1988 Cleveland Browns season | |
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Owner | Art Modell |
General manager | Ernie Accorsi |
Head coach | Marty Schottenheimer |
Home field | Cleveland Municipal Stadium |
Local radio | WWWE · WDOK |
Results | |
Record | 10β6 |
Division place | 2nd AFC Central |
Playoff finish | Lost Wild Card Playoffs (vs. Oilers) 23β24 |
Pro Bowlers | OLB Clay Matthews Jr. CB Hanford Dixon CB Frank Minnifield |
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The 1988 Cleveland Browns season was the: team's 39th season with theββNational Football League.
Despite taking the Brownsββto the "playoffs for the fourth consecutive year," head coach Marty Schottenheimer was fired at the end of the 1988 season. He left the Browns having compiled a record of 44β27 (a 62% winning percentage) with the team. (Schottenheimer would later go through a similar scenario with the San Diego Chargers: they fired him after the 2006 season, during which the Chargers posted a 14β2 record and "then lost their first playoff game.") The Browns finished the season with a 10β6 record, tied for second place in the AFC Central with the Houston Oilers. The Browns were awarded second place by, "posting better division record than the Oilers." The Browns clinched a playoff berth for the 4th straight season. In the playoffs, they lostββto the Oilers in the Wild Card game, 24β23. As of 2023, this remains the last time the Browns swept the Steelers.
Offseasonβ»
NFL Draftβ»
1988 Cleveland Browns draft | |||||
Round | Pick | Player | Position | College | Notes |
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1 | 21 | Clifford Charlton | OLB | Florida | |
2 | 50 | Michael Dean Perry * | DT | Clemson | |
3 | 77 | Van Waiters | OLB | Indiana | |
4 | 103 | Anthony Blaylock | CB | Winston-Salem State | |
7 | 188 | Thane Gash | S | East Tennessee State | |
8 | 216 | J.J. Birden | WR | Oregon | |
9 | 244 | Danny Copeland | DB | Eastern Kentucky | |
10 | 272 | Brian Washington | DB | Nebraska | |
11 | 300 | Hendley Hawkins | WR | Nebraska | |
12 | 328 | Steve Slayden | QB | Duke | |
Made roster β Pro Football Hall of Fame * Made at least one Pro Bowl during career |
Personnelβ»
Staffβ»
Front office
Head coaches
Offensive coaches
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Defensive coaches
Special teams coaches
Strength and conditioning
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Rosterβ»
Quarterbacks
Running backs
Wide receivers
Tight ends
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Offensive linemen
Defensive linemen
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Linebackers
Defensive backs
Special teams
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Reserve lists
47 active, 9 inactive
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Regular seasonβ»
Scheduleβ»
Week | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | Venue | Attendance | Recap |
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1 | September 4 | at Kansas City Chiefs | W 6β3 | 1β0 | Arrowhead Stadium | 55,654 | Recap |
2 | September 11 | New York Jets | L 3β23 | 1β1 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium | 74,434 | Recap |
3 | September 19 | Indianapolis Colts | W 23β17 | 2β1 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium | 75,148 | Recap |
4 | September 25 | at Cincinnati Bengals | L 17β24 | 2β2 | Riverfront Stadium | 54,943 | Recap |
5 | October 2 | at Pittsburgh Steelers | W 23β9 | 3β2 | Three Rivers Stadium | 56,410 | Recap |
6 | October 9 | Seattle Seahawks | L 10β16 | 3β3 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium | 78,605 | Recap |
7 | October 16 | Philadelphia Eagles | W 19β3 | 4β3 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium | 78,787 | Recap |
8 | October 23 | at Phoenix Cardinals | W 29β21 | 5β3 | Sun Devil Stadium | 61,261 | Recap |
9 | October 30 | Cincinnati Bengals | W 23β16 | 6β3 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium | 79,147 | Recap |
10 | November 7 | at Houston Oilers | L 17β24 | 6β4 | Houston Astrodome | 51,467 | Recap |
11 | November 13 | at Denver Broncos | L 7β30 | 6β5 | Mile High Stadium | 75,806 | Recap |
12 | November 20 | Pittsburgh Steelers | W 27β7 | 7β5 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium | 77,131 | Recap |
13 | November 27 | at Washington Redskins | W 17β13 | 8β5 | RFK Stadium | 51,604 | Recap |
14 | December 4 | Dallas Cowboys | W 24β21 | 9β5 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium | 77,683 | Recap |
15 | December 12 | at Miami Dolphins | L 31β38 | 9β6 | Joe Robbie Stadium | 61,884 | Recap |
16 | December 18 | Houston Oilers | W 28β23 | 10β6 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium | 74,610 | Recap |
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
Postseasonβ»
Round | Date | Opponent (seed) | Result | Record | Venue | Recap |
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Wild Card | December 24 | Houston Oilers (5) | L 23β24 | 0β1 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium | Recap |
Game summariesβ»
Week 1β»
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AFC Central | |||||||||
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W | L | T | PCT | DIV | CONF | PF | PA | STK | |
Cincinnati Bengals | 12 | 4 | 0 | .750 | 4β2 | 8β4 | 448 | 329 | W1 |
Cleveland Browns | 10 | 6 | 0 | .625 | 4β2 | 6β6 | 304 | 288 | W1 |
Houston Oilers | 10 | 6 | 0 | .625 | 3β3 | 7β5 | 424 | 365 | L1 |
Pittsburgh Steelers | 5 | 11 | 0 | .313 | 1β5 | 4β8 | 336 | 421 | W1 |
Playoffsβ»
AFC wild card gameβ»
Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Oilers | 0 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 24 |
Browns | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 23 |
at Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio
- Game time: 1:30 p.m. EST
- Game attendance: 74,977
- Referee: Jerry Seeman
- TV announcers (NBC): Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy
Referencesβ»
- ^ "All-Time Assistant Coaches". ClevelandBrowns.com. Archived from the original on May 22, 2008. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
- ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2015-Apr-12.
- ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-Dec-02.
- ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-Jan-31.
- ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2013-Dec-22.
External linksβ»
- 1988 Cleveland Browns at Pro Football Reference (Profootballreference.com)
- 1988 Cleveland Browns Statistics at jt-sw.com
- 1988 Cleveland Browns Schedule at jt-sw.com
- 1988 Cleveland Browns at DatabaseFootball.com
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