I would take a RG and WR in the first round. I think a QB can still be had in the 2nd round. We have just ignored the offense altogether and we're paying the price for it. Fullback? Kicker? O-line? No, we were busy putting 17 guys on the front 7. So what do we have now? Campbell goes down and the season's over (not that it isn't already). We have maybe 4 guys on the offense who'd start anywhere else. The rest? Meh. We don't have the talent to play out of a hole like we generated last Sunday.

I just want respectability. Last Sunday shows we still don't have it. We have plenty of draft picks and my fear is they'll ball up 5 of those for a QB, then once again we'll have nothing left to address gapping holes in the offense.

There seems to an urge on the part of national media to minimize team changes from year to year. For instance, the Steelers are coming off a .500 season with a loss of key talent and a still-questionable patchwork O-line, but I've seen them ranked much higher than I would have expected. They track older than the rest of the division and I can't understand the logic of picking them 18th in power rankings. Or maybe I'm looking at another team? I don't know. Ravens are the same - loss of major talent in the off-season, key defensive and offensive weapons, yet we're assured the rookies will step in with no noticeable change in performance.

Please, they're not that good.

I guess if I had my druthers I'd rather have the Browns in the basement right now. That way idiot teams like the Steelers can look past us and count their '2 guaranteed wins' every year. With the stupidity of hubris, maybe we can anticipate some more clueless play-calling on their part, like last year

I cannot vouch for our offense, but our defense is far stronger, younger and faster than last year, whereas Pittsburgh's offense hasn't changed much, unless you count Wallace walking off to Miami. I can't imagine that was what Steeler management wanted, but now it's reality.

I guess there's a reason we play the games and don't take the word of the sports press, who seem mired 2 years back. Tell me where the Colts were ranked at the beginning of last year. How accurate was that?

I'd actually like to see them take the best guard available at #6, I think O-line has the best chance of paying off in the early rounds. I would use FA for a CB, an OLB and/or a TE. Then I would snag that Kickalicious guy to replace Dawson. The biggest problem the last 2 years hasn't been the people on the field. I personally think the coaching staff was a train wreck. Let us depart the disastrous Lerner Era and move on to something that reminds us of the Sipe/Kosar era, when the Browns won games with some frequency. Let's at least be competitive, I'm tired of hearing how the real Pittsburgh rivalry is in Baltimore now. I personally think Pittsburgh is on their way down. Their O-line is a sieve and Ben can't take too much more of a beating before his cover comes off. I don't expect much out of the team this year, but please, no more 4 and 5 wins for the year. It's been hard to watch. Very hard to watch. This was a proud franchise at one time, until Modell screwed it into the ground. Art bites forever.