I’m still confident that Kellen Winslow will make a solid addition to the Browns future when he gets his leg back in one piece, but aside from the fact that the Browns save almost $5 million in bonus money by him missing the season (and in effect sticking one to the Poston brothers in the process), Aaron Shea’s touchdown catch yesterday afternoon confirms to me that the TE position is all right. Sure, a flashy “down the field” type tight end would be great, but to see Shea take a safety valve pass, truck 15 yards and lay out two or three guys on his way into the endzone was beautiful. Almost as beautiful as seeing Lee Suggs back in action, diving through a pile of bodies in for the winning score. I don’t know if it was the air conditioning duct I was standing under or what, but seeing the highlight of that gave me a few small chills.

I’ve also decided that the Browns do all right when I have to drive to work. The two games they’ve lost, I was either out of town, or the game started after I got to work. The two wins have come when I started following the game at home, and had to drive in to work during the third quarter. If this keeps up, my boss is going to wonder why I’m not at work until 9:45 on the days of the Sunday Night ESPN games.

Speaking of Sunday night TV, I’m casually working and hear that herpes medication commercial come on. You know, the one where the 30-something woman is talking about how “I’m not going to let herpes interfere with what *I* want to do.”??? Why would you start now? You didn’t let it stop you being a bed-hopping skank in college, rock on girl!!!

I’ve asked some of you already, but if I’m ever brought up on federal drug charges, find me Jamal Lewis’ lawyer. Seriously, plea bargains are fine. If a bystander needs to do less jailtime so that the kingpin goes down hard and for life, that’s great. But regardless, you’ve been busted on conspiracy charges involving COCAINE and your employer (the same employer who hands out four game suspensions like they’re nickels for anyone with even a TRACE of pot in their system) hasn’t come out and said anything that you’ve A) been indicted, or B) going to work your plea so that you can still play football. Oh yeah, and when the jackass has already been through two stages of the league’s drug policy for marijuana use and is STILL getting treated with kid gloves, that’s bullshit. At the very least, this guy should be suspended now, and not let back on the field until his jail sentence is over. And even then, I don’t think he should be let back on the field. Maybe its just because he’s a Raven, but I felt the same way about, oh, just about all the Cowboys in the ’90s, too. If William Green has to sit out half the season for smoking a little grass, setting up coke buys should be at LEAST that tough.