Whew…Rita missed my Galveston projects, Browns Won again.

Thank God, Rita missed Galveston, Texas where one eight story Holiday Inn hotel I built as a General Contractor sits on the infamous 17ft by 10 mile long seawall. Next door to the San Luis Hotel that FEMA used as command headquarters. “You’re doing a heck of a job, Brownie.”

Cleveland Browns quarterback Trent Dilfer and Coach Romeo are doing a heck of a job. The Browns are looking like a real football team for a change. The only bush league remnants are the stupid selfish taunting penalties and the dumb penalties on kick returns. The first time I heard Romeo’s comment about “Hand the ball to the official, look like you’ve been there before.” was from Paul Brown during a game against the Giants in 1959, that’s 46 years ago. I hope Braylon Edwards isn’t watching Randy Moss and Terrell Owens obnoxious marketing antics, but I think he may be, having already hired a personal marketing firm.

Romeo’s attitude is what it needs to be for the Browns to climb out of footballs purgatory but he is going to have his hands full. Without personal player self discipline you cannot win consistently. If you are thinking of all the things you need to be thinking about to win consistently you don’t have any time to show your ass our trash talk with opponents.

I was never thrown out of a game in my life. You can’t win if you are not in the game. I only got one score called back in my career because of a selfish or any other type penalty I committed. Bill Glass intercepted a Sonny Jurgenson pass against the Eagles and as he started to run it back I tried to clothes line Tommy McDonald’s head off. I got Tommy a tremendous lick but it wasn’t worth having Bill Glass’s only NFL touchdown called back. I still feel guilty about it; not the clothes line lick on McDonald but getting Bill’s TD called back was terrible. Bill Glass said he forgave me, so we must have won the game, and after all he is an ordained minister.

I was wrong when I said in my September 22, 2005 Blog that the Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney would sack Dilfer four times he only got to Dilfer twice, but the Colts did sack him four times. I was wrong also because I said Freeney would force Dilfer to throw interception(s) but he didn’t. Dilfer and the Browns can count that 13-6 loss to the Colts as a major victory on their way back up the mountain.

Overall Dilfer is having a terrific season and hope it continues but the best is yet to come. When Charlie Frye is forced into action the new Browns Era will begin.

The Florida Gators will get so much pressure on QB Chris Leak that Alabama will give Coach Urban Meyer his first real welcome to the SEC. Leak doesn’t handle pass rush pressure well and the sideways option offense will get blitzed out of sync. If Alabama is smart they will assign a linebacker to spy for Leak on the option and pound him whether he has the ball or not every time Leak runs it. Leak threw very well the first half against Kentucky. But when called back into action in the second half after the Gators second team showed the Gators have no depth and were getting romped on by Kentucky 21-0 Leak couldn’t get it together again. Seems a lack of toughness, I think Alabama will stop the option and win this one.