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Bernie Kosar rankled Rams coach Jeff Fisher with his sharp criticism of the Rams Thursday night, but Kosar has called Fisher to apologize.

(Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer)

BEREA, Ohio -- Browns CEO Joe Banner has reprimanded former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar for his "personal and unprofessional approach'' during the broadcast of the preseason game against the Rams Thursday night, but he is keeping Kosar on the remaining three preseason games.

The Browns have also reached out to the Rams, and Kosar has called Rams coach Jeff Fisher,

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Banner issued the following statement:

“We don't condone the personal and unprofessional approach that Bernie took with some of his comments during the broadcast Thursday night. We’ve spoken to Bernie, he understands that, and we would expect the situation is resolved moving forward. We’ve also reached out to the Rams organization and have shared those same sentiments."

Kosar, who ripped the Rams receivers, third-string quarterback Kellen Clemens and receivers coach Ray Sherman, will be back in the booth with Jim Donovan Thursday night for the second preseason game against the Lions at FirstEnergy Stadium.

In addition to Fisher observing that Kosar has well-documented issues, Sports Illustrated's Peter King asked Kosar via King's Twitter account if he had been drinking.

Kosar did not return a text message Saturday seeking comment.

Fisher, during his post-practice press conference Saturday, leveled the shot at Kosar -- and longtime Sports Illustrated writer Peter King later followed suit in a tweet.

"First off, let me say this: The Cleveland Browns' organization is a first-class organization from top to bottom and it has been that for years and years and years," Fisher said. "I guess I'm a little disappointed. I feel bad for them that they had someone doing their broadcast feel the need to speak that way about players, specifically on our team and coaches for that matter.

"I'm just surprised that Bernie has such a lack of respect for players and this game. To be honest with you, I lost a lot of respect for him. It's highly unlikely he knew anything about our football team, but felt the need to make those comments. I don't think they were justified."

It was Kosar's comments about Clemens that seemed to most rankle Fisher. When he came into the game, play-by-play man Jim Donovan told a story about Clemens having his daughter blessed by Pope Benedict XVI and giving the Pope an autograph.

Kosar said he didn't think he'd want the autograph himself, and added, "Bless me father for I have sinned. I have to watch him the whole fourth quarter."

Fisher retorted Saturday: "Bernie's got his issues; they're well documented. Kellen played well, he played hard, he made plays."

And King tweeted the following:

Kosar's sometimes erratic behavior on local TV and radio is no surprise to Browns fans, who've been hearing it for years. But he's attributed it to post-concussion syndrome, for which he's receiving treatment.

At one point in the broadcast he said, "I'm checking through the itinerary here of guys and coaches to see who the receivers coach is to make sure I don't know who this guy is because he's not doing very good either.''

He called the Rams' receivers "horrible'' and when Donovan asked what if their parents were watching, Kosar replied, "I'd be embarassed.''

He did praise quarterback Sam Bradford, but said, "I see why Sam Bradford has been struggling watching how bad these receivers have been for him."

Kosar did not respond Saturday to a text seeking comment.

Sherman, the Rams receivers coach, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he heard about Kosar's remarks.

“I don’t worry about people like that,'' Sherman said. "Hopefully, he’ll get himself some help because evidently he’s saying things that he really doesn’t have any knowledge about. He doesn’t know what the routes are; he doesn’t know what guys are supposed to do. But I don’t worry about that. Really I don’t want to get into it.”

Clemens told the Post-Dispatch of Kosar, “He gave us a lot of great examples throughout his career of what it’s like to play quarterback, and how to do it at a high level. Unfortunately, he also gave us a couple of examples in his commentating career of what not to do. I don’t think it needed to go in the direction that he took it at any point with anybody (Thursday).”

In response to a comment by Kosar that "me and (Clemens) haven’t done too well together,'' Clemens told the paper, "I’ve had no interaction with Bernie Kosar that I’m aware of. I’ve never met him. Not that I remember.”

Kosar kept it up throughout Clemens' outing, saying "I can't stand watching him play.''

Clemens also cleared up the story about giving the Pope his autograph.

"First of all I never signed the Pope’s mitre,” he said. "That was Wikipedia at its best. So that never happened. The blessing of my daughter, that was actually true. He gave her a kiss. An awesome moment for our family.”

But in the end, Clemens laughed off Kosar's remarks.

"I played in New York for five years, so that really doesn’t bother me,'' he said. "I’m not really sweating it. Now if Favre’s doing the commentating for the Packers this week. . .Favre’d be good to me though.”