The 2000 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 48th season with the
National Football League
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and 52nd overall. It was the second season of the "New Browns", which returned to the NFL in 1999.
Kicker
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Phil Dawson
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was the Browns’ leading scorer with 59 points. The Browns total offense ranked 31st (last) in the league, while their total defense ranked 26th in the league. The 2000 Browns’ 161 points scored (10.06 per game) is the third-fewest ever by a team in a 16-game schedule, tied with the
1998 Eagles and behind the
1992 Seahawks and
1991 Colts. Additionally, their four games without scoring is the most in the NFL since
the 1977 Buccaneers failed to score six times; by contrast the
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
and
2017 Browns went a combined 1–31 but never failed to score a point in any game. The
1999 Browns scored 217 points, or 3.50 more per game than in 2000.
Offseason
2000 NFL draft
Undrafted free agents
Personnel
Staff
Final roster
Preseason
Regular season
Schedule
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
Standings
Game summaries
Week 6: at Arizona Cardinals
Best performances
* Tim Couch, Week 3, 316 Passing Yards vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
* Doug Pederson, Week 15, 309 Passing Yards vs. Philadelphia Eagles
Awards and records
* Led NFL, yards punted, 4,919 yards
[NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Workman Publishing Co, New York, NY, , p. 202]
References
External links
2000 Cleveland Brownsat Pro Football Reference (Profootballreference.com)
2000 Cleveland Browns Statisticsat jt-sw.com
2000 Cleveland Browns Scheduleat jt-sw.com
* at DatabaseFootball.com
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Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...
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Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...