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Around the NFL: Browns, Ravens share cruel history
Sunday, March 16, 2008
By
Steve Doerschuk
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER
It's not spot on to say the Browns and Ravens are joined at the hip.
There's something of a dislocated hip in this discussion.
It's a weird connection, actually, between Cleveland, which had the Browns from 1946-95 then lost them, and Baltimore, where the franchise landed.
The weirdness is magnified by the fact Cleveland General Manager Phil Savage has worked for the old Browns, the Ravens and the new Browns ? and no one else in his NFL career.
The common thread weaving through the last two decades has been quarterback instability in Cleveland and Baltimore. The problems caused therein are one reason Savage won't knee-jerk jump from Derek Anderson to Brady Quinn. They're the sorts of reasons that persuaded the Giants to stay with Eli Manning, the Jets to keep giving Chad Pennington chances, the Bears not to bail out too soon on Rex Grossman, for better or for worse.
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