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LOLZ right back at you. Either you buy into him 4ever loving the dog pound (which would be so sweeet) or you are just trolling other posters. LOLZ indeed.

when the line started moving big time in our direction as game time approached, I started to feel much better. The rain gave us a huge advantage because we are better in the trenches and have Chubb.

Let's hope for rain again Monday lol

I don't think it was the weather.

I was at the game. It was pretty much windless. None of the flags around the field were moving very much, and what rain seemed mostly a foggy drizzle. Conditions were damp all day. Humidity was very high. I suppose that could have kept all the footballs damp.

The O seemed "clunky" for a while...like players and coaches feeling their way around the playbook and figuring out how to use various guys.
It should start to smooth out and fall in to place as the season moves along.

The D looked like a legit good D. I don't see it making much of a downturn. It's easier for a D to fire on all cylinders from the start.The O is what usually takes a little longer.

As the game went along the O started to churn a little better, so hopefully that will continue.

Watson said post game that he was gripping a heavy football way too hard and it was just dying on him. Let's hope that was the case ... he had a stretch of some UGLY throws.

Burrow looked like he shouldn't (nor did he want to be) be on the field yesterday.

The TV announcers made it sound like it was a sideways downpour. Probably making excuses for Burrow.

It was just a constant mist, zero, and I mean zero, wind. I can’t recall a game ever with that little wind at the stadium. What a fun game though. Good to see you as well Russ!

someone on the radio described the weather as "Midwest, Big 10 mist" and that seems pretty accurate. It was just like hanging in the air

Weather, same for both teams- BOTH QBs had trouble with wet heavy ball- bottomline- Schwartz's Defense did their job- limit points and get ball back to offense- ONE GAME SAMPLE- but a hell of a game on D......Jones seemed up to the task yesterday- TJ Watt awaits him.......Great game- GO Browns!!!

The stretch was about 60 minutes lol. Bounce passes all day long. His explanation makes a bit of sense. Yeah, Burrow looked like he would rather be at an IRS audit.

Defense wins championships! Nice to see a shutdown D back in Cleveland. Reminds me of the good ole days. Nice coaching.

the weird thing was that Watson did still have a handful of good throws. The one to DPJ was beautiful, same with the reverse field one to Moore

And, to me, the biggest pass of the day: 3rd and 11 from mid field with 1:00 to go in the half ... a bullet to Cooper on an out pattern. Without that pass, we are only up 3-0 at half

"Burrow looked like he shouldn't (nor did he want to be) be on the field yesterday."

Here is to hoping every qb that plays us feels the same this year.

I agree, was mostly being facetious. The good throws made it all the more confusing.

I hope we make Pickett's life terrible

Myles Garrett practicing cross-over dribbling before pressuring the QB that resulted in a sack.

that's an awesome clip

Interesting to hear first hand accounts of the weather. Yeah, I think it was Ian Eagle who was saying that the rain was coming in "sideways." Apparently that was not the case.

One thing I noticed about Watson on the throws that were in the dirt was that his footwork was putrid. Sure, there were some times when he was throwing on the run, but when he actually set his feet on those throws, it looked awful. Van Pelt is a big footwork guy so hopefully he will keep him dialed in on that.

Ha, I hadn't seen that during the game. He was having a lot of fun out there.

There might be a little overlap as I haven't read the 2nd or 3rd pages of comments (yet).

1. Watson was hot garbage. For how much we gave up for him and how much we're paying him, that performance wasn't even close to acceptable. I'm kinda done with the excuses as well. Dude has GOT to play better than that. Baker on his rookie deal gave us similar performances, and that was deemed not good enough to have him stick around.

2. On the flip side, defense is the real deal. Turnovers would've been nice, but the fact they still held down that offense with no turnovers is probably even more impressive. Just a total smothering.

3. Special teams was boring. What a pleasant surprise! I know everyone wants to find the next Justin Tucker, but I gained a better appreciation of consistent kicking. Maybe I was projecting, but I felt like Stefanski settled into his 4th down playcalling when he knew exactly would he could and couldn't expect out of his kicker.


I'm not reading too much into this game. I know we just hammered the Bengals, and the Steelers just got curbstomped, but I'm kinda expecting a letdown on MNF. San Fran is TOUGH, and we consistently match up extremely well vs the Bengals. You know the Steelers are going to want to right the ship vs us, and we have a history of losing focus after a big win. I know they're not as flashy as the Bengals, but I think the Steelers will be a tougher test of our new D. Bengals have a talented D, but they're not as relentless as Pittsburgh. Watson looked BAD under pressure yesterday.

Browns start the week -1.5 on the road against Pittsburgh on MNF.

Zadarius whacked Burrow on his first drop back and he was under duress throughout. Hopefully we can set the tone early against Pickett, too.

tough game to wager ... the steelers are going to be much better and up against the wall

Yep, and I hope Myles puts them right through it.

As someone in NYC metro area who actually watched the Giants Cowboys game until close to the end but who’s too lazy to find the stat line I’m going to assume the Giants were worse. I think the cowboys had 8 sacks. My wife who knows nothing about football just started laughing at one point and said “this is pathetic, they’re going to kill that guy”

Yea, I was thinking after the game that we better be ready for a dog fight. Pitt will play angry after that humiliation at home with all those 49ers fans taking over their stadium. The offense will need to be much sharper earlier in the game.

Smith was a major difference maker for us. His presence alone changes the front 4 and the makeup of the whole defense. Gone are the days of just piling up on Miles assuming no one else can do it consistently.

Z Smith is a game changer. He's much better for us than Clowney. Add in Harris and Ogbo and it's such a better front

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Kinda went under the radar but I wanna shoutout
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Came in to replace Juan and did his job on every level. He played in 98% of the defensive snaps which was T1st for most snaps played and had a great game. Exactly why you bring a guy like that in. #DawgPound

... continuing my thoughts.

Conklin situation really sucks. Dude is racking up catastrophic injuries faster than he's finishing games. It's a bummer, and something that might pop up as an issue if Jones' performance doesn't hold up over multiple starts.

Moore was exciting to watch. Not so much because of the results... but you can definitely see they have big plans for this guy. I'm still disappointed in Watson... we have too many mouths to feed on O for him to bounce passes to his receivers.

The balls into the dirt was really odd. He did that a few times in Houston last year too. Like he's overthrowing it or something

I agree that the Bengals raised the white flag half-way through the 4th quarter was very telling. And extremely satisfying.
A comment about Hopkins, not only did he make every kick, every kick was right down the center with distance to spare.

Tomlinson also looking like a good signing.

that was expected, but still stinks for him. Thanks for your hard work Jack

Great win to start the season. Proud of the Browns.

Outside of the fumble, I thought Ford looked alright given it was his first NFL game.