The guys on Myles Garrett Radio are (rightfully) outraged at Myles Garrett bashing Rudolph on the head with his helmet. This might just be the ugliest thing I have ever seen in football.
Obviously, Garrett lost his damn mind, but there's no excuse for this, and the least he can expect is to be suspended for the rest of the season and fined out the yinyang.
Anger management counseling too, of course.
I can't defend Myles Garrett. He's a very smart guy, and can't plead dumbassitude or growing up in a war zone or whatever. He was fine until he reached over Rudolph's defenders with that potentially deadly weapon.
But Mason Rudolph: Look up "cowardly" in a dictionary, ok? Words mean things.
Bush league? Absolutely. Vicious and just plain wrong too.
However, as usual the talking heads are piling on. This is what Witch-hunters and lynch mobs do.
Some compare Garrett to psychopath Vontez Burfict, and say he should be banned from the NFL for life.
Take a pill! Burfict is a serial offender (like Steelers Head Enabler Mike Tomlin's James Harrison was for several years). Garrett has no pattern of psychopathic behavior; this amounts to a first offense in the third year of his NFL carreer.
Others (like Bob Poppa) harp on the Browns being the most penalized team in the NFL, with the most ejections, and blame Freddie Kitchens for this lack of discipline.
Well, since the bye week, this young team improved dramaticly for most of 3 games, which Poppa ignores.
As for leading the league in ejections, yeah NOW they do, after Damarius Randall was (rightfully) ejected for his deliberate helmet-to-helmet hit on Smith-Schuster, and then so was Garrett, and...Ogunjobi?
Prior to the Steelers game, was there more than one ejection?
No, Bob Poppa, this isn't something else to bash Freddie Kitchens for. I get it:
We're pack-hunters, and instinctively go after anything injured, but Poppa, Haley et al are getting just plain silly as they try to use this incident to pile more bullshit on a beleagured Head Coach who just beat the Steelers.
Freddie Kitchens is not Mike Tomlin, and there is zero evidence that he enables or encourages cheap shots or...well the Garrett incident is different...
And there are mitigating circumstances, like Rudolph chasing after Garrett and trying to pull his helmet off first; at this point Garrett was under attack by 3 Steelers.
By the way, while the rules mandate punishment, I can't blame Clowney for going apeshit on Garrett there. Imagine if somebody had clubbed Mayfield in the head with his helmet.
Still, you guys should check these opinions by former NFL players in re this incident. (No I mean it: Click that link!)
Anyway now the Garrettless (and maybe Randalless) Browns get to go to Heinz Field for the rematch 2 sundays from now oh goodie!
Well listen: The Cleveland Browns are the better team, and in a fair fight should beat the Steelers again in their own back yard.
But the referees...uh-oh!
They'll look like gunslingers at high noon with their hands hovering over their flags (and their whistles in their mouths).
It will be ok if they screw each team equally (I guess), but we know better, don't we? In Pittsburgh, the refs will favor the Steelers.
The crew that officiated this game was excellent and fair. They made a few mistakes, but they were honest mistakes.
But even this excellent, apparently not corrupt crew might engineer a Steelers victory in the rematch.
Thank you Damarius Randall and Myles Garrett!
The guys on Myles Garrett Radio repeatedly bemoaned the fact that all they were talking about was Myles Garrett (and Freddie Kitchens lack of control) instead of the fact that the Browns beat the Steelers convincingly.
But they DID, ok? Even moreso than they stomped the Ravens a few weeks ago.
Mayfield/Beckham clicked better than they did last week; that's finally coming together.
Chubb is a given, but Hunt delivered in the clutch a few times as well (in various ways).
The defense dominated in every phase, and Mayfield was efficient (trending up again).
The Steelers are the third team the Browns have played since the bye with a top 5 defense, and again their offense scored enough points to win...including a couple red zone tds this time.
Losing Garrett will hurt a lot, and they might lose Randall as well (that was a deliberate and flagrant cheap shot, homies. Deal with it).
But Olivier Vernon should be back, and the Steve Wilks's secondary is very flexible. He'll have to blitze more, but his blitzes so far (especially Mack Wilson) have been successful.
Takitaki showed up, and did a great job too (small sample size, but encouraging).
The Browns should beat the Dolphins at home, despite the fact that the Fins have been more competitive than expected in 2019.
The Chubb/Hunt backfield and Landry/OBJ core WR combo represent one of the scariest skill player cores in the NFL.
It baffles me that the talking heads remain substantially oblivious to Kareem Hunt, and seem to consider him a "sidekick" to Nick Chubb. I mean wow. Just...wow.
And Rodney Kitchensfield has everything to do with why this new offense which beat the Bills and the Steelers DO YOU U N D E R S T A N D?
That's right: I am officially back on the Freddie Kitchens train (ie on his side).
SINCE THE BYE WEEK and UNTIL THE STEELERS GAME penalties and screwups went way down, and Freddie (not Monken imo) integrated Kareem Hunt masterfully.
See this shotgun? I know a lot of you folks. This man deserves a fair trial. You need to go home and sober up, and let justice take it's course. He is innocent until proven guilty, and I will defend him with that in mind.
I still think Freddie Kitchens might well earn an extention into 2020.
Anyway quit piling on him, like he told Randall to---good grief can't you separate the pre-bye games from the post-bye ones and see the differences? Can't you THINK?
Pre-bye, Freddie Kitchens looked horrible, but the Browns were significantly more disciplined and efficient since then (while opposing 3 top 5 defenses)---
It's INSANE to ignore this and blame Freddie for Garrett's melt-down omg you people are sick nevermind okbye.
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