I think that drive did include a second down conversion, but otherwise nailed it.
Man, Seattle looked terrible out there on offense. Dare I say it? I missed seeing T-Jack out there..
Charlie Whitehurst will do that for you.
Joe Haden did it to you!
So I’m always pimping the Browns or at least what tiny slivers of good they have in them, you’d think I’d be pretty excited after a 3-3 start which is significantly better than the last few years.
But meh. Team is pretty bad. Defense is better than expected - D-line was pretty much constructed entirely this year and it’s working surprisingly well. Joe Haden is a beast. And that’s where the positives end.
Browns were the best team easily over the last 5 years in all aspects of special teams, but apparently that doesn’t justify keeping your special teams coach, and now they’re terrible. Giving up game-changing returns left and right, two of their field goals blocked today, just all sorts of bad.
Offense is shitty. McCoy regressed. He seemed calm, collected, and smart most of last year, and this year he’s just retarded with bad mechanics and playing too scared to look downfield, which might actually be good since he’ll miss any open receiver down there by 10 yards anyway. He throws 2 yard dumpoffs to his RB so much that teams are actually double covering the RB now, and he still throws to them.
They’re 3-3 on account of having faced pretty bad teams. The 2010 Browns were 1-5 at the same point, but a much better team - tough losses to good teams, rather than pathetic wins over bad teams. The schedule gets brutal down the stretch and the Browns would be lucky to win 4 more games this year.
Incidentally, the refs made a lot of calls in the Browns favor. I only mention this because so many people are utterly partisan/blind on the ref issue - they’re very aware of when they get screwed, but unaware of when it works in their favor. So I try to be mindful of the rare times it actually works for the Browns. Not massively. Not in a blatantly game changing way. It’s just that the close ones skewed their way.
In fact, I’m so used to getting the wrong end of ref bias that every time the Browns win and the refs were favorable to them, I feel dirty, as if they did something wrong.
Calling back a touchdown in a game that ended 6-3 isn’t “game changing”?
Looked like a legit penalty to me (watching live, no dvr/replay), but they actually missed a call of a block in the back closer to where the returner caught it, so Seattle could’ve been pushed back even further.
The Packers are making the sort of stupid mistakes you can only get away with against a bad team. Which luckily the Vikings are. That junkshot is going to be the highlight of that nameless Viking’s career.
Thanks as well to the Falcons for stepping up. We really don’t need this win (although I still think we’ll get it).
They HAVE to bench Boller.
80 plays and over 40 minutes time of possession of offense for the Browns all for 6 points. How bizarrely pathetic. I wonder if that sets some sort of points per play or points per time of position futility record.
Wait, I have a more pathetic 6-3 win not too long ago. Now that was an epic battle - the winning quarterback was 2 for 17 for 23 yards and 1 int.
So talented, so dumb.
I can’t help but wonder what might have been had he not allowed the Bears to run an extra 90 seconds off the clock before kicking the field goal.
I also can’t help but wonder why the Buccaneers didn’t spend the whole second half in the hurry-up. The Bears’ secondary clearly had no answer for it, despite absolutely smothering our conventional offense. I thought it was because we were missing Jeff Faine, but we were able to run it when we had to with Zuttah and then Larsen in at center.
The worst thing was not having Blount. The Bears were able to keep both safeties deep all game; they obviously weren’t afraid of Graham.
That “nameless Viking” was Brian Robison, who has 5 sacks through 6 games.
… aaaand finally Palmer.
Fair enough. I guess it shows how much I care who he is. Still, I predict he’ll retire with more nationally-televised cheap shots at another man’s package than championships.
Meanwhile, welcome to the league, rook. Ponder’s thrown a lot of dangerous passes, I knew it was a matter of time.
Wow, you guys weren’t kidding about Minnesota and second-half collapses. :eek:
So, DeMarco Murray, 235 yards and counting.
Well, it was St. Louis.
250+ yards is impressive no matter who it comes against. Hundreds or thousands of NFL games have been played against bad run defenses - and only a handful result in that.
Boy, that Cleveland/Seattle game must have been a barn-burner.
I’m no Raider fan, but I do watch a game or two (in-laws are fans, Bay Area in general). Damn, they played like the last seven or eight years today. I know QB was a huge part of that, (bad backup vs rusty newcomer), but everybody played crappy. I wonder if it was an emotional letdown after the two weeks of the Dead-Al high.