up-to-now relative faceless executive from their front office. Most of the credit for the Browns’ two successive solid drafts largely goes to Andrew Berry, but we’ll have to see if Healy’s loss slows down the Browns’ ability to pack the roster with good young talent via the draft and other acquisitions.
LOOKING AT DEFENSIVE END
The Browns are constantly looking to upgrade at the bottom of the roster, and that effort led them to recently work out Columbus Aviator (UFL) defensive end Ron Stone. Stone is 6’3” and 247 pounds, and is 26 years old. He led the Aviators with 5.5 sacks and 5 tackles for loss. Stone bounced to the UFL from the Raiders, where he was an undrafted free agent. He came from Washington State, where he was first team All-Pac-12 in 2021, and then descended to second team and then honorable mention in successive seasons. But he’s kept at it, and a good season in Columbus earned him a tryout with the Browns a few days ago.
Have a good one!
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