I’m not making excuses for the Browns, but I honestly didn’t expect them to be competitive this past Sunday against the Broncos. 1
This team was in trouble when T.J. Ward got hurt and when they decided to cut Dimitri Patterson. Add in all the extraneous chatter this week from the locker room about impending change, and no amount of “if” in those quotes could dissuade me from thinking this team was at least distracted and probably just finished with the year.
In a lot of ways, Shurmur might deserve some credit for at least one thing 2 this season, and that is that his team played hard almost to the end. And they might have too if not for the injuries and frustration in how they saw their three game winning streak ended by Kirk Cousins and the Redskins a week ago.
Regardless of the reasoning, the Browns never should have cut off their nose to spite their face cutting Dimitri Patterson this week. Considering the experiment of Buster Skrine starting earlier in the season, it wasn’t wo...
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Waiting For Next Year:
PLAYERS:
T.J. Ward,
Dimitri Patterson,
Kirk Cousins,
Buster Skrine,
Sheldon Brown,
Tom Heckert,
Peyton Manning,
Trent Richardson,
Brandon Weeden,
Heath Miller,
Maurkice Pouncey,
Troy Polamalu,
Ben Roethlisberger,
Pat Shurmur
TEAMS: Cleveland Browns, Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers
TEAMS: Cleveland Browns, Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers
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