Plain Dealer columnist Bud Shaw wonders how Cleveland Browns receiver Braylon Edwards feels martyred

Plain Dealer columnist Bud Shaw wonders how Cleveland Browns receiver Braylon Edwards feels martyred
December 17
Cleveland Plain Dealer Columnist Bud Shaw
"Flames dance all around Romeo Crennel. But somehow Braylon Edwards is the one still feeling martyred? How is that?

"It is what it is. . . . I've learned since being here that I'm very un appreciated," Edwards said. "Not by the organiza tion, just in the eyes of the fans and the city. Since Day One, I've been a marked man coming from Michigan. It's just gone that way."

The clip of Edwards' words aired on WTAM AM/1100 Tuesday morning. It surely smacked of something dug out of the archives from Edwards' first couple seasons. But no.

Another big Monday night performance, this one in Philadelphia, gave Edwards cause to explain how he's had to put so much negativity aside this year, too.

As cop-outs go, bringing up Michigan again, in December of 2008, is hard to beat. Isn't this the same guy who joined fans at the stadium in "Hang on Sloopy" last year when he was dropping an almost equal number of passes?

With the recent slow crawl of offense now in full-fledged retreat, believe me, no one would enjoy a touchdown by Edwards less because he's from That School Up North. Nobody has mathematically squared his dropped passes this season because he played for Ohio State's chief rival. The muffs multiplied on their own.

Apparently he responded Monday to the suggestion that the Pro Bowl receiver Braylon Edwards returned against the Eagles."
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