Originally Posted by mac
Originally Posted by WSU Willie
Originally Posted by DaveyD
Yea, this is BAD and inexcusable


Moffatt looks back at Ward with a WTF shrug. We are a weak and weak-minded defensive team...and it starts with our (2) Pro Bowl "leaders". One "leader" pats LJ on the butt after he beats us with a total BS play (while Clowney slams his helmet on the ground in disgust) and the other guy purposely whiffs on a tackle that could have changed the game (while the PS guy looks on in amazement).

It starts with their mentality folks...we need an alpha leader or two on the defensive side of the ball...and today we do not have one...actually quite the opposite. Couple our defensive "identity" with a play-not-to-lose DC and we get exactly what we have.




That play, by #21 CB Ward and #28 LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah...cost the Browns the game...might also cost the team a chance to make the playoffs and a chance play for a shot at the Super Bowl. Every goal the Browns set for themselves at the beginning of the season was on the line and two of our star players decided that it was not their job to tackle the Raiders backup TE, #87.

You can't win with player who are AFRAID TO TACKLE.

I do know that Mack Wilson would have taken down the Raiders TE...but Mack Wilson is not one of the nice guys that our analytical management and coaches prefer.

Can't win with soft management and soft coaches, either.
No one is afraid to tackle. C'mon.

Dude didn't get shoved out of bounds by the first player, everyone in the world knows he needs to get out of bounds. Bad play, not laziness or anything like that.

Extra five yards when the 47 yard FG split the uprights and was good from 60. Hardly a "cost the game" moment or anything like that.