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They have been playing well offensively ... as long as they have the combo of Stafford/Kupp/Nacua/Williams, they will be a tough task on the road

Obviously a lot will depend on our health and who is playing QB. Our guys up front have to handle Donald too.

Limiting three things needs to start consistently happening: turnovers, penalties, and drops

For some reason, I have a better feeling about this game than last.

Namely, I won't be able to watch (literally every game I am able to listen/watch, they play poorly). As D4L said, it also depends on how our defensive health is looking (Garrett and Ward, and possibly not in that order).

I hope last week's egg ends up being a positive (wakeup call).

I had the same feeling last week. This is a must win for the season. Win this one and we win out. Lose and we can forget about the playoffs.

I thought that it was on by us

Agree with you, though. Every game I am able to watch, they do poorly, minus the first Cincy game. They win every game I don't watch. At some point, if you have overwhelming correlation, one has to infer causation.

How to Win:

Pretend we're at home ...........

And run more than pass!!!!

We don't.

That said, we will simply because we have no business doing so.

Dline is going to have to be about 100x better than it was against Denver, Bolles dominated Garrett, made him look foolish, McGlinchy (sp.) is one of the worst tackles in the nfl and we couldn't even get pressure from his side.. This defense starts and ends with pressure and winning at the LOS. Going to have to be much better against the run. On offense, hopefully KS learned his lesson after the beating he's taken from all sides about how stupid his playcalling was last week.. It wouldn't be the worst thing for him to err on the side of rush dominant playcalling and mixing in PA. Depending on the QB, if its DTR, probably going to be a loss unless defense holds them to a couple FGs, if we can't (and we average giving up 30 points a game on the road) we won't win unless Flacco gets the call, if walker gets in at all may as well just turn it off. I think this is primed to be another loss.. Have to see how the injury report shakes out.

Score more points than the opponent

Don't let the opponent score more points

Play to win

Prioritize winning...

Pretty much the exact same thing I said about last game: ball control, clock control. Don’t turn it over, try to win the game of possession and field posiiton. We’re officially a low scoring “hang around” team now. Our offense is not going to be a dependable force in any game for the foreseeable future. As such, ball control, clock control. Which translates to run and short, quick passes over the middle. Keep the clock moving when we have the ball, the opposite of hurry-up. Of course that changes if we get down 2 scores but it shouldn’t in the 1st 3 quarters. They have a lot of offensive weapons. Keep them on the sideline.

Glad to read this post. Agree with this post overall, Mac. Wanted to share something we saw watching games at the sports bar, my Browns Backers friends. We saw quite often that KS often calls a predictable play, one of about three, on first down. Often, it goes for little or no gain. This is repeated week in and week out. You pointed out, and he often fails, to stay ahead of the sticks. We are behind them often due to penalties and drops as well as a ground game we abandon early. I am unable to figure what he sees in these underachiever plays on first down calls. But lousy first downs, failures to convert fourth downs, and to see it so often, makes me wonder what "the brightest guy in the room" is using to measure success in an ailing offense. Seems prevalent enough that somebody else should notice. I think we can run, just not what we have done. I acknowledge that QB limits us as do injuries. We would be better with fewer three and out series, and as Mac suggests, keeping with the run with better first down calls might help us. Doing the same predictable stuff hasn't showered us with success.

Jc

So Flacco is probably gonna start, right?

I think so:

Joe Flacco trending towards starting on Sunday: Browns video

https://www.cleveland.com/browns/20...rds-starting-on-sunday-browns-video.html

It’s going to be be interesting. What will we do? Our bootleg plays won’t be effective, lol but he’s a big guy who can toss it.

Good thing about Flacco starting is that stefanski will be forced to run the ball more. Which in itself is a sad statement

We should run aQB draw on the first play and then some bootlegs. The Rams won’t be expecting that!!

I'm sorry that DTR is hurt. I also think it's sad that this is what it took to start a far more experienced QB. This isn't like some seasons of the past. This is the window where you play yo win now, not develop players for the future on game days.

I think that you may misunderestimate his ability to call complex passing plays when the situation doesn't warrant it.

Bingo.

But the receivers were open!

I think he should be forever banned from calling plays where the ball carrier runs backwards. They always end in disaster.

Pretty sure that noise I am hearing is the Twilight Zone theme song.

How to win?
whew: that's a tough one.

I probably won't watch, and may feel I've won. ?

A team has to be Aggressive on offense to win games in December on the road in the NFL.

I think our D pwns their O and Flacco will do enough to make this a convincing win. This is exactly what we need, we’ll see…

a convincing win for which team. facepalm,