First quarter: Not exactly an exciting game
Browns and Bears start three-and-out, three-and-out, three-and-out, three-and-out. … NFL action at its finest. … Bears break the streak by kicking a field goal with 2:20 left. … Derek Anderson just threw an interception. To this point he is 1-for-5 for four yards and an interception. … The quarter ends with very little action. … Chicago 6, Cleveland 0.
Second quarter: Another non-competitive effort
Fumbled handoff between Anderson and Jamal Lewis leads to turnover. … It's a good thing Anderson gives the Browns their best chance to move the ball. … Turnover leads to third Chicago field goal. … Bears struggles in red zone are real. … As Bears drive, Anderson is 1-for-6 for four yards and one interception. That would be a zero rating. … Browns defense seems to be wearing down. … Touchdown, Chicago — but the Browns have time for a two-minute drill. … In a surprise, it goes nowhere. … Anderson's quarterback rating the first half: 0.0. … Chicago 16, Cleveland 0, and it's as one-sided as it sounds.
Third quarter: Time for the miracle comeback?
Nowhere for Anderson to go but up in the quarterback rating department this half. … Twelve-yard punt sets Browns up in good field position. .. Three Lewis runs move ball to first and goal at the 1. … Anderson barely scores on second down. … But the extra point is blocked. … Browns are running the ball fairly well this half. … Now they must waste a timeout. … Which sets up a punt. … Josh Cribbs landed awkwardly on the return. … Bears are playing as bad as the Browns. … It's a brutal game. … Cribbs back in. … Browns get the ball a their 38. Another chance to make a game of things. … Browns complete a first-down pass and Steve Heiden fumbles. … Touchdown, Chicago. To look at Derek Anderson's stats is to defy all logic and reason: 2-for-11 for 13 yards. … That's 13 yards. Thirteen. In almost three quarters of an NFL game. … Chicago 23, Cleveland 6.
Fourth quarter: Another blowout loss
Hoo hoo! A couple completions. … Browns go on fourth-and-1 and THROW. Incomplete. Heiden calls for interference. … No call. … Bears ball. … Interception gives it back to the Browns. … This is one bad football game. Teams just find a way to play down to the Browns level. … Anderson finally throws a good pass to Mohamed Massaquoi and he fumbles after the reception. … Anderson throws an interception that is returned for a touchdowna and with 3:02 left and the Browns down 30-6 Brady Quinn is in. … You may regurgitate the chips and dip at this point.
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The only hope for this team is a "we are Marshall" on the return flight. Unfunny and disrespectful yes…. but also true.
no, that's pretty funny.
Tell me again why the Beacon Journal decided to let you put everything on your expense account since Friday? Your editor won't let Thomas go on West Coast road trips, but even though you're no longer on the beat, you get three free days in a happenin' town to cover the football equivalent of the Washington Generals coached by the football equivalent of a fat Red Klotz. Must be nice.
that was pretty low of the paper to stiff george on that trip. lebron is truly the only hope of the city yet the cavs aren't important enough to send the beat writer to watch.
Pat,
why don't you just recycle all of your live blog entries and 1st and 10 columns from here on out, it will save you lots of time and trouble.
Oh, and Derek Anderson: 10.5 QB rating. Ladies and gentlemen, your 2009 Cleveland Browns!
I tried to avoid watching the game, but my morbid curiousity got the better of me and I watched the last five minutes of the game. I am positive that QB Anderson is the devil. I've never seen such a bad professional QB. Frye was a better QB. That movie Groundhog's Day with Bill Murray is same story of the current Browns franchise since its first game ten years ago. New players every other year, but the same storyline every Sunday.
Dad, can you bring me some deep dish Chicago style pizza home with you?
The Browns are really getting the creative flow going with headline writers everywhere. They're whipping out the thesauruses to figure out new ways to describe the complete awfulness of this team:
"bumbling browns", "lowly browns", "NFL patsy", "Bears are the joke, Browns are the punchline", "pathetic", "inept"…
So when is Mangini going to be fired?
I would welcome run Metcalf up the middle about now
I'd be remiss if I didn't ask all of the Anderson Fan Clubbers (yeah, they're in hiding)…."THIS" is the guy you whined about all training camp, pre-season and thru 2.5 games? THIS is the guy you wanted to lead your Browns? THIS? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
(I know, most of those D.A. apologists litter the PD boards, which make it completely unreadable…but there are a quite a few here in Akron, too, though they'd probably deny it now.) ha ha ha ha ha
when the anderson apologists are done defending the worst qb in the nfl i'd like to hear what the mangini apologists have to say.
It wouldn't have made one iota of difference, but for all the knuckleheads who attacked folks for calling a spade a spade with the pathetic Edwards trade, I was watching the Jets game today, and lordy did Edwards have a great touchdown catch. A one-hand catch, and then unreal effort and strength to make it over the goal line. Now, compare and contract this with the Browns new "#1," who I believe had approximately one catch and 26 turnovers today. Which is exactly how I said he'd perform after Mangini made that brilliant giveaway in exchange for a meal of beans and Stuckey. Then I was nipped at the ankles by a bunch of knucklehead Pomeranian homers. Seriously, these new guys couldn't run a pattern and beat my pet 110-pound African Spurred Tortoise down a sideline. And what's even more sad and pathetic about this fact, my tortoise has had a respiratory condition for the past two weeks.
I mean compare and contrast, not compare and contract. Although compare and contract might not be a bad idea, either. As in contraction, eliminate the Browns franchise from the NFL.
Here's another one from Bill Livingston:
"blazing, toxic trash heap of a team"
And the Jets lost yet again. We'll never know if Massaquoi is any good until they get a QB who can get him the ball.
Unfortunately Edwards would never have made that play here because
1. We don't have a QB to get him the ball. DA and Quinn both have stunk it up, let's be honest.
2. He stopped trying hard here. Now that he gives a crap again he's making big plays. Not sure what you expect Alan, let's hold onto a guy who's become a cancer and gives inconsistent effort because he has "talent". Even if he chooses not to use said "talent."
RE: Mangini
Somewhere, Bill Belichick is laughing his butt off.
the jets lost but sanchez looked pretty good. the kid is going to be a good qb. the jets might not be 2010 super bowl champions but they'll be enjoying the nice qb mangini gifted them for quite a while.
dwhit, they had both Sanchez and Edwards, so I don't get your point. And, now they don't have either.
And how could Edwards be a cancer affecting the team when the entire Browns roster is a corpse? Honestly. At least cancer consists of living cells.
Sanchez will win a Super Bowl as soon as Al Gore's global warming reaches NYC.
If CBS can have a Favre-Cam, can we petition ESPN for a Pontbriand-Cam for the MNF game?
Brian D., why do you take logic to such ridiculous extremes? Who's talking about a Super Bowl? The Browns can't even pass for a touchdown, let alone barely pass for a reception. Sure, the QBs suck, but the receivers suck even worse. The sole reason anybody other than Edwards caught passes is because Edwards was double-covered. Massaquoi is the Browns' Daniel Gibson. In the absence of somebody else getting double-coverage, he's worthless.
brian, now you're just being dumb. sanchez looks a hell of a lot better than the trash the browns put under center.
I'll admit the Brown's QB's, I already alluded to the fact in this post.
I'm just saying that the Sanchize isn't all that. The NY media tries to make him a superstar, but the reality is that he isn't that good.
He's 28th in the passer ratings completing 53.5 % of his passes with 8 TD's and 10 INT's. Imagine if he was playing for a team as bad as the Browns….his stats would be even worse and people would be stringing Mangini up for drafting him.
Sanchez and Braylon have one win together.
Pat did you have a chat with Randolph Lerner following today's game?
I thinnk Randolph was still celebrating Aston Villa's terribly exciting 1-1 draw with Everton yesterday in Liverpool.
Passer ratings? Who cares about passer ratings. There are so many variables and intangibles surrounding passer ratings, it's one of the most worthless stats blindly quoted by the sports media and fans in all of sports. It's right up there in the meaningless stupid statistic department along with baseball's "saves" and "holds."
wow even the national tv guys are calling for missgenies head to roll
Alan, I knew that the passer rating formula was more than you are able to comprehend, that's why I also noted his completion percentage (31st in the NFL) and interceptions thrown (3rd most in the NFL). I thought maybe you could understand those stats, but I guess I overestimated you.
Heres what Derek Anderson had to accomplish in the 1st half in order to have a 0.0 passer rating:
*a completion percentage of at most 30% (actual 22%)
*3 yards per attempt or less (actual 1.4)
*zero touchdowns (actual = 0)
*at least 9.5 percent interceptions (actual 11.1%)
You're one of those many people that loves blindly quoting stats without putting a damn thing into context. Completion percentage and interceptions? Ya think a guy taking risks and a guy playing it safe and conservative might have different stats in that regard? I could go on for hours, but the slaves to stats and don't understand things than have little meaning out of context don't have a clue no matter how much logic one puts into the discussion.
What's a quarterback's job? Answer: score points. How many points has the Jets' offense scored in the past two games alone? Tell you what, I'll save you the trouble of looking it up. 63. Which is approximately 63 more points than the Browns have scored all season. And next season he'll be better. Anderson and Quinn, on the other hand, will be backing up who knows who and who knows where.
But whatever, keep blindly defending Mangini's stupidity.
Alan,
I'm sure your aware of this, so I'll state it for everyone else's benefit:
The Jets LEAD the NFL in rushing at 177.6 YPG, that is why they are putting up any points. It just magnifies how inadequate Sanchez is that he still is awful despite opposing defenses having to worry about Thomas Jones, Leon Washington (before injury) and now Shonn Greene.
But it doesn't fit your argument so you choose to ignore it for this post.
brian, obviously you haven't watched sanchez play once. sure, his rookie year hasn't been easy but if you don't see his skills and potential then maybe you should watch aston villa with randy.
Yeah, I've seen him…seen him throw 5 interceptions and lose against a team even a crappy Browns team beat. Then again, I wasn't wearing my Big Apple-colored glasses at the time.
wow brian, you saw his worst game this year. that is all anyone needs to see to know everything about a qb. and as we all know that guys who throw five interceptions against horrible teams can never succeed. i mean, look at kurt warner who threw 5 picks against carolina yesterday. carolina? that guy will never amount to anything in the nfl!
I saw him in the last series of yesterday's game as well. With a chance to win the game on the Dolphin's 9 yard line, it was…
1. Scramble for 1 yard.
2. Fail to throw the ball away and take a sack.
3. Run backwards 15 yards and then heave the ball out of the end zone on 4th down.
brian, should i take the time you peed your pants in 3rd grade and extrapolate that incident to the rest of your life?
yesterday's game was actually a good outing by sanchez regardless of the outcome. remember, according to you braylon is horrendous and cotchery has been injured part of the year. so sanchez has had to rely on david clowney and joe nobody.
sanchez is a ROOKIE. the guy is going to make plenty of mistakes and he has. but he has shown enough already this year to justify keeping him in there and letting him get experience. some of the throws the guy is capable of have never been seen in cleveland since i started watching the browns in 1980. if his head catches up to his ability he's going to be a killer.
i'm sure you'll come up with some excuse because you can't admit when you're wrong.
If I didn't pee my pants I could have gotten Uromysitisis poisoning and died.
I've had this condition since I was eleven! I've been in and out of hospitals my whole life. I have no control over it. Doctors have told me that when I feel it, the best thing to do is just release it. Otherwise, I could die.
You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition.
hahahaha. you got me on that one.
I was unaware of that urinary tract thing. That actually explains a lot. My bad. It would have been like me arguing sports with Helen Keller using nothing but the chalkboard on the Browns' second-floor Berea chalkboard. I just now hope the blind, deaf and dumb version of PETA doesn't throw a bucket of red paint on my fur coat. And toss what's left on my jacket stuffed with duck feathers.
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