Davidson Deac II

I hope this doesn't come down to a fg. Need to use up all the clock and put it in the end zone.

I guess they finally decided to focus on Chub, isn't doing much good though.

Well, for most the game, Myles G has gotten in the backfield almost before Mayfield did.

Well, that is probably ball game unless Cleveland goes into a prevent defense. Special teams has looked good today. Other than that, we have been horrible on both sides of the ball.

Very nice drive, especially the accident run by CMC.

Got to get a td here if we want to have a chance in this one.

I agree, but Davis Mills started looking good at the end of last season. That is why I said that.

In other games, I am begging to wonder if Davis Mills might end being the best qb from last years draft. And the Colts Matt Ryan looks as bad as he did with the Falcons. The Texans are lighting up the Colts today.

Our rookie OT is getting beat like a drum by one of the best DE's in the NFL. And our brilliant coaching staff isn't doing a single thing to help him.

We have made mistakes on offense to. The stupid holding call on Thomas negated a big run.

Both offenses look like crap so far. The Browns can run the ball, and we knew that. But you can't win in today's NFL if you can't throw it on occasion. Of course, we can't do either. But if we can survive the first half, we might settle down in the second.

We played the second and fourth down plays really well. The third down play, the Browns blew it.

D played well on the second and fourth down there. Not so much on the 1st and third, but we stopped em.

Hekker is probably our best free agent signing.

Well, I could have read that one. Third down, need something quick. Oh well, lets see what the d can do.

Cleveland fans will likely find out next year. If he can take a talented qb with a lot of issues who hasn't played in two years and turn the team into a winner, he is a great coach. If not, someone will be asking how good of an assistant coach he will be.

Sun is out, I do wonder how fast this synthetic crap dries?

They had an adequate run game last year. Not great, but good enough to take a little pressure off. Tonight, they look very bad. Meh, its early though. Lots of football left this year.

Wake Forest guy with the pick. Carlos Boogie Basham having a good night with a sack and a INT.

They talk about Kupp missing Beckham, but I think they miss a running game more. They also probably aren't happy about Stafford throwing the ball to the other team.

Well, this is becoming a blowout.

Wow, that is bad. It's as bad as when the best run defense in the league (the Aint's) got abused by Sanders and Howard of the Eagles and gave up 160 plus yards to those two on only 26 carries. And allowed 40 points, with the help of a couple of turnovers by the offense (sounds familiar).

Certainly, some truth to that. But I would venture that most teams struggled against those types of offenses. I don't think we had a great defense; I just don't think it was as bad as some do.

I agree, one man certainly won't cause that much of an impact. That being said, I think we look at our run defense thru a prism, especially us older guys. We look at the way we think it should look instead of how it looks compared to the rest of the NFL. Reality is that there aren't that many great run defenses that can stop team's week in and week out. Because most defenses are designed to stop the pass. If you compare us to run defenses from the 80's, we weren't good. If you compare us to the rest of the NFL last year, we were probably overall middle of the pack. Not great, not bad. The Saints had the best run defense in the league last year, and they still got abused in several games. The aforementioned Eagles ran all over them, averaging over 6 ypc with about 200 yards.

It hurts passing game more, but it hurts both. The defense has to adjust to cover a banged up secondary, which hurts other parts of the defense.