Halftime adjustments

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(11-07-2015, 01:24 AM)The Real Deal Wrote: The game I watched saw the Browns out gain us in total yards by about 60 yds in the first half, almost had us doubled up on pass yards and were winning the time of possession battle.   

We had one good scoring drive in the first half. The second scoring drive only turned into a td because of two boneheaded cleveland penalties.

The coaches successfully tweaked both offense and defense and in the second half the total yards were somewhere in the ballpark of 250 to  32 in favor of cincinnati. 

Tale of two halves and halftime adjustments were not all of it but certainly a big part of it. 

Cleveland is where they are because they can't hang for 60 minutes.  Things like the two bad penalties are what they do. 

Before the game, I said this game would be like the Buffalo game and it was.  Both teams did some good things but both teams also shot themselves in the foot and neither team could ultimately stay in it for the whole game.  That's how it so often works.

On defense, based on what I read, it wasn't so much  making an adjustment on the rush as doing a better job of executing what the plan was all along.

On offense, it was mostly a matter of having too much fire power for them to contain.  Eventually, plays would be made.

To me, the second half was as much about the cream rising to the top as it was halftime adjustments.