Khyber53

Yeah. This ain't working out. If the Giants eat us alive this Sunday... What am I saying? Nothing is going to happen. It never does. It never has.

Let's see how it all plays out. I was unimpressed by the game we played this past Sunday, maybe we'll see some new wrinkles and he might be more active. We know as little about what is going on on the practice fields and meeting rooms of the Panthers as we know about little green men in flying saucers. We're just riffing on what we think we see and what we think we ought to know. Also, decisions by this coaching staff often prove to be poorly made. Make of that what you will.

I like Belichick's idea that every lineman wears a brace on each knee at all times in practice and in games, whether they've been injured or not. It's a smart move.

You might be right, but we won't find out until it's almost too late.

Coaching, man, coaching.

Rhule and Tepper, most folks agree on. Fitterer... I just don't see where the love comes from. If he has put together such a good team, how come it looks this bad? His draft picks look like busts. His free agent signings have about a 20% modestly successful rate. I just don't see a wizard there. Clean house, Tep. Start again and get someone to advise you. As bad as things were under Ron and Marty, it wasn't this hopeless.

And willingness to use their RB.

Eff 'em.

Good writer, correct observations. And we've now seen the Full Costanza. We need to start a #FreeRhule movement so that he can rightfully head to Nebraska with nary a worry. Really. We'll be alright, he can move on and move up.

This 100%.

Who knows? Who cares? For all the posturing, the NFL really can't and won't force someone to sell. Richardson wasn't forced to sell, he was already making that move and the whole deal was just done to speed up the process. His scandals, which were pretty minor in the big scheme of things, were exploited by him and the rest of the owners. We were marks. Snyder won't go anywhere until he wants to and someone wants to pay enough for it. And that sale will make the Tepper purchase look like chump change.

It's not like they are going to go back and give us the win. So, we move on. We're going to lose a few games this year due to bad calls from the refs. From what I saw yesterday, we're going to lose even more due to bad calls from the guys on our own payroll.

Whole reason for "a scandal or five"...

Can't fire the team owner, barring a scandal or five, but we sure as hell could hope to see a change in coaching and management. Before the Fitterer fan boys start with the but, but, buts... We don't have enough pro-level players on both the offense and defense, particularly the lines. And if you can't talent evaluate and recruit for either the o-line OR d-line, your team is going to suck and suck for a long time. Let's not even get to coaching, that's a collection of dead horses that have been beat too often already. Nothing has changed there, even with new faces in new places. Same old clusterfug.

Tie up Thompson, put someone on Chinn and you can run on us all day long because our D-line can get scrubbed away by your basic five linemen on any run play.

The refs screwed us, but in the end, we didn't play well enough to keep that from being a factor.

Our team didn't look prepared at all on offense or defense. ST gets a break because of kicker injury. Cleveland ran the most vanilla offense possible, with numerous back-ups in play, and we couldn't stop them. Our defense just slowed them down and waited for them to screw up a series on their own. Our offense came out with a plan of let Baker throw, throw and throw but with little to help protect him except for keeping CMC back to block on some of the plays. We "limited" CMC to 13 or 14 touches, including the one where he picked up a muffed snap and ran to daylight with it. We muffed the snap 5 times (not four) which is worse than you'd see in a high school JV game. We looked flaccid yesterday. And we got beat by a team that we'd have killed with last year's squad. If Rhule isn't the worst HC in the league right now, then I don't know who is. I was headed into this season with the desperate hope that I had been wrong about him and that he was turning it around and had the personnel to do the job. Nope. This team has regressed and that's on the coaching staff and the work they've done in the off and pre- seasons.

On many plays CMC seemed like the only person who could hold a block... that's not a good use of his talents. You don't win Super Bowls by leaving a lot of gas in the tank of your best players. We aren't trying to improve their resale value. Use the man. Hell, our kicker was injured warming up on the sidelines...

Sorry, a bit of hyperbole there.

Yeah, he's a QB for sure. We need a DT. Or four.

They might pan out, but they need coaching. We don't have that here.

Well, don't turn it over the McAdoodledoodledoo. That guy had no game plan today. Clean house, let the players coach themselves until the next guy comes along.

We had no offensive game plan, our successes came from three plays, one in which Ian Frikkin' Anderson was completely uncovered, one in which Sideshow Bob Anderson was missed in safety pickup (but he DID catch it) and one where CMC snatched up a muffed punt and ran it down the field dodging everything AND surviving a horsecollar tackle. Pretty much our entire offensive output relied on massive errors by the Browns or one by ourselves. That ain't planning and that ain't coaching. Our o-line was completely outclassed, our d-line did diddly squat, no one could tackle and it took desperation for the team to actually start using CMC, our star player. Oh, and why Elflein, why? And then we played for a FG inside the 10 with over a minute left in the game???? Rhule, you're the chump we thought you were.

Can't win a game with five muffed snaps.

That sucked.