Browns vs Titans: Titans are in Deep Doodoo. 2019 Browns have a QB, and are massively upgraded. DEAL with it!!!

I can't wait for the home opener.  Can you?

I really like that Myles Garrett used the phrase "bloodbath" to describe what this Browns' Defensive Line can do.

And it can this sunday, as, in addition to LT Taylor Lewan MIA, two other starters (including RT Jack Conklin) are not at 100%.

The Titans Offensive Line wasn't very good in pass protection to begin with, either.  It's a very bad matchup for the Titans (just the facts, man).

But the Titans have a 247 lb freak running back and a microbe waterbug RB and can run the ball with the best of them.  

As my last post outlines, the Titans (having no choice) will have to run and play "small ball" passing-wise.

It's critical that the Browns stifle that running game immediately (if not sooner), because if they don't, play action will work for the Titans.

Some of you don't get that yet:  If an offense is running over a defense, the defense has no choice but to stack the box, play more zone, and leave their free safety on an island.

I just found out from somebody (maybe Terry Pluto) that "Mister Downhill" Henry excels running outside.

Try not to fill in any blanks here -snap-snap- still with me?

Derrick Henry isn't shifty or quick, but has amazing straight-line speed for anybody within 20 lbs of him.  Speed is all that matters when you're trying to run outside.

This could spell trouble for the Browns' defense.  We can wish that Hue Jackson was running the Titans' offense, but these Coaches won't be running G-power and sending Henry up the middle all day.

Henry has the speed to escape all the defensive linemen to the "edge".  The Browns front 4 should seal off all the cutback lanes, and push him to the sidelines, but he can still get past them.

At that point, linebackers and DBs are ideally converging, but he can run any one or 2 over.

I'm simplifying this, as I know I've already got you on the edge of a coma...ok sorry:

Hue Jackson is not the Titans' Head Coach or OC, so the Titans will tighten their chinstraps and attack the Browns' outside with Henry.  

They hope he won't be touched or rerouted, and can just "curve" vertical at full speed, and run right over Randall and co, see?

My inexplicable communications errors with the Browns continue, so I ask you guys to tell Steve Wilks for me:

1: Don't blitze from outside (except when it's obvious).

2: Blitze inside (with DBs instead of LBs) on neutral downs here and there.

Steve, you need to screw those handoffs to Derrick Henry up (as well as, of course, beating the crap out of Mariota).

Beat Mariota to the handoff.  Force Henry to run horizontal instead of diagonal.  He's dead meat if he has to slow down or make sharp cuts, after all, so duh.

3: You can run more zone (or at least off-man) outside until you have a safe lead.

Steve, you need that zone early to keep Henry (and that little bastid Dion Lewis) in front of everybody, and the inside (("run")) blitzes to generally disrupt that backfield and stop that monster Derrick Henry before he can get his mojo.

That's it for what you guys need to tell Steve Wilks until this communications glitch is resolved.

Speaking more generally to you people (and Terry Pluto), I have used Rashard Higgins, Chubb, and the Browns' defense (variously) on my inaugural 10-25 cent Draftkings lottery ticket tournament entries (and Delanie Walker too dammit).

Higggins in the slot vs (ex-Brown) lilipution Buster Skrine is a severe mismatch, for the very reason why Higgins is being used in the slot.

Buster Skrine is your ideal nickel corner, intended to match up with your Edelmans and other little shrimps.  Skrine can run circles around Higgins, but he is still almost 5" taller, and Baker Mayfield is his Quarterback.

Not Kizer. Not Hoyer...

Most of you still don't get it.  Nevermind Browns 30 Titans 17.

Okbye