9 hours ago, Orion said:

Right!?  They just saw what he did to us...

What baffles me about the AvP firing to begin with, is that it was our offense that kept us in the game for most of the first half against the Texans. It was our D that collapsed, and apparently it was mostly up to the coaching on our side.

https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2024/01/14/browns-texans-jim-schwartz-c-j-stroud-nico-collins/

Quote

 

In the regular season, the Browns played single-high coverage — either Cover-1 or Cover-3 on 64% of their snaps, the NFL’s highest rate.

But C.J. Stroud against Cover-1 and Cover-3 in the regular season? Try 141 of 228 for 2,054 yards, 1,335 air yards, 11 touchdowns, one interception, and a passer rating of 105.4. Only Dak Prescott and Lamar Jackson had higher passer ratings against middle-of-the-field closed coverage in the regular season.

How that played out in this game was in no way beneficial to Schwartz and his players. Stroud faced single-high coverage on 16 of his 21 passing attempts in the game, and at no time did Stroud have to deal with any kind of wrinkle pre-snap to post-snap to muddy the picture and delay his reads and throws.

 

Now, I don't have the football know-how to distinguish my covers from my duvets, but this sounds pretty damning. The article even mentions wrinkles like professor @tiamat63, so they must know what they are talking about. 

Now, we probably shouldn't make staffing decisions based on a single game, but I do hope Schwartz takes a long hard look at himself. 

(Channeling my inner @Ghoolie Always Ghoolie)

Have the Browns been renamed to the Chargers? No? Then who TF cares? 

54 minutes ago, calfoxwc said:

Baker does have limitations, that is why I wanted Josh Allen in that draft. But no, the stupid Browns passed on him. tiam and hoorta and few others said he was garbage......

Meanwhile, with a far better cast of wr's, and Njoku actually catches the damn ball and cares about football.....

DeshaunWatson

• Browns
• #4
• QB

2023 season stats

• YDS

  1,115

  40th
• TD

  7

  Tied-34th
• INT

  4

  Tied-70th
• QBR

  43.3

  **************************

  meanwhile:

  https://bucswire.usatoday.com/2024/01/17/bucs-news-tampa-bay-buccaneers-baker-mayfield-cj-gardner-johnson-detroit-lions-nfc-divisional-round/

Such wonderfully cherry-picked stats. 

Faker Meh-field's win-loss record as a Brown is exactly 30-30, so indeed a .500 QB as @AP1 pointed out. Watson is 8-4, and 5-1 this year. Don't care about the Browns winning, do you? 

On 1/15/2024 at 6:51 AM, ballpeen said:

Bryant might be a guy I left on the list who won't get an offer.

I hope he doesn't. You can draft a TE with similar talent, or lack thereof, in the late rounds of the draft. 

That's it. I can't take anymore.

Good night

This feels like a REAL Browns game, unfortunately

Game over. The Cinderella story came to an end.

Ouch

2 minutes ago, tiamat63 said:

Yeah, don't ever make that comparison again bubs. ❤️

Or what?

Seriously, what more do you expect from an UFA staring in the play-offs?

3 minutes ago, tiamat63 said:

If you thought Ronnie was a great DB because of PFF, you should have asked any Buckeye to the contrary. 

This sounds like a Nickers 'I told you so' comment

We are simply getting out-played unfortunately

Just now, Dutch Oven said:

Hurt?

Must be. Punts are going nowhere

Surely that wasnt the no1 defense in the NFL

YEAH BABY!

Dear Lord don't let us lose Bittonio

I like it when Joe throws the ball

TUDDIE!

Hope AvP and Stef have some pin-pull abracadabra up their sleeve. We need to get our run game going!

5 minutes ago, jiggins7919 said:

You see the difference between their line and ours. 

Their O-line and our D-line pretty much is a stalemate. Our secondary needs to make the difference, and they did there 

Texans front 7 wasnt messing around

Gentlemen, a good game to one and all. And whatever happens:

GO BROWNS!

5 minutes ago, bbedward said:

The kicker we got has a reliable enough track record, in a dome should be fine 

Also why is driskel inactive, avp said he was the qb2…or did I hallucinate

Something must have happend these past 3 days

Browns name Jeff Driskel backup QB over P.J. Walker heading into wild-card game

25 minutes ago, Orion said:

It's from what's called  NFL dot com.    

What the heck do they know?

Steelers-Bills game postponed due to inclement weather in Buffalo, will be played Monday

27 minutes ago, hoorta said:

And as I posted in a separate thread, if you don't have Peacock, NFLN is rebroadcasting that game at midnight Eastern.  

If I may add:

Before the start of this season, my NFL Game Pass subscription was forcefully moved to DAZN, who then failed to provide me any content whatsoever. I was forced to look to alternate means to watch games live as an international viewer.

I came cross the following site, which provides streams to all games and Red zone:
https://reddit1.nflbite.com/

I have watched all games this way, without fail, in HD quality. One caveat: you need to access using a modern secure browser. For example: Epic or Brave. Failure to do so may result in annoying re-directs.