Surprised?

I'm not.  The Seahawks are great.  I wasn't able to watch the game, but my friends furious texts filled in a lot of blanks.

The loss of John Greco is being glossed over, but it mattered, ok?  Bademosi starting at cornerback mattered.  The loss of Bitonio mattered.  Hartline mattered.  Don't throw out those Vince Lombardi cliches, either.  Facts are facts.

Not that I'm not furious too.  I don't care what the NFL or even Johnny himself says: if you get two hands on a ball and don't catch it, you dropped it.  There were at least four and maybe five drops.  Ridiculous.  I can cut Pryor some slack because he's new and was probably too tense, but I'm sick of the other guys.

And the facemask with time expired?  What seems to be Tramon Williams major malfunction?  I can't wrap my mind around this crap!

That gave the Seahawks three points.  At least two of the drops would have been first downs.

It all mattered!

Quit missing tackles, dropping balls, and being idiots and the Browns could have made this a game.

I know Johnny wants to keep the same regime, and hiring a new head coach would be disruptive as hell, but what do all these screwups have in common?

That's not a lack of talent.  It's a lack of fundamentals.

Analysis of Manziel's performance is, as usual, muddied up in most minds with the final result.  He played well enough to score points, even on this great defense.  Just catch the damn ball!  Little help here?

Forget the late interception.  Down by 17 with time running out, any real quarterback will take chances he otherwise wouldn't.  You don't want a quarterback who's more concerned with his stats than with winning.  

Johnny surprised me when he talked about his own ball placement when asked about the drops.

No quarterback will throw his receivers under the bus by telling the truth, but most just babble abstract things about miscommunication and shrug. 

Manziel blamed himself.  Wow.  And I think he was sincere.  He evidently intends to be the most accurate quarterback in football.  Make every ball undroppable.

Note to Johnny: Some of these clowns will drop it anyway.

Jimmy Johnson doesn't believe Manziel has the maturity or emotional discipline to ever be a franchise quarterback.  Randy Moss says he's still a kid and will be great.

He keeps getting better.  To my own surprise, he's doing a great job identifying the "Mike", setting up protections, calling the right play, and checking down.  I had thought it would take longer for him to be able to do all that as quickly as he needs to do it.  In fact, I wasn't sure he would ever be able to do it, given his background.

He's already running the offense like a veteran after seven games.  That's impressive.  

We don't know yet?  What do you need to see?  Does he have to start catching his own passes?  Lead-blocking for his running backs?  Scoring more than 30 points a game all by himself?

Quarterback is the most important position in football, but he's still just one guy.  If you traded Manziel with Wilson, the Browns still would have lost, and probably by 17 points.

Unless Johnny Manziel inexplicably regresses, he's a franchise quarterback.  No other quarterback could do better with this T E A M.

Kansas City is another tall order, but they're not the Seahawks.  The Browns have a puncher's chance.

I can't help looking ahead to Pittsburgh.  They'll rack up 35 points or so, but maybe this time Johnny can score some touchdowns on that shaky pass defense of theirs.

That's the game where he'll have a real chance to make an impression, even in a probable loss.

Will anybody pay any attention?