Hysteria

Surprisingly, Antwan Peek just got hurt again. Wow. Didn't see that coming!

Then I looked at the comments board, and was even more stunned and amazed. I learned that when Savage said they were thin in that area, that he meant the entire linebacking corps, and not just outside linebacker!

I also found out that our secondary was weak. I had thought that it was mainly the depth. Wright looked horrible in the ONE GAME, so I guess that what he did last season doesn't matter.

Okay, then I found out that the secondary and the linebackers are bad. All of them. That Peek should be cut and replaced by Ty Law. That this was no big loss, since Quinn is a better QB anyway.

Wow! And we're going 7-9!

There was a mathematician entry: A formula starting with weak secondary + weak linebackers and winding up with the utter implosion of the team--wow!

There was another guy. He started out okay by calling these guys morons, but then he devolved into calling them disloyal and closet Stooler-fans and stuff. No no no! They're just irrational and ignorant. It's not "my team right or wrong"--it's "my team because it's still pretty good and I still have a homo sapiens brain".

Oh, and of course there's the obligitory kicking Peek while he's down. Like he does this on purpose, or something.

There were a very few intelligent comments, like re-sign Orr.

One guy demanded that Phil make some huge trade. Of some sort. I'm hearing alarm bells and screaming in the background.

Would you want to be in a foxhole with these guys? Not me. It would smell real bad as soon as a gunshot was heard, know what I mean? And they'd be grabbing onto you and shouting in your ear and you couldn't shoot or throw grenades or anything.
If they were drowning, I wouldn't rescue them. They'd take me with them for sure. At least the water would dilute their bowel-contents.

Willie McGinest has not suddenly forgotten how to play linebacker, and passrushing is not the exclusive role of that position. He's become one of the best run-stoppers on the team, and can hang with tight ends in the short area. You lose a little, you gain a little.

Alex Hall will get his chances. He's been consistantly close to the QB rushing from the down position on the tackle's outside shoulder. He's looked good. I doubt that he'll blow up the Cowboys, but if Romo tries to scramble to his right, he might do something.

In preseason the Browns didn't show all their cards. They didn't run games or stunts. Rogers and Williams were used very little.

Oh yeah...one guy said the Browns defense was "marginally" improved over last year's. Williams and Rogers constitute over 17% of it, and Leonard is emerging. Williams and Jackson
are only entering their third seasons. So everything this guy said is based on preseason, and at that on the overall performance without regard to the first team.

It's depressing, and embarrassing.

The Browns probably won't beat Dallas. But it won't be the blow-out everybody expects.

John Taylor of the OBR came up with a foolproof way to stop T.O.: Tape some video cameras to the defensive linemen's helmets. This way, T.O. doesn't make it past the line of scrimmage.