As you will see, Jamie Collins now lacks talent. Like Kirksey, Shelton, Nassib, Ogbah, Haden, Taylor, Pryor, Crowell, Barnidge, Coleman, Johnson, etc., he is now a Cleveland Brown and the Brownnnnzzzzz...Laaaaaack....Taaallennnnnnt ohmmmmm....
Well, all of the safeties, after a promising start, are now atrocious. They are playing badly now, but it doesn't mean they're not capable of decent play. They are talented. The consensus of NFL scouts said so. They would say the same thing now.
If you told them these guys are losers, they wouldn't understand your statement. They would understand if you said they are playing like crap. There is a difference between talent and performance DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
In the last game, one halftime adjustment the Browns made at halftime was to come off man coverage and run zone. That's a logical thing to do when you have a big lead.
It didn't work. It allowed Marshall and others to get loose underneath, and Fitz to get rid of the ball quicker. Poor (that is to say BLOWN tackling) by talented but out of position players did the bulk of the damage.
If you run a zone, you have to tackle the guy where he catches it. That's why you run it! To keep everything in front of you! You concede short throws in order to stuff the run and prevent deep passes!
They blew it. Campbell, who is VERY talented, is contantly out of position.
Pryor got shut down in the second half. He screwed up a couple times, and McCown screwed up too. Does he lack talent? Duke Johnson was barely used in the second half. He's a bum, right? Barnidge likewise disappeared. Yep. No talent at tight end!
I'm confiscating the word "talent". It will be returned to you when you can prove you can use it responsibly.
Now, Jamie Collins will be one eleventh of the defense and one twenty second of the team. He should play both inside and outside. He doesn't know all the plays yet, but against the Cowboys, he can spy the quarterback and tailback. Most likely, Ray Horton will want him freelancing, as in cutting off the football wherever it's headed.
The Cowboys use a lot of read-option. Prescott is a serious running threat, and can throw accurately on the move. Some combination of Collins and Kirksey will probably try to head this off at the pass.
That's proved almost impossible for every defense Dallas has faced so far. They have a great offensive line, Des Bryant is back, and...well it just looks real bad for the homies. The Cowboys offensive under/over line ought to be around 31.
But Collins might bat a pass up in the air or sack Prescott or something. So, we got that goin for us...
Corey Coleman is cleared to practice. I don't yet know if that means he can play, but if he can, the Browns can score some points of their own against this average defense.
They'll probably need around 40, however...
Oh well the Browns are in the lead in the first overall pick tournament!
Updated w/l prediction: 8-8.
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