WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

Some Browns fans need to comprehend some...actually really simple and obvious facts about the Browns vs. the Vikings:

1: The Vikings are a veteran, largely intact team with well-established systems and personnel. With about the best run defense in the NFL, Peterson, Favre, and talent from top-to-bottom, many pundits have them going to the Superbowl this season.

The Browns have all new coaches, new systems, a starting quarterback with five games experience, a huge roster turnover;
rookie center, new right guard/tackle, all new recievers except for Cribbs, Edwards, and Heiden, etc...

So you really need to come back down here to this planet. No rational being could have expected the Browns to beat the Vikings taking their first steps out of the crib!

The bad stuff will get hammered to death by writers and mindlessly repeated by clones and zombies on message boards, so I'll skip much of that. However, since much of that crap won't be legitimate, I will say:

1: I don't know about right guard, but evidently Saint Clair sucks at right tackle. I do miss Tucker. I seriously don't know about Womack--I just do know that pissed off fans throw hand grenades and blow up whole neighborhoods, so until I can see it no comment.

2: Mack is a rookie and was making the line-calls. He's been practicing against a 3-4 and even worked against a 3-4 in college. No matter how brainy he is, there is no doubt in the rational, objective mind, that he screwed up. Rookies screw up. It happens on this planet.

3: Quinn zigged and Edwards zagged on the interception. When that stuff happens, it looks atrocious, since the reciever is more-or-less sprinting in the opposite direction to the one the QB thought he would, and isn't in the same zip-code when the ball gets there.
60% of the time, this is on the reciever; who read coverage wrong.

4: The defense wore down. It had contained Peterson well into the third quarter. NO DEFENSE can stop this guy for a whole game.

IF you are an adult and live on this planet, there was a lot more good than bad news in this game, starting with their containment of none other than Adrian Peterson for most of three quarters. that's 1.

2: Jamal Lewis ran all over maybe the best run defense in the NFL.
3: The offensive playcalling was creative. Much is made of the two Wildcat calls inside the three, as if these wiped out the rest of the playcalls.
And the horizontal passing--here a lot of people need to get real too. As it was, Quinn got sacked five times. Without even blitzing much, the Vikings were in the Browns backfield most of the day. You can't go deep under that kind of pressure. You have to get rid of the damn ball.
And why didn't they run more? Because the Vikings can shut it down, and would have. The biggest reason Lewis had the success he did was because the Vikings were on the recievers.
4: The defense got great pressure on Favre (and Peterson) from many sources. Each safety got a sack, then an OLB and (naturally) Rogers. Ryan's defense is as advertized.
At long last, somebody has the brains to put Rogers at DE sometimes! Especially with Rubin emerging as a solid nose tackle--match Rogers up against the weakest point! DUH!
Moving Wimbley around, too--that seems to be working. As is beginning to dawn on others finally, Wimbey is a good all-around total package linebacker. And wow--HALL is turning onto one of those too already!
5: Quinn did WELL when you factor in his inexperience, the fact that he hasn't had the first-team reps a normal starter gets, and the pressure on him. The fumble was idiotic, and he wasn't as accurate as he should be...I heard he held the ball too long...I only mention it here because Pluto said it, so it's probably right.
but ALL of this is fixable, or will disappear on it's own as he gets more reps with the recievers and more game experience.
6: Lewis is not washed-up yet.
7: JOSH CRIBBS.
8: They ran the no-huddle offense in an effort to wear the Vikings defense down. Crennel never allowed a no-huddle other than at the obvious times. Plus, he would have kneeled on the ball with 40 seconds left to the half.
That was smart against this defense, but the trade-off was that the Browns defense had to be on the field more, and fatigue opened things up for Peterson.
9: As Pluto said, the first half of this game shows you what this team is capable of.
It was kind of like a talented young boxer up against a much more experienced guy. He comes out scoring points, and maybe even hurts the old guy, but the vet covers and clinches and sticks around, figuring out how he can nail the punk.
After a few rounds, he knows. He sets the kid up and nails him.
It doesn't mean the kid sucks. The early rounds are what they are--the kid outboxing the other guy because he was better. But experience tells, and the kid gets outsmarted in the end.
Won't happen next time.

THE TALENT IS HERE.

The experience isn't.

Say it with me....YET.