I should never have let Ray O Sunshine do my last blog. He tends to be overly optimistic, unlike my humble self.
The calls for Johnny early were ridiculous. The problem was the offensive line, and Manziel would have been swarmed under too.
A couple columns ago, I ripped some dumbass for calling this line Joe Thomas and a bunch of turnstiles, and find it disgusting that at least for this game, that stopped clock was right.
If McCown had more than about 2.3 seconds all day I didn't see it. Bitonio got his head handed to him, and Schwartze vs Khalil Mack?
A friend wondered if Alex Mack was the same since his injury, and after my initial "are you nuts?" reaction, I have to wonder about that myself.
Don't bash the running backs, either. Where the hell were they supposed to go? Until a running back with an eight foot vertical leap comes out, nobody could run through the solid walls of defenders I saw yesterday.
All the same, McCown did come back strong once the Raiders got a little tired and backed off a tad to protect their lead.
The defense was indescribably bad too. The whole defense.
Give the Raiders credit here. This is a good team, ok? If you're living in yesterdayland, you don't get that. But Carr isn't a rookie anymore, they got Amari Cooper, a truly impressive front seven, and they might well be a playoff team this season.
I know, you always want to blame the Browns and think the opposing team has nothing to do with a loss, but you're wrong.
My issue is that the Browns are at least as talented as these guys (except at wr and qb), with top ten talent at four positions on the offensive line, and they should have won at home!!!
Ray is pointing out the big comeback. Yes, that was pretty cool. And how about that catch by Hartline? Between his knees, rolling over and over and it never touches the ground? I've never seen anything like that!
Now, Here is an example of knee-jerk analysis by Casey Drottar. It's McCown's fault.
Casey doesn't seem to understand the type of coverage the Raiders used. Defensive backs were making sure the Browns receivers couldn't beat them deep. They risked short completions to do it.
Casey says teams know that McCown lacks the arm for deep passes. That's really, really dumb, Casey.
Number one, a receiver needs to be able to get deep. Number two, deep passes require what we call "time". Number three, nobody but you and some barstool gms has ever counted arm strength among McCown's flaws.
That pass rush contained and flanked. If you think Manziel wouldn't get clobbered just as quickly, you're out of your mind.
Casey was right about McCown missing some open receivers...like on at least three occasions. He was rattled, even on the few occasions when he wasn't forced to throw early.
But he did come back later. Without run support, and when the Raiders knew he had to pass.
He was a little off on the interception. Woodson baited that trap. Know why? Because he and other sentient beings knew that Josh was almost out of time and had to take more risks. Any quarterback who doesn't like to lose will.
It was the offensive line, Casey. Second and third and longs and instant pressure all day ruins any quarterback's day.
You want Johnny in that hot mess before he's good and ready? Good way to make sure he fails.
No surprises here. Casey somehow managed to poison penproof Alex Mack and the left side of the offensive line. He expected to see them do fine, and somehow managed to see it. Ask Crowell and McCown about that.
Well, I now have to adjust my w/l prediction based on this new information:
14-2.
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