Cleveland visits Baltimore next Sunday in what looms to be a difficult game with the Ravens spending much of yesterday and today whining about poor officiating in their loss to the Bengals.
Brownie Bits
1) Cannot blame the defense and Rob Ryan for this defeat with Kansas City only managing three field goals against them.
I thought that some players showed improvement (more below) and right off hand I cannot think of a defender that had a bad game other than Kenyon Coleman's bad roughing the passer call in the fourth quarter.
2) Two bad calls that had an impact on the loss,but despite their importance,I wont blame the loss on them.
I thought Thomas Jones was stopped short on the final fourth and one that allowed the Chiefs to run the clock out,but those plays just had too many bodies in front of the camera for there to be a realistic chance of a replay reversal.
3) The other call?
Well,I thought that it was pretty clear that Jerome Harrison's first quarter fumble was caused by his elbow hitting the ground.
That handed Kansas City three points in a two point loss.
4) I have been a proponent of Jerome Harrison getting more touches ever since he became a Brown,but yesterday Harrison just had a poor game.
The calls for Harrison tended to be between the tackles and some off tackle runs should be mixed in,but Harrison just was ineffective in the loss.
5) Seneca Wallace was what he brought to the table with the Seahawks.
Nothing special and his poor decision making handed the Chiefs their only TD.
Those that wanted to see Wallace after Jake Delhomme's outing in Tampa pretty much got what they are going to get from the former Seahawk.
6) Wallace's long TD to Josh Cribbs was a nice throw,but otherwise the passing game was stagnant.
Three passes thrown to Mohammed Massaquoi and two to Brian Robiskie aren't enough passes to your starting wide receivers.
7) I watched every game that Brian Robiskie played at Ohio State and the Browns aren't using him properly.
Robiskie doesn't have the speed to be running straight fly routes,yet the Browns seem to run him on those routes every time.
Robiskie needs to be running slants and posts and the teams would be playing to his strengths with those play calls.
8) The offensive line was a bit below average yesterday.
John St.Clair was his usual horrible self,but Joe Thomas was tabbed with a bad holding call and Alex Mack's personal foul call was a backbreaker and poor decision on his part.
When your top linemen aren't playing well,things are not going to go smoothly.
9) T.J. Ward was terrific and looks to be a keeper.
I wasn't thrilled with Ward as the teams second round pick,but his first two games look to be proving me wrong,especially with ten solo tackles yesterday and Joe Haden looked pretty sharp on the corner as well.
10) Marcus Benard had a sack,but Ahtyba Rubin continues to impress at nose tackle.
I'll keep pounding on this horse,I still believe Rubin and Shaun Rogers on the field at the same time will prove to be very effective.
11) Simply put,this team looks befuddled in the second half offensively.
Zero points scored and other than the fumble by Peyton Hillis in Tampa,zero scoring threats.
Keeping Eric Mangini might not have been a smart move,but allowing Brian Daboll to stay as offensive coordinator looks to be the first awful decision by Mike Holmgren in his tenure as the leader of the franchise.
I can at least say that I was against that decision from day one.
12) I wrote in the preview that the Browns needed at least a split of their first two games to avoid a catastrophic start.
They didn't get that start and here comes the wave of playoff contenders-at Baltimore,Cincinnati and Atlanta at home before games in Pittsburgh and New Orleans before the bye week.
Care to tell me which of those games they win?
After the bye week brings New England and New York Jets to town,want to pick the Browns over either of those teams?
That takes us to November 21 and 28 before the Browns have games that (on paper) look to be even a possibility of winning with games in Jacksonville and home against Carolina.
0-9 is looking very doable for the Browns.
Photo Credits
Fan:John Kuntz-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ward:Chuck Crow-Cleveland Plain Dealer
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