On the verge of game 3 vs the R E D S K I N S, the local guys are doing a pretty good job of analysis, but I've had quite enough of the warnings from national and Washington guys about the REDSKINS' terrifying front 7.
Excuse the hell outta me! That front 7 is about to confront the best Running Backs and Offensive Line it has faced so far.
Nor is it a conventional offense. Check my last 3 posts.
Even on 3rd and long, the Tight Ends chip the Edge guys, and Mayfield gets RID of it quickly (*burning blitzes btw*).
I also predict that Mayfield will run with the ball 3-6 times in this game.
Hey is anybody warning the REDSKINS about the Browns' front 4?
Sadly, the Browns only got Kevin Johnson back from injury (not Wilkins, Williams, or Pegleg Vernon), but Johnson is a definite upgrade in the slot and for outside depth.
Green is up from the practice squad, and should be good situationally, and Ronny Harrison should be assuming a bigger role.
Bye 4 now...
Halftime update: LB Smith and SS Joseph intercepted passes (great return by Joseph), and the Browns Offense delivered (eventually, with that help).
Patsco Postscript: The REDSKINS Defense (even without Young, who was injured early), gave the Browns' Offense hell, until well into the 4th quarter, when they seemed to have worn down.
The Browns have so far converted around 33% of their third downs, which is irritating, but here Comrade Mayfield converted two 4th and a miles (one to OBJ), but the fact that they were in those situations in the first place is also very irritating, as this game could easily have swung the other way.
Still, 3 games in after no preseason and banged up, things are looking up.
DE Porter Gustin is making his mark behind Clayborne, so the Browns have good depth at DE (even excluding Sheldon Richardson). Now, if they could just get Pegleg Vernon healthy for one game in a row thank you John Dorsey...
Is anybody surprised that Pegleg Vernon isn't healthy?
Looking back over John Dorsey's tenure as Browns' GM, it's a mixed bag full of hits and misses.
Wyatt Teller, who PFF accuses of being the best Offensive Lineman on this team through 3 games, was his guy.
Dorsey signed Kareem Hunt for peanuts. The Kizer for Randall trade was awesome. Dorsey drafted Mayfield 1st overall (jury still out there), but then Denzel Ward, Mack Wilson, Sione Takitaki, Nick Chubb, Redwine...
Dorsey signed Sheldon Richardson (and Porter Gustin, I think), so John Dorsey had a real eye for talent...except...
He traded away Jabrill Peppers, Kevin Zeitler, a first and a third round draft pick for Vernon and Beckham, both of which had missed over 40% of their carreer games to injuries, and one of which (Vernon) was over 30.
I read a dumbass article about how analytics might work "this time"--as if Zeitler, Tretter, Njoku, Ogunjobi, Peppers, DeValve etc were all bumbs, or as if Hue Jackson didn’t pick Kessler and Kizer (or you know: coach the TEAM)?!?
Be glad Dorsey was fired before he could do more damage to the cap and draft capital.
As it is, they’re paying Vernon to rehab and OBJ to be “one of the guys”, and missing Peppers and those draft picks no get this straight:
Had Paul Depodesta run this show uninterrupted, the Browns would still have Peppers and Zietler and not Vernon or Beckham; they’d have 10+mil more than they have now in cap space, and Berry could have drafted Mayfield as easily as Dorsey did.
Okbye
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