BEREA - More than six months later, Corey Fuller still is angry. He hasn't forgiven coach Butch Davis or the Cleveland Browns for releasing him.

It sounds as if he never will.

''It was an injustice what they did, that's the bottom line,'' Baltimore's cornerback said Wednesday during a profanity-laced conference call in which he vented his frustration about having to leave Cleveland. ''They did what they had to do.''

In February, Fuller was released, along with several other high-priced veterans, in a salary dump by the Browns, who were $25 million over the cap.

The 32-year-old spent four seasons in Cleveland, joining the Browns as a free agent from Minnesota in 1999 when the club returned to the NFL as an expansion team.

Fuller felt he deserved a better fate. He started 59 games for the Browns in four years. He tutored younger players. He was a vocal leader in the locker room. And most significantly, before the 2002 season, Fuller agreed to restructure his contract so he could stay in Cleveland.

Fuller opened his teleconference passively, saying he didn't have any resentment toward his former Browns teammates and that ''all that stuff had died down.''

However, Fuller made it clear this game will be personal.

Released before he could collect a $1 million roster bonus, Fuller said he doesn't buy Davis' explanation the Browns couldn't do anything to keep him, center Dave Wohlabaugh or linebackers Earl Holmes and Dwayne Rudd this winter.

''When somebody says in this game, 'It's just business,' you just got unfairly treated,'' Fuller said. ''That's the exact words that were put to me. And that's what it was when it came out to me being cut. It's just business.

''Listen, I gave back $2 million the year before that, how is my contract a problem? They do what they want to do.''

Fuller doesn't feel the Browns were honest with him. He says they should have treated him more fairly after all the sacrifices he made for them.

''Print this,'' he said, his voice rising. ''What coach in the NFL gets fired and doesn't get paid? Every coach that gets fired, keeps money when he leaves. What did I do for the Cleveland Browns? Taking a $2 million cut, and then still get cut. And then they come up to me and say, 'Trust us, trust us.' C'mon, man.

''If nothing else, if you don't want to lose your team and your guys, respect what you do. You did it. I didn't ask for the money when I came to Cleveland. They negotiated with my agent. I didn't sit down and negotiate. They did that. Be a man of your word. I was a man of my word from the time I came to Cleveland.''

Davis, now in his third season with the Browns, insists Cleveland's salary-cap dilemma gave him no choice but to cut Fuller and the others.

''It's a shame, because it's never by design,'' he said. ''Corey was a good player. He did a lot of good things for this team. He tutored a lot of young guys and played well when he played. But $25 million over the cap is $25 million over the cap. Unfortunately, there's some guys we have let go that we would have liked not to let go.''

Fuller isn't the first or last player Davis will have to drop from his roster. It's one of the necessary evils of coaching, and this cut was no different from others.

''It's old news as far as I'm concerned,'' Davis said. ''You have to do what you have to do. You make some changes and you deal with the current.''

Fuller played in 12 games last season, helping the Browns get to the playoffs for the first time since their rebirth. That's what made leaving so tough.

He wanted to see things through after investing his heart in Cleveland - and the Browns.

''It was a great situation,'' he said. ''It's like you're building a house and you almost got the roof on top of it and then somebody burns it down. That's what it was like.''