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Browns GM Phil Savage says schedule will 'generate a buzz'
UPDATE: 3:46 PM, Wednesday, April 16, 2008
BY
Steve Doerschuk
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER
BEREA There's a downside to drawing the glitziest schedule in the NFL.
Five night games on national TV were thrown at a Browns team that merely proved it could almost make the playoffs against a marshmallow schedule.
Browns General Manager Phil Savage shrugged today and said, "It beats the alternative."
Savage reacted to the Browns' schedule the day after it was released.
"I think it'll generate a buzz in the city that hasn't been here in quite a while," he said. "We went from zero Pro Bowlers to six and from zero prime-time games to five.
"That's progress."
Through most of the day, the Browns' schedule was the hottest story on nfl.com.
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