Browns Game 7 Open Thread: Browns v. Packers
Written By: Denny | Category: Cleveland Browns | Comments: 97
The Cleveland Football Browns take on the 3-2 Green Bay Packers today (1PM, FOX, WTAM 1100) in an American Football match. The Browns are looking to get their second win of the season. Rob Ryan is over his flu, but a lot of the players are still struggling with it.
Throw the fact that D’Qwell is shut down for the season (and Eric Wright’s car did a tumbling routine), and the Browns’ defense is looking a bit thin. The offense showed marked improvement last week against the Steelers, so let’s hope that they continue to make strides. It wouldn’t hurt if Josh Cribbs takes like every kickoff he gets to the heeeeez.
So leave your thoughts about the game here as it progresses. Keep it clean, don’t attack one another, and smile. Why smile? Why not. Check out our Browns Will Win If post if you want some keys to the game. Otherwise, let’s hang out and have a nice little Sunday together. Because it’s more fun to comment on the internet than it is to rake leaves. And when if the game goes south in a hurry, check out some Browns games from the glory days on this YouTube channel (thanks to Grimm for the link).
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Edit 12:15 – your Browns inactives are K Phil Dawson, DB Coye Francies, DB Gerard Lawson, RB Chris Jennings, OL Billy Yates, TE Steve Heiden and TE Robert Royal. Inactive for the Packers are RB Ahman Green, FB Korey Hall, S Matt Giordano, OL Evan Dietrich-Smith, T Mark Tauscher, T Chad Clifton, WR Jordy Nelson and DE Jarius Wynn. (h/t The OBR).
And before anybody asks, no – I don’t know of a streaming site. If you find one, pls leave it in the comments.
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I think we can hopefully continue to see improvement en route to a brighter next year. I do not, though, expect to win convincingly.
Anyone know what channel this is on in Columbus?
its on fox
Link anyone?
Does this mean we’re going to see a healthy dose of Estandia? I just love saying the name Estandia.
anyone know of a live feed?
still looking for link….
Atleast on redzone for first drive
anyone explain the O pass interference call for me? no way that DB had a play on the ball, and MoMass might have pushed with his pinky.
every link I find takes you to Houston v San Fran
Wow….can’t believe they didn’t give them the first down…..according to what I saw last week from the officials that was a first by a mile…….
haha, I was thinking that too Reepjp… I wasnt cheering until it was certain this time.
Out of towners – try zomse.com
oh buddy….can we possibly get a non TE or FB touchdown here? This has actually been a pretty impressive drive (with a boost from the facemask)
ok, whats the call? Wildcat 2 times in a row on the goal line?
Ugh…DA continues to make the hard throws yet will also continue throwing into triple coverage. Why force that ball to Furrey and not just give it to Jerome on the wing?
ya, DA needed to turn and look at the other side of the field. Then to compound it, Cundiff almost misses the equivalent to an XP.
Gentlemen, the same rules apply to Browns football as they do when I’m on the golf course….that is, there are no pictures on the scoreboard/card…3 points is 3 points
I wish the Browns had a quarterback who is patient enough to make a play when the defense takes the first option away.
That TD was the equivalent of Costanzo or Trusnick scoring for us on a 45 yard TD reception…….awesome
wow great blocking st clair
side note- these announcers are really annoying.
that black ref looks just like a thin romeo. and it isn’t just because he is black either.
We run it on 3rd and 15… good call!
I’ve said it before, I’m impartial to the qb situation, but I think I might be starting to favor the dink and dunking as opposed to locking in and letting it rip
I wish the QB would notice 8 in the box and audible out of the run play call
yes. lets play super conservatively. that will get us a touchdown.
lets not get in a qb debate. neither is good, neither has a future here.
Can we get John Lynch away from the telestrator?
Thanks, bobby-sis.
If I remember correctly HE fumbled the ball at least once last week following a Def turnover. THEN fumbled again this week on what should have been a TD drive.
Pats are stomping the Bucs
pool you bastard
Ouch — two bombs — I think this one is on its way to 1-6 for the Brownies
That got bad REAL fast.
How many times can our safties’ get burnt with a catch-and-go pass… Welcome to Cleveland, home of the big-plays…for the visiting team.
I feel bad; Rodgers is on my fantasy team…so…I feel…good?
yes, you feel good. The browns aren’t giving you anything to cheer for.
@oribiasi me too…mixed feelings. tho i’d take a browns win over a fantasy win any week
Anyone have a link to feed?
All righty then ……… looks like another blowout in the making. 1-6 here we come. Bring on the Cavs …
@ Lebron3eb — I know, I agree. If I lost my $40.00 a year for fantasy and the Browns got to the playoffs I’d be a happy man. Hell, I’d pay double for that, ha!
@ Glorious Basterd — Nothing new, man.
2nd and 10, run up the middle (again) for yards 2. genius playcalling, same as the last 10 years. it never changes. then 3rd and ten and it’s overthrown/a short pass/sack, punt
you don’t want the feed. its too ugly
Tuesday Night! Wooo!
@ b — if they did something else I think half of the city would have a Slyman’s heartattack.
wow.
Jesus Lord…come on, take DA out. Who cares at this point.
oops, i forgot interception on 3rd and 8. same results each drive, only a holding on a ball that was overthrown saved the first. a 4 year old kid playing madden is coming up with better plays right now, hire him.
Ugh
I suspect this may be the last home game we see on TV for the season – can’t imagine anymore sellouts after this one. The Browns have only themselves to blame …
You can find better playcalling in an online Madden game than what Daboll can do.
no sound here.., please tell me the crowd is angry and booing?
maybe even a Brady chant?
anyway., appreciate any info on the mood of the crowd.
the fans are not happy. faint chants of “rat-liff! rat-liff!”
They have to pay quinn to put him in. what are the odds of that
I can’t wait for the Cavs to start playing.
dammit throw to jennings if we’re going to lose by 50 anyway, don’t kill my fantasy team too, browns
the team has decided to play circus music at 10 over the PA system…they figured it would be more fitting than any other gameday noises….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8vINCq_IAI
Don’t worry everyone. We still got a Monday night game to lose in an embarrassing fashion.
no rush guys. i don’t believe anderson to be a very good nfl quarterback. just something about his complete sucking sucktitude. can’t put my finger on what exactly
that was without a doubt the worst 2 min offense ever run. no hyperbole
Anyone think we’ll see BQ for the second half? I don’t think I’m interested in watching another hour of the Derek Anderson Experience.
bobby-keep showing us all what little you know about NFL football. You have no ability to know if BQ is good or not based up 2 1/2 games of starting. The fact you don’t like the guy has nothing to do with it. At some point he’ll get a real opportunity, here or elsewhere-until then, refrain from your pointless and baseless analysis.
sometimes you can look at a pile of poo and know it’s a pile of poo
@ b – yea but sometimes you can look at a pile of poo and think it’s a candy bar.
Jimmy Johnson said something at half time that made me think. He said mostly in jest that whatever QB played for the Browns his trade value would continue to go down. Maybe that’s why the mighty Quinn hasn’t seen the field since game 3? Maybe if they hold him out they can get a higher pick for him come the offseason? I mean if the season is essentially lost wouldn’t it make more sense to find out what type of QB you will have in Quinn? They drafted him with a first round pick. You can’t really see what type of player he is after two and a half games. I’m not fond of either but if this is going to be rebuilding year 11 it would make sense to play your draft picks.
then you try the candy bar and realize it’s doodie
attention “pay cribbs now” people. that’s why
DA had all the time in the world, still under threw Cribbs and caused a lick.
I still say pay him….
Yeah, pay him. He is a special teams guy. It just happens that the browns have no wide receivers and are forced to plug him in as the second option
that was an incomplete pass…
Just a heads up – Tribe signed Acta as manager in case you guys haven’t see the post. Please keep discussion of the beisbol over on that page.
Maybe the Browns can sign Acta to do their playcalling. He can’t be any worse than Daboll.
The whole “Don’t play Brady” thing puzzles me. Neither guy has any trade value right now. You’ve got the worst rated starter in the league, and a guy who can’t win the job away from the worst rated starter in the league. Why not verify that Brady can’t play before we cut him loose? What are we learning from DA right now?
Why is Anderson still playing? Quinn played 2 games against teams that are currently undefeated and played in 3 games against top 5 defenses. How did the coaches expect him to perform? Yet we’re letting this hack continue to start and play aga…inst teams like Buffalo and suck…I don’t get it! I don’t like Quinn, but he CAN’T be worse!
Pathetic.
This is the worst football team I have ever seen.
anderson’s rating if 40 this game.
whipjacka, his rating for the whole season is about 40. Why would today be any different?
I can’t figure out what the coaches are thinking. They talk about wildcat, and they don’t run it. Everything everyone says we should do, we don’t do it. We yank a QB after not producing against GREAT teams and we don’t yank a QB after not producing against average-good teams. We do everything opposite of what everyone tells us to try to do. It’s insane.
forget about quinn – my problem is this: how can mangini still stay behind DA? he truly is horrid. The fact that we didn’t see Ratliff in this game is ridiculous. How can you stay with a starter who is the worst in the league and who put up 3 points? you’ve got to pull him – and if you’ve resigned yourself to the fact that BQ is not gonna play then you absolutely have to go to Ratliff at this point. DA is a minor leaguer.
I’m gonna say it – BQ would be better.
drama ensue.
more than “Brady would be better” – that DA is still allowed to start on any team in the NFL right now is pathetic. Seriously, just play another running back or something. Not even the wild cat. just keep DA from ever touching the ball again.
We have a bye after next week. What are the odds we see a QB change by then? Also, are coordinator contracts in the NFL guaranteed the same way head coaching contracts are guaranteed? Just wondering how hard it would be to get rid of Daboll in midseason.
What a joke.
@83
Good question. Daboll is pitiful. I watched his last press conference–he looked like a deer in the headlights. Ryan’s defense isn’t much better, but he at least knew how to handle the press and came across as competent.
I vote that anyone who still says start DA over Quinn gets committed to the nearest mental institute. That includes commenters here and coaches for the Browns.
I’ll just say…DA has played in 4.5 games, has 48 completions for 506 yards and 44.4% completion. Brady in 2.5 games had 45 completions, 400 yards and 60.8 completion%. Furthermore, Brady played against 3 of the best defenses where as DA has not.
There’s a lot of qb talk here, which isn’t surprising. Obviously, qb is merely one issue of many for this team. The defense today was horrid, and the tackling remains highly suspect. At this point I would favor a switch back to quinn. I don’t believe he can hit the escalators anymore and da is clearly garbage. The browns should have had zero points, becuase da again gift wrapped a pick on the goalline on that second drive.
I for one am happy I made the decision to stop watching at halftime and spend the rest of the afternoon outside.
Unlike other games, not a single part of the team played well today. I switched my attention to the Vikings game but even they couldn’t help me out today. What a bad day of “football”.
Sam Bradford is getting season-ending surgery and entering the draft. #hopeyouguyslikeQBsfromOklahoma
I just love this, Anderson has roughly the same QB rating as guy who made one pass attempt. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9308.
Fail
Bradford is an idiot. His stock will be so low. He should have either left last season, or stayed next year.
I would like to see us use a later round pick on the QB from USF. Even though they’ve lost some of their magic, that guy can flat out move. He’s perfect for a team whose QB has to evade 5 rushers before being able to throw the ball.
I’m just not sure if Mays or Berry will be better. Realistically, might as well look at our competitors in the top 10 (of the bottom). In my opinion, these are the worst teams/will finish with the worst records.
Us: Detroit, KC, and Oakland.
Tampa: 0-16 looks like a real possibility. Maybe Carolina or Seattle is winnable. Other than that, though, I dunno.
Detroit: St. Louis, Seattle, and us. Up to 4 wins, probably 2-3.
Tennessee: Buffalo, St. Louis, Seattle. Probably has the most wins at the end of the year on this list.
KC: Oakland, Buffalo, us.
I’d say 2-3 wins for us, 2-3 for Detroit, 1 for Tampa, 4 for Tennessee, and 2 for KC. We should be picking in the top 5. Again.
btw, I mean a late round pick in a few years cause I know we’ll still need a QB and a pocket passer won’t work here…
from bobby:
lets not get in a qb debate. neither is good, neither has a future here.
Translation: I was the guy clammoring for DA at the end of the pre-season and after both of the first two games, and now I’m falling all over myself to get away from those comments.