The Cleveland Browns responded to their 31-3 beatdown at the hands of the San Francisco 49ers by taking a 20-6 lead over the Seattle Seahawks by the beginning of the second quarter. But after that, Seattle outscored Cleveland 26-8, dropping the Browns to 2-4. What should have been a blowout in Cleveland’s favor turned into […]
Pathetic. That’s the only word to describe Cleveland’s Monday night performance against the San Francisco 49ers. Every single player save special-teamers Austin Seibert, Jamie Gillan, and Tavierre Thomas embarrassed themselves. It was a top-to-bottom dud for the Browns, with really no positives to glean. There was not a 28-point talent difference in the 49ers favor, […]
On Saturday, if you were told that the Baltimore Ravens would hold Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to just 20 yards on two catches, you’d probably think that the Ravens would handily. But the opposite happened. The final box score doesn’t look too bad, but the game was over as soon as Nick […]
Moral victories offer only some comfort in the absence of tangible ones. There are worse ways to lose than 20-13 to the defending NFC champions. But the Cleveland Browns should have beaten the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday Night Football. The defense, without its starting WILL linebacker and entire secondary, gave up just 20 points […]
The Cleveland Browns bounced back from their Week 1 trouncing, defeating the New York Jets 23-3 on Monday Night Football. The box score looks great: Baker Mayfield passed for 325 yards and a touchdown, and the defense gave up only three points. A 20-point victory on the road is impressive, no matter the situation. But […]
1. Yesterday’s 45-42 loss in Oakland was one of only four games in NFL history to have ended with that score, but the second already in 2018. The Jaguars beat the Steelers in the playoffs last January, overcoming Ben Roethlisberger‘s 469 passing yards and five TDs. 2. The “new” Browns have never surrendered as many […]
The baby Browns discovered a new way to not net a win, letting the Dolphins slither into the end zone in overtime. It’s now been 288 days and counting since Cleveland last won a football game of any kind. They were an inch away yesterday, depending on where the ball met the shoe of the […]
Raw impressions from last night’s losing pre-season effort against the Falcons: Among a crowded roster of seven tight ends, camp phenom Connor Hamlett missed an opportunity last night. He held on the opening kickoff, dropped an easy touchdown flip from Josh McCown, and then covered up another tight end for illegal formation in the red […]
I’ll try not to remember this 30-13 loss in Seattle, which drops the putrid 2015 Browns to 3-11. But if I do, here’s what will likely stick in my mind: Johnson Bademosi again saw serious work at cornerback, and again got beaten repeatedly. Until this season, Bademosi was almost exclusively a special teams ace, with […]
What marvelous commentary is left to offer on the latest Browns stinker, its league record 11th straight opening day defeat? That was a Cleveland team as reckless as their coaches were gutless. Name me the last NFL team whose top two leading rushers in a game were both quarterbacks. And if Jimmy Haslam’s decision to […]
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