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Published August 10, 2008 12:42 am - BEREA — Here come the dog days, but ... who were those crazy cats? Browns see the lighter side of camp’s dog days Edwards, Cribbs keep teammates smiling STEVE DOERSCHUK Canton Repository BEREA — Here come the dog days, but ... who were those crazy cats?
During a break in the first of eight straight days of training camp practice, wide receiver Braylon Edwards hopped in the driver’s seat of a golf-cart-style equipment buggy. As Edwards took a Saturday drive across one of the practice fields, laughing, an usher near the gallery ropes observed, “He’s driving that like he drives his Bentley.” Teammate Joshua Cribbs hopped on and got a short slalom of a ride before Edwards — back from a short visit to the training room after getting a foot stepped on — tapped the brakes. Cribbs pretended to be thrown forward, personal-injury-lawyer style. It was comic relief — there had been a false rumbling Edwards was hurt — in the longest work stretch of the year with no days off. There is no game to look forward to until the Aug. 18 Monday nighter against the Giants. “You get through it any way you can,” center Hank Fraley said. Fraley’s position coach, 52-year-old Steve Marshall, is a drill sergeant whose booming voice marks the dog-days beat. Players go back and forth from position drills to team drills. Marshall always makes the line drills fun for the crowd. One Saturday exercise focused on part of the offensive line faking out the defense, impersonated by other O-linemen, with the real defensive players off doing their own drill. “Waggle right ... gotta sell the farm now!” Marshall barked. Marshall liked the way the first unit ran that. On the next play, Marshall yelled, “Coach Sully’s the ‘mike’ (linebacker) now.” That meant there weren’t enough players to simulate a defensive front. Line assistant Mike Sullivan, wearing a floppy hat, lined up as a blitzing linebacker. Sullivan moved fast after the snap call, looking younger than 41, getting into the practice. The Sept. 7 season opener against Dallas means a little extra to him, since he was a sixth-round draft choice of Jerry Jones’ Cowboys in 1991 — Dallas didn’t keep him long. Marshall moved on to another play calling for protection against a blitz, yelling, “Archie four, Archie four!” Rookie left tackle James Lee was supposed to pick up a blitz coming from the outside. 
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