Post-Game Thread Browns 28-Titans 14

Why get that close to the receiver at the line and not bump him?

When I saw that replay I just thought, this is why you aren't a full time starter.

 

We explain this to you 15 times and you still don't get it. The stats count and you can feel good Mariota showed leadership and toughness to get us back in it just as you could say the same about Mett in games last year. The DIFFERENCE is that I'm NOT saying Mariota holds this record or that record based on playing a prevent style D. There are positives to it, but I'm not anointing him anything based on stats in garbage time.....just like I don't bow to Mett's number when the vast majority of his throws are in garbage time and it's a small sample as well.

There are positives and negatives to look at, even in garbage time. But you don't get to play garbage time for most of the year and think you're Dan Marino!

Marcus has some things to clean up but as I predicted, our OL is getting him killed....just like Mett and all of our Qbs got knocked out of games due to the OL.

None of our Qbs will survive too many more games like that!

 

I don't think the team was ready to play today. There were a couple of guys who showed signs of this or wanted to be some where else. But they ran into a motivated buzz saw in the Browns. I kind of thought we were going to see this play from Mariota last week when I predicted an ugly victory. We got it this week instead. He looked closer to Joey Harrington than he did Aaron Rodgers which we saw last week. Protection aside, he wasn't very good. Under through his recievers, through behind them, couldn't hold onto the football. Even Beckham had to leap way up just to catch the football. And just wasnt very good. The accuracy problem was one Joey had years ago. With that said, he prob isn't as good as he played last week and he isn't as poor as he played today. He needs better protection. If he can't get it, he will be ruined. Similar to David Carr.

In the end, it's a balancing act. He will be out to make a statement to you the home fans next week and expect him to play well as long as he's healthy enough to be able to do what he did last week. Where he was phenominal. I still believe in him as quarterback as much as I did on day one. But he's going to need protection. Bottom line. Are you listening line?

 

A trillion penalties & crap field position killed us all game. Not to mention Coty getting beat deep twice. However, as if been saying all preseason, this offensive line will be our downfall. Which really sucks after spending two early first rounders on offensive linemen.

 

He had some bad throws for sure. At the end of the day though he's a rookie in his 2nd ever game. And he got zero help from the rest of the offense (and defense for that matter).

 

They were certainly listless to start the game.

 

I see a couple of you touching on the fumble problem. He needs to take care of the football for sure. But I seen numerous qb's this week having problems controlling it not just him.

 

Yeah I agree not adding that help over the top was pretty stupid. LeBeau/Horton should know better

 

What they eat don't make us ****

 

Some of that's on the line, but he needs to work on it