The Browns are on a win streak. The Browns are on a win streak!! It’s not much of a win streak but it’s still a win streak. Two games in a row for the first time since 1982. Well, not that long but it sure seems like it.
For the first time since the Browns returned in 1999, they are actually watchable. Even their 9-7 playoff appearance in ‘02 wasn’t entertaining. In past years, every Sunday, I’d get together with some guys to watch the game but it was a chore. You knew they would lose and even more so, it would be a very boring game. That’s not the case anymore. Watching the games is, are you ready for this? fun. It’s amazing what an offense that can score can do for a fan. No longer is it a Sunday wasted on the Browns, but a Sunday made entertaining by watching them. Let me say it again, the Cleveland Browns are fun to watch. (yeah, i know, it does sound weird.)
This just in… Braylon Edwards is good. He simply makes catches. He had three or four grabs that were just amazing. He was dogged last year for his me-first attitude and dropping balls but this year he has put himself in the top tier of receivers. He still will drop a few balls (the last play of the Browns before the knee down) and a little immature (taking off his helmet, but come on, that was an awesome run and you’d be fired up too if you ran through a guy like he was a paper banner). The Browns should never send him over the middle unless it’s on a quick slant. That’s where he drops balls for whatever reason. He’s at his best when is going down the sidelines on deep balls and he can use his height and strength to come down with the ball. He will simply outjump anyone to those balls and he has proved his whole career.
If not for Tom Brady, Derek Anderson would be leading the league in touchdown passes. That’s kind of strange isn’t.
Also strange, at this point, Anderson and Edwards both should be Pro Bowlers. For a team that has only had one (one the defensive side) since 1999 and an offense that used to score as often as girls fourth grade basketball teams, that’s pretty special.
As good as the offense has been, the defense has been almost as bad. They looked awful early yesterday and I made the comment before the first drive ended that it could be a 40 or 50 point game again. But they regrouped and played well. They made the stops the needed to make. Two fourth down stops and an interception to seal the game. Hopefully this gets them playing better the whole game the rest of the year.
This week against Seattle is huge. They need a win to go 5-3 before very tough games at Pittsburgh and at Baltimore. After that, the Browns could be favored in every game they play (Houston, at Arizona, at NY Jets, Buffalo, at Cincy, San Francisco). Don’t look now, but the playoffs are very possible (knock on wood).
Even if the playoffs don’t happen, and let’s be honest, it’s a long shot, at least Sundays are finally enjoyable again.
Even though it’s a home game, the Seahawks coming off a bye is scary. THE REVENGE OF CHAZ FRYE!!!
How weird is it that if Cribbs could make the Pro Bowl as a kick returner that you have two guys from Kent State in Hawaii, even though one of them didn’t play football for the Flashes. Just a dumb scenario that I keep telling people and nobody seems to care.
Hmmm, Girlfriend’s Brother, good to have you back in the comments but if you are telling that to other people and no one cares, what makes you think we would here?
The Seahawks are not scary. They are probably asking Frye for advice about the Browns and that’s the best thing for Cleveland. Frye didn’t understand our offense while he was here, no way he can make someone else understand it.
Also, kind of funny that Peter King has Cleveland ranked 11th in the NFL now after saying they’d be the worse team in the NFL. Go Browns!!!
It is a good fact. I don’t care what you say.
And by the way, thanks for making my couch smell like the dumpster out back of Delanies.
You’re welcome. And Girlfriend’s Brother II was at fault just as much if not more. He was the one that handed me the beer and no one told him to open it.
But that’s why God my cushions with two sides. Just flip it over.
I’d love to, but the other side has pizza stains from one of my other dipsh!t friends.
But it doesn’t really bother me. I think stale beer actaully smells kind of good.
You are very right, Sundays are fun again. It used to be that I would wake up hungover on Sundays from excessive drinking on Saturdays (from Buckeye games, I believe you are a Wolverine fan, that’s all right we agree on all other sports) and dread the Browns game that was coming. The Browns definitely made the hangovers worse. But now, even though I am still hungover, I get excited when I wake up on Sundays. What sucks is I live in Columbus and about half the time we get the Bengals and half the time we get the Browns. So I am hoping now that the Bengals are god awful again, that the the Browns will start winning that battle. Anyways, I have Anderson and Edwards on my fantasy team and they are money. They could be the next Manning to Harrison. Well, lets not get crazy. But it is good to have the Browns back on the radar. Big fan of the blog, Go Browns!