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Troubles continue for the Browns safety Sean Jones, who will be forced to have arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, but will not be placed on the injured reserve.

Jones recorded five tackles in the Browns debut against the Cowboys, but couldn't push aside the swelling in his knee that has plagued him all preseason.

Coach Romeo Crennel made the announcement today and said that Jones will not be placed on injured reserve and that the Browns plan to have him back this season.

Jones first suffered swelling in the knee in the preseason opener against the Jets and experienced it again the following week against the Giants. Jones sat out the final two preseason games, but suffered the swelling again after Sunday's 28-10 loss to the Cowboys.

The Browns are already shopping for another option at safety, with Jones out and Brodney Pool still recovering from a nasty concussion.

Fellow safety Pool might return from a concussion this week, meaning Mike Adams would start in place of Jones. If Pool is still out, Adams and Nick Sorensen would be the starting safeties.

The Browns will have to get some things together fast as they play face a team that some consider the AFC favorite after the Tom Brady injury, the Pittsburgh Steelers, on Sunday night.

Every year we read about seamy stories from the bottom of the pile; muscle-bound players doing whatever it takes to gain possession of the football. It's all a bit weird, really, but no weirder than fans packing stadiums and planting themselves in front of television screens to watch grown men in costumes run full speed into each other.

In any event, courtesy of MDS st PFT, here's the first such tale from 2008 and it involves "Adam" Pacman Jones. But unlike Jones' time away from the game last year, he wasn't the guy doing the grabbing. That would be Browns backup safety Nick Sorensen.

Adam "Pacman" Jones said the Browns did a lot of cheap stuff in Sunday's game. DB Nick Sorenson [sic] grabbing and squeezing Pacman's groin region topped the list.

Pacman said that act occurred in the pileup after he muffed a punt.

"I told that dude, 'Man, you're lucky I'm trying to do better, because I would have got 15 yards for kicking your [rear],'" Pacman said.

Oh, the humanity. I wonder if the Browns special teams routinely practices bottom-of-the-pile junk-grabbing during the Saturday walk-through. If so, I have an idea who runs that scout team.

As for Jones, maybe he has grown up a bit, because if this had happened at the club, there's a pretty good chance somebody would've gotten shot.