I was surprised to read after the game that Harrison suffered a hamstring injury after his 20-yard catch, and did not return. Hopefully that doesn’t start limiting his touches (or his ability) again…

How can Josh Cribbs not make the Pro Bowl? He’s the best special teams player in the league, and he’s been doing it long enough that people in the league know it.

Shaun Rogers should make the pro bowl, period.

Sloppy tacking happens in today’s NFL. I hate watching it, but its not like it is solely the Browns who suffer from it.

It was disappointing, but was even more disappointing to me was the lack of swarming to the ball, effort, and fire behindour 3 down linemen. Our DL is actually doing a decent job!

If you are a defensive player and you know guys like Lynch are hard to tackle, and you see your team’s tackles getting broken all night long, why not swarm to the ball? The effort, particularly in the 2nd half, looked horrendous. Even if you aren’t a good tackler or you aren’t the fastest guy or you aren’t the strongest guy, you can make up for at least some of that with hustle, heart, and fire. Our defense isn’t showing it—particularly in the back 7/8.

In today’s NFL you need 2 or 3 guys to be around the ball carrier to make sure you bring him down. We aren’t doing that.

Agreed that too often the adjustments are too late.

At least it looked like there was some logic behind the use of Harrison this game. They ran the ball with Lewis a lot in the first 3 quarters, at least enough to effectively get the defenders to believe we were commited to the run and to get used to tackling the bigger, slower Lewis.

Then in the 4th they put Harrison in to provide the spark. Thunder, thunder, thunder, lightning.

At least it appeared someone somewhere thought about the use of Harrison.

edwards is a disaster, but you’re dead wrong on winslow. edwards makes tough catches that don’t mean anything, and drops the big ones (3rd down last night, right through his hands). to me, that is the definition of an average receiver.

winslow, though, fights for every single ball that’s thrown in his zip code (see: offensive pass interference calls), and catches virtually everything. the guy is an animal on the field.

Conditioning, absolutely. Our D looks phenomenal in the 1st and horrible in the 4th. It its not physical conditioning, its mental. They wear down.

Tackling in the NFL is horrible these days. Part of the reason is that the game is played so fast by the offense that you just have to get a guy down however you can. They actually teach tackling that isn’t “the fundamental” style because you so rarely get a shot at a guy like that in the NFL. HS guys trying to tackle Pryor, McGuffie, or Devine didn’t exactly get to stack their shoulders and see what they were hitting, they were grabbing anything they could get.

Add that to the fact that roster limits mean coaches don’t like to hit as much in practice to avoid injuries, and you get sloppy NFL-wide tackling.

Don’t get me wrong—ours is worse than more than half the teams out there, and it NEEDS to improve. But it is partly a systemic thing. ESPN the mag had a nice article on this across the NFL recently.

It reminded me a lot of the Redskins game actually. We quickly moved up the field and then stalled right at the border of Dawson’s range. Luckily it worked this time

i’m not sure you can say edwards officially started catching again. he grabbed a few, but when he hauls in an important catch, then let’s talk.

let’s just hope winslow is ok. although, i can see a quinn-to-heiden connection developing in winslow’s (potential) absence.

was anyone else pretty uninspired by the routes that our receivers run?

I thought exactly the same thing on that drive. It was almost like they were conserving time because they expected to stall.

He was markedly better on Monday. The only real pass rush that Buffalo had straight up the middle.