Originally Posted by
Northman
Lmao
Easy? Nah man. People are reading far too much into yesterday.
1) Allen's throw to Sutton was WAY off if not for the spectacular catch by Sutton. If that is picked, people would be losing their shit.
2) The Browns are not anywhere near what the expectations are and only further proves having a bunch of big names doesnt guarantee success. The Raiders are doing quite fine without Antonio Brown being there.
3) Congrats to Fant for finally catching a pass and the watching Brown defenders blow tackles like they did all day yesterday. I guess its a good thing that Noah finally stepped up after half a season.
4) Lindsay finally had one of his better games of the year yesterday. Prior to that he has had only 2 games where he was remotely close to 100 yds.
5) The oline still has a ton of problems and on one of Allen's sacks he actually started to fall into a fetal position before the defenders even got there. But, you could chalk that up to his first game.
6) Defensively we finally closed out a game by stopping them on 4th down twice.
7) After being called out by the former QB its only expected that Scags had to try something different and thus got a little more creative in his playcalling especially with the wildcat call.
I think people need to be careful about reading to much into the win yesterday. If not for the Browns being totally inept they may have not won the game.
Allen is still not very good. However, and this is not to debate your post as much as offer my thoughts in agreement and against some of it, or at least explain what I saw which may or may not support your stance.
1. The thing with the pass to sutton was the fact that Allen actually threw it! Sutton was not open when Allen let the ball fly. It was not a very good pass. However, Sutton is the 80/20 guy. (holy shit the catch!!! He left his feet at like the 3 yard line and landed with the ball 5 yards into the endzone WTFFFFF- WOW!!!) Joe would not throw that pass, the few times he does he does not allow sutton to try and come down with it. He throws it into the second row of the stands.
So while the pass was not on target like it should be, he threw the pass, which is what our offense has lacked. the QB actaully throwing the pass and letting the guy make a play!
2. The browns didnt really blow tackels as much as fant let his sack hang low for a play and kicked some ass! He dropped the S right away. Then with his speed and size he shook off the rest and they couldnt catch him. That was not about the browns blowing it. That was about Fant blowing them out.
3. We are as inept as the browns except we do not have the talent like they do across the board (1st rd pick overall QB, odell high first rd, landry (1st or did he go 2nd rd), Njoku 1st rd, Chubb was a 1st rd talent)....We had a 6th rd qb, udfa rb, 2nd rd wr, 5th rd wr, 1st rd te.......And we did ok. I still do not think Allen will be as good as he looked there, but I think aside from the best defenses out there we likely would have had a similar result......Just wish we could get lock out there. Allen will likely suck ass big time against the vikings in 2 weeks. Then he will also be owned by whomever we play next. Which is perfect because that will be locks time to shine and people wont call for BA when lock sucks for a bit while he learns.
The Plan at the moment:
Draft: Trade a 3rd and 6th this year to a team to move up and get a 2nd next year (this will happen).
Players I want:
Jake Ferguson (Jake Butt) or Jelani Woods or Jeremy Ruckert or Cade Otten (owen daniels) at TE- All 4th rd or later.
Troy Anderson LB 3rd/4th rd (yay Timmy!)
Neil Farrell, JR DL- run stuffer- bye purcell