Dusted in Detroit- Browns mauled by Lions 34-10

    The Cleveland Browns' defense tried to hold them in their game against the Detroit Lions, but between a special teams snafu and being on the field most of the game, they would tire in a 34-10 Lions win in Detroit.

Quinshon Judkins rushed for eighty-two yards and scored the only Cleveland touchdown in another dull offensive effort.

Cleveland slips to 1-3 with the loss and will travel to London next Sunday to meet the Minnesota Vikings.

Brownie Bits

1) Joe Flacco threw two interceptions and fumbled on a strip sack when he took a hit from Aiden Hutchinson.

Dillon Gabriel replaced Flacco on the final drive, and while I wouldn't replace Flacco for the London game against Minnesota, the time for that change is coming.

2) The offensive line is missing both starting tackles with Jack Conklin (elbow) and Dawand Jones (Knee out for the season), so Cornelius Lucas and KT Leveston were forced into the lineup.

The Lions sacked Joe Flacco three times, with two sacks by Aiden Hutchinson, and both tackles were consistently beaten.

Leveston, who was acquired on cutdown day, has a marginal excuse, and while Lucas is a veteran with experience, he has been more of a reserve tackle in his career rather than a starter.

3) Quinshon Judkins continues to show a hard-running style and is the only legitimate weapon for the Browns right now.

Judkins will be the reason (on offenses anyway) the Browns manage to stay close in games this season.

4) And here's our weekly Jerry Jeudy post for dropping passes, underproductivity ( three catches for forty-eight yards on nine targets), and one of the Cleveland interceptions was his fault when he slipped/fell and allowed D.J. Reed to grab the turnover.

Another disappointing game from the "number one" receiver.

5) I don't blame Jerry Jeudy for all of this; I blame Andrew Berry, who overpaid Jeudy, and didn't grasp that Jeudy's performance in 2024 (90 catches for 1229 yards) was based around three huge games in which all were started by Jameis Winston at quarterback.

Each of Jeudy's games (three) with over one hundred yards receiving were Winston starts, and two of his three games with nine catches or more were Winston starts (Jeudy's twelve catch game vs Miami with 94 yards was a Dorian Thompson-Robinson start).

And yet Andrew Berry felt comfortable enough to pass on upgrading his receivers with Jeudy as the bulwark entering a season without Jameis Winston.

6) The special teams continued their erratic play, although it's always hard to blame a kicker (Andre Szmyt) for missing a fifty-six-yard field goal.

Sunday's problem was on the coverage team as Detroit's Kalif Raymond returned a punt sixty-five yards for the touchdown that slammed the door on any slim hope of a Cleveland win.

7) Tough to complain about the defense, even though the scoreboard shows thirty-four points by the Lions.

Detroit scored the aforementioned touchdown on a punt return and scored seventeen points on drives of five, sixteen, and twenty yards, which is tough for any defense to survive.

8) The Browns played Dillon Gabriel on the game's final drive but called just one pass play.

I never understand when teams play a young quarterback and then have him hand the ball off, as the Browns did on two of Gabriel's three plays.

9) The Browns' receivers are among the weakest in the league, and things may have gotten worse as Cedric Tillman was injured during the game.

Tillman injured his hamstring, and it's unknown how much time he will miss.

10) Harold Fannin dropped a pass that he should have caught, but the other tight end, David Njoku, looks like he's lost his athleticism overnight.

Njoku looks like a different player this season and might be showing signs of major decline.