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Is this going down now?

All I know is all i saw on Twitter by two guys who "know" the most

Daryl Ruiter
‏Verified account @RuiterWrongFAN
8m8 minutes ago

#Browns have had opportunities to win 6 games this season. They've won 2. John Dorsey believes he built a roster capable of winning. This year is about Ws and Ls. Whether that evaluation comes tonight, next week, the week after, the bye or January, 2-4-1 doesn't cut it

Going to be interesting monday

Daryl Ruiter
‏Verified account @RuiterWrongFAN
23m23 minutes ago

🚨🚨Red Alert🚨🚨

We're officially on Red Alert.

This is true. Coaching has left some points on board for sure. No one can say Dorsey hasn’t tried to help hue

Hmm

I dont think this will happen tonight, but IMO Hue won't last long

because at Pittsburgh, KC home, ATL home ... tough

I don’t disagree with the idea that W/Ls matter this year, but the idea of firing a guy 7 games into a season were the team has been competitive is crazy to me.....should have canned him last year if he wasn’t going to get a full evaluation year.

I’m not sold on Hue, but firing him right now makes little sense to me.

Pitt and ATL are winnable.

The problem is Hue doesn't win any winnable games. He loses them all. Case in point today.

At this rate I have little confidence in us to win any game

I think it might have to do with expectations of Dorsey and haslam. They probably thought given the talent we should have had more success

Bad calls that cost points and the total show of undisciplined football have to stand out to dorsey as well. He knows that’s coaching

That was the point of his very subtle and rather scathing humor.

Shottenheimer with Alzheimer's is a better head coach than Hue.

Sigh.... some jokes you just have to explain.

I know. You're the biggest negative Nancy I've ever seen on any board. Didn't you say after LeBron left that the Cavs will never be good again … like until the end of time? It was something to that affect.

I mean you're proven right more than wrong, but come on dude, have some hope and optimism sometimes.

24 consecutive road losses, that’s amazing

If only we could have seen this coming. . .

Newly hired GMs usually never fire incumbent head coaches . . .

I don't recall saying that about Lebron/the Cavs? Maybe it was somebody else ... I'd own it if true.

I wasn't that upset when he left; it was expected.

In terms of the Browns, yes, being negative is the way to be correct. I'd love to be positive, but I'm also tired of getting my hopes up.

Post game thought: I'm glad my friend just signed up for direct tv, and got the nfl package. Otherwise, I'd have gone to a restaurant/bar to watch the game.

As it was, I drove 3 miles to his house, as opposed to 15 miles.

My thought was wonder where we'll pick in the draft?

They haven't scored a TD in the first quarter all year.

They have been woefully unprepared in every game. That's on Hue and Haley.

Now the infighting begins. You can already see it, Haley going back to his Steelers roots by having Aditi put out his record compared to Hue.

Its just beginning. RIP the bandaid off and go get a real NFL head coach. Baker deserves that much.

This was definitely a chink in the armor today ... and to be honest, I'm not even sure what the correct answer is

My thought after the game?

As a Browns fan, I should have a Browns jersey. I don't have one. But which one to get?

After watching seven Browns games this year, I have concluded that the most effective and strategic play in the Browns offensive playbook is the punt.

Ima get meself a Britton Colquitt jersey. Colquitt rocks!

Who’s on your short list

Colquitt was a stud today

I saw this on Twitter. I am sick of the infighting and throwing each other under the bus stuff......it’s been a constant in the Haslem years. It’s why I wanted Hue and Sashi both gone last year.....quit fighting through the media.

Why is this at all acceptable? For 114 yards? We need to stop letting the refs hurt us. Some of this just seems lazy, it is OK. Find some consequences that matter. Or keep them off the field. Ask Dorsey what he might do to address it. He seems to be solution-oriented.

Had we kicked the FG, today ends earlier. Get points where you can in the first half.

I want to say openly that Njoku impressed me today much more. Can we call some routes that work better earlier? Crazy quilt offense mix. mayfield has been going to short route and missing some longer (I think). Panic attack? Stop taking so many sacks!

How do our tackles grade out?

i felt like harrison had a tougher time today

I wonder if Hue is going to go into Dorsey's office tomorrow and pester and plead with him to get AJ McCarron included as a throw-in in the Amari Cooper deal?

Golly, I hope they don't screw up the paperwork on THAT deal!

If Hue gets fired, IMO it's not because of the loss today. It's because he threw Haley under the bus. Infighting is the one thing Haslam won't put up with. Hue's presser may have sealed his fate.

He’s been throwing people under the bus for two and a half years.

I just read some quotes from the presser. It was especially egregious today.

In fairness to Haley, Aditi and Hue had a dust up earlier this year. Hue ignored her at a press conference because of something she wrote.

One thing I know for sure is that you can’t have infighting on the coaching staff. If that is happening (a big if) someone must go.

Pdawg, I don't think it's a "big if". Wouldn't surprise me if we all woke up tomorrow to Hue being let go.

What did he say? Wtheck did I miss?

If we had won today, none of this bs would be an issue.

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Was out running some errands and listening here and there on radio. Didn’t get to watch until 4th. So I do not get this comment. What are you referring to?

Only a couple thoughts right now.

Penalties. Holy crap. We are not good enough to constantly overcome 1st and 20. Or worse.

It may be my imagination, but I think Baker moves into quite a few sacks. He scrambles into trouble as often as out of it. For example, in OT. Nassib is blocked but Bake moves up, past the RT and then moves right into Nassib for the sack. I think this happens from time to time.

The sneak was ugly. Bake can scramble (that one on 2nd and 30 was clutch) but the sneak was never going to work.

Final nail in the coffin was Peppers fumble. That ended the game. Not saying the fumble was the only reason we lost, but it definitely ended our last chance.

Collins with big plays back to back.

One constant that is so hard to stomach is the penalties. Every game we continue to hurt ourselves. We may improve in some areas but the penalties are always there. We gave the Bucs 6 1st downs by penalty not to mention our offensive penalties. Undisciplined.