Browns release Jamal Lewis

• Eric Taylor

  http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/article.php?id=10481
• pkebker

  Good Riddance.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Damn it!!!! I really thought that he would have a "break out" year for them this coming year.
• ytownfootball

  

  He said he was done with like 4 games left last season.
• thedynasty1998

  

  I thought he retired?
• 77Legend

  

  Good move. Or if not release him, make him a short yardage back. Who are they pursuing?
• Eric Taylor

  Not much will come of it, but LT's name has popped up.
• pkebker

  77Legend wrote: Good move. Or if not release him, make him a short yardage back. Who are they pursuing?

  ...Harrison, Davis, Jennings.....
• thedynasty1998

  

  Do not touch LT. You just go from one back over the hill to another.
• Al Capone

  Don't Lewis have a criminal past. Cincy or Baltimore will pick him up.
• gerb131

  

  He will retire soon anyways.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Nah, Baltimore doesn't need him. If I was Pittsburgh I would try and get him. They need something better than Mildly fast Willie and Mendenhall.
• 77Legend

  

  Last time I remember, we are still the only franchise to win 6 Super Bowls, 2 out of the last 5, not bad IMO. We do not need Lewis. But we do need to get better in running the ball, but that starts with the offensive line.
• NNN

  

  Al Capone wrote: Don't Lewis have a criminal past. Cincy or Baltimore will pick him up.

  Unlike most of the criminals that some NFL teams have a tendency to gravitate toward, Jamal has a whopping total of one incident with the law. His culpability was so grievous that the charge, which carries a mandatory minimum 10-year federal prison sentence, netted him a whopping four months.
  
  To make a long story short...
  
  Jamal grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood in Atlanta, and although most of the people he grew up with joined gangs and either ended up in prison or dead, Jamal was on the up-and-up. He went off to UT, stayed clean, and went pro after the 1999 season. At some point between the time he left UT and was drafted, he was back in Atlanta and started dating a woman. She was actually an undercover DEA agent who was getting information on a lot of Jamal's old friends. She asked Jamal if she could borrow his cell phone, he let her, and she walked away and set up a drug deal for the purpose of conducting a sting down the road. Under an extremely bizarre section of federal drug law, Jamal was technically considered to be culpable for what transpired when someone borrowed his phone and set up a drug deal.
  
  That's pretty much the extent of his criminal history right there. Someone he was seeing asked to borrow his phone and Jamal, being a nice guy, agreed. What a horrible person he is.:rolleyes:
• bigdaddy2003

  

  77Legend wrote: Last time I remember, we are still the only franchise to win 6 Super Bowls, 2 out of the last 5, not bad IMO. We do not need Lewis. But we do need to get better in running the ball, but that starts with the offensive line.

  Yeah, I never said the Steelers were bad. I didn't know they had a bad O line though.
• darbypitcher22

  

  NNN,
  
  that's pretty shitty. Dude gets used and gets netted prison time in the process
• thavoice

  Was the right thing to do for the browns.
  
  He said he was gonna retire, but many of us figured he was just talking in the heat of the moment of being on an atrocious team and his injury. I figured he would reopen the door later and he did not too long ago.
  
  Browns werent sure if he would stick around so why not cut him?
  
  he was a great back...but he lost his explosiveness through the hole. When a back loses that, regardless of if he is a big back or not, his career is done. Ya simply cannot just plow guys over. Many think that is all he, and guys like bettis, did but that wasnt the case.. they had enough quickness to get to and thru the hole and then power over DB's and LB's.