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WINNING IS NOT A PRIORITY for those running this franchise...and that has been obvious since Berry REFUSED to invest in defensive help stop the run...and there was FA DT help available that Berry could have added.
For the Browns owner and his boys, this season has always been about Deshawn Watson and that won't change in the future, imo.
Lets see how that plays in the locker room...
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And as the commetaters stated when the play was extended how our recievers just stand there after thier routes and not try to get open. We don't have killers on our WR corpse, Cooper maybe.
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The Bengals are the class of our division. They can play with and beat anyone in the league and we played them tough. They didn't have Tee Higgins and Tyler Boyd went out on the first play of the game. And the Browns still gave up a deep touchdown broken coverage to a what's his name 4th or 6th depth chart guy.
Can Deshaun Watson play better for the Browns, than Baker Mayfield would have? ... Now the Games count.
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Mac I agree about the DT help we could have AND should have signed but to me if you trade 3 1st round picks for a QB AND then sign him to an unprecedented 230-million-dollar contract WITH the baggage you knew he was bringing wouldn't that indicate winning is a big priority?
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Well, maybe Higgins and Boyd have been teaching the other WR's!!
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WINNING IS NOT A PRIORITY I've been saying this about Stefanski all season and it is usually met with incredulous indignation.
LOL - The Rish will be upset with this news as well. KS just doesn't prioritize winning...
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If KS priority isn't winning, then he shouldn't be our HC. Winning should be everyone's priority on the Browns.
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It's Baker's Fault.... I've listened for years how Baker makes our OL worse. He's till doing it !
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And, the DW led team, lost. Period.
I'm not a big stats guy, unless we're talking W's and L's. I know other things factor in to the record. I get it. Some don't though. DW played great? We lost. DW, played average? We lost. The team, if we're to keep things fair, is judged by the qb. So far, rusty DW has sucked. He can't put the team on his back.
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Our O-line must need a little time to adjust to DW. We always need an adjustment period for everything sort of like the 1st 7 or 8 games for the D every season!! 
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Yep, last season he played 4,800 yards passing on a team that went 4/12. Most talented QB that's ever suited up in a Browns uniform, anyone that say otherwise is silly. He's just getting warmed up, I just question this coaching staff can put it all together. I hope you are right. Everyone on this board does. But what he did 2+ years ago for a different team is of no use to anyone now.... by the beginning of next season dude needs to be playing like a top 5 QB or the whole move was a disaster.
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The offensive line got it's rear end kicked today plain and simple.
Yes Watson was bad, but have we ever seen a game where Chubb averaged 2.5 yards per carry? I'm sure it's happened but it has to be just a handful of times. He simply had nowhere to run today. We lost this game with penalties and at the line of scrimmage.
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j/c
Can't wait for the "other" thread later in the week - the one with the positive spin to tell us all what a champion we have as a HC .... after all we shouldn't get bogged down in patterns of [censored] play calling and games managed by Stefanski we should look at each game in isolation and I bet there are TONS of positives we should take away that none of you realized before.
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Yep, last season he played 4,800 yards passing on a team that went 4/12. Most talented QB that's ever suited up in a Browns uniform, anyone that say otherwise is silly. He's just getting warmed up, I just question this coaching staff can put it all together. I hope you are right. Everyone on this board does. But what he did 2+ years ago for a different team is of no use to anyone now.... by the beginning of next season dude needs to be playing like a top 5 QB or the whole move was a disaster. What if he is top 7? Still a disaster?
LOL - The Rish will be upset with this news as well. KS just doesn't prioritize winning...
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....and he didn't call the plays that had stefanski just abandon the run from the start of the game. i just don't get the playcalling today. no QB, watson or Brady, should justify Stefanski abandoning what is a top 5 rushing attack in the nfl. The Browns run game has been really bad and it was bad again today. Getting yourself in second or third and long situations does not set a QB up for success.
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j/c
Can't wait for the "other" thread later in the week - the one with the positive spin to tell us all what a champion we have as a HC .... after all we shouldn't get bogged down in patterns of [censored] play calling and games managed by Stefanski we should look at each game in isolation and I bet there are TONS of positives we should take away that none of you realized before. He yelled at Tony Fields.
LOL - The Rish will be upset with this news as well. KS just doesn't prioritize winning...
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And, the DW led team, lost. Period.
I'm not a big stats guy, unless we're talking W's and L's. I know other things factor in to the record. I get it. Some don't though. DW played great? We lost. DW, played average? We lost. The team, if we're to keep things fair, is judged by the qb. So far, rusty DW has sucked. He can't put the team on his back. Never a similar post from you with Baker as QB.
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Correct.
We'll be told how great the O played, and what a great game coach Stef called, and how great the Browns are...................while we lost.
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He's trolling us. I think.
F Kevin Stefanski. Don't even waste our time with a "post game Q&A". Just hand out the usual script to the reporters and call it a day. You are a clown that is basically stealing Haslam's money by misrepresenting yourself as an NFL head coach. Yes it is that bad and yes I am being serious. What a waste of talent by an organization that has no clue how to even organize itself. The front office BLOWS. The coaching staff BLOWS. I don't know how Haslam can continue to flush his money down this toilet. It has to be an embarrassment to him. I know it is to the City of Cleveland and Browns fans everywhere. It sucks being a Cleveland Browns fan. It really does.
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And as the commetaters stated when the play was extended how our recievers just stand there after thier routes and not try to get open. We don't have killers on our WR corpse, Cooper maybe. They also commentated a couple of times that Watson had Wrs open but didn't throw the ball for whatever reason.
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Just to beat a dead horse.....the OLINe misses POCIC
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It is a bit funny to look at Baker’s numbers his first two years and Watson’s numbers his first two years. I am NOT saying we should have kept Baker and I am NOT saying Baker is as good as Watson. I just find them interesting.
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I wonder if the Stefanski fan club will.show up? He really didn't coach with a sense of urgency today He looked scared and nervous on the sidelines and in his presser. I hope behind the scenes he was put on notice that his job is in jeopardy. The issue is the Browns will never be good with Haslam, his structure, and Depo. No one worth anything wants to work in that environment.Bingo! Best thing Haslam can do for the fans of Cleveland is sell the team. He, like his front office and coaching staff, is clueless. He simply doesn't know anything about running an NFL franchise. Someday I hope the Cleveland sports scene is littered with great ownership. Someday.
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I will not, after 1 game - he's now had 2 by the way - buy into the "rust" thing, nor will I buy into the "not in shape" crap. Why not? Because he is a Baker fan. Not a Browns fan. He invented excuse after excuse for Baker and is already trashing Watson. Who did not see that coming?
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Yep, last season he played 4,800 yards passing on a team that went 4/12. Most talented QB that's ever suited up in a Browns uniform, anyone that say otherwise is silly. He's just getting warmed up, I just question this coaching staff can put it all together. I hope you are right. Everyone on this board does. But what he did 2+ years ago for a different team is of no use to anyone now.... by the beginning of next season dude needs to be playing like a top 5 QB or the whole move was a disaster. What if he is top 7? Still a disaster? Probably .... https://www.nfl.com/stats/player-stats/Top 7 this year includes Cousins, Goff and a Jurassic Brady. And once you get outside of the top 3 you are starting to hit a plateau where you could argue several QB's a better than the others in that tier despite the W/L record and stats .... and the biggest guaranteed contract in history together with three 1st round draft picks doesn't meet expectations being "Good" or in a group of 'very good'
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And, the DW led team, lost. Period.
I'm not a big stats guy, unless we're talking W's and L's. I know other things factor in to the record. I get it. Some don't though. DW played great? We lost. DW, played average? We lost. The team, if we're to keep things fair, is judged by the qb. So far, rusty DW has sucked. He can't put the team on his back. Never a similar post from you with Baker as QB. Hey Arch ... maybe I'm a knuckle head for not remembering but I never had you pegged as a huge Baker fanboy?? Were you?
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I will not, after 1 game - he's now had 2 by the way - buy into the "rust" thing, nor will I buy into the "not in shape" crap. Why not? Because he is a Baker fan. Not a Browns fan. He invented excuse after excuse for Baker and is already trashing Watson. Who did not see that coming? I know. Thats why I asked.
LOL - The Rish will be upset with this news as well. KS just doesn't prioritize winning...
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(clears throat)
Well, this thread went south in a hurry.
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(clears throat)
Well, this thread went south in a hurry. Yeah. It gets really old encountering childish bickering in every thread I enter when I just want to read Browns fans' football insight. My 6-year-old twins behave better than what I often see here.
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so one thing that was an eyesore was Ward getting torched all game. He had that one big hit on Chase, but overall he was bad.
but other than that, our defense did enough and created enough opportunities for us to win this game. us running into the punter was just horrible. but man i just dont like how we didnt commit to our run game. and then all the flags....come on stefanski damn.
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Swish, I actually thought Ward played well. He had tight coverage against one of the very best WRs in the league all game long. Burrow made some incredible throws into tight coverage. I do understand that Chase's numbers were good.
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So when will poster not to be mentioned face his/her time out??? Just asking the mods...
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He's trolling us. I think.
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j.C:
- Watson looked much, much better his second time around. Hopefully, he continues to progress at the same rate from game 1 to 2. That said, he holds the ball too long.....Not sure if that has always been an issue or if its getting back into the swing of things.
- The O line was trash for most of the game.
- Perrion Winfrey looked like he was disruptive on the interior. Clowney and Garrett had nice games.
- Not sure what the hell Deion Jones was thinking.
- Not a fan of the refs today.
- Wondering if Watson playing shotgun and the formation might negatively affect Chubb's production.
- Chase had a great game.
- That roughing the punter seemed to change the mood/momentum of the game.
- The team had way too many penalties. Ugh.
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Our offense has really stalled. The OL is struggling and the run game is basically a shell of itself.
Watson was better, but still nowhere close to a franchise type QB.
Ward was Owned by Chase
Coaching decisions were head scratching
And the refereeing was giving Cincy points IMO
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
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The issue is the Browns will never be good with Haslam, his structure..... And once this is realized, folks can view the Browns for what they are and have been, a tragicomedy or a dark comedy if one is a true cynic. The Haslams have not a clue of what they are doing nor have they identified the type of culture they wish to establish. They're simply guessing and throwing money around hoping that somehow, someway, they stumble across the magic formula.
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Mac I agree about the DT help we could have AND should have signed but to me if you trade 3 1st round picks for a QB AND then sign him to an unprecedented 230-million-dollar contract WITH the baggage you knew he was bringing wouldn't that indicate winning is a big priority? homewood...here's the deal when discussing A TEAM SPORT...
It does not matter how much money an owner forks out for one player such as Watson..focusing on that ONE PLAYER and making him one of the highest paid QBs in the NFL...none of that will make the Browns a winner or a playoff contender. It takes everyone on the team contributing and playing to win if the Browns are serious about competing for the playoffs.
It takes an owner who is committed to "the team" over "individual players". Knocking the rust off his 1/4 billion dollar QB was more important than addressing the Browns defensive weaknesses...knocking off Watson's rust was a higher priority than the players goal of making the playoffs.
It's a matter of priorities in Cleveland...team goals take a backseat to individual goals, in Cleveland...jmo
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The team sucks without Watson's rust.
I knew how this game was going to playout when I saw that STUPID 4th down pass by Brissett. CKS baffles me. Take the damn 3 points!
No, he doesn't let Watson run for it, he selects a cold QB off the bench to throw a low percentage pass.
The Browns is The Browns and another wasted season gone.
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First and foremost, the Browns are a poor organization with a defeatist culture.
Second, the Browns are a really poorly coached team with a bottom 5 head coach and staff with a couple of outlier position coaches.
Number 1 leads to Number 2. It's really hard imagining a scenario where the Browns ever achieve consistent success as long as the Haslams are the owners. Depo is also a big problem. His fingerprints are all over this team. But that again goes back to Haslam for allowing it.
9, 6, and 5 years into Bitonio's, Garrett’s, and Chubb's careers ...flagship players at their positions...and they've got one playoff appearance to show for.it. That's a travesty. If Haslam moves forward with Stefanski next season he his giving his approval that incompetence is accepted. I fully expect Stefanski to be the coach next year.
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Mac, you could be right. Maybe JH thought, because he was told, that all we needed was a QB like DW to make us legit contenders and he believed it. We all could see back in the spring after the draft we needed help at DT. If we could see it why didn't the people running the team see it. It certainly was more evident during the preseason games.
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