ONE MORE WIN TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!! *DRINK* As much as I'd love to see the Tribe win this at home and have the city of Cleveland flood onto the field after the last out, I just want them to end this tonight.
Happy Game Day Lounge Houndz!!! *DANCE* Here we go Brownies Here we Go *DRINK* p.s. GO TRIBE One more for the big one *DANCE* *YAHOO*
Jets at Browns Jets: LB Bruce Carter, LB Darron Lee, CB Buster Skrine, C Nick Mangold, T Brent Qvale, TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, QB Christian Hackenberg Browns: QB Cody Kessler, WR Corey Coleman, QB Joe Callahan, DB Marcus Burley, OL Gabe Ikard, OL Jonathan Cooper, TE Connor Hamlett
Disgusting second half ..no adjustments . the secondary SUCKS . these godamn bean counters cant find a safety ?? we need TWO .. no excuse . then again they are Harvard nerd bean counters . maybe they don't what a safety is . 0- 16 here we go *HELP* *WALL*
Will the Browns win a game this year? Do they want to win a game this year? Can people get their money back from season tickets? Will people buy season tickets next year? Do the fans still even care anymore? Jimmy has a lot of questions to answer. GOOOOOOOO TRIBE!!!!!!!!
I just feel like this is the best year to be suffering through this first year of the, hopefully, ultimate rebuild. We have the Cavs and Indians to keep our minds off the rebuild process 24/7...a distraction will help this fanbase get through this thing. I honestly believe(maybe I'm the idiot) that this process will bear fruit IF AND ONLY IF they see it through to the end.
Will Els ever stop whining and calling for the Browns to trade anybody and everybody for a slew of 1st round draft picks? We get it, Els. They stink. You're unhappy. Yada Yada Yada. If you don't like it, don't watch. But, I completely agree with Irish. If they give this rebuild a 4-5 year chance and stay true to "their plan," this will pay off with winning ways and a solid roster. And I fully expect more complaints from you all the way there..........and probably after they lose in a playoff game you'll be calling for Hue Jackson's head since he "he's a former Bengal and can't win in the playoffs just like Marvin Lewis." Surprised you aren't riding Bauer's azz this morning for having lost both his WS starts and forcing a Game 6.
Bluez beat you to this one on the Dumbazz of the Day Thread, Catfish. Or maybe it was just a German/Icelandic Installation Art piece commenting on the ineptitude of the Browns' defense which gave up 24 un-answered points in the 2nd half.
Browns acquire Patriots LB Jamie Collins for a compensatory 3rd round pick...... I like that move... *OK*
Browns acquired LB Jamie Collins from the Patriots for a compensatory third-round pick. The Pats seemed to solve their contract logjam by sending Chandler Jones to the Cardinals over the offseason, but they have now offloaded perhaps their best defensive player for a late third-round pick, a compensatory pick they likely would have gotten anyway if they just let Collins leave via free agency in the spring. It is a stunning move which certainly carries much more backstory than we know about right now. Collins should play inside linebacker for the Browns and is a massive upgrade over Demario Davis and Chris Kirksey. As long as the Browns are able to get him under contract, this should end up being a great trade for Cleveland. At the very least, Cleveland should tag Collins to keep him around one more year.
Two games, one more loss To paraphrase the great Charles Dickens (and with a deep apology): It was the best of (first) halves, it was the worst of (second) halves. Sunday?s Browns? loss to the New York Jets was, indeed, a Tale of Two Games. The 31-28 loss will go down in the record books as yet another Cleveland loss to begin the 2016 season. If you?re keeping count?and that likelihood probably disappeared long ago ? the losing streak now stands at eight this season, 11 overall. After watching how much the Browns dominated the first half, taking a 20-7 lead into the dressing room, hopes the losing streak would finally end crested. The offense hadn?t looked that good since dropping 20 points on the Baltimore Ravens on their first three possessions in the second game of the season. Lost that one, too The offense, with Josh McCown back at quarterback, racked up 274 yards of total offense in the first 30 minutes. He hooked up with Andrew Hawkins for a five-yard score on the first possession of the game and watched Isaiah Crowell ram the final yard to cap a nine-play, 70-yard drive late in the second quarter. And when the offense bogged down, Cody Parkey was there to bang home field goals of 41 and 26 yards. Everything, it seemed, worked. Terrelle Pryor schooled Darrelle Revis for six catches and 101 yards. McCown, showing no effects from his broken collarbone, threw for 226 yards. Everything worked, that is, except the run game, which coach Hue Jackson conceded to the tough Jets defense, which shut down all running lanes the entire afternoon. It was McCown or bust as the coach dialed up pass plays three out of every four snaps. Then an entirely different team emerged from the same Cleveland dressing room, looking suspiciously like a team that should have a long losing streak, and those hopes of taking a one-game winning streak into next Sunday?s home game against the Dallas Cowboys cratered, then vanished. The Cleveland defense that limited the Jets to 106 first-half yards yielded 287 more in the second half as the visitors scored touchdowns on their first three possessions. It took them 33 plays on scoring drives of 78, 84 and 81 yards that consumed 17 minutes and 30 seconds to grab a 28-20 lead with 9:38 left in regulation. The Cleveland offense, meanwhile, failed to pick up the defense, owning the ball for just four minutes and 50 seconds on their first three second-half possessions, which ended in a pair of Britton Colquitt punts and the first of McCown?s two interceptions. No sooner had the defense hit the bench, then it was right back out on the field playing sloppy, almost embarrassing football. The tackling was atrocious in the final 20 minutes. I lost count of the missed tackles.. A perfect example was Jets wide receiver Quincy Enunwa?s 24-yard touchdown run that narrowed the Cleveland lead to 20-14. The big wide receiver caught Ryan Fitzpatrick?s pass at the Cleveland 12 and shook off tackle attempts by Ibraheim Campbell, Derrick Kindred and Tramon Williams en route to the end zone. The Jets? defense atoned for its poor first half performance with a lot of help from Jackson?s play calling, relying almost exclusively on McCown to dig the offense out of a hole. The veteran quarterback put the ball up 11 times out of 15 plays that gained only 51 yards in the first four possessions of the second half. Two passes wound up in the hands of Jets safety Marcus Gilchrist and linebacker Lorenzo Maudlin. The latter, set up by a Calvin Pryor deflection with 5:13 left, resulted in a Nick Folk field goal that made it a two-score game at 31-20. The Browns, at least theoretically, still had a chance to tie the game with 4:04 left with some up-tempo football. No huddle, get the play in quickly, everyone hustle type football. What followed was a microcosm of why this team isn?t anywhere close to being even competitive. They went no huddle, but there seemed to be no sense of urgency. They had only one timeout left and the two-minute warning and failed to take advantage. McCown was slow in getting the play either called or executed. It took the offense 14 plays (one fewer than the total for the previous four possessions) and 3:52 to negotiate 84 yards against a prevent defense. It should have not taken that long. Jackson?s clock management was terrible. With a minute remaining, McCown and Crowell hooked up on a 16-yard pass that took the ball to the New York 2, resulting in a first and goal. Twenty-nine seconds remained when the next snap was made. That?s way too much time between snaps. McCown could have spiked the ball to stop the clock. Someone wasn?t thinking. What made it even more maddening was Jackson calling a Crowell run on the next play. The running game hadn?t worked all day. What made the coach think it would work this time? It gained only a yard and forced him to take his final timeout with 19 seconds left. Why run the ball? Why burn 10 seconds and the last timeout? Critical thinking seems to be AWOL on the Cleveland sideline. Hawkins? second touchdown catch of the game with 12 seconds was rendered moot, as was Terrelle Pryor?s catch for the two-point conversion. It was his only reception of the half. All it did was make the score seem more respectable. It didn?t do anything to soothe the anger, embarrassment and perhaps resentment that have been built up in Browns Nation. The losing continues to fester. Coming close in no way makes it any easier to take. Next up, the Cowboys with rookies Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott invading the former Cleveland Browns Stadium. The Cowboys have played three games on the road this season . . . and won them all. One more loss and these Browns tie the record of the 1975 team that lost its first nine games. Losing the last 11 in a row, including the final three last season, ties the club mark for overall futility with Sunday?s setback. Posted by Rich Passan
I bet Collins is thrilled . Hey bean counters put your star wars collection up and trade for a couple safeties ..ours are LOST ..cant cover cant tackle . *HELP* *WALL*
I just LOVE how every media outlet is on the "who will the Browns trade before the deadline watch" (along with Els of course)...and instead they make a bold move to bolster this team. I love it!! On the other side of the coin...the Patriots just sent a warning shot across the bow to all upcoming free agents, come to the table to talk, or they may ship you off to Cleveland... My question is this, do the Browns have a plan in place to extend him long term?? Otherwise they just gave up a 3rd round comp pick for a player that will be here for 8 games...That doesn't seem very efficient for the analytical champions.
I love the move for Collins. Our tackling has been atrocious and he's a big upgrade over Davis.....The best part is Jaime Collins understands the records, and he's fine with it. He's excited about coming to Cleveland. He wasn't feeling much love in New England, and he wants to embrace his new team. His attitude seems just fine... I saw Mike Lombardi already came to the defense of the Patriots on this move, claiming that Collins isn't playing well this year, and this was a message sender, but that doesn't really hold water at all. It's well documented that the Patriots were trying to get him signed long term. If he wasn't playing well, why would they have been trying so hard to sign him? He recently turned down an offer of $11m per....You don't offer that to someone that is regressing....
