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Cleveland Browns 2012 Season Preview

- Somewhere, Art Modell is laughing.Seventeen years after the reviled former Cleveland Browns owner moved his franchise to Baltimore, 13 years after the new Browns returned as a lowly expansion team and 11 after Modell's transplanted Ravens convincingly won Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa...things haven't changed much.The NFL stadium on the shores of Lake Erie has been continually shrouded by storm clouds. And the problem for Northeasten Ohio fans in 2012, the skies up ahead aren't much clearer.Winners just four times in 16 games last year and better than .500 just twice since 1999, the new Browns enter their 14th NFL season with few tangible reasons -- barring historic rookie-season breakthroughs -- to believe that significant positive change is on the horizon.But not everyone shares the gloom and doom."With a young team, you really never know how it's going to respond," said kicker Phil Dawson, a veteran of all 13 years with the post-Modell Browns. "But I'm excited. The fact that we're not ...

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