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December 4, 2011Overmatched and Underwhelming Browns Lose to Ravens
December 4, 2011The Browns lost a tough one down in Cincy last week. Since then, Ryan Pontbriand was cut, Josh Cribbs voiced his displeasure with losing, and the Baltimore Ravens arrived in Cleveland looking to extend their record to 9-3. If Pat Shurmur’s group is able to respond to last week’s loss by getting into the win column today, they will need to play their best game of the season to date.
Las Vegas has the Ravens favored on the road by seven points. They intend to blitz Colt McCoy all afternoon and into the early Cleveland evening. It would be pretty encouraging if Peyton Hillis showed up today with one of those games he had last season. Beyond that, the other things that will have to happen in order for the Browns to come out on top were previously identified both here and here.
Go Browns.
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I’m growing really sick of those white jerseys. It just provides fodder for those bad announcers to talk about how we’re getting beat up so bad.
/leastofourworries
Party for Barkley.
Lyon I’ve got to think that has more to do with blocking than we realize but I agree and I wish we’d mostly use him as KR and sparingly on offense.
Jesus… Pashos just shuffled two steps right and fell over with ZERO contact from Suggs, totally blew up that 3rd down play
-8 on a screen play, Shurmur continues his offensive wizardry.
that screen play is great. We’ve ran it 3 times today and it’s either been incomplete due to 3 Ravens being right there or caught for a loss.
/letskeepdoingit
What the heck was that call? This offense is boring, ineffective, and often predictable. I would also include non-threatening, because they almost never throw down field.
And to make things worse…it’s a poorly executed boring offense.
Nothing positive to take from this one so far boys.
I feel alone on this but I really like Patterson. He plays with a ton of effort.
hey we just got a Mitchel sighting they havent said his name on tv in like a decade.
If Sheard can improve his run D just a little bit he could be an extreme beast.
Turnover YES!
Sheard looks a great pick, and this is the big play we needed. Too bad Thomas just got owned
How was Hillis that open? Zone coverage for the win!
PAY DA MAN !
Hillis should teach our receivers how to catch the ball on the run too.
ZOMG THROW IT TO EVAN MOORE IN THE END ZONE!!! SHURMUR OUT!
what great protection there! That’s like the second time all year I can remember us giving Colt the kind of time that Rodgers seems to get on every other play.
Catch. The. Ball.
hahaha 66
i don’t like only going to Hillis 1 time on the Goalline…
Especially since none of the WR can catch the ball.
This to me is exactly why I don’t understand the fire the QB/HC nonsense. If our WRs catch balls that hit them in both hands, Colt’s numbers would look like that of a professional QB. And our offense would have at least 7 points right now.
Can we tell the D we’re on the goalline every time? cuz that’s the only time they even try to stop the run.
This is just hard to watch.
Seems most of the crowd that was there at kickoff agrees.
I don’t understand why we don’t see more coaching up of Colt and the WRs on the sidelines between drives. They always look alone on camera.
Looking back now, we’ve punted on 4th & 2 in Bal territory, to see their 1st play go past where we were at.
Then kicked a FG when we’re as far in Bal territory we’ll ever be, and they run 3 plays to go 80 yds and score a TD.
conclusion? Just F’ing go for it, we blow and have nothing to lose.
I see blackout in our future. Although that squirrel might make some more people come.
By the way how about those calls in the Heinz red zone guys?
Sign the squirrel! Clowns are a joke enough said.
the run was there all day. they must have known that play action was coming.
I cannot stand this team. I really wish they would just get blown out. It’s almost more frustrating to watch them being “boringly” bad.
Adams with an AIRBALL there… He should have taken Smith’s head off on that pass
I’m still stewing over kicking that field goal there. You know damn well we won’t sniff the red zone again the whole day.
As a franchise, we must be close if not hold the record for most 200-yard individual rushing performances against?
@ DonFelder: it is a really odd/horrible offensive decision but I expect no less from Shurmur as he’s clearly and genuinely shown us that he can’t do much by way of making the correct call. And if anyone gives me the “we were still in it/the score is low so we made the right call” line I’ll laugh so loud you’ll hear it though the Internet.
Ricky Williams, personal friend of Jim Brown, has a touchdown in Jim Brown’s old number for Jim Brown’s old franchise against Jim Brown’s old laundry.
Sheard plays with great hustle….will end up being the best pick for us in that draft…..Whats amazing is that McCoy and Flacco are almost even in stats going into this game….not sure what that really tells us
HATE the WCO.
@ Josh Stein
I decided to leave the restaurant where I was watching the game. Maybe this contest wasn’t shown in Columbus for my own good.
“That’s like the second time all year I can remember us giving Colt the kind of time that Rodgers seems to get on every other play.”
Another offensive line myth perpetrated on this site. The Packers offensive line is on par with the Browns. They have each surrendered 27 sacks this year. The Browns line is arguably more talented with Green Bay’s having more depth. The difference is that Rodgers gets the ball out of his hands way quicker than Colt does.
ZOMG THAT DOESN’T COUNT, MCCOY IS STILL TRASH,GARBAGE TIME
Another garbage time td. That’s five on the year fellas.
Anyone want to talk about garbage time interceptions in this laugher?
Wax man what precisely are you contributing to this discussion? I know you think you’re clever but you’re becoming a caricature of yourself and that’s never good.
I’m not becoming a caricature of myself because I’m not saying things I would say. I’m saying things people like you, the doom and gloomers say. Based on your #89 comment, my sarcasm is spot on.
Haha ok wacman. I bet you’re loving this game then. Do you see improvement again?
@87 that is not a myth at all. Watch a few Packers games and watch a few Browns games. Colt never sits in the pocket 5 or 6 seconds and takes a sack. He takes 5 step drop and gets met in the backfield immediately or the right side totally collapses.
Rodgers and Big Ben take more sacks than anyone but they also hold onto the ball a long time, which allows them to make plays down the field out of broken plays. Our line is way worse than GBs and probably on par with PIT’s but Big Ben makes chicken salad out of chicken #*$% a lot better than Colt or anyone else in the league.
I think it’s pretty obvious the ‘progress’ the offense and Shurmur made the last two weeks was a result of poor competition not real progress
Another 3 hours of my life wasted watching these bums.
@ wacman
Sometimes the ‘doom and gloom’ you speak of is appropriate and necessary. I would say giving up over 200 yards on the ground and having yet another horrible offensive showing is pretty gloomy
I think it’s become very apparent to me that I’m not supposed to be a Browns fan. I was born just outside of Cleveland but was gone by the time I was 6, though I still retain much pride for the city, but I’m just not supposed to be a Browns fan. I’m not impatient. I don’t want to hang the coach every single play. I don’t want to boo when we score a (garbage) touchdown. I see a lot of positive in this team. It seems like most Browns fans I see (in my family, who have been through a lot more years than I) expect us to be winners, when realistically they have no reason for that. Listening to WKNR it seems like all of those guys expect the Browns to be perfect, and the instant that they are they are ready to hang them. I understand wanting them to win, of course I do, but wanting an instant playoff team after the offseason that just was, that’s ridiculous.
Actually correct that, almost 300 yards rushing, my god