Ask a third-grader and he would know what to do. Hell, ask your girlfriend who knows nothing about sports and she’ll know what to do. Anyone who can do basic math (and even those who can’t) would have know what to do. It’s funny that a head football coach doesn’t know what do. Romeo is an idiot. Maybe he only knows how to do math in fractions. You know, like four quarter pounders equals a pound. But subtracting 3 from 10, Romeo has no clue. He can add three to any number though. I just don’t get it. Walking out of the stadium last night, everyone was asking the same thing, “Why do you kick a field goal?” Does Romeo not realize you still need a touchdown to win when you are down 10-6? And with less than 3 minutes left, you probably aren’t going to get the ball back. If you do, there won’t be much time left (which happened). Romeo, you are a moron. A complete moron. A field goal? Really? I still don’t understand it. A field goal? Was he playing the spread? Does he have Phil Dawson on his fantasy team? What the hell was he thinking? You just drove 60 some yards on 14 plays, have the momentum, the crowd cheering like crazy behind you, you’ve converted three third downs on the drive, you have a chance to finally beat your hated rival for the first time in 10 tries and instead you settle for a meaningless field goal that still leaves you needing a touchdown to win. Someone please explain this to me.
Romeo’s time in Cleveland is over. I would have fired him last night. Phil Savage should have appeared on the jumbotran and announced over the PA system that Romeo is fired, a la, WWE style. That would have got the biggest cheer of the game. Of course, he won’t be fired though. But anyone who kicks that field, doesn’t deserve to be a head coach. Herm Edwards thinks Romeo is a bad coach. Norv Turner thinks he’s a bad coach. And the fans have no faith in him. Bye-bye Romeo.
And that is all based on just the field goal decision (and last’s one too). Then it gets even worse when you factor in the crappy “two-minute offense” at the first half. Way to waste 10 seconds before calling a time-out. Way to waste another 10-15 by sneaking it on third-and-one instead of calling a timeout. Then, on top of it all, a time a field goal would have been a good call, he doesn’t do that. A field goal would have made it 7-3 at half and been a slight boost at the break. Instead, he calls a slow developing pass play the DA throws to Steptoe at the three-yard line, only its such a horrible pass it’s intercepted. One, you got to throw it to the endzone. Two, you don’t throw it to Steptoe. Three, throw a quick fade to Braylon or quick slant to Winslow so that even if it’s incomplete, you still got time for the field goal. Horrible, horrible decisions by Romeo and DA. You got to get points on the board.
Once again, Browns fans are left shaking their heads as we lose once again to Pittsburgh. The crowd at the game was great. Loud, cheering all the time, yelling at Steeler fans and really into the game. But again, we all left disappointed and pissed off. Seal was with me and asked “why am I such a die-heart Browns fan?” I answered, “because the one time they win it all will be worth it.” In theory, yes. But it won’t ever happen with Romeo in charge of this team.
In other weekend football action…
The Ohio State-USC game went just about as you expect any OSU game against and non-Big Ten, MAC, Ohio school team. Can we please all agree OSU isn’t national title contender now? But of course if we look at the game through W’s eyes, we won’t count this game, or the OU game, in determining how good the Buckeyes are. We’ll just stick to the YSU game and say Ohio State looks really, really dominate.
And Michigan might win two more games, might. At at least the Minnesota-Michigan rivalry will be a good game again.
Offense sucked, coaching sucked, defense gets a pass although they completely failed when they needed to make one big stop, so never mind, they sucked too. I really tried hard to rationalize the field goal at the end of the game, but I just can’t do it. The way they ran that last series I really thought they were planning on using all four downs to get the first. No, just moving it to the middle to line up Dawson.
I agree 100% on everything you said about the Browns. Sad thing is, this isn’t the first time he has f’d up clock management 101. How bout at the end of the first half when we got the false start call and instead of using our last time out to stop the clock at 45 seconds, we instead chose to run 10 seconds off and then let the clock run??? Bill Cower in 09!!!
Ohio State fans got exactly what they deserved again…but this time it was in September as opposed to January. James Lauraterrible is the most overrated player in football.
Romeo sucks but he is no Herm or Norv. That is just your emotions talking. Have you seen the way that Norv has lost the first two weeks? Herm got destroyed by the RAIDERS at home yesterday! Take it back now.
Still without power, still hate W.
Browns suck, Buckeyes suck, Indians suck. That about covers the awesome weekend in sports.
Oh, and Michigan would lose to YSU.
Nick? What the hell is up with that? I just assumed Damman was like Madonna or Cher. A one name wonder.
W – I didn’t mind the call to let the time run off the clock instead of wasting a timeout with 55 seconds. 45 seconds from the 35, should be enough time to score with one time out. And it would have been if he didn’t waste 10 seconds to call the time out after that play.
Graig – I’ll give you Herm being worse than Romeo but no way is Norv. He loss the last two weeks by great plays from the other team. And yesterday, he got screwed b/c Ed Hochuli was starring at his arms flexing rather than watching Jay Cutler try to blow the game (twice).
Saturday nights game was marvelous. Everyoen saw it coming except OSU fans. I’m not going to crack on their ignorance any more because I have faith that they will see the light now. My piece of advice is to watch more games than just OSU games or Big ten games so you can actually see how much better most of the teams in the Pac 10/SEC are than you guys. So glad the electricity went out last night so I didnt waste my team with that Browns game instead I sat outside watchign trees fall on my neighbors house , poor guy. It was like Ned Flanders im the Hurricane. No trees were fallign anywhere else in a 5 block radius except for his yard he lst 5 trees and 3 fall on his house, a week ago he just got al lthe siding re done.
Maybe I just hold a special place in my heart for the shittiness of Norv due to his awful tenure in DC, but I still think he’s one of the dumbest people on the planet.
LOL Beanie. Your comment about the ref staring at his HGH arms is quite possible my favorite since my short tenure here at JBeanie Sports. What’s even better is how he realized about 5 seconds after making the call that it was wrong and then realizing there was nothing he can do about it cause it was not a challengeable play.
One other good ref moment was in the Georgia vs SC game. Georgia through an interception and SC made the return. Two flags were thrown on the play. One flag for pass interference on SC and one for a block in the back on the return on SC. The ref said the two penalties offset each other and it was SC’s ball. It took the booth buzzing his replay buzzer for them to say, “hey moron, get it right!!” What’s scary is none of the other refs stepped in to say… uh… what?
You can’t through an INT so I am guessing I ment throw. I thought that I should mention that since everyone here is a Chief Editor.
I am commenting from home today as I took a drunk day from work, well a drunk night last night I should say. For some reason the name field was filled in with Nick. Sorry for the confusion.