2018 Season | The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Interesting factoid:

There are only five ways for an NFL game to end.

• Win in regulation.
• Lose in regulation.
• Win in overtime.
• Lose in overtime.
• Tie in overtime.

The Browns have done all five so far this season - and they did it in five weeks.

 

If you take a look around the NFL, there's definitely some guys (Vance Joseph, Jon Gruden, Jason Garrett, Sean McDermott to name a couple) who are objectively worse than Hue Jackson. May be unfair since he's in his first season, but I'd put Pat Shurmur in there too, just based on our history together.

As crazy as this sounds (and is to say/type)... it could be much, much worse.

 

Now that we've got that out of the way, let's try the 12-game winning streak on for size.

 

No that's VERY fair...lol! Shurmur is the worst. I have a buddy that loves big Blue, and I told him when they hired Shurmur to temper enthusiasm, and that NYG fans would be miserable this year...

 

To wit:

Roger Goodell: "With the first pick, in the 2019 NFL Draft, the Oakland Raiders select... Justin Herbert. Quarterback, University of Oregon."

 

You do realize the Browns' sideline (technically) could have been penalized for spilling onto the field? Stranger things have happened. Remember Duane Rudd?

If that's the only thing people can bitch about concerning Hue Jackson this week, maybe he isn't all that bad.

 

That is simply not true, Lym...The second that kick cleared the uprights, the game is over....They aren't getting a flag for running out to congratulate the kicker on the game winner....

 

No . . . The clock stops when the ball crosses the uprights. The game isn't over until the clock expires.

What would folks be saying today had the officials forced the Browns to kick off after the field goal (as they COULD have by rule), and enforced whatever the yardage penalty is for a sideline enfraction, and the Ravens get a Stanford type kick return into the trombone player?

 

I know I complimented the defense, but...

I've got "linebacker" written in pen in my Top Three Draft Needs for Cleveland. Collins just isn't having the impact you'd expect from a dude paid as well as he is.

 

Nevermind. I forgot it was overtime. You're right.

 

Is that true for overtime?

 

Conceded. (See above)

 

Ha! Sorry... posted it at the same time.

 

Carson Wentz taking that Minny loss pretty hard...

 

I really shouldn't admit this outloud, but I did the same thing. When the kick went through, I immediately thought, "shit, there's still 2 seconds left"...Although, it only took a couple of seconds to remember sudden death overtime for me...lol

That's what being a Browns fan for so long brings though...In the face of victory, you are always looking around for a yellow flag, a referee conference, anything that could prolong the victory dance.... It's happened SO MANY TIMES over the last couple of decades.

 

I couldn't agree more..,I give Hue a break. Still funny though. Poor guy has had so few wins, that the confusion on how to handle a victory seems almost understandable...lol

 

I got lucky and was able to catch the end of the game and OT yesterday thanks to the KC blowout. Landry getting leveled and the refs calling it "uncatchable" was a little ridiculous. He had 20 yds to go in 2 seconds while he was impeded all the way till he was leveled completely. Im not saying he would have caught it, but he was have been pretty damn close. I found it a little odd the national guys calling the game were trying to sell that it was out of bounds. It didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

 

That was a horrible call, you don’t level a guy

 

Much of what the National Guys say doesn't make sense...We are the Browns, and until we string along some wins, we will be stuck with the C and D announcers...Andrew Catalon and James Lofton aren't exactly going to be getting calls for Monday Night Football or the Super Bowl any time soon.

 

I was screaming when it happened, but the ONLY thing I could think is...the first guy made contact, which could have been ruled incidental, thus directing him into the second guy (who leveled him) for a continuation of incidental contact....

NAW!!! That was bullshit... Doesn't matter, the ball could have been thrown to the other side of the field, that was ILLEGAL CONTACT, if it wasn't pass interference. The very least, it should have been a 5 yard penalty and automatic first down. They don't have to call pass interference, if the ball is in the air the defense cannot make contact with the offense 5 yards past the line of scrimmage. (edit) unless the pass is tipped/touched, which it wasn't...