Browns played hard the entire game and squeaked out a win. When I saw the injury report before the game I was like ... ouch this is going to be an ugly game. I was not disapointed. Still, I was very proud of the effort they put in.
Mayfield has a torn labrum. The season is over for him. It's a 3 month minimum injury that many take 5 to 6 months to heal from. I had the same injury and it gets so bad you can't even pick your arm up because your shoulder simply stops functioning. It's why he was playing so bad. It's actually amazing he got out there at all. Either way his season is done regardless of how he feels about it.
Our third string RB played very well. I'm so glad we have him. He hits the hole a little too slow but once he punches it he accelerates VERY fast. I just really liked how he played in that game.
It's a long time before we get a bye week so I'm glad they have this longer week to rest up some people.
Landry was clutch as always but is obviously playing hurt. OBJ is also playing hurt and it shows but kudos to him for toughing it out but he does need to work on maintaining his focus so he stop dropping the ball SOOOOOO much. Swartz is still a lost little duck out there and we don't have a QB atm that can even make use of him so he should just ride the bench. Our next game, I doubt defenses even try to protect the deep ball so I hope Higgens and Landry, along with, our TEs get to steal the show. Give our poor back up QB LOTS of short field targets to choose from and spread the field wide like a WCO to make use of what little our back up QB can do.
The D-line was so banged up that I just felt bad for them. I hope they can get more healthy by the time of our next game. Our DBs looked adequate but those guys are not healthy either.
I have a feeling that having a winning record by the time our Bye week rolls around is going to be hard to achieve with all the injuries we have. When we win it's going to be ugly wins just like this game was. Still the late bye will give us a chance to rest and make a push for the playoffs if we can manage to get a few more wins. I wish the Browns all the best and hope they do it!
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