Anybody ever read the instructions on how to use glue? You get a "set" time, and a "cure" time. This glue will set in 4 hours, and cure in 24.
Ask the doctors: this is how injuries heal. With torn ligaments in particular, a lot of little micro-fibers need to regenerate; let's say 500.
Well, you can walk and run after 400 have regenerated, but the 400 are not at full strength yet, and the last 100 aren't even there yet.
You know how you just can't wait 24 hours to start monkeying around with something you glued? You just can't help taking the clamps off, and poking at it?
The fact is, Myles Garrett's ankle is still vulnerable to re-injury. It might have set, but it hasn't cured. I know he'll probably be dancing around with that big grin "See? I'm fine!"
Don't let him play. You start re-injuring stuff, and it deteriorates. Axe Dr David Chow, NFL Radio's go-to football injury expert. PROTECT THIS PLAYER, dammit.
I know the Colts best offensive player predicted a Colts victory, and don't care. This did more for the Browns than it did for the Colts. In reality the Browns are a better team than the Colts, including at quarterback. They should win without Garrett anyway.
In this sensationally titled article, Isaiah Crowell stood up for himself, and quickly backed off.
Look: He's in a contract year and wants the rock, and that concludes his criticism of Hue Jackson's playcalling.
Fortunately, this was actually an excellent article by Mary Kay, who may or may not have chosen it's misleading but hit-generating title.
Crow himself understands that defenses are stacking up to stop the run, and daring Kizer to pass. Isaiah feels he can beat this, and PFF backs him up.
BUT BUT BUT as Hue points out, the NEW offensive line hasn't gelled yet, and Crow GETS IT.
Perhaps some of you need to learn this for the first time: The success or failure of any running back not named Sanders or Brown is greatly influenced by his B L O C K E R S DO YOU U N D E R S T A N D!?!
The offensive line is talented and will get it together. Hue told YOU that, along with Crow, and one of you heard him.
Chris Pokorney wrote a pretty good article on the national vs local perceptions of the Browns, and I'm now pretty sure he's one of the shameless scumbags who read this blog and then regurgitate it, sometimes almost verbatum.
Click the link, since it might be the last one you will see here. I had to include it so that you can see how familiar it looks gdammit.
MKC isn't stealing my analyses (at least as obviously), and here wrote another great article on the real problems the Browns are having.
Yes, obviously she's mostly saying stuff I said before, but she's been doing this for a long time, and I believe she has sort of cooincidentally arrived at the same conclusions I have through actual original thought (and face-to-face interrogations of the stars in this play).
Nevermind. Anyway my crickets, ignore Porkorney but click MKC. You will find the former boring because you've read it all here first, but find that Mary Kay thinks for herself.
Back to the Browns:
This is the third real week that this 60% new offensive line has played together. Objectively, I cannot compare the Colts front seven (or defense) to that of the Steelers or Ravens.
Nor can I objectively compare the Colts offensive line to that of either team.
Even if Andrew Luck was starting, the Browns should win, because they are better, period...sans Myles Garrett.
Now stay tuned to Pokorney for these thoughts shortly after I publish this:
1: DeShone Kizer's removal might have had more to do with his ineffectiveness than with a migraine.
1a: Kizer's migraine might have had a lot more to do with his ineffectiveness than he admits.
1c: Who cares? Rodney Hoganfield is pretty damn good!
2: The Colts are not as talented as the Browns...or Steelers...or Ravens.
3: The Colts will presumably stop the run better this week, but the Browns will run better, and the Colts defense is not like...crap dead horse.
4: Kizer probably won't have a migraine.
5: #4 doesn't even matter.
MKC's interview of Hue Jackson was pretty cool, because Hue wasn't politically correct. He hasn't minced words with
Hargrove was a really good Indians manager, but he signed this old pitcher named McDonald. Guy had an ERA pushing five. Grover says "but he gives you innings".
Blockheadedness might just be a dominant Head Coach gene we can't breed out. They all want eggzbeeriunnzed vedderrunz whether they suck or not.
Asked about Rashard Higgins really good performance vs the Ravens, Hue stressed his familiarity with Hue's offense as a key factor. Higgins and Coleman were the only two wide receivers who were here for any significant time last season.
Higgins knew what to do, when.
So did Seth DeValve, by the way. This is the main reason why he's outproducing Njoku. Randall Telfer is actually pretty close to Njoku too (by the way Telfer is a legit veteran).
But I digress: Hue lays most of the sacks on Kizer, including the strip-sack (by the way Shon Coleman is quietly doing a good job at right tackle). Unlike most Head Coaches, Hue wants his quarterback to run more, and I like that.
Everybody is all paranoid about a guy who outweighs all safeties and some linebackers running downfield. You can be paranoid about his getting stubborn and not "taking a dive" (or of course any Steeler defender spearing his helmet as he slides), but please cut it out. RG3 is a much thinner, smaller man. DeShone Kizer is a real football player (and he'll slide).
But I redigress: Hue is disciplined, but I read between the lines of these transcripts, and he's irked by some of the criticism he's taken, including from my favorite writer Peter Smith.
He hammered the newness and lack of integration of the offensive line repeatedly, and in general the fact that rookies do make mistakes, new additions need to play and practice to fit together.
Brady Quinn (NFL Radio) and a couple retired left tackles offered some tidbits:
A stunt is where one defender loops around behind another (or sometimes whan two attackers crisscross as they approach the line). It's the defensive version of a "pick" play.
The simplest way to handle this is for the blocker the stunting defender is running away from to take over for the guy who is blocking the defender the aforementioned stunter is sneaking around, and for the blocker who is...
I'm sorry let's just say both of the offensive linemen shuffle in the direction of the stunt, and one of them releases his block to the other and picks up the stunter, see?
Well, offensive linemen can't see everything, so they have to communicate. A guy stunts away from Joe Thomas, around the guy Bitonio is duking it out with, see? Bitonio has a face full of defensive tackle, so Joe has to tell him about the stunter, so he knows he needs to pass his guy off to Joe and head the miscreant off at the pass.
Between these two, that probably works great, but Tretter, Zietler, and Coleman have never played with anybody next to them before, so it's not so easy.
Defenses are throwing wierd new stunts at them. I'm not sure, but I assume they have code words they yell at eachother to tell eachother what to do.
But the possible stunts a defense can run are exponential, can combine with edge-blitzes, and are used against zone-blocked runs, power-blocked runs--- well it's not as simple as it seems: We're talking a whole BUNCH of "code words", ya know?
Too deep I know sorry. I need to figure out how to draw stuff here.
But to summarize, the offensive line is still miscommunicating, but this issue was not unexpected, because it was inevitable. It will just as inevitably resolve itself, so the sky really isn't falling.
This and Kizer's holding the ball are the two biggest problems with this offense. They all just need reps together.
Rodney Lesliefield is back on the roster. My understanding is that the best and most reliable Browns receiver throughout preseason is no longer eligable for the practice squad, so he should be on the 53-man roster.
It's downright irrational that it took Corey Coleman's broken hand to make room for this guy...what tf are we all missing here? 95 times out of 100, I side with Front offices and Coaches against the unwashed masses, but I insist it was stupid to kick this guy to the curb in the first place, dammit.
And I hope Hue actually uses him, like he used Higgins, before he defaults to his eggzzbeereeunzzed vedderrunz, because if he does, Jordan Leslie will EARN it.
Kizer has good chemistry with Leslie. ...ok well so did Hogan...oh yeah Kessler too $%#!!?"#$ what does this guy need to do?!?
I take this stuff personally, because I have been in situations where I performed above and beyond any reasonable standards, and was still treated like the laziest, sneakiest, and most disloyal scumbag.
Jordan Leslie is there, right now. GIVE THIS GUY A FREAKING CHANCE IN A REAL FREAKING GAME HUE! HE HAS E A R N E D IT!!!
I pity the Colts defense, because this is game three, and the Steelers and Ravens defense were not only talented, but insideously diabolical. Coleman aside, these linemen are all seasoned veterans, and the "gelling" stuff won't take that long.
Kizer just downright sucked vs the Ravens (as Rodney Hoganfield demonstrated), but later in preseason and vs the Steelers was pretty good. Why would you expect him to suck vs the Colts?
Jacoby Brissett is a lot like RG3, except he's shiftier on the run. His physical talent is off the charts, but...ahem...he is not Big Bird, let alone Big Ben.
The consensus of ESPN writers says the Browns go 0-16 again.
That's amazing...I can't handle this anymore okbye
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