Instant Recap: Same Story, Same Result for Browns

Adjustments are the key! It totally seems like we never adjust to anything for the second half. They adjust to us, and we go, huh? what? Are we playing a game? It’s football? Football? Really? I’ve never seen a team look so clueless in the second halves of these first 2 games!!

your devil-advocating is reaching.

I was totally baffled and dumbfounded that he wasn’t canned by Holmgren, Heckert, or Mangini before the start of the season. It was the biggest shock of the offseason, and I couldn’t rationalize it no matter how I tried. These two games are just piling on at this point.

How was it better?

I’m not saying that Daboll is the sole problem, far from it, but don’t whiz on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

Draft should be drive. All this draft talk has my mind scrambled.

First half 53 yards on 18 carries 1 td and 1 fumble.

But Daboll has totally ignored the team’s strengths and weaknesses.

Yeah, it seems Daboll has forgotten how great Vickers was over the last half of the season. I don’t understand why he is barely being used. And why they didn’t use a similar game plan as the one they had in the win against the Chiefs last year doesn’t make sense. The Chiefs’ D didn’t have an answer to the play of the OL and Vickers’ blocking last year. How do you ignore that?

The number of carries i agree was low, but the numbers are scewed. Take away harrisons 39 yard run and he was averaging under 2 yards per carry. Now Hillis was a different story, the dude is a beast, but…….my question is where is james davis, did we give up on him? I love the run game but I really thing that our major concern right now is not the run game but the play calling and not because Daboll is aweful, he just hasn’t realized that the right side of our line cannot block any of our grandparents let alone a defensive end. Three step drops and throw the damn ball, thats the key. Manning has done it for 10 years why can’t we. (before anyone says it, I’m not comparing delhomme to manning, just saying he should have the ball no more than 4-5 seconds.)

Yea, this early in the season it can be attributed at least in part to that, but we will see how things play out.

true…because its that early. However, I think the other games they won were more of the exceeding expectations. the browns, Bucs, and Chiefs all finished with similar records last year, so the games were expected to be closer. however, I don’t know how many people had KC over SD or the Bucs over the Panthers. Personally, I didn’t

I’ll see if someone at AP can create a GIF image of it.

Though they are different penalties, they can go hand-in-hand. Tackling leading with the helmet could lead to incidental helmet-to-helmet contact (which is what Lewis did). I think both rules are fair.

This isn’t one of those questionable roughing the passer calls either. The refs stated the call was made because the Browns player led with his helmet.

It doesn’t prevent 100% of incidents, but how can you say it is arbitrary and hasn’t prevented blows to the head?

It’s a clear infraction of the NFL rules. A player cannot lead with the helmet. The Browns defender tackled Cassel helmet first. That warrants a flag and is the right call. How does making the right call constitute awful officiating? I’m not saying the officiating wasn’t terrible at times. They were, especially on the Harrison fumble. I’m just saying you can’t lump that late flag into the bad call or “borderline call” category.

We can discuss the Harrison fumble to our heart’s desire because that was blatantly bad officiating. I was even saying it would be overturned because his elbow hit the ground before the ball came loose. I think the problem lied in not having conclusive evidence to overturn it. Harrison’s arm shielded the ball, so it was hard to determine exactly when he lost possession of it (he could have began bobbling it before his elbow hit the ground). I still think it was a bad call.

It wasn’t your typical roughing the passer penalty. Sorry, I thought you knew why the penalty had been called. This discussion or debate has been a misunderstanding.

Right, we’ve talked about that here before. That’s an interesting article.

It certainly made for a long, mostly boring second half.

They did, from the other side.

They were just showing off their fancy technology.

Haha, they actually did, the actual camera from the other side was a lot better, but like Ruf said, they wanted to show off the tech.

Well, somewhat. Not to start a whole different discussion, but sample clearance is an incredibly difficult and expensive endeavor, so something like ‘Mutated Christmas’ could never appear in a truly “legal” form. (Bizarre and recommended, BTW.) Also, the industry fought open electronic distribution as hard as it could until it became obvious that it was an unwinnable war. They could easily have licensed Napster instead.

Brian Brennan is one of my favorite players of all time. I can’t handle anyone comparing Robiskie to him.

Talking skill set I know they two are different in color….

Robo is on pace for a 16 reception 108 yard season. That is still a marked improvement over last year. That just aint right for a top pick in the 2nd round. Chansi Stuckey is better, Josh Cribbs is better, and MoMass is better.

To even compair anything Robiskie offers this team to those guys and what they have done is a slap in the face to them.Yes they did/do not have burner speed but they had the skill set to get off the line,run the route and catch the ball.Robiskie offers none of this.He is the WR you line up as a 3rd down WR and run him in behind the LB’s to try and catch them sleeping and get the first down.

I believe Major Wright is a football player. I think Chad Jones was considering playing baseball.