The Browns notched their first preseason win last night, bouncing back from that horrible performance against Green Bay last week to defeat the Lions, 27-10, at home.
The Browns were hitting on all cylinders last night. The offense looked good. The defense looked good. The special teams looked good. But, as the future Mrs. Blawg Pound reminded me last night during my excitement, "It's Detroit."
Ah yes, the voice of reason. It's Detroit. The first team since 1976 to finish a season winless came into Cleveland Browns Stadium last night with a rookie quarterback and the Browns had their way with them.
It's a good news, bad news situation. The good news is, the Browns looked much better last night than they did a week ago and showed much improvement. The bad news, it was against Detroit ... a team they better have beaten. So, basically, the good news is: the Browns aren't the worst team.
I know I'm trying to stay optimistic this preseason, but I do have to keep my excitement over winning last night in check. After all, it was Detroit.
Probably the biggest news is that Derek Anderson, who got the start at QB last night, posted some good numbers and seemed to have bounced back from his do-nothing performance against the Packers. Brady Quinn, in limited action, posted OK numbers. Nothing special.
Unfortunately, the story during the next few days will probably be how Derek has pulled even with Brady and the competition is in overdrive. Those Notre Dame-haters, er, I mean Derek Anderson Fans will be making all kinds of noise now.
I just hope no one forgets, it was Detroit ...
Go Browns!
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Even though it was the Lions last night they came into this game having won their first preseason game against a playoff team, Atlanta Falcons. However, preseason doesn't matter since last year the Lions went 4-0 in preseason then failed to win a game in the regular season or the Giants during their superbowl year in 2007 went 1-3 in the preseason.
ReplyDeleteWhat I got out of last nights game was the number of penalties and mistakes the Browns committed. It was unacceptable. The worst offender being Eric Wright. His antics after his interception cost the Browns 4 points. We had first and goal from the 5 but instead Wright decides to make this an individual game and celebrate in the endzone costing us 15 yards and great feild position. NO ONE on the Browns have a right to act like that. Only few players in the NFL have a right to act that way and they don't because they don't have too. Mangini needs to get control of this team. He needs to say something like this, "YOU PLAY FOR THE BROWNS! YOU HAVEN'T EARNED A THING! YOU SUCK AND UNTIL YOU WIN SOMETHING ACT LIKE A PROFESSIONAL INSTEAD OF A JACK @$$."
"Yeah it was the Lions"... since when do wins need to be qualified? When the Browns lose, did you hear Green Bay say, "yeah, but its the Browns"?
ReplyDeleteIts preseason - and they looked a lot better than they did the week before. I'd like to see more consistent playing time for the QBs instead of switching every series like they did in week one, let the fellas build up a rhythm. Maybe even into the third quarter.
I was very happy that the Browns beat the Lions. Even though it is "just the Lions," I wasn't sure the Browns were better than them until now!
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