Sunday, January 4, 2009

Just want to throw this out there

If you are not already sick of the success of the Baltimore Ravens and even more sick of the lack of success of the Cleveland Browns, here are some simple numbers to get your blood boiling.

These statistics are from 1999-2008 for the Browns and from 1996-2008 for the Ravens (Cleveland did not field a team for three seasons from 1996-98).

Regular season record:
Browns 54-106.  Winning percentage .338.
Ravens 107-100-1.  Winning percentage .514.

Playoff record:
Browns 0-1.  Winning percentage .000.
Ravens 6-3.  Winning percentage .667.

Playoff appearances:
Browns 1 in 10 years.
Ravens 5 in 13 years.

Super Bowl record:
Browns 0-0.
Ravens 1-0.

Number of head coaching changes:
Browns 4 in 10 years.
Ravens 2 in 13 years.

Starting quarterbacks:
Browns 13 ...
 - Ty Detmer
 - Tim Couch
 - Doug Pederson
 - Spergon Wynn
 - Kelly Holcomb
 - Jeff Garcia
 - Luke McCown
 - Trent Dilfer
 - Charlie Frye
 - Derek Anderson
 - Brady Quinn
 - Ken Dorsey
 - Bruce Gradkowski
Ravens 16 ...
 - Vinny Testaverde
 - Eric Zeier
 - Jim Harbaugh
 - Tony Banks
 - Stoney Case
 - Scott Mitchell
 - Trent Dilfer
 - Elvis Grbac
 - Randall Cunningham
 - Jeff Blake
 - Chris Redman
 - Kyle Boller
 - Anthony Wright
 - Steve McNair
 - Troy Smith
 - Joe Flacco

Winning seasons (or at least .500):
Browns 2 in 10 years.
Ravens 7 in 13 years.

Seasons with at least 10 losses:
Browns 7 in 10 years.
Ravens 4 in 13 years.

Wins vs. each other:
Browns 7.
Ravens 13.

Points scored vs. each other:
Browns 309 (15.5 ppg vs. Ravens).
Ravens 464 (23.2 ppg vs Browns).

Number of games offense was held to less than 10 points scored (including playoffs):
Browns 45 of 161.
 - Browns held to less than 10 points 27.9% of the time.  That's better than once every 4 games.
Ravens 31 of 217.
 - Ravens held to less than 10 points 14.3% of the time.

Number of games defense held opponent to less than 10 points scored (including playoffs):
Browns 13 of 161.
 - Browns held opponents to less than 10 points 8.1% of the time.
Ravens 41 of 217.
 - Ravens held opponents to less than 10 points 18.9% of the time.

Total shutouts pitched:
Browns have thrown 3 shutouts.
Ravens have thrown 9 shutouts.

Total shutouts by opponents:
Browns have been shut out 11 times.
Ravens have been shut out 2 times.

Well, at least the Baltimore has had just as lousy a time finding a quarterback as we've had.

1 comment:

jdm said...

SMH, depressing.