The less said the better-Cleveland 6-3

After watching a game that bad,you cannot blame me for taking a few days off,can you?
Two fifty plus yard field goals by Phil Dawson gave Cleveland a 6-3 win over Seattle in a game that ranks with this classic as the worst game that I have watched since starting this in 2007.
The Browns improve to 3-3,while the Seahawks drop to 2-4.
Cleveland travels to San Francisco this week,while Seattle hosts Cincinnati.
I will be back with the Devils game against the Kings later today as I will be watching it as soon as I am finished writing about this barnburner..

Puget Brownies (Clever,huh?)

1) As awful as both teams were-Seattle should have won this game.
The only mild excitement on the day was Leon Washington's punt return for a TD that was called back for a block in the back,that really was not such.
The Browns defender fell down and the ref tossed the flag.
Difference in the game-RIGHT THERE as Howard Cosell used to say on the Monday Night Football highlights...

2) Cleveland won the game,but there was zero question that on this day,Seattle's Red Bryant was the dominant force in the game.
Bryant generally threw Browns around like the old Andre the Giant tossing prelim wrestlers around like matchbox cars when he was angry.
Three tackles,half a sack,what seemed to be about twelve hits on Colt McCoy,two blocked field goals and handling what seemed to be half the Browns offense.

3) It is too bad that Bryant was tossed from the game for headbutting Alex Smith and allowing Cleveland to run out the clock,not only to see if Bryant could earn the blocked field goal hat trick,but because it put a damper on the best game of his career.
Now that these two teams wont play for another three years,I hope this is a building block for Big Red's play.

4) I know everyone thought Eric Mangini might have paid too much attention to special teams and carried too many players that offered nothing but that part of the game.
I was one of them,but the last two weeks have shown a glaring weakness there.
A fake field goal for a touchdown against you,two of your field goals blocked,a kickoff returned for a score and a punt that should have been a touchdown.
Big problems here in this faction of the team and somewhere Eric Mangini is chuckling.

5) Good news-Montario Hardesty 95 yards rushing in place of Peyton Hillis.
The bad-Hardesty accomplished that on 30 carries for an average of 2.9 yards.
Yuck.

6) T.J. Ward had his best game of the season.
It seems that Dick Jauron was using Ward differently than Rob Ryan did and his play was affected.
Against Seattle,Ward was moved around and used as a blitzer occasionally,earning a sack early in the game that forced a turnover.
The Browns need to continue to use Ward's hitting ability to its potential by moving him around a bit and putting him in positions to cause more fumbles and cover his sometimes defiencies in pass coverage.

7) Charlie Whitehurst slammed the door on any chance to start a controversy at quarterback.
I wanted to see Whitehurst play considering the price paid for him in Pete Carroll's first major move as coach before the 2010 season.
Just awful,if Seattle does not take a quarterback in round one next year,I would have severe issues of faith in the front office...

8) Joe Haden played the entire game despite his knee injury that caused him to miss the game against the Raiders.
Haden played well with one exception considering that he was still not at top health.
Nice to see Haden taking one for the team...

9) One more piece of luck for Cleveland-Joe Haden thinks they are in zone coverage and his incorrect assumption allows Sidney Rice to be wide open down the field.
Rice should walk to the end zone,but Charlie Whitehurst's throw forces Rice to turn awkwardly to catch the ball and the result is Rice catches the ball inbounds but the poor throw knocks Rice off balance and out of bounds instead of walking for the certain score...

10) A tip of the hat to two defenders that had nice games-David Hawthorne of Seattle and Ahytba Rubin of Cleveland.
Both played very well and Hawthorne showed signs of returning to his excellent form of last season.....

11) I got through it and tried to avoid any offensive offense talk as well!!!

Photo Credits
Pumpkin Head:Cleveland Plain Dealer
Hardesty:AP