10-02-2023, 08:24 AM
Was the kind of defeat we haven't seen a lot of in the past few years.
The Browns routinely blowing us out in Cleveland is a poor indictment of the team, as they do it to next to nobody else. I get bad matchups, but we've had loads of time to try and close that gap and are making no progress there.
Yesterday... we got blew out by an awful offence. Defence just had a meltdown day, it isn't the first time. We just weren't able to mask that with a competent offence.
I was already of this opinion, but the Tennessee game is the final nail in the coffin in terms of siting Burrow. He can't run the offence properly, so sit him and see if the team can carry Browning. 4 weeks rest for Burrow and the hope that we can maybe go 1-1 in these next two, might mean the season isn't dead in the water. But I'm quite confident we do the stupid thing of playing him on every snap again next week, and we'll be seeing Browning just in time for the 49ers/Bills/Chiefs.
The Browns routinely blowing us out in Cleveland is a poor indictment of the team, as they do it to next to nobody else. I get bad matchups, but we've had loads of time to try and close that gap and are making no progress there.
Yesterday... we got blew out by an awful offence. Defence just had a meltdown day, it isn't the first time. We just weren't able to mask that with a competent offence.
I was already of this opinion, but the Tennessee game is the final nail in the coffin in terms of siting Burrow. He can't run the offence properly, so sit him and see if the team can carry Browning. 4 weeks rest for Burrow and the hope that we can maybe go 1-1 in these next two, might mean the season isn't dead in the water. But I'm quite confident we do the stupid thing of playing him on every snap again next week, and we'll be seeing Browning just in time for the 49ers/Bills/Chiefs.
