When he isn’t pulling half-ton trucks, compact cars or four-wheelers around rural Arkansas, Browns running back Peyton Hillis is mentally preparing for the upcoming season. All of the glitz and glamor that have come with the autograph sessions, television and radio appearances, and gracing the cover of the most popular sports video game franchise in the history of the industry mean very little to a guy who has his sites set on one thing.
A Super Bowl in Cleveland.
Hillis is just the latest in a line of relatively new Browns players who have not only embraced the city in which they play, joining the likes of fellow second-year starters Joe Haden and Colt McCoy. In a recent interview with Browns beat reporter Mary Kay Cabot, Hillis said that he would “not be happy” until the Vince Lombardi Trophy found a home alongside Lake Erie.
The host of the now famous “Camp Colt,” McCoy recently told Cabot that no one within the Browns organization would accept another 5-11 season; it would be the third consecutive season with said record. With a season under his belt and additional weapons at his disposal, McCoy is expected to take another step in his career and help the Browns return to a level of prominence – one that has not been sustainable since their return in 1999.
With the current labor negotiations hindering player-coach contact, McCoy took it upon himself to hold multiple “camps” at the University of Texas as well as one in Cleveland where he and teamates could learn the intricacies of the West Coast offense – a scheme used by new head coach Pat Shurmur. The veteran players have even gone as far as to pay for the free agents and rookies (including wide receiver Greg Little) to attend.
Naturally, the goal-setting Hillis attended the camps. The only difference: Hillis arrived inside of a truck rather than pulling it with a chain tied to his chest.
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