DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum Browns News and Notes Part Deux

Swell post with swell advice. Some are apparently here only to be negative, provoke others, or just belittle other fans.
Two thoughts to consider:
"Critics are legless men who teach running."
" Those who can't build a bridge can only lower the river."
I am glad we won a hard game in spite of ourselves.

Browns NEED to win games they "should" win. Has not happened much in the past. Let's hope this year is different.

the games we should win:

Steelers
Bears
Jets

the other games are 50/50 IMO: at Broncos, at Rams, Jaguars, at Texans, at Bengals ... that's still not an easy pile of games

I would add Broncos and Rams to your list.

Looking at the remaining schedule, I will be surprised if the Browns are not favored in all of them....Bengals could be the possible exception.

On a side note, love seeing the success CJ Stroud and DeMeco Ryans are having with a young Texans team. Fun to watch.

It’s time for the national media (and many others) to take the Browns seriously because what we have seen from our defense is SB worthy performances. If DSW and our offense can consistently produce 21+ points/game we’re suddenly a scary team to meet.

The culture change is about winning games like this.

Turning water into wine. When other teams realize that the Browns is for real then the fear factor will kick in. Suddenly our opponents start to doubt their strategy, change tactics, twisting formations, change team talk and so on. Thats the next step in our journey moving forward.

We rarely play well out west, and never play well against Denver or the Rams. We are going to have a dud game in there somewhere and my thought is it is going to be one, if not both of those games.

I think it would be prudent, as Browns fans, to just take one game at a time. My level of excitement has risen also and I'm looking forward to every game but with all our past experiences I believe "cautiously optimistic" would be the best way to go. I agree strongly with the last 2 posts. JMO

Most seasons, I am normally looking ahead in the schedule a lot, but with the critical injuries this year I just didn't bother.

After Sunday I was surprised to see how "not difficult" it was. I didn't say "easy" on purpose. I really feel the Browns can win almost all of them, but also know nothing is a gimme. Someone mentioned we don't play Denver well, but I remember the famous "Put a little Pepper on it" call by Jimmy D when Peppers sacked Keenum (IIRC)when we won out there. Anything is possible,

Obviously, DW & other key players staying healthy could be the difference maker. It would be nice to get Dawand, Thornhill & Ward back.

Regarding the rankings, isn't it amazing how one win can change the perspective of the media?

This is shaping up to be a possibly very special year, but games are won on the field, and we just need to keep playing at a high level and don't read the press clippings. One week at a time.

oh, they're taking note, but I'm sure they're also taking a bit of a wait-and-see approach too. We're the Browns. Our history, even this year, is chock full of doing just enough to raise the hype & excitement only to fall completely flat.

If this team takes it to Pittsburgh and puts them in their place instead of flubbing it, then they will all absolutely sit up and take notice, because they'll have to. If this team doesn't, then their wait-and-see is validated because it'll just be another instance of the Browns wilting when we get close and being unable to take charge of our own destiny.

In short, for as big as the Ravens game was, this week coming is bigger because the Ravens game may have signaled that we're still alive and that we can hang with anyone, backing it up with a Steelers win says that it wasn't a typical Brownsian fluke, we're real, and it puts us solidly in 1st place in the division.

Not to mention that the Broncos are simply a spoiler team this year. Their bad enough to be an easy mark and be overlooked, they're good enough to hit the big upsets. Chiefs and Bills wins says a lot... they are NOT to be overlooked.

All teams focus on the benefits of signing with them. For west coast and southern teams they focus on the weather. A lot of young players like bug cities and the night life. ie.... Maimi, N.Y. and L.A. Some states have no income tax so they focus on that. Every team tries to use the assets they have which is also being a successful team to entice players. Those are what teams try to accentuate as benefits of playing there. Those aren't the reasons those players are playing the game. They're playing the game for the money. To recruit someone the money can't be the focus of their job. when money is the biggest reward of the job every other factor is nothing more than a benefit that goes along with the money.

You recruit people when money is the secondary goal. there is no pay in college football. The military pays squat. That's what recruiting is. Talking someone into doing what you want when the financial reward is small. That's not the NFL.

A benefit is an additional perk to the main focus, the financial gain.

I just want to point out that we are in the drivers seat for our own destiny this season. Winning out would be great, but I doubt we manage that. But we can win the division, and we are not playing for second place or hoping to stay in the wild card race with Thanksgiving just around the corner. Hell, I heard talking heads saying things like “If the Browns are the number one seed”…

Njoku wins the angry run of the week

I was just going over players on my yahoo fantasy football teams-
There was a note about Dustin Hopkins-He leads all kickers in the NFL with 86 Yahoo fantasy points.

This was a great move by our front office.

The Browns won the 49'er game by 2 points. Hopkins kicked 4 FG's in that game. The Browns won the Colts game by 1 point. Hopkins kicked 4 FG's in that game. The Browns won the Ravens game by 2 points. Hopkins kicked 4 FG's in that game.

It's certainly a team sport and many players contributed to those wins. But the difference Hopkins has made should not be underrated by anyone.

Kyle Brandt is awesome lol

and if our QBs would just stop scoring points for the other teams, we'd have larger margins of victory to go with Hopkins!

truthfully our whole offensive plan should be geared around not letting Watt or Highsmit wreck the game. No turnovers, sack/fumbles, etc and we'll win

While that's certainly true about one third of all NFL games are decided by 3 points or less. So with 9 games played so far that's about normal. And any way you slice it, whether you win by 1 point or 30 points it's still a win.

That was so fun to watch and when he said "nothing can stop him, fire can't stop him", I almost swallowed my gum.

Can’t seem to find any news on DWs ankle which got MRI’d yesterday. Anyone know anything?

Not yet

while margin of victory was mentioned, it wasn't the point. The point was that our QBs need to stop scoring for the other team.

I felt like I was watching a 1987 WWE interview. Dude needs to switch to decaf.

Unexpected. Yeah I would agree a lineman 10 yards downfield flying at your head would be unexpected. I expect Staley will be fined for that hit.

That's what I thought. His meth dealer must have some strong stuff.

JAG

/s

Absolutely insane that this wasn't a flagrant personal foul.

Has anyone heard results from Watson's MRI. It happened yesterday and I wasn't that concerned, but I would have thought we would have heard by now.

Somebody called him a trash kicker on the gameday thread.

The gameday thread is full of Karens.

There will come a day where I am feeling petty enough to wade through a couple gameday threads to pull out a bunch of quotes that would have otherwise been lost in the chaos.

Well, at least karma got Stanley back...

It wouldn't be petty. A few whiny ass bawl babies ruin it for everyone, and there are a lot of people that won't participate there because of them.

Yeah I can’t handle that stuff and I wouldn’t participate anyway because it’s just a distraction while I’m watching the game.