1: It's easy to repeat what people were saying last month or last year, and easier still to armchair quarterback a coach. While the former coaches and players on NFL Radio are listing Brian Daboll among the Browns best assets, around here it's bashing as usual.
One call that one armchair offensive coordinator mentioned--which was picked up by all the sheep and lemmings: Third and 2.5. Wallace went deep.
First, it was Wallace's call. He saw a weakness and went after it, like he's allowed to. Second, all you clowns are saying is that unless, on every single play, you do exactly what the defense expects you to do, you are an idiot. I hope if we ever go to war, the bad guys make you a general.
And you are the same clowns who wanted him to be more "creative". You think Bernie Kosar is god, but stick your fingers in your ears when he tells you Daboll was fine LAST season.
2: Peyton Hillis has the hot hand. They don't hate Harrison. Vs. Baltimore, Harrison was injured, but they were inserting James Davis until he also got hurt. Cincinnati had Rey Maluaga and two excellent run-support safeties, and Hillis was the best matchup.
A Falcon player (duh) said that the big emphasis in their practice has been on stopping Hillis. They're scheming against him. I would expect Harrison to get some action.
Hillis is a hammer and I love him. But I don't forget what Harrison did, or can do. On Hillis's biggest plays, he reached the open field without contact. Hillis racked up huge gains, but in each case, Harrison probably scores a touchdown. I don't believe that's lost on the coaches.
The way they were inserting Davis vs. Baltimore tells me their intentions. Even if Hillis is the bellcow, they don't intend to run him into the ground and ruin him, as Bum Phillips ruined Earl Campbell. They'll rest him, and if Harrison (or Davis) catch fire, they'll use them more.
3: I do love Hillis, and also Matt Roth. These two guys inspire everybody else, and make the teams the Browns will play respect this team.
Nice article by Mary Kay: Roth is being used on the tight end, wherever he is. He considers it his job to mug him. I really like that! And he said it himself: If he knocks the guy down, he doesn't have to cover him! (He's in trouble if he doesn't, by the way.)
He's a great tactical asset, because he can run right through a tight end enroute to the quarterback, and he makes it really tough for any QB to find the tight end.
I thought he'd be in trouble when the Browns had to face K2, who can split wide on a wing. This week, so can Tony Gonzales. I wasn't able to see how the defense covered that; if Roth went out there with them or what. It makes it much tougher to mug them, and he can't run them over on his way into the backfield, or be there to stuff the run.
If I know Ryan, he kept him near the end of the line and sent him--putting a coverage linebacker or safety on the tight end.
Either way, he screws up offensive game-plans. They have to get the tight end help to block him, meaning an offensive lineman or fullback has to come off somebody else. They can't rely on an in-line tight end to be a reciever. They are discouraged from trying to get around outside him--he's set up on the tight end, and can string it out.
And he's not fast or tricky. He just gets under your pads and drives you back. Not much you can do about that.
Roth and Hillis. Hear us roar.
4: Eric Wright has had some rough times, but is a top cornerback. Opponents target him with bigger, taller guys. He's almost always right there, but can't stop a perfect pass. He's been expecting help from Ward that didn't get there. Ward will be awesome, but is a rookie.
Nobody expects any cornerback to hang with a legit number one reciever for longer than about four seconds. They have to get to the quarterback sooner, or else get Ward more experience.
He was blamed for ALL of Owens yards vs. Cincinnati, when in fact he toasted Haden twice, and Brown at least once. In reality (I watched the replay)--Owens only beat Wright twice that I saw, and I think on one of those plays, Wright was peeling off another reciever.
But you clowns had it in your heads in advance that they would pick on Wright, so you just ass umed that every catch Owens caught was on him.
I do love how Ryan blitzes him often and frequently, even on neutral downs. He's one of the fastest players in the NFL, and they have to keep a running back in or else pull a guy (never the tight end thanks to Roth haha) off a big guy to TRY to get in his way in time.
And quit saying he won't tackle! That was last year--this season he seems to have taken that criticism to heart, because he's doing an EXCELLENT job tackling even big guys. Give him his props--watch what is really happening and quit repeating obsolete cliches!
That said, Haden could take over outside sometime this season. That's why they drafted him so high. But it won't make much difference. In the NFL the top three cornerbacks all play about the same number of downs, and Wright covers the slot guys anyway.
Up until the Ravens game, you all knew that Wright was a good/improving cover corner. After that one game, he sucks.
Grow up.
YOU STAND CORRECTED.
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