March comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb, goes that lame old saying, but that seems to apply to NFL news as well. If you're not tracking the latest incidents of Bungles and ex-Steelers acting like idiots, then things are pretty dull except for idle speculation and the typical stupid and baseless rumors.
ProFootballTalk.com isn't around to make a mountain out of mundane microfracture molehill today, so we have to turn our attention to actual news, written by actual sportswriters.
Our pal Scott Petrak, who hangs out with us in the OBR chat room sometimes, offers the only real meaty analysis today, discussing how Phil Savage's free agent acquisitions give him some more options in the draft. What I like about the free agent acquisitions as well, as that they don't do anything to reduce the mystery about what the Browns will do, meaning that the trade value of the team's #3 pick isn't diminished. But that's just me, and I'm an idiot, albeit one with good taste in beer.
There's also a news item about the NY Giants agreeing to an offer sheet with FB Vonta Leach on Monday. We reported on this on both the OBR and Munilot side of things last week. Not sure if non-OBR-types even knew he was in town. He was. His agent did a good job of trumping up interest in him, saying Baltimore was, for example. keenly interested, when they really weren't, according to our sources.
Anyhow, Leach will try to lead the way for Reuben Droughns, so that Droughns can not follow him next year, instead of not following Terrelle Smith. Then again, Mo should have given Reuben better directions than "follow the short wide guy".
There's some idle speculation on the corporate AOL Sports pseudo-blog as well about the Browns trading up for JaMarcus Russell. That's great. Whatever.
Also, word is that current Plain Dealer gossip writers make catty remarks about the old ones. As soon as any of them say interesting worthwhile, send me an email.
That's all we could find surfing around today. If you found something more interesting, feel free to send us a link and we'll slam it on the newswire.