It's been a long, strange season for Kellen Winslow. Between getting into fights with upper management and, er, mystery ailments, one might suspect that Winslow might regret not having been traded to Philadelphia earlier in the season.
Nevermind all that, though, says Winslow. Per the AP, here's what he has to say on the situation:
"I love being a Cleveland Brown. The guys here, we don't know who's going to be here next year. You just have to focus on this year. That's all you can do. ... I do want to be back here. I love being here. I love playing here. The fans have stuck by me."Now, I'll be the first to admit: I'm a huge Winslow fan. I think the team's better when he's in the game, and I think he's still being tainted by his infamous "I'm a soldier" rant (really, if there were YouTube videos of every stupid rant you went on when you were 20, wouldn't it be irritating for people to still think of you as "that guy who flipped out over the lack of egg sandwiches for breakfast at the cafeteria by comparing it to the Somalian hunger crisis"? Thought so.).
However, as much as I like Winslow, and as much as I'd hoped otherwise, I had basically written him off of next year's roster. So to hear him express a desire to stay here is nice, and gives me a little hope that with some luck and some better coaching, the Browns can have a good season next year (a good season in this instance meaning "7-9 and not completely embarrassing").
It's also interesting that he mentions his "good relationship" with Randy Lerner; in an offseason that's likely to see Crennel's firing and Savage's neutering, players feeling close to the city and the owner might cause them to stick around for another year.
Of course, this could also be a ploy for Winslow to get that contract extension he was begging for earlier in the season. Smart money's probably on that option.
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