07-02-2021, 11:51 AM
(07-02-2021, 11:08 AM)TJ528 Wrote: My only answer to this game is that it was the last game of the year. Players didnt care. Coaches didnt care.
Players literally gave up when that game got out of hand.
Yea the Ravens are a LOT better team than us, but no team should be able to run on your for over 400 yards.
However, hey keep running. I'd rather than run up the score, get 500-600 yards rushing than kneeling on the ball.
Hopefully, it embarrassed the team enough to give a damn this year.
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
