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Letter from the Editor
You could argue that tomorrow should be an annual Northeast Ohio holiday, considering all the hopes, dreams, ardor and anxiety the day brings to so many people here.
I’m talking, of course, about the Browns season opener. Nothing moves this community like our football team, and the day of the first game every September dawns with a heartfelt belief that this might be the year.
In anticipation of a winning season – hey, we can hope and dream in our newsroom, too -- we’re making it a bit easier to engage with all of our Browns content. It’s our revamped Football Insider. It comes at a rate discounted below our full website subscription.
Football Insider provides access to all of the exclusive Browns content previously available only to full subscribers of our site. The Insider also comes with a daily emailed newsletter – 7 days a week – that contains links to every Browns story published in the previous 24 hours plus a story available only in the newsletter. The subscription also comes with Subtext, our text messages from the Browns team. We send 3 to 7 a day, straight to your phone.
“People say you can’t be all things to all people, but that’s what we really try to do. We do the big picture stories,” he told me. “But we also want to do the minutiae, getting granular… We try to do it so whether you’re the casual fan or the hardcore fan, you find something you like.”
What’s new this year?
Dan, host of our increasingly popular weekday Orange and Brown Talk podcast, will launch a new postgame episode each week. As soon as each game ends, he will join our Football Insider subscribers on a Zoom call for a wide-ranging discussion of the key plays and players. He will record that discussion and publish as a special episode of the podcast.
Dave also plans one or two new special episodes of the podcast each week with Ellis, Scott and Doug. Unlike the weekday episode, which is a discussion of the latest Browns news, these bonus episodes will go deep on analysis. For instance, the trio might dive into Baker Mayfield’s passing efficiency and how good he is with passes that are 10 yards or less.
Of course, leading all of our coverage is Mary Kay, one of the best NFL reporters we’ve ever seen.
“She’s just someone who never quits,” Dave told me. “She’s relentless in her pursuit of news. I‘ve never seen someone who’s more driven than she is to get a story and share it with readers… She’s so respected around the league, not just by the beat writers but by the teams and the executive and the players she’s gotten to know. She’s one of the pre-eminent NFL beat writers, period.”
Dave said Dan’s role is the reasoned voice for the fans. He puts perspective and common sense ahead of the mania that some people bring to their analysis. Through the text messaging account in Football Insider, in which our writers share their thoughts via text messages, Dan has befriended the subscribers, creating a connection we did not imagine when we began the texts.
Scott and Ellis attack the offbeat angles and write the numbers-driven content. They break down the film with practiced eyes, helping fans see plays from the perspective of guys on the field.
Doug, a columnist who usually specializes in Ohio State Buckeyes coverage, will spend more time on the Browns this season, starting a weekly take on Baker Mayfield and how he compares to his peers. Doug always has a perspective no one else has, a way of looking at the game that opens your eyes.
And then we have Terry, who literally wrote the book on the Browns.A bunch, actually. In Browns Blues, he traces two decades of Browns futility because he gets it. He knows what the fans have been through with all the dashed hopes. Dave calls Terry the voice of the fans. Terry, like Mary Kay, is deeply sourced after having covered the team for so long, so he often has insights from players and others that no one else can offer.
On social media, Hayden needs no introduction. Fans have been commiserating with him following games for years now. Hayden curates the fan conversations and analysis on Facebook Live video
Your appetite for all of this seems limitless. Every year, our Browns team steps it up with more content and more analysis, and you seem to love engaging with them. Dave says that unlike with other teams in Cleveland, Browns fans hang on every move, every strategy. They are wholly invested in the team.
So what are the team’s chances this year?
Says Dave: “I think because they have a new coaching staff and so much is new about this team, I think they’re going to struggle early, and then they are going to get it together…It’s going to take them a few weeks to get their legs under them.”
But he said new coach Kevin Stefanski is exactly what the team needs, so the team will get there. Fans should not despair if they lose a couple of games early.
If you don’t want to miss out on any of our coverage, you have two options, including the Football Insider I described earlier.
If you want everything in the Football Insider plus access to all of our new, entertainment and sports content beyond the Browns, a full subscription to our site is $100 a year or $10 a month, and you can sign up here.
Thanks,
Chris Quinn Editor and Vice President of Content
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