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Game #1 against the Jets confirmed what we already knew; this team is the worst team the Browns fielded since the return.  It’s not even close.

The coaching on this team is beyond pathetic.  It’s clear no one buys into anything they are selling.  The defense is soft and the most overrated unit in the NFL (people actually were dumb enough to think we had a solid defense) and the offense is actually worse than imagined.  That’s a feat in itself.

The loudest I cheered was with 10:38 left in Q4.  I turned the game and switched in time to watch Seattle’s defense strip sack and return the fumble for a TD.  Why’d I cheer?  They are the defense on my fantasy team.

So who do we have to thank for Sunday’s joke?

Joe Haden – beaten like a rented mule by a guy old enough to be his grandfather.

Johnny Manziel – I’m confident that if he were water boy he’d manage to deliver the water to the wrong team.

Run defense – Swiss cheese is solid compared to that debacle.

Coaching – You’ve got Ryan Fitzpatrick in 3rd and 10 and you rush 3?  You are kidding me right?  No – you aren’t.  1st down.

It’s clear not one player on this team buys what they are selling.  They are collecting overinflated paychecks.  Not one player has any heart at all.  Thanks coaches.  Great job being losers.

Ray Farmer – you want to know why there was no pressure at all on Fitzpatrick?  You let Jabaal Sheard walk.  Without him Kruger would’ve been lucky to have 3 sacks last year.  He collapsed the pocket non-stop.   (His first game with New England – 3 tackles, 1 sack, 1 TFL and 1 QB hit in limited play)

Thanks for Nate Orchard.  Guessing he’ll be out of the league in 2 years.

Thanks for giving $9 million of Haslam’s money to Dwayne Bowe.  Excellent use of funds. First game of his career he didn’t drop a pass or give up on multiple routes.

Great pick in Mayle – way to keep the Browns in the NFL lead – highest draft pick cut this year.

Thanks for trading Terrance West for a bag of sand.  He outrushed all our RB’s combined on Sunday and he was only with Tennessee for 1 week.  I’m guessing he’ll have a minimum of 2 TD’s this week against us.

My prediction this week:

Tennessee wins 27 – 3.

 

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I think we’ll see this weekend whether the trade of West was a terrible thing. If he racks up 50 yards in 20 runs then maybe we made the right choice.

Soup I’m surprised you have so much hatred for Farmer. On just about every previous draft you’ve said we should pick almost nothing but O-line and D-line, especially Samoans. He grabbed Bitonio who looks pretty darn good in the 2nd round, and grabbed Erving in the 1st this season, and also got you that big Samoan you’ve always wanted in Shelton who had a pretty good game last week. Yeah he’s made some terrible picks that he deserves criticism for, but hasn’t he also made some good picks that he deserves a little credit for?

As for coaching, look at what had been happening all game. We had been rushing 4, 5, and 6 players all game and generating very little pressure. So on 3rd and 10 what should we do, keep doing the same thing that hasn’t worked all game? Or do you switch it up, line all the guys on the line like you’re going to blitz, and then drop those extra guys back into coverage to confuse a journeyman QB and possibly get him to throw an INT? I don’t lay this loss on the feet of the coaches because as @durakbane and I talked about in the gameday chat, coaches didn’t fumble the ball or throw INT’s. Players did that.

[MDP Sack Attack]

Haden has had bad games before -all defensive backs do-, but he’s always bounced back. I’m not worried about him in the long run. The rest of our DBs looked like garbage, however, and that concerns me. In fact, I’m worried about most everyone on our defense other than Haden. We have a lot of one-dimensional players, and any offensive coordinator worth his salt can exploit that. Run at Kruger. Throw towards Whitner. It’s not rocket science.

[durakbane]

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@mdp-sack-attack you’re exactly right about Haden. In fact we call it a bad day for Haden but he still held one of the best WR’s in the NFL to 62 yards. Any other CB would call that a great performance.

@durakbane I may put that pic in the title 🙂

[soup]

Disagree on Haden. He got abused. He let up a TD. He let up 3rd down conversions.

As for Farmer – even a blind squirrel changes a light bulb once in a blue pigeon.

Gilbert
Manziel
Mayle (cutting a 4th round pick before the season is asinine)
West (trading a solid RB for a conditional 7th – that you taded multiple picks to get – asinine). West had no attitude issues other than the fact he knew the team was garbage and coached by garbage.

On 3rd and 10 – I don’ care if it wasn’t working to blitz – you NEVER purposefully give a QB time to throw – force a quick pass and tackle the guy before 10 yards. It’s simple football.

As for coaching – great coaches put their players in a position to succeed. Our coaches repeatedly fail to do that.

Freedom!!!

[BrownsFan4Life]

Just because they played bad doesn’t mean this is the worst team we’ve fielded. Big difference. The 1999 team and the 2000 team sucked and really wouldnt have even been a top 10 college team.

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Agree with BF4L. Soup’s new name is Hyperbole.

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