Browns, playoff hopes, and Manziel get crushed

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Pathetic. The one word to describe Sunday's football game. Absolutely pathetic. I was even tempted to write the "Browns efforts" in the second sentence, but that would be giving the Browns the benefit of the doubt. And I am done with doing that this year. Sunday's attempt of playing football by the Browns was the most uninspired, godawful, most embarrassing performance that I have witnessed being a Browns fan. It was simply awful and heart breaking.

How can you lose 30-0 on you're own field, against the Bengals? The Bengals! They have the most overrated, over payed QB in the entire NFL! 14-24 for 117 yards. and they still won by 30. How? I'll tell you how. Jeremy Hill and the Bengals ran for over 200 yards. It seemed as Jeremy Hill ran for more yards that the Browns offense had the entire freakin' game. That made me more sick than Manziel being a disaster. Jeremy "I run my mouth more than I have rushing yards" Hill went off on the Browns. 148 stinking yards and 2 TD's. Pathetic. However, I am going to take some words from Mr. Hill. I wasn't impressed by Cincinnati at all. In fact, the Bengals are worse than I thought they were before the. You can thank Andy Dalton for that, Mr. Hill.

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Now I'm saving my criticism for Manziel for last, because I first need to talk about how bad the offensive line, and receivers were. It seemed like after every positive play the offense somehow managed to get, a penalty would take it away. False start, holding, chop block; you name it, the offense probably committed it. 9 penalties for 68 yards just killed any sort of momentum that the offense could get. The second thing I was disgusted with was how the offense didn't seem to play with trust to Manziel. This guy was drafted to take over this franchise, and whether you like him on or off the field or not, you have to put trust into him, or else the entire team is going to go down like the Titanic.  And don't even get me started on the O-Line. I would've rather had the LOHS offensive line out there for the amount of false starts and their awful attempts at a thing called blocking. If that is what they were trying to do.

Now it's time for Johnny Football's special place for his lashing. His decision making was some of the worst since Brandon Weedon was the QB last year. He'd rather throw it into triple coverage than throw the ball away. You're not playing against Bama anymore Johnny. Run the stinkin' ball or throw it away. It's as simple as that. Because if he would have thrown it out of the end zone, we would have at least had a chance to try out the new kicker. But no, Johnny has to prove himself every play, so he commits the cardinal sin for Qb's and he's picked in the end zone. His dancing around, in what little of a pocket he had, drove me nuts. Just throw the ball and take the hit! You signed up to play football didn't you? If you wanna dance around, just appear on next season's dancing with the stars.

Bottom line is, the entire Browns team was super disappointing in what was supposed to be the "Perfect Debut" for Manziel. Now that its all over with, the most important thing is to out this all behind us, and move onto Carolina, so we can get to 8 wins, and not lose the last 5 games, again.

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Maybe This Year?

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 Maybe This Year?

As some of you may or may not know about me is that I am possibly the biggest Cleveland Browns fan ever. Yes, that is a thing. Everything is brown and orange. My room, my shirts, phone background, etc. So that means as a person, I should have a ton of hope, right? Right. And this year is no different. This year, like many other of the 15 seasons since the Browns returned to the NFL, the Browns have started 2-2. And like every year before this, us Browns fans have an incredible amount of hope for our team. But this year is different, and this is why.

Through the first 4 games of the Browns season, I've noticed a couple of traits about this year's team, that have been lacking in the other 14 teams since '99. First of all, we have a steady quarterback, and a great plan to develop a great young Quarterback in the future. Brian Hoyer is going to hold the ship down for the next 3-4 years, then Manziel is going to come in and run the show. However, Hoyer is the one quarterback since '99, to actually give us some consistency.   Some GOOD consistency. In fact, it took him until the fourth quarter of last weeks game to throw his first interception of the year. And it wasn't even a bad one either, taking a shot down the field on a third and ten from their own 30. the ball ended up on Tennessee's own 20, which is probably farther than a Spencer Lanning punt. With that, he's also been doing a great job on making smart decisions throwing the ball, and has been moving the ball down the field, for TD's. The second thing about Hoyer is that we actually have a QB who can lead a 2 minutes drill. Moreover, 3 of Hoyer's 5 wins, have been in comeback form. That is something I have never witnessed as a Browns fan. A guy who can actually lead us from behind. And he's done it three times this year. Two of those three have been wins, FYI.

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Another thing I have noticed is that this team has A LOT of fight in them. This isn't the Browns that get blown out by 42 like teams of the old. They've been down by margins of 24 and 25 on the road this year, and have at least tied it in both games. I don't know about you, but I am used to being blown out by 40 in that situation. Instead, both games were extremely close,with one of those games be a close loss, and the other the largest come from behind win by a road team in NFL history (Down 25 points against Tennessee). This tells me that I really think that these boys can make some serious noise when it comes to December. The trait of always fighting, and staying in every game is going  to keep the Browns well into the playoff hunt into December. Which brings me to my next point.

The Browns have the most winnable next two months out of any other team in the NFL. Listen to who they play in order. Pittsburgh, at Jacksonville, Oakland, Tampa Bay, at Cincinnati, Houston, at Atlanta, then at Buffalo. Those are 8 games that the Browns COULD easily win. Now looking at that schedule, I'm predicting that Cleveland is going to be seriously in the hunt for the division when we go into December. But, they will fizzle out due to a tough month against 4 potentially playoff teams.

In conclusion, what I've seen from this year's Cleveland Browns team is something that I have not seen from others. They have a steady QB situation, and have a lot of fight to go along with a pretty favorable schedule. Those reasons are a very good combo for the Browns. As said before, I think it's going to keep the browns in the playoff hunt into December. In all, I think it's going to be an improvement of a season. However, it's going to lead to an 8-8 season for Cleveland. But, Browns fans, our day is coming very soon. And it starts with THIS YEAR.

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