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Browns Start Year at 0 and 3.

Some of you may be wondering why I hadn't posted before the Ravens game.   Honestly.......I couldn't muster up any positives for that particular game.  The Brian Robiskie, Shaun Rogers, Jerome Harrison, Jake Delhomme,  and a few others inactive for that game (not to mention @DQ52 being put on the IR, I honestly didn't expect much.

After every loss from the Browns over the past 11 years, the local media has tried to put a positive spin on the loss, that we are just on the verge of being competitive, or, we're one more draft away from getting the couple players that we need to make a deep run into the playoffs.

Bullshit.......

When the Browns came back in '99, I had just turned 20, I was full of optimism and knew that I was young but ten years from now (back then), all us Browns fans could have something to love and watch beat the piss out of the Steelers twice a year.

What do we have to show for the past decade:

NOTHING

Outside of the obvious, this is how we should all still know this.

The team is 0-3, we have been in every game so far this year.  But like every bad team that we see each year. We find ways to shoot ourselves in the foot. Penalties, time management, botched plays, and my favorite, bone-headed individual breakdowns. Heres looking at you Mr. Dwayne Rudd.

For as long as the Detroit Lions have been horrible, every year they led the league in one particular category. 
PENALTIES

Don't tell me each week that we could have won the game if: this, that, or the other wouldn't have happened. Tell me what you (Eric Mangini) are going to do to put us in this position again so that stupid-ass penalties do not occur at the most inopportune times to keep us from winning games.

  • The offensive line was outstanding this game. Best so far this year.
  • Our fullback/wingback rushed for 140+ yards against the leagues 2nd ranked defense.
  • Seneca Wallace and the rest of the team played the ENTIRE game without turning the ball over.
All these things are great, and we need to do them with consistency.  Even if we do over the next 13 games, it again will all come down to the Browns coming up short because we can't do the little things that all the GOOD teams do well in order to win games.

Yes Eric Wright played like he had never seen a football field before or even knew what position he was playing.  Players have bad games. But in the end coaches need to make the necessary adjustments to account for the bad games.  I believe Joe Haden had one tackle on the day.


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