
11-13-2008, 06:11 AM
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Browns' Crennel: 'I'm not a quitter'
Cleveland coach rejects the notion that his players have given up on season at 3-6.
By Tom Withers
Associated Press
Thursday, November 13, 2008
BEREA ? If he's going down, Romeo Crennel is going down fighting.
Stung and personally insulted by running back Jamal Lewis' claim that some unnamed Browns quit in the fourth quarter of last week's loss to Denver, Cleveland's embattled coach disputed Lewis' belief, defended his leadership skills and said he's certain his team has not yet given up on him or a season spiraling away.
"When you say that the team quit, that's saying that I quit," Crennel said. "I know that I'm not a quitter and my players don't quit."
After the Broncos scored 21 points in the fourth quarter and beat the Browns 34-30 last Thursday ? just four days following a similar collapse in a home loss to Baltimore ? a frustrated Lewis vented by saying some Browns quit and others needed to check their egos. Lewis' comments were then supported on Monday, Nov. 10, by return specialist Joshua Cribbs, who said the team needed to "weed out those guys and play the rest of the season out."
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