BEREA, Ohio (AP) â" With starting quarterback Colt McCoy still jarred from a conduct shot listened 'round a NFL, the Browns are removing prepared for a NFL's nastiest â" and some insist dirtiest â" player.
James Harrison is entrance Sunday.
Buckle up.
Harrison, his aroused repute and a possibility to get punish on a Steelers ominous linebacker were vital topics of contention in a Browns locker room Wednesday as Cleveland's players were pulpy to plead Pittsburgh's scandalous No. 92, who laid out McCoy with an bootleg helmet-to-helmet strike on Dec. 8.
Browns core Alex Mack was asked indicate vacant if Harrison was dirty.
He paused 7 seconds.
"I mean, he's removing fined," Mack said.
Fined for past violations, Harrison was dangling one persion though compensate for his barbarous strike on McCoy, a harmful blow that stirred a joining to change a game-day policies on conduct injuries after a Browns unsuccessful to exam a QB for a concussion and sent him behind into a persion after blank usually dual plays.
McCoy's deteriorate appears to have been finished by Harrison's barbarous hit. He has not nonetheless been privileged by group doctors to practice, and it's expected that backup Seneca Wallace will make his third true start Sunday opposite the Steelers (11-4), who can still win a AFC North.
Browns manager Pat Shurmur reported McCoy is "much better" and has increasing his earthy activity. However, a second-year QB has not nonetheless upheld a required medical tests to lapse to a field.
And even if McCoy were authorised to play, a Browns competence be prone to have him lay out a deteriorate culmination given of Harrison's participation and a unavoidable scrutiny.
Shurmur did not yield specifics on what symptoms McCoy is still experiencing.
"He needs to be medically privileged before he can use or play and that hasn't happened," Shurmur said. "He's not flitting it, so whatever that means, until it's upheld he can't play and it's flattering cut and dry."
McCoy has not oral to a media given after a persion in Pittsburgh scarcely 3 weeks ago.
The QB's orange helmet remained unresolved on a offshoot in his locker cubicle, his shoulder pads sitting inexperienced on a high shelf. A firm duplicate of this week's persion devise opposite a Steelers complacent on a bottom shelf not distant from a new emanate of Field & Stream magazine.
McCoy's concussion was a third postulated by a Browns actor in a past dual seasons on hits by Harrison, who drilled far-reaching receivers Josh Cribbs and Mohamed Massaquoi with his helmet final season.
Massaquoi kindly declined to answer any questions about Harrison.
Cribbs didn't steep a issue. He was asked if a Browns "owe" Harrison.
"I would contend so," pronounced Cribbs, Harrison's college teammate during Kent State. "But we're not going into this persion meditative about removing even with him. We're going into this persion perplexing to win it. It's zero personal with him. We'd like to hit their guys out as well, though within a whistle, according to a rules.
"We usually wish to go into this persion meditative about winning, we're not meditative about one sold guy."
Maybe not. But it's unfit to omit Harrison and a impact he has had on a Browns.
Tight finish Evan Moore wouldn't impersonate Harrison as "dirty," though concurred he plays on a fringes of excusable limits.
"He plays hard, though there's been some manners changes in a final 3 or 4 years that have altered a persion and he has nonetheless to develop or adjust to those rules," Moore said. "When we come off a ball, we would adore to squeeze someone's face facade to retard them and chuck them on a ground, though we can't do it.
"They're warlike penalties. He's personification a game. we don't consider he's intentionally out there perplexing to kill anybody or anything like that, though there are manners and we've got to play by them."
Steelers manager Mike Tomlin shielded Harrison during a discussion call with Cleveland's media, and described a linebacker's helmet-to-helmet hits as "unfortunate collisions."
Tomlin strongly disagreed that Harrison is headhunting or dirty.
"They are hapless plays and a resources around those plays and all of that has been good documented," he said. "I bottom my visualisation on his peculiarity of play and a sum physique of work and from being around him day to day for a final 5 years.
"I can contend absolutely that we don't trust James Harrison is a unwashed player."
The Browns can retort if they select to, though left tackle Joe Thomas pronounced that would not be wise.
"What you're perplexing to do is win, so anything that perts from perplexing to win is not a good strategy," pronounced Thomas, comparison to his fifth true Pro Bowl this week. "Personal vendettas and things like that detract from your group carrying a best possibility to win. We're not going to do anything that isn't going to try to assistance us win a game."
Shurmur was asked if he would like to see his group go after Harrison.
"Do we meant start a fight? A bench-clearing brawl?" he said. "No. What we wish my guys to do is play quick and earthy from a snap until a whistle. We know that when we do things that's over a alarm we finish adult spiteful a team."
Browns rookie Greg Little joked that he would find punish on Harrison as prolonged Cleveland fans compensate his fine.
"I don't consider we should go about this persion with personal vendettas," he said. "The optimal idea is to win and not to take a inexpensive shot on guys. If we gotta block, I'm going to go and retard (Harrison). We gotta do what we gotta do to win a game."
Mack concluded there's usually one certain approach for a Browns to even a measure with Harrison.
"Winning," he said. "That would be a good group shot. I'd take that over anything else."
Notes: McCoy gave all a descent linemen outside colourless smoker grills for Christmas. The units were delivered to a locker room. "Pretty cool," Thomas said. "I'm unequivocally vehement to put it together. we know a lot of guys are foodies on a O-line as we can tell by a bellies on a few of us." ... Along with McCoy, WR Jordan Norwood (concussion) and starting right tackle Tony Pashos (sick) did not practice. ... Cribbs is a team's hopeful for a Walter Payton Man of a Year award, given for village use and personification excellence. ... The Browns sealed WR Owen Spencer to their use squad.
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