Patellar Tendons on the Brain

We feel silly even mentioning it, b/c we're quite sure you all already knew this, but last year there were 3 patellar tendon tears in the NFL. We're sure you further know that those 3 patellar tendons were all torn by people wearing Browns uniforms. And, by now, you've caught onto the tragic fact that those 3 tendons were torn in a mere 2 players. Good stuff, Brownies. That kind of luck you just can't make up.

Well, the Dayton Daily News has revisited the subject of injured Browns, which we appreciate. The Bodden-as-key-to-secondary observation is nothing earth-shattering, clearly, but it's nice to hear him say he'll be ready to roll. We tend to put more stock in his saying he'll recover from an ankle scope, though, than we do in Gary Baxter and LeCharles Bentley's assurances that they have turned millenia of medical wisdom on its head and have recovered from devastating knee injuries in slightly more time than it takes to get over the chicken pox. We're hopeful, but we're just sayin'