Browns left tackle Joe Thomas doesn’t remember who came to him with the idea of hosting a fishing show on SportsTime Ohio, but why should he care? He has taken that love of the outdoors and parlayed it into a co-hosting gig on Outdoors Ohio with D’Arcy Egan & Joe Thomas . No matter whose idea it was, it proved a shrewd move pairing Thomas with Egan, a fixture as the outdoors writer for the Plain Dealer. Thomas said that so far they have filmed half of their next season, which was interrupted by Browns organized team activities the past few weeks, and will resume this weekend. The playoffs on that cable network are up 16 percent overall, and the Western Conference finals, for which the channel owns the rights, are up 37 percent. read more