Monday Round-Up
Posted October 13th, 2008 by Luke Chandler
While the good news is that Kellen Winslow has been released from the hospital, he's likely out of tonight's Monday Night Football game against the Giants. This is all pure speculation, but apparently Winslow's mystery illness was enlarged testicles (allegedly). Let's just hope Winslow feels better, and leave it at that.
Are the Browns this year's Giants? D'Qwell Jackson says that they are looking up to Giants. The Giants started the 2007 season 0-2, and went on to win the Super Bowl against the then undefeated New England Patriots.
While they could easily do so, the Giants aren't looking past the Browns. The Giants have been dominating opponents, but have only played one team with a winning record thus far.
In what should be a welcome return, Ryan Tucker should get the starting nod at right tackle this week. The only problem is he has to face off with Giants stud left end Justin Tuck. Tuck is exactly the kind of powerful, quick end that Tucker has struggled with throughout his career. Kevin Shaffer, injured or not, has been bad this season, so I'm excited to see Tucker back in his familiar spot.
One quick note: the broadcasters likely won't talk about this tonight, but the whole shakedown of Eli Manning becoming a Giant has a key to the Browns. In his book, The GM, Tom Callahan discusses that former Giants general manager Ernie Acorsi had struck a deal with then Browns head coach/overlord Butch Davis to trade the fouth overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft for the Browns seventh overall pick, and then their second round choice. The Browns were supposedly trading up to select the late Miami (FL) free safety Sean Taylor. Acorsi was nervous as draft day grew that Davis could be actually moving up to select Philip Rivers, and then broker a trade with the Chargers for Eli Manning, so he nixed the deal and did it himself. Interesting how things could have turned out!
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