07-02-2021, 12:28 PM
(07-02-2021, 11:51 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: There was another game that was equally as bad from DC standpoint IMO; the 2nd Browns game was a disaster.
Baker Mayfield completed 22 passes in a row, after starting 0-5. His only incompletion after this was on a spike to stop the clock. This article claims the odds of this occuring is 19,062 to 1.
https://brownswire.usatoday.com/2020/10/26/breaking-down-baker-mayfield-consecutive-completion-odds-record-browns/
Pretty sure this was the game OBJ tore his ACL early in the game too. (You would think losing your #1 receiver in the middle of a game would hurt your gameplan)
And to top it all off, as if letting Mayfield complete everything he throws isn't bad enough, was the drive to end the game.
The Browns got the ball back down 34-31 with only 1:06 left on the clock, starting on their 25, and with no timeouts. The chances of them scoring a TD here was slim to none, although that is exactly what they did.
They later had the ball at our 25 yard line with only 15 seconds left (again no timeouts). The only defense you should be playing is keeping guys out of the endzone, keeping the receivers in front of you, and trying to keep them in bounds. A tackle in bounds ends the game. A completion that stops the clock results in a FG attempt.
So what does Lou draw up? A freaking blitz where his outside corner gets beat in man coverage for the game winning TD. Like, what in the absolute freak are you doing?
We made Baker Mayfield look like a created character on Madden that is 99's across the board, who is throwing to 99 rated receivers, and is playing against a shit team. To allow of this to happen, 22 straight completions, 5 passing TD's, a 75 yard drive in a minute with no timeouts, that's just terrible, terrible defense.
If anyone wants to relieve the misery, here is the final drive if you want to Lou's defense get carved up. I still can't believe it happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arrn-oGv5E4
Oh Wes who doesn't remember that game and fondly think we have a great DC in Lou
I mean you'll have people who'll say our whole DL was on IR, or our whole DB were on IR.
Valid point but usually you have 2nd and 3rd stringers who can play better than that.
Personally, I'm not a fan of Lou. He hasn't shown me he can even coach DB's and that's his area of specialty.
I guess we'll see what he brings to our defensive this year and whether he can assemble a lot of new pieces and make them gel quickly.
Someone posted earlier, Clevelands defense last year was a bunch of new pieces and you dont need a lot of time for them to gel together.
I think a lof that comes down to the quality of the coaching their receiving. I'd take Clevelands DC Joe Woods over Lou everyday period.
