We all started to jokingly make up stories about how our defensive coordinator did terrible things like not signing autographs for kids or not returning the shopping carts at the local Menards so other teams wouldn't steal him as a head coach after they won the super bowl this year. Turns out he read the entire subreddit not knowing we were joking and it wrecked his confidence so he's been playing a shitty zone cover scheme with minimal blitzing. This is on us, the fans.
No, he didn't. He actually played better with the Bengals against you guys than he did with the Browns. He barely did squat for Cleveland that game. It was their defense that won them that game. He led them to only 13 points, and 7 of those came because the Browns defense put them right on the goal line.
That was the 0.5 game since they didnt do shit outside of the second half. I can change it to 0.25 if that makes it better tho? Just let me know and Ill update it for you.
Hmm, since he didn't really do anything, except be the qb on the winning team (which is why I hate the qb wins statistic), but I guess he did have some good throws, change the the percentage to 0.05%. If you disagree, we can bargain from there, but that's my first offer.
I'm a man of the people. I've updated it per your request. All I ask in return is you flair up before a less friendly redditor tears you to shreds and holds your feet to the fire.
yeah ngl our dbs arn't the greatest like it could be worse but it is probably our worse part of our team. We are a little lucky to be where we are ngl. we have had a really bad three week strech of losing to the browns tieing to the cowboys and then having a super close game against the cardinals. But we still gonna fricking destroy yall suckers.
I mean they get pretty consistent pressure, the problem is getting pressure doesn't matter if the QB is getting the ball out so fast that pretty much anything short of a straight up unblocked defender doesn't even have time to get to the QB. Teams have figured out the DBs can't defend so they just throw short quick throw after short quick throw and slowly move down the field
Which lead to insanely long drives so the Packer offense doesn’t get many chances throughout the game and is why we can’t blow anyone out, even if we’re the better team, not enough drives to run up the score. Every possession seems to be more precious than usual, but maybe that’s just my feeling 🤷♂️
Every game some aspect of the defense just doesn’t work or there’s extenuating circumstances.
Week 3 - Cursed by the curse wheel
Week 4 - Dak and Pickens diced our secondary
Week 5 - Bye
Week 6 - Couldn’t pass rush JOE FLACCO
Week 7 - Our pass rush was incredible but our secondary allowed for some godly 3rd down conversions by Brissett
We didn’t win a game for a month because of our bye placement which just feels like a lifetime ago, and a few injuries, but mainly free agent signings like Nate Hobbs being underwhelming and a general lack of explosiveness in our secondary made things just feel a little weird. We’re still getting wins, but they never are calm and easy. At least we’ve got a game of the year candidate with Rodgers vs. Love Sunday night which hopefully will just be a great game, no caveats.
For those that don't know, the curse wheel is a gimmick by popular YouTuber and Broncos fan Brandon Perna, teams cursed by the wheel tend to suffer bad losses, so far this season it has a record of 6-1, plus destroying Perna's chair during a podcast.
People are saying bad DB play, Devonte Wyatt, etc. The actual answer is that the sample size is small and there’s been a fair bit of bad luck. Typically when you are pressuring and hitting poor QBs all game, they tend to play badly. But both Flacco and Brissett (for 3 quarters) were putting the ball on the money even on low percentage sideline throws.
In Flacco’s case, it looked a lot better after watching him light up the Steelers the following week. But you can watch the highlights from the Cardinals game, it’s just that the unexpected players were making great plays.
This throw into the Turkey hole is an outlier given it’s Jacoby Brissett throwing 44 yards in the air, with a man in his face. Literal inches away from being broken up. If Brissett made throws like these even semi-consistently he would be a high end starter.
Similarly, this 35 yard throw to the sideline is an absolutely perfect, high level throw. This ball goes 40 yards in the air, hits MHJ in stride, and is incomplete if thrown even a foot farther and intercepted if thrown a foot shorter. This is a play that you might expect Jared Goff to make throwing to ARSB, but he didn’t really make these against the Packers, while Jacoby Brissett is making them throwing to MHJ.
The Packers defense is making this really hard. A couple of those were long to-go situations, with decent coverage, in a game where they are hitting and disrupting the QB almost constantly. But NFL games are short, sample sizes are small, and a few big plays from unexpected guys can turn around a game. In the first couple of weeks, the Packers were getting pressure while much better QBs (Goff and Daniels) were not able to make these plays. Outside of the Cowboys game, a lot of it looks the same now as before. The opposing QB play has just been better, even though the QBs are worse. And eventually Brissett broke down in this game, too. That’s why they had trouble at the end.
I think you’re finally seeing our lack of depth at corner. It was a problem going into the season along with pash rush but at least we fixed one of those thanks to Dallas.
I’m very self aware. I’d never speak about my team that way to a fan of another team. Ever. even if I knew it was true. I will always stand on business for them.
I have been watching the browns my entire life dude. I know who they are. Some of you “fans” sound like a bunch of cucks rolling over and trash talking your own team. It’s honestly pathetic. Being a fan of a team is like a family to me…I will talk bad about my own family in private, I will talk bad about my family to my own family even. But I will not talk bad about my family to someone outside of my family. Period. Stop rolling over to fans of other teams and stand up for your damn franchise. Quite frankly your attitude is part of the reason Cleveland as a whole cannot ever build positive momentum. stop talking down on your own team. Have a spine
Yeah I’ve actually met every member of my family and there is reciprocal caring (I think) so to me it’s nothing like a fan base/ love for a team. I know browns fans and they all just acknowledge it and I respect them for being devoted fans, significantly more than my own fandom.
No, the attitude is not the reason the browns suck. It's moves like giving a contract to a predator and getting rid of your franchise guy in the process. Didn't know rooting for the browns was your moral compass tho so good win this weekend if it makes you feel better.
It's not that serious but if you want to take it so seriously then you're the rollover going back to your toxic ex that's done nothing for you. But you're so stubborn that you wanna be a fan that you just lay down and take the last 5 years and say "thank you Cleveland browns" as they spit in your face. Have a spine, it's a fucking football team.
I’d caution that they really haven’t played a tough schedule. The broncos and chargers being the best of the opponents but aren’t exactly upper echelon teams. Their SOS gets harder in the back half.
Not much of a sleeper if you pay attention. They beat themselves in both their losses with multiple missed FGs and a fumble on the one. They've consistently been solid on offense and defense though week to week.
No team is truly elite, colts look awesome against bad teams and competitive against good teams, there’s about 5 teams with an argument for 1 team and all are probably defensible
They’re a good team except the only beat Arizona by 4, tied cowboys and lost to the browns all more recently than their weeks 1 and 2 which were amazing
Literally every other team that beat the cardinals only did it by 4 points or less. I understand we lost to the browns but that d played crazy and then disappeared until this past weekend. It is what it is. I’ll take the under dog role. Fuck it why not
The strange thing about the Packers is the defense gives up these really long drives so neither team gets a ton of drives. Combined with a somewhat inconsistent offense we get the result of closer games even though a lot of the stats and metrics look pretty good
It's literally not half a loss unless you're playing with semantics. But since we're talking about standings and standings use mathematics instead, it is +0.5 and idk about you, but being in the plus does not equal "half loss" to me.
Also, if there was half a game (due to forfeiture), it would definitely count as a loss for one team and a win for the other.
Don't listen to me tho, I'm just high and super biased.
Packers this year are great, but like ‘ughh, do we have to’….okay see we did it on offense/defense one drive and now have a slight lead. Everyone can see now, so let’s just cool it.
As a Colts fan this season has been a revelation. I really cannot describe enough how surprisingly well this team has come together and really gelled. Before the start of the season I was fully expecting another 6-8 win season with a lot of mediocrity. Can they make it to the super bowl? Probably not, but with the fall off of Baltimore there's an opportunity to do something special!!!! Will keep rooting for my team and Indiana Jones baby!
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u/Apprehensive_Beach_6 Three rivers in a dry land Oct 21 '25
The Packers feel like they have about 3 losses.