Injuries Making An Already Difficult Season Painful For Browns

Source: cleveland.cbslocal.com --- Wednesday, September 21, 2016
CLEVELAND (92.3 The Fan) – The Browns entered this season without expectations under first-year head coach Hue Jackson and a non-traditional front office looking to change the fortunes of the NFL’s rag tag franchise of misfit toys. For fans, the expectations were even lower and for the media, well, some had the team not winning a single game. This season was expected to be difficult, to a degree painful and maybe even a tad miserable which really isn’t anything different from what it’s been like since the team returned in 1999. If it hasn’t been incompetence, it’s been injury that has derailed season after season after season for the lovable losers of the NFL. This year it is the latter and at this rate they are going to need body-bags soon. The news of Corey Coleman breaking his hand during Wednesday’s practice was just more salt in a gaping wound and another what else is new moment for Browns fans. Call it bad luck, a curse, whatever you want, but what has happened to the Browns in the last 2 1/2 weeks is downright cruel and unusual punishment. Robert Griffin III, Jackson’s personal reclamation project, broke a bone in his left shoulder with less than 4 minutes to play in a game that was already decided Week 1 at Philadelphia. They barely got a single game out of Griffin, who came with an extensive injury history before placing him on injured reserve. He may or may not be back in 2016. They’ll find out in another 2-2 1/2 weeks. ...

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