What went wrong in Cleaveland

By Eeeeeeeegs

First of all, I’d like to say…”the season is not lost.”

Now for the negative stuff, and there’s a lot of it.

Collectively…EVERYONE PLAYED LAZY EXCEPT 27, 34, 76, 69, 66, 60 and 67. I guess you know what I’m going to bitch about next…

7.2 yards per carry and we refuse to run the ball in passing situations throughout the first three quarters. It’s almost like Coughlin and Gilbride didn’t feel it was necessary to establish the run because it’s already common knowledge that teams can’t stop our run? Well, why the funny stuff…and into the wind no less? Just run the ball. ESPECIALLY when your defense doesn’t need to be on the field. Smash-mouth running demoralizes defenses. Interceptions inspire defenses.

(#12 was also great, but that doesn’t tie in with my point).
Did you see the stat that Jacobs had 4+ yards on each of his first seven carries? Unfortunately, he didn’t get his seventh carry until the middle of the 3rd quarter.

As far as out front seven depth on defense…It’s a bigger problem than I thought. We got NO pressure and it seemed like Jamal Lewis got 4 yards after contact on every run. I don’t think we knocked Anderson down even once. They created matchup problems everywhere as well. We telegraphed our blitzes and Anderson made the right reads all night. That Webster corner blitz where we left Kenny Phillips out there to cover Braylon Edwards in the flat was a joke. 14 yards. All those motion penalties didn’t bother the Browns a bit. Every 1st and 15 became a 3rd and 3 before you could say boo. No punts or turnovers by the Browns. They missed a 51 yard FG attempt and scored on every other possession. It reminds me of the first two games last year. We need to get healthy at LB. I don’t know how bad Wilkinson is.

How does Eli have to call timeout to avoid a delay of game WHILE RUNNING THE HURRY UP OFFENSE? Lazy.

Everything stunk except the running game. And we were too full of ourselves to run the ball when we needed to.
AND IT WAS WINDY TOO! Reminds me of the Sunday night Washington lost late last season.

I believe the coaching staff and Eli can get their head out of their collective rear end. I am worried about our depth on defense and Spags’ ability to scheme with guys like Kehl, Blackburn, MacDougle, Alford and Wynn in there.

Did you see Jay Alford Tackle Jamal Lewis 3 yards forward to get that first down? If Alford didn’t get there Lewis would have fallen down way short of the marker. It was that kind of night.

One more thing. It wouldn’t be a MNF review if I didn’t express my enormous disdain for Tony Kornheiser. If he compares another sports story to a novel I’ll pick him up by his comb-over and fling him out of that booth. Even Jaws was gaffing up there. Don’t go for two with 8:07 to make the lead 21? Of course you do! 3 TDs against and you still force overtime. There is no way a team can score more than 3 TDs in 8:07. It’s not too early in that situation. In a close game it might be too early…oh…never mind.