Maybe I’m wrong about the Indians
October 8, 2015Kevin Love got really high this offseason (to train, that is)
October 8, 2015The Browns defense was supposed to be the strength of the team, but they’ve been susceptible to the big play this year. In San Diego, the Browns gave up a 68-yarder to Dontrelle Inman, a 61-yarder to Danny Woodhead, a 31-yarder to Keenan Allen, and a 20-yarder to Malcolm Floyd. That was just the passing game. In the rushing game, the Browns didn’t give up a ton of yards overall, but what they did give up included a 19-yard run by Woodhead and a 23-yard gain by Melvin Gordon.
To say the big play has hurt the Browns is the understatement of the year, so it makes sense that Karlos Dansby would get asked about it this week in the locker room. Despite the overwhelming evidence, Dansby isn’t ready to call it a trend.
“It is not a trend. We are having some breakdowns, some technique errors, mental errors. You can’t have those in crucial situations, and that is what we have been doing. That is what we have been doing in crucial situations. We have been giving up plays like that. We just have to tighten it up a little bit and continue to play lights out football.”
Dansby was also asked about the specific big plays that resulted from little short dump-off passes underneath that seemed to go forever against them in San Diego.
“We have mental breakdowns. If you have mental breakdowns, technique errors or something in the scheme, then you give up plays like that in crucial situations, and we can’t let that happen.”
Now, I appreciate Dansby’s perspective and it’s probably a necessary one. He’s a talented, experienced football player that needs to be a part of the solution this week. He can’t admit defeat in the face of the mounting evidence almost no matter what. That said, it is a bad trend for the Browns defense right now.
The first two games, the Browns didn’t give up those gaudy numbers, including a Week 2 winner against the Tennessee Titans. But it started with the Raiders and continued against San Diego. Maybe those are two outliers back-to-back, and I don’t want to get into a linguistics conversation about the word “trend.” Regardless of dictionary definitions, the Raiders had big plays of 54, 55, 40, and 36 yards against the Browns and then the Chargers put up the aforementioned numbers.
Let’s just say there won’t be any debate if Joe Flacco, Maxx Williams, Justin Forsett and the rest of the Ravens offense put up yards in big huge bunches this weekend in Baltimore.
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Even if the Browns were headed to an 0-16 season, there is something to be said about Beating the city that stole the Browns twice. (St. Louis Browns=Orioles Cleveland Browns = Ratbirds). This game to me is like the superbowl, just win, just win. just win…
I feel like it’s almost a must win even though it’s only game #5.
Man for being 1-3, this team loves to talk.
hi BOB … i can call you Bob , can’t i ? is that you in your av ? if yes, then you obviously play the sax … you play professionally ? … where do you live ?
was that too many questions ?
thank God “it’s not a trend” … i was beginning to get a little worried.
I do play professionally, and I used to be a traveling musician on the road. Unlike other musicians (not all though) I stayed away from drugs 100%, and I was a “safe” drinker. I also was conservative in my sexual exploits, no HIV acquired. Point is, when I became a dad, it was time for night school and paying the bills, so I did 10 years of night school and am now a corporate CPA by day. Nonetheless, I still gig, and I have my music up on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon.com etc etc etc. I live in the Chicago area. (I am also a soul custodial parent of two boys, I do not get support, and one of my kids will not see his mom again via court order. I have my life together, but I wish I got a real degree first, cause I got the music degree before touring… oh well)…
Yes, you can call me Bob. Not too many questions, so long as we do not bug the other posters… I am a die hard browns fan, but being honest, I am not a Cavs or Indians fan, I follow the Cubs, Bulls, and Blackhawks, and obviously, three of my four teams went to the playoffs in 2015, one won a championship, and I am hopefull the Cubs will win it all. But I am a Browns fan, and I have been since Red Right 88 in 1980, the first football game I ever saw. I was 8 years old by the way, and I have been a Browns fan ever since that ugly moment… well, maybe that was 1981, but it was from the 1980 season…
thanks Bob … i will check-out your music. i am a sales rep by day & a musician by night … i’m a guitarist & backing vocalist , but i’m 53 now, so me , my wife & some of my pals play out only 1-2 times a month doing an acoustic/unplugged format. i still enjoy it.
i live in toledo , but get out to chicago once or twice a year … it’s one of my favorite places in the world , but i’m not sure i’d wanna live there.
and no one ever said it was going to be easy to be a browns fan … but i’m a die-hard nonetheless.
good luck with your music … have a good one.
Do you have CDs/Albums up on iTunes? (Hard to use the word “CD” these days). All my sales are really online, and download cards are handed out at gigs. But my online stuff is not what I gig, I gig covers, but I sell original instrumental music. FYI… (And Kenny G bores me to death, I don’t just do ballads).
Glad to hear you still play. Never give it up.