<![CDATA[Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns]]>It is NOT the HC, etc etc ,NOT the owner, NOT the gm(s)...

as much....as it is the complexity of the offense and defense.

I see mistakes where there didn't use to be mistakes, all over the place,

and I think.. "eh...they didn't have it all implemented last year, so now they do,

maybe?"

Mebbe... the schemes are so "sophisticated" and complex, that it's rough getting

everybody on track on every play at the same time. That last TD vs the Chargers...

"really?" 😡

They are all in to stuff the run, and the Chargers knew that, so they slipped the TE

past em wide open?

Where's the lb/safety to be, to watch for tricks/variations/contingent situations?

Now, is that the DC telling them to ignore any possible pass to the TE? Or,

did a lb miss an assignment, because he thought the flip side lb was the guy

to hold back and watch ....

I don't know. But vs the Raiders, at least twice, the slot receiver.... no, the TE, probably,

slips across the back of the defensive line, from the right side...and runs parallel to the los

to the left...and the lb's are playing the slant to the right.

Now, what the hell happens, that nobody picks up said TE running to the left? Missed

assignment, or bad, bad guess by the DC? I don't know. But they did it at least twice and

it was wide open. Like one palm tree in the middle of a desert.

But, something is wrong and it needs to be fixed.

Now, I give credit to Canton Mike - he has another idea - that the complexity of the schemes,

with different personnel packages out the wazoo... are actually signaling to the other team

what the Browns are going to be doing. And that the other team is setting the Browns up

to fail - things are so specific - that the opponent watches the film, and sees the specifics,

and simply sets the Browns up with a trick set, gets that defense, knows what that defensive

set and personnel will be doing, and does something completely different and the Browns

look like they didn't think the offense would ever do what they didn't plan on them doing.

Something like that.

The Browns coaches need to sit down, watch what's going wrong, take a step back,

and fix it fast. The offensive line is having a bit of trouble, once in a while - it's their

All-pro's that are affected...

and, btw, I do NOT think it's the entire defense. Enough already with the screaming for

the entire offense and defense to be killed and replaced, owner/gm/coaches fired,

blah, blah, annoying blah.

Losing is annoying enough without all that crap. However, some aspects of what the

Browns have been implementing needs to be rethought. More and more, the offense is

working, but having problems. More and more, the defense is starting to not work.

Something is confusing the defense. It isn't the defensive line. But, lb and secondary coordination

seems to occasionally, as in ALL TOO FREAKIN OFTEN IN GAMES...be a clusterfook.

I believe these coaches will see what needs to be fixed, and fix it.

And, I'm only posting this, because I haven't had a chance to ask Mr. Flugels about it -

he knows all this stuff - the "x's" and "o's", etc etc etc.

And, maybe it's just my imagination, but all the farm work I'm doin is a hell of a lot

less fun, when the Browns lose. Dammit.

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@opal312 said:

We have a better team this year in some areas. We could compete if they fix this defense. We should be able to beat Baltimore but every running back we've faced this year has run all over us. Last week every fantasy sports website said to play Latavious Murray. This week the "Start of the Week" is Forsett against the Browns. This makes me mad! Every week they say play a running back and defense against the Browns.

I thought we were going to be good this year!

Yeah we made Forsett's career last year, is he struggling this year? No worries Sunday will be his breakout. sigh

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536985https://brownsboard.com/post/536985Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:35:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:11:21 GMT]]>We have a better team this year in some areas. We could compete if they fix this defense. We should be able to beat Baltimore but every running back we've faced this year has run all over us. Last week every fantasy sports website said to play Latavious Murray. This week the "Start of the Week" is Forsett against the Browns. This makes me mad! Every week they say play a running back and defense against the Browns.

I thought we were going to be good this year!

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@gumby73 said:

If you got Dansby as a issue on this D, watch the goal line smack down at the Jets again. He's not it. Found it interesting that new coach at Miami day 1 threw team into Oklahoma tackling drill. Theirs a revolution O'Neil..

I think that's been his only play all season bro, and he wasn't alone on that either...there was at least one other LB'er that met the runner at the exact same time Dansby did. You're supposed to make those plays with regularity if you're a LB'er in the NFL. It's like Chris Rock said, you SUPPOSED to take care of your kids. In the NFL you're SUPPOSED to make tackles at the LOS and often infront of it. You don't do it once in 4 games and say see I know what i'm doing.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536901https://brownsboard.com/post/536901Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:30:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:54:55 GMT]]>If you got Dansby as a issue on this D, watch the goal line smack down at the Jets again. He's not it. Found it interesting that new coach at Miami day 1 threw team into Oklahoma tackling drill. Theirs a revolution O'Neil..

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Zombo said:

I think 2/3 of our starting DL being rookies has hurt us the last couple weeks, I hope Dez is back this week.

And Haden and Kwil were out and then Desir went down ... Johnson Bademosi was effectively the replacement for Haden, and I don't care what you think of Haden, that's a big dropoff.

I hope these injured fuckers can play against Flacco or he is going to slice and dice.

Z

No Steve smith sr so I think flacco will have problems regardless who we suit up. For once I kind of like our chances against Baltimore..

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536851https://brownsboard.com/post/536851Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:07:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 23:27:36 GMT]]>I think 2/3 of our starting DL being rookies has hurt us the last couple weeks, I hope Dez is back this week.

And Haden and Kwil were out and then Desir went down ... Johnson Bademosi was effectively the replacement for Haden, and I don't care what you think of Haden, that's a big dropoff.

I hope these injured fuckers can play against Flacco or he is going to slice and dice.

Z

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536842https://brownsboard.com/post/536842Wed, 07 Oct 2015 23:27:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 23:13:44 GMT]]>DHBF- Google Dick Wilson University of Toledo Wrestling Coach that passed in 2009, 3 time Olympian. He gave me the nickname Gumby for my flexibility in Wrestling & TE in Football. That's twice on Pokey let it go..

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@clevfan4life said:

and Dansby's tackles are garbage after the fact cause he's nowhere to be found at the LOS. I've mentioned this before and i'd like to know what some of you think...if you watch the Buffalo D, they ask a lot more of their front 4 in terms of run stopping. Hughes and Super Mario (god he's a freak) seem to actively get loose from their blocks more. Like they're being asked to do more than just set the edge and let the LB'ers clean up. That's just my peripheral observation. If you put that front seven with our secondary, it might compete for best defense of all time.

It's he fundamental difference between a 4-3 and a 3-4.

We're asking our front men to play 2-gap more often, while Buffalo's guys are asked to play more 1-gap.

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@browns149 said:

This is one BIG problem.

The other BIG problem is the drafting. We had 8 1st round picks over the past 5 years. And only 1 of them is starting for us right now, and he's only been here for 4 games (Shelton)

3 are not here and one of those isn't even in the league anymore

Just imagine if those 8 guys were good enough to be starting here.

4 of those 8 were drafted by this regime. Of those 4, only Gilbert seems to be an absolute bust.

Jury is out on Manziel, and Erving will be just fine.

Indict past regimes on their drafting, but this regime is only in their second year.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536836https://brownsboard.com/post/536836Wed, 07 Oct 2015 23:09:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 22:51:22 GMT]]>where the fck is Pokey?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536834https://brownsboard.com/post/536834Wed, 07 Oct 2015 22:51:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 22:40:08 GMT]]>We have Shelton, Haden, Starks, Des. Bryant, Dansby, T. Williams, Gipson & Whitner that may start for any other NFL Team on Defense. From Kruger, Robertson, K. Will & Kirsey on down is where the issues fall imo

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@mudfly said:

8 out of 9 LB's are averaging 2 tackles or less per game.....meaning 8 out 9 LB's have single digit tackles 4 games in!!!

Outrageous stat right there...

Kruger is averaging 1 tackle for every 50 snaps he plays(an $8 mil linebacker).....Orchard has 1 tackle in 60 plays(invisible).....

These are the guys who are supposed to be making MOST of the stops....Danny Shelton has more tackles than almost all of them, yet is supposed to be the guy holding up the line so the LB's can tackle......terrible terrible terrible....

Dansby has 25ish tackles and the other 8 LBs have 7 or less.......smh....

Wow that is a serious indictment.

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@clevfan4life said:

yeah no shit. I just see this as massive FO failure. That and bringing in a guy to coach a lot of players that were brought in for a different system. I want to see Pettine here for "YEARS" and draft/sign accordingly. We went out and got bunch of old players and gve em a lot of money near the end of their careers. Kruger was still sort of in his prime but h'es 29 now and i'm afraid he's not getting any better either. We just screwed up our personnel.

This is one BIG problem.

The other BIG problem is the drafting. We had 8 1st round picks over the past 5 years. And only 1 of them is starting for us right now, and he's only been here for 4 games (Shelton)

3 are not here and one of those isn't even in the league anymore

Just imagine if those 8 guys were good enough to be starting here.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536792https://brownsboard.com/post/536792Wed, 07 Oct 2015 19:55:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 19:38:51 GMT]]>The OL, as expected, is our strength - PFF just today rated it 3rd in the league, Tour's threads always show a positive analysis. Many things may very well be wrong, but 2 different analytical methods show that our OL isn't a part of it.

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@oldbrownsfan said:

If we are lacking talent on defense it certainly is not because we are holding back on salaries as our defense leads the league in that respect.

yeah no shit. I just see this as massive FO failure. That and bringing in a guy to coach a lot of players that were brought in for a different system. I want to see Pettine here for "YEARS" and draft/sign accordingly. We went out and got bunch of old players and gve em a lot of money near the end of their careers. Kruger was still sort of in his prime but h'es 29 now and i'm afraid he's not getting any better either. We just screwed up our personnel.

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@clevfan4life said:

what can they do? we're stuck with the players we got. With Robertson down I would have thought we'd seen Tank by now get some more reps at ILB'er. But I mean he's a lifetime special teamer so I'm not pinning my hopes that we've had the next Ray Lewis on our squad this whole time. We need to find the D to the O to the double G this offseason at ILB'er. We need to find either a replacement for Dansby or his eventual replacement in the draft, as captain of the team. We don't have that guy on the roster.

I'm not saying you are wrong Cleve about the lack of talent but I'm still not convinced. I would like to see Pettine get involved more with the defense. We have invested too much in this defense to see them not performing. If we are lacking talent on defense it certainly is not because we are holding back on salaries as our defense leads the league in that respect.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536771https://brownsboard.com/post/536771Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:56:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:42:39 GMT]]>what can they do? we're stuck with the players we got. With Robertson down I would have thought we'd seen Tank by now get some more reps at ILB'er. But I mean he's a lifetime special teamer so I'm not pinning my hopes that we've had the next Ray Lewis on our squad this whole time. We need to find the D to the O to the double G this offseason at ILB'er. We need to find either a replacement for Dansby or his eventual replacement in the draft, as captain of the team. We don't have that guy on the roster.

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@mudfly said:

8 out of 9 LB's are averaging 2 tackles or less per game.....meaning 8 out 9 LB's have single digit tackles 4 games in!!!

Outrageous stat right there...

Kruger is averaging 1 tackle for every 50 snaps he plays(an $8 mil linebacker).....Orchard has 1 tackle in 60 plays(invisible).....

These are the guys who are supposed to be making MOST of the stops....Danny Shelton has more tackles than almost all of them, yet is supposed to be the guy holding up the line so the LB's can tackle......terrible terrible terrible....

Dansby has 25ish tackles and the other 8 LBs have 7 or less.......smh....

Could someone email this to Jim O'Neil?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536767https://brownsboard.com/post/536767Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:34:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:34:41 GMT]]>and Dansby's tackles are garbage after the fact cause he's nowhere to be found at the LOS. I've mentioned this before and i'd like to know what some of you think...if you watch the Buffalo D, they ask a lot more of their front 4 in terms of run stopping. Hughes and Super Mario (god he's a freak) seem to actively get loose from their blocks more. Like they're being asked to do more than just set the edge and let the LB'ers clean up. That's just my peripheral observation. If you put that front seven with our secondary, it might compete for best defense of all time.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536765https://brownsboard.com/post/536765Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:34:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:08:57 GMT]]>8 out of 9 LB's are averaging 2 tackles or less per game.....meaning 8 out 9 LB's have single digit tackles 4 games in!!!

Outrageous stat right there...

Kruger is averaging 1 tackle for every 50 snaps he plays(an $8 mil linebacker).....Orchard has 1 tackle in 60 plays(invisible).....

These are the guys who are supposed to be making MOST of the stops....Danny Shelton has more tackles than almost all of them, yet is supposed to be the guy holding up the line so the LB's can tackle......terrible terrible terrible....

Dansby has 25ish tackles and the other 8 LBs have 7 or less.......smh....

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536764https://brownsboard.com/post/536764Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:08:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:52:22 GMT]]>no they're as bad as they look. Watch for their individual technique, that is separate from scheme. I agree this scheme may be too complex, but it also asks for a certain level of talent and athleticism we just don't have. You have to get to the QB in Pets scheme, he cannot have 4-5 secs to throw the ball or it mangles the pass coverage.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536761https://brownsboard.com/post/536761Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:52:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:15:40 GMT]]>And, although I love to antagonize and argue with Canton Mike... 🙂

he did have an excellent idea - that Pettine should have Bill Parcells over,

and sit down with the DC, and discuss changes/tweaks to

defensive calls and fixing the thing.

I do love the offense, wish for a bluechippie wr added to the mix (dammit bowe)...

Pettine has consulted with Parcells before. Hey, maybe he was in to chat with them about the defense this week !

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/536759https://brownsboard.com/post/536759Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:15:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Here's what I'm thinkin about what's messin up the Browns on Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:00:19 GMT]]>It's obvious on the defensive side of the ball everything they are doing is scripted or known. You can dance across the line all you want, not put your hand down and back away but Rivers knew EXACTLY what was going on the vast majority of the time. I noted in another thread there were at least 2 times the defense sent 7 and Rivers had 3+ seconds to throw. That should never happens but has for weeks in this scheme. The whole thing is severely mangled and broken to a point where I'm not sure it can turn around this season.

The defense might be overrated, but I don't think the players we have are as bad as they look out there. People just constantly seem to be in the wrong place, too deep in coverage etc. That all points to O'Neil who just doesn't create good defensive play calls.

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