Mox I agree with you but not taking care of the ball on those fumbles has nothing to do with the WR's or anybody else but Baker. It's on him. I like Baker a lot I want him to be our franchise QB I have no axes to grind with him.
I agree with you. I still believe we're in that game solely because of Baker and I believe we lost the game because of Baker. No issues here.
If he hangs onto the ball, forward progress could have had a first down (Blow the whistle!). Depending on when the ball dislodged, did he already have a first down? Should be like a touchdown, once you got it, fumble away you're all good... I'm joking of course. Or am I?
Another thing I thought of with several fans calling radio stations for the Browns to change the game plan or at least significantly alter it after the news the players were unavailable sounds pretty simple.
If so, why don't NFL teams just install the game plans Friday afternoon or Saturday. That way should a key player be unexpectedly injured late Thursday they did not waste all that time.
You're kidding... You spend all week figuring out how to attack and defeat a team, you just don't change a gameplan at a moments notice. Organizing and Planning for a team probably starts 2 weeks before the actual game, with the coaches brought in the day (Monday) after the game. Wednesday and Thursday are reserved for new plays and packages that are not common...
"Jameis Winston: guaranteed to throw 6 TD's/game. Tune in next week to see which team benefits-"
I just rewatched the game, and I did notice two successful sneaks by Baker earlier in the game (on one he actually gained like 4 yards). His passing seemed to start out well enough, but he started getting a little erratic with his passes at the end of the half. He also started holding the ball a ton, but I think this had more to do with the new guys out there and Jets progressively taking away his preferred options.
I think it was Johnson (might've been Joseph) that was playing really stupid. Lots of dumb penalties on special teams. Bunch of blocks, though, which was pretty impressive.
Our Oline got whooped on pretty good. On rewatch, our TE didn't do too bad catching the ball, overall. Bryant had that brutal drop. It looked like they were able to do some damage in the first half, and then NY started to lock them down. Honestly, I'm not sure why they didn't do that right out of the gate, given our personnel. I saw a lot of real suspect blocking out of our TEs and tackles.
It looked like we started trying to get the ball to Chubb and Hunt on short passes, but that just wasn't really working all that well.
Bradley (PS WR) had a pretty decent game. It would've been pretty sweet if he hung onto that ball at the very end and been the hero.
Jets D played very very well. jkl;./Their O played slightly less terrible than our D.
Sendejo had a pretty mediocre game (this is a pretty significant improvement for him). One of the busted coverages might've been on him, but he had a really nice stop on 3rd down when we needed it near the end.
Chubb and Hunt ran really hard, but there wasn't a ton there for them. Even RBs as talented as them can only do so much when they have DLs and LBs hitting them in the backfield.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
I would hope that once Stefanski has a proper offseason he can do a proper install and start putting in some really fun wrinkles (a bunch of plays off of Chubb and Hunt in the backfield, etc). I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't have the time/means to do the fun stuff yet.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
Another thing I thought of with several fans calling radio stations for the Browns to change the game plan or at least significantly alter it after the news the players were unavailable sounds pretty simple.
If so, why don't NFL teams just install the game plans Friday afternoon or Saturday. That way should a key player be unexpectedly injured late Thursday they did not waste all that time.
You're kidding... You spend all week figuring out how to attack and defeat a team, you just don't change a gameplan at a moments notice. Organizing and Planning for a team probably starts 2 weeks before the actual game, with the coaches brought in the day (Monday) after the game. Wednesday and Thursday are reserved for new plays and packages that are not common...
I thought my post was obviously sarcasm in response to the fans who talked about the coaches changing the game plan after the Covid losses were announced the day before the Jets game.
There were fans on 92.3 criticizing the staff for not overhauling teh ganmeplan at noon on Saturday.
