***Official Browns @ Titans Game Day Thread***

JAFBF

@canton-mike said:

I texted to local friends that these are Kardiac Kids II. What is troublesome is a pattern of the D starting poorly, then turning it around at halftime. Is it poor initial game planning, poor D play calling, Team too "high" initially, lack of focus/fundamentals?

What you CANNOT take away from this Team is that they NEVER quit! EVER!

Mike

ps: I'm damn near 68...no heart attacks YET, but after today I'm getting closer! LOL

The D came out looking totally unprepared to play - I just don't understand what's going on there.

We gave up 410yds and 4 TD's in a row . . .

I've been looking at the stats for this game, and I still don't know how we won this game.

darkside5

Our glaring defensive problems are limited to one aspect of the game. It's not that we take the first half off as it seems, but that we don't play situational defense. Our problems are specific to third down. If we keep playing defense on third down like it's late in the fourth quarter and we're up by twenty points we're gonna fail nine out of ten times. We need to blitz and play bump and run. You can't touch a receiver beyond five yards so we need to take advantage of the rules and start sticking receivers at the line of scrimmage and get the qb out of rhythm with the receivers. We play too soft on third down in the secondary worrying about the ticky tack penalties. Start hitting people in the mouth when it's legal (inside of five yards)and our defensive woes will fix themselves. Then maybe,just maybe we can get into the fourth quarter with a decent lead.

miktoxic

98% of you dudes were caving in on your faith for the browns in the tavern.

y'all owe me drinks.

TopDawg31

@diehardbrownsfan said:
Give a fuck about our D ranking as long as we win.

I do, Tenn is not a good team, we will get destroyed against good teams

nickers

I'm for shutting Chuck Booms up for good.. I cant stand that whiner!

BaconHound

I agree with Pettine I'd rather critique a win vs a loss and this was a win but progress wasn't made today. I'll say it again ahead of the Pittsburgh game and even drop expectations, just play 3 solid consistent quarters. I am pleasantly surprised by the offense, they are doing enough to win, but even they have to move the chains consistently for 4 quarters.

Suomi

@jafbf said:

The D came out looking totally unprepared to play - I just don't understand what's going on there.

We gave up 410yds and 4 TD's in a row . . .

I've been looking at the stats for this game, and I still don't know how we won this game.

I hear you. But stats don't win games - plays win games. The Browns made the plays when they needed to = win.

I don't care if the Browns defense is ranked in the bottom 5 all year, as long as they win.

darkside5

@jrb12711 said:

Okay I don't want to make a new thread but serious question: do you think the Kirksey hit on Locker was dirty? It looked bad live, but I watched the gif about 10 times now.

http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2325926/lockerhead.0.gif

If it was a true slide into the endzone, I'd say dirty hit 100%. Kirksey is seemingly in his hit motion though as Jake's body gets lined up by the grab of Gipson. Do I think he was going for a huge hit? Yes, but I don't think he should be fined for it. I'm sure he will though.

Dirty ? No

Football? Yes

Fine? Yes but not really, fines go to NFL Charities. Just a tax write off.

Suit up next week and donate again courtesy of Antonio Brown. I still remember!

Canton Mike

@nickers said:
I'm for shutting Chuck Booms up for good.. I cant stand that whiner!

I would PAY to watch Golic kick his ass!

Mike

Tour2ma

@miktoxic said:

i got a list here.....

walterwhite: go fuck yourself

everybody else...you know who you are.

Well... you did not claim it was a detailed list... lol...

@canton-mike said:
ps: I'm damn near 68...no heart attacks YET, but after today I'm getting closer! LOL

Cool... someone even I have to call "Sir"...

@jafbf said:
The D came out looking totally unprepared to play - I just don't understand what's going on there.

Not to get picky, but TN's first series was 7 and out... albeit a penalty aided 7 and out.

OK, the above was more than a little picky, but that "decent" start only made the rest of the first half seem that much more confounding.

BrownsFanatic

please fire pettine, if manziel was playing we wouldn't have to dig ourselves out of a huge hole

Clevfan4life

Wait until our offense stalls than say this. There's no way we're going to keep winning giving up 30 points a game and 500 yds rushing.

@diehardbrownsfan said:
Give a fuck about our D ranking as long as we win.

JAFBF

@tour2ma said:

Well... you did not claim it was a detailed list... lol...

Cool... someone even I have to call "Sir"...

Not to get picky, but TN's first series was 7 and out... albeit a penalty aided 7 and out.

OK, the above was more than a little picky, but that "decent" start only made the rest of the first half seem that much more confounding.

We had them at 3rd & 22, and darn near gave it to them.

If not for those penalties it may well have been the nail.

Clevfan4life

So JF can play linebacker now? Maybe a little rush OLB?

@brownsfanatic said:
please fire pettine, if manziel was playing we wouldn't have to dig ourselves out of a huge hole

JAFBF

@brownsfanatic said:
please fire pettine, if manziel was playing we wouldn't have to dig ourselves out of a huge hole

Seriously?

The Offense didn't give up 28 points in the 1st Half, but they did score the 29 that gave us the win.

Manziel is fine where he's at right now - learning how to play in the NFL, there is no rush.

jrb12711

@darkside5 said:

Dirty ? No

Football? Yes

Fine? Yes but not really, fines go to NFL Charities. Just a tax write off.

Suit up next week and donate again courtesy of Antonio Brown. I still remember!

I agree, but the mainstream media is already calling it cheap and "as dirty as they come". Really?

J0hnnybg00d

Everytime a Manziel fanboy talks shit about putting Manziel in the game, Hoyer takes a big shitin their mouths.

BrownTown

Pettine almost gave the game away. Going for it twice on fourth down, we would have been tied going into our last drive. And I know hndsight is 20/20, but you don't take points off the board in the middle of the 3rd quarter. I enjoyed ths win, but this coaching staff makes me think I won't enjoy many more.

bbedward

@jrb12711 said:

I agree, but the mainstream media is already calling it cheap and "as dirty as they come". Really?

It was certainly a bit dirty IMO. I only say that because of the way he cracked out his forearm as he was falling down.

@j0hnnybg00d said:

Everytime a Manziel fanboy talks shit about putting Manziel in the game, Hoyer takes a big shitin their mouths.

Manziel's the motivational cheerleader for Hoyer. Works for me

tiamat63

For me I see a real issue with what Pettine and O'neil want with their base defense compared to what personnel this team currently has.

To expand on that further, I see a few glaring issues with the blitz calls on 3rd down and how ineffective they have seemed to be the last couple games.