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03 Nov 2011

Wherefore art though Romeo?

Guess which Browns coach has the best record in the month of November since Marty Schottenheimer was looking for a gleam along the lakefront?

That’s right, old friend Romeo Crennel.

According to a story in the Canton Repository, Schottenheimer was 14-8 in November as Browns coach, since then things have been not so friendly to Browns coaches.

Crennel tops the list at 7-10, followed by Bill Belichick (6-15), Butch Davis (5-10), Bud Carson (2-4-1), Chris Palmer (2-6) and Eric Mangini (2-6).

Current coach Pat Shurmur has a chance starting Sunday in Houston to make his own mark. After the game with the Texans (5-3), the Browns have home games with St. Louis (1-6) and Jacksonville (2-6) and an away tilt with Cincinnati (5-2).

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Speaking of the Browns and their upcoming opponents, Grantland did a mid-season report on the AFC and had some interesting items about the teams that Cleveland will be facing in the upcoming weeks.

The Baltimore Ravens have 25 sacks through seven games, the second-highest total in football. Last year, the Ravens had 27 sacks all season. Ben Rothlisberger just soiled himself.

The Cincinnati Bengals haven’t lost a fumble on offense all season and have managed to grab 13 of the 18 fumbles in their games this year. The fumble luck and short fields have helped Cincinnati’s limited offense to the best average starting field position in football. That’s not going to continue and it will be fun to watch the Bengals crash back to earth in the second half of the season.

Eight games into the season and Pittsburgh’s defense has just two interceptions and one fumble recovery. The Steelers three takeaways are the fewest for any team in NFL history after eight games. After they play the Ravens this week, Pittsburgh’s schedule turns pillow soft, with four games against the Bengals and Browns, two games against the NFC West and a game against the Chiefs.

Since 2000, teams have thrown for fewer than 100 yards in a game 363 times; Jacksonville’s Blaine Gabbert has failed to throw for 100 yards in three consecutive games. That has happened only four times since 2000; can you guess the most recent? Yep, Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn pulled off that feat of offensive ineptitude in 2009.

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With No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama ready for a showdown on Saturday, Chris Dufresne at The Los Angeles Times points out that the loser shouldn’t get a rematch in the BCS title game.

And he’s right.

If the loser gets another shot and they win the rematch, why should that game carry more weight than Saturday’s tilt? Plus, as much as we love watching SEC football, there are other conferences out there. You can’t shutout other legitimate contenders and deny them a chance at Saturday’s winner (presuming they win out the rest of the year).

Thankfully, that potential list of other contenders won’t include anyone from the Big Ten.

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Finally, Simon Jenkins at The Guardian has some fun with the silliness of Daylight Savings Time. (h/t EPL Talk)

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02 Nov 2011

Browns need to know when to hold ’em

We’ve been a little behind on our reading so it was just in the past couple of days that we read the Sports Illustrated article about how San Francisco’s Alex Smith has turned into a viable NFL quarterback – at least through the early part of the season.

In the article (written after the 49ers win over Detroit), Jim Trotter points out how a simpler game plan calls for Smith to do less, which means he doesn’t have to force things or take as many chances. “With this coaching staff and this system, the way it’s built, it’s just take the plays that are there,” Smith said in the article.

The seventh-year quarterback is also helped by his offensive line, where three of the five starters are first-round picks, and a running game that is sixth-best in the league after averaging 188.5 yards per game in October.

Reading that got us thinking again about The Colt McCoy Question, mainly wondering if the Browns will know when to cut ties with McCoy, if that day ever comes around.

Solid offensive line? Strong running game? Simpler offensive plays? Sounds like a blueprint the Browns would consider following to help develop McCoy.

Of course, a season-ending injury to guard Eric Steinbach forced rookie Jason Pinkston into the lineup perhaps before he was ready. And right tackle Tony Pashos’ play has reminded fans of John St. Clair.

Same with the running game. Injuries have stalled Peyton Hillis and Montario Hardesty, meaning the Browns may very well line up with Chris Ogbonnaya and Thomas Clayton as their running backs on Sunday in Houston.

Those injuries have conspired against the Browns and contributed to McCoy not making as much progress this year as many had hoped for.

And let’s not forget the wide receiver play.

It’s still possible, of course, that even if the Browns surround McCoy with talent that he won’t be the answer, but now is not the time to make that call.

The Browns have been searching for a quarterback since trading away Bernie Kosar. They’ve tried young quarterbacks, veteran quarterbacks, benching quarterbacks after a couple of games only to make them the starter again later in the season, and none of it has worked out.

While we don’t expect – or want – the Browns to take seven years to make a determination on McCoy (but really, after 47 years without a title what’s another five years?), Smith offers another good lesson about not making hasty decisions over the quarterback position.

Because he works for a morning newspaper and we write for the Internet equivalent of the evening edition, Terry Pluto made the same points in today’s paper.

Of course, not everyone shares our same opinion, but that’s what makes sports in this town such a spicy topic.

(Photo by The Associated Press)

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02 Nov 2011

Browns continue to prune dead wood

The Cleveland Browns continued the process of pruning away the dead wood left behind by former coach Eric Mangini, releasing Brian “Blutarsky” Robiskie on Wednesday.

A second round pick in 2009 – the 36th player selected – Robiskie finishes his Browns career with 39 catches for 441 yards and three touchdowns in 32 games.

And he probably had the most Blutarsky lines – 0 catches, 0 yards – of any active wide receiver in the history of the NFL.

The Browns made the move after signing running back Thomas Clayton.

Mangini’s one and only draft where he was in charge has had a lasting impact on the Browns – and not in a good way. In addition to Robiskie, Mangini wasted a second-round pick on linebacker David Veikune and under-performing wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi.

And to think the Browns could have selected LeSean McCoy and Mike Wallace with those second-round picks.

There’s little doubt that draft set the team back, leaving current general manager Tom Heckert with even more holes to fill.

Hopefully this serves as a lesson to those Browns fans who think the team should draft players simply because they played at Ohio State. The Browns need football players – regardless of where they went to school.

Oh well, maybe Robiskie can team up with former Ohio State quarterback and NFL washout Troy Smith in the UFL.

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01 Nov 2011

Browns find no San Francisco treat

We knew going into the 2011 season that things could get rough for the Browns this year.

When you are rebuilding a franchise that is coming off consecutive 5-11 seasons, and has won only 14 games in the past three years under two different regimes, things aren’t going to get fixed over night.

If the Browns were a TV show, they would be Hoarders, and you have to clean out the dead cats, moldy food and collection of cheap tschotskes before you can start fixing anything else.

But we didn’t expect them to be quite this pathetic on offense.

Against the 49ers, the Browns tried once again to win the game the hard way – no need to score any points in the first or third quarter – and, just like in Oakland a few weeks ago, they came up short, falling to 3-4 on the season after a 20-10 loss to San Francisco.

For the seventh consecutive game (aka the entire season), the Browns were held without a touchdown in the first and third quarters. On the year, the Browns have been outscored 44-3 in the first quarter and 29-6 in the third quarter.

What the hell is going on around here?

“Our margin for error on offense is very small,” coach Pat Shurmur said after the game. “That’s not an excuse. That’s the reality. We have to hit on everything. We just do.

“We have to fight for every yard. We can’t make mistakes, and if we do make a mistake, we have to overcome it. We’ve struggled right now to overcome penalties.”

On the one hand, it should probably come as no surprise the Browns struggled on Sunday. They were down to their third-string running back after Montario Hardesty left with a calf injury, were without (by default) No. 1 wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi, and are still playing an overmatched Tony Pashos at right tackle and Jason Pinkson (rookie fifth-round pick) and Shawn Lauvao (second year third-round pick) at guard.

And things are only getting worse now that Hardesty is going to be out for a while with a moderate tear of a medial gastroc in his right leg.

That’s not going to help the running game, which currently ranks 29th in yards per game (87.6), 30th in yards per carry (3.2) and last in touchdowns (two).

“I know Brownstown is really upset, but one thing they can be excited about is our effort,” Josh Cribbs said in published reports. “I hope back home they won’t get into a frenzy like the world’s going to end with this loss.”

It’s true, the team doesn’t give up. The Browns cut San Francisco’s lead to 17-10 with 6:17 left to play after Cribbs’ touchdown reception.

But after carrying the team all game, the defense finally wore down. On their first five possessions of the second half, the Browns defense forced the 49ers into four three-and-outs and five punts. But after Cribbs score, the 49ers had an 11 play, 67-yard drive that took up 4:21 and ended up in a field goal that sealed the loss.

But trying hard can only take you so far.

“I get tired of talking about never give up and fight to the end, but now it’s about winning,” Colt McCoy said in published reports. “We can talk all day about how we fight and fight and fight, and that’s good, that’s the character of this team. But we’ve got to start winning.”

It’s hard to see how the Browns can do that with the offense in its current state.

The Browns are already seeing eight- and nine-man fronts because the wide receivers don’t have the ability to win one-on-one battles. That lets the defense load up in the box and, when McCoy dumps the ball off to the backs or tight ends, there’s no room to run.

If you can’t score in the first quarter and the third quarter – and with the exception of the Indianapolis game, the Browns have shown they can really only score against a prevent defense – you’re not going to be winning many games.

Things don’t get any easier as the Browns head to Houston next week, and the Texans are averaging 25.7 points per game.

The way things are currently going, it may take the Browns the entire month of November to score that many points.

(Photo by The Associated Press)

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31 Oct 2011

Browns punchless (again) in San Francisco

In honor of the Browns inexplicable, inexcusable inability to score points in the first quarter this season – three total in seven games – we’re taking the first quarter off and not showing up with a game review until tomorrow.

(Photo by The Plain Dealer)

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29 Oct 2011

Browns vs. 49ers – Week 8

The Cleveland Browns continue their tour of the NFC West Division as they travel to San Francisco on Sunday to take on the flavor-of-the-month 49ers.

The Opposition

San Francisco record: 5-1 (1st in the NFC West)
Offensive rank: 27th overall/31st passing/6th rushing
Defensive rank: 11th overall/22nd passing/2ndh rushing
All-time record: Browns lead 18-8 (including AAFC games), with an 8-5 mark away from home
Last meeting: Browns won 20-7 in 2007
The line: Browns (+9.5)

What to Watch For

This is going to be a game of contrasts.

The 49ers can run the ball (6th) in the NFL; the Browns can’t stop the run (20th).

The 49ers can’t pass the ball (31st in the NFL); the Browns have the top pass defense in the league.

The Browns can’t run the ball (29th in the NFL); the 49ers are tough to run on (2nd in the NFL).

The Browns can’t really pass the ball either (22nd in the NFL); but the 49ers can’t stop the pass (22nd).

The Browns possibly (likely?) will be without Peyton Hillis again this week, as his hamstring continues to bark. Injuries continue to plague Hillis, who has seen his numbers drop across the board through the first six games this year as compared to last year (28 fewer carries, 180 less yards, almost a full yard difference in yards per carry).

The team clearly misses him as they are only averaging 91.2 yards per game on the ground. If Hillis can’t go, we’re not sure how much success Montario Hardesty and Chris Ogbonnaya can have, although Ogbonnaya looked good catching the ball last week.

Meanwhile, San Francisco is averaging 193.3 yards per game in October, and running back Frank Gore has rushed for more than 125 yards in each of his last three games.

If the Browns can slow down the San Francisco rushing attack, and at least move the ball well enough on offense to keep the clock moving (like last week against Seattle) they may be able to find a way to keep themselves in the game.

And let’s not even get started on the special teams.

The one Browns vs. 49ers Game That Will Be Hard to Top

The 1949 AAFC Championship Game the Browns won 21-7. It was the Browns fourth consecutive league title and the last game in AAFC history.

The Prediction

This is one of those games we could see the Browns winning under certain circumstances.

The 49ers are not as good as their record indicates and are one of the current media darlings in the NFL. Things are going to start evening out for them.

The Browns may have history on their side as well, as San Francisco is looking for its first five-game winning streak since late in 2001.

Cleveland also won on its last visit to San Francisco, the Kelly Holcomb “teeny-tiny fracture” game in 2003.

But with the offense currently struggling, and with Hillis possibly missing the game, Ben Watson maybe limited because of a head injury and Mohamed Massaquoi definitely out, it’s not going to be an easy day.

We have to go with the 49ers and the points this week.

Record picking the Browns (using the point spread) this year: 3-2-1.

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27 Oct 2011

Thanks for the memories, Jose

It was 14 years ago last night that Jose Mesa soiled himself on the mound at Pro Player Stadium, killing the best chance the Indians have had to win a World Series in our lifetime.

We all remember what happened that night in Miami: Jaret Wright, Paul Assenmacher, Mike Jackson and Brian Anderson combined to through 8 innings of two-hit, one-run baseball and turn over a 2-1 Indians lead in the ninth inning to Mesa.

Mesa, of course, let in the tying run in a game the Indians would go on to lose in extra innings – the last time the Tribe was close to winning a title.

We still remember that weekend like it was yesterday.

We were working at a newspaper in New Jersey and when we left the office on the day of Game 6, the publisher asked us what we thought was going to happen. There was no doubt in our mind that the Tribe would win Game 6 – losing to the Marlins in six games would have been disappointing but not soul-crushing.

Plus, the Tribe had been there, done that in 1995.

No, we said, the only way this will play out is the Indians will either take the last two games or lose a Game 7 in some kind of horrible fashion.

Little did we know at the time how right we were.

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The latest out of Browns town is that Oakland’s Aaron Curry claims that one of the Browns offensive lineman tips off the play “about 70 percent of the time” before the snap.

“One of the O-linemen from Cleveland, they gave it up every play, most of the time, I’d say about 70 percent of the time, whether it was run or pass.,” Curry told The San Francisco Chronicle. “They had no clue they were doing it, but I figured it out from just watching the film.”

Lovely.

Right tackle Joe Thomas doesn’t think it’s an issue, though.

“He must be a wizard because after being there one day, he figured it out?” Thomas told The Plain Dealer. “He must be really smart. . . . I’m sure if a guy was leaning really far back or really far forward, maybe [he could see it]. But for one day? That is very impressive.”

It’s interesting to note that this comes out the same week that Pro Football Focus had a less than stellar review of right tackle Tony Pashos (h/t Waiting for Next Year):

From one end of the line where there was near perfection to the other where there was a disaster waiting to happen, Tony Pashos’ performance in the run game (-4.7) can be summed up in one word: dismal. It didn’t matter who was lined up in front of Pashos, everyone had the pleasure of beating him off the ball and making him look silly. When the Browns ran behind him they averaged 2.4 yards per carry, almost a full yard below the team average. Even though everyone took their shots on Pashos, no one enjoyed the day more than Alan Branch. The former Cardinal forced Pashos into committing a penalty, as well as beaten him badly on two other plays.

Hmmm, a lineman may be tipping off the play and Pashos was abused by the Seahawks last weekend?

We’re sure it’s just a coincidence.

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And Peyton Hillis missed practice today with his sore hamstring.

But there’s no such thing as a Madden curse.

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25 Oct 2011

The Colt McCoy question

“We’re constantly looking for the things that are part of what we do that he does well.” – Browns coach Pat Shurmur

Cleveland Browns coach Pat Shurmur addressed the topic on everyone’s mind in the wake of the team’s 6-3 win over Seattle on Sunday: just what do the Browns have in quarterback Colt McCoy?

“This is a little uncharted, playing without an offseason,” Shurmur said in his Monday press conference. “I think it’s important that (McCoy) just improves each week. At the end of the year we’ll just add it up and see where it’s at. It’s a little bit hard to define right now. If we would have had a full offseason with all the OTA’s you would have had a better idea where he was during training camp, then you can judge the improvement during training camp and then so on. This is a little bit uncharted as far as marking the progress I think.”

Shurmur’s comments are spot on and show that the Browns are handling the McCoy situation exactly the way they should – by letting him play.

The only way we’re going to know if McCoy has what it takes to lead the Browns into the playoffs on a regular basis is to let him play this season. Too often in this town we’ve seen coaches mishandle the quarterback position, not being able to settle on one player, benching quarterbacks after two games only to make them starters again later in the same season.

And it has to end for the team to have any hope.

This isn’t an endorsement of McCoy as the long-term answer. The stats through six games are certainly not pretty – 27th in completion percentage, 33rd in yards per attempt, 32nd in passes of more than 20 yards, 28th in quarterback rating.

This being Cleveland, half the fans always want the back-up quarterback to play. Of the other half, the majority just want someone else. But that doesn’t work and it’s not how you run a team.

The Browns need to stay the course with McCoy. They need to be certain whether or not he’s their quarterback. And the only way that is going to happen is by letting him play.

There is probably nothing more important this year than for the front office and coaching staff to be able to make a definitive decision on the quarterback position for the future.

If McCoy can stay healthy through 16 games – and that’s no certainty with the play of the guards and the right tackle – there is no doubt that we will all know the answer the morning after the Jan. 1 game against Pittsburgh.

“I know my job is to go out there and play and give our team the best opportunity to win,” McCoy said after Sunday’s win. “If you start to think about what people are writing or what somebody says, that just creates things in your mind that don’t need to be in there. I’m going to give it my all every week, in practice, in meetings and in the games. If you do that, then good things are going to happen. I think we need to focus on our team and give ourselves the best chance to win.”

You can’t really ask for anything more than that.

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One hundred and forty-six total yards of offense.

No first downs until the 5:26 mark in the third quarter.

Sixteen total yards of offense in the first half.

One passing yard in the first half.

Six total points.

The Browns’ box score from Sunday’s game against Seattle? Think again.

Those are the offensive numbers the Baltimore Ravens put up Monday night against Jacksonville.

You know, the first-place Ravens, allegedly Super Bowl contenders? That’s all they could do against a 1-5 Jaguar team that is playing for a lame duck coach before an apathetic fan base.

But to hear the anti-Holmgren crowd tell it, the Browns are the worst team in the history of forever after their win against the Seahawks.

Think Ravens’ fans would have been crying this morning if Baltimore would have figured out a way to win while only scoring six points?

Yeah, we didn’t think so.

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We could have sworn it was guard Jason Pinkston who got blown up on Sunday by Red Bryant on Bryant’s two blocked field goals.

But the Beacon Journal‘s Nate Ulrich wrote that: In the second quarter, Oniel Cousins lined up at left guard and fell on one knee while trying to get out of his stance, allowing Bryant to break through the line and earn his first block. In the fourth quarter, Alex Mack played left guard and kept his head down as Bryant maneuvered past him for another block.

Alex Mack, huh? Guess the Browns should have drafted Mark Sanchez after all.

(Photo by Cleveland Browns.com)

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24 Oct 2011

The Browns give good headache

The Browns being the Browns, and Cleveland being Cleveland, it’s never easy around here.

It’s not enough to take a look at the standings and see the Browns at 3-3, just one game back in the loss column, in the toughest division in the NFL during a season where most expected them to win five or six games.

“I do think it’s important that we won the game and each game, you win or lose it in a different fashion,” coach Pat Shurmur said on Monday. “The fact that our guys found a way to win it, I’m proud of their effort.

“I thought the defense played an outstanding game,” Shurmur said. “When I watch the tape, you just see guys battling all over the place. Up front, I asked the guys to fight to control the line of scrimmage, which they did and it really eliminated any big plays. In the secondary, they challenged the receivers from the first snap to the last. I’m very proud of their efforts and I’m proud of the scheme that we put together.”

It’s always something with the Browns, who hit the highs and lows on Sunday:

  • The Browns’ six points on Sunday were the lowest total for a winning team in the NFL this season. That’s a lot better than having the highest total for a losing team.
  • The Browns totaled 20 first downs and had five drives of 10 plays or more against Seattle, but somehow only managed to score six points.
  • The Browns have now played four 6-3 games in franchise history and won them all. They may be on to something here, we’re just not sure what.
  • We may have figured out why Colt McCoy is struggling this year – God cares too much about Tim Tebow to worry about anyone else.
  • The Browns had 24 third-down attempts Sunday, which are the most in a single NFL game in the past 20 seasons, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
  • Montario Hardesty ran for 95 yards, but 20 of his carries were for two yards or fewer.
  • The Browns did not have a drive that made it to Seattle’s 20-yard-line until 4:10 of the fourth quarter, according to Cold Hard Football Facts.com.
  • The defense is currently ranked No. 4 in the NFL, allowing 4.7 yards per play, down from 5.4 yards per play last year.
  • And we don’t care who the opposition has been, the Browns are playing good defense. They’ve given up just 13 points in the past two games. People want to have it both ways – if the Browns were getting shredded on defense, the hoople heads would rip them, but they don’t want to give them credit when they do play well.
  • The defense allowed just 137 yards in total offense against Seattle, the fewest they’ve allowed since a 1993 game against New Orleans.

It’s times like this that we feel like Thornton Melon, Rodney Dangerfield’s character in Back to School.

There is one scene in the movie where Thornton is talking to his driver, bodyguard Lou (played by the always solid Burt Young). The two are complaining about Thornton’s current wife and, after a while, Thornton says, “Lay off Vanessa, she gives good headache.”

And if there is one thing we can count on that the Browns do well, year in and year out, is that they give good headache.

(Photo by Cleveland Browns.com)

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24 Oct 2011

Browns do just enough to win

The goal in the NFL is to score more points than the opposition.

Using that standard, consider it mission accomplished for the Cleveland Browns on Sunday against Seattle.

The Browns rode their defense to a 6-3 win over the Seahawks, evening their record on the season at 3-3.

“You can’t start out talking about this game unless you talk about the performance of the defense,” coach Pat Shurmur said. “When you hold a team in the NFL to three points, that’s outstanding.”

“We’ll take this one,” Browns kicker Phil Dawson, who made field goals of 52 and 53 yards, said. “We’re probably not going to brag about it in 15 years, but we’ll take the win.”

The defense brought it on Sunday, limiting Seattle to 137 yards of offense, nine first downs, and letting the Seahawks convert only 2-of-12 on third down. The defense also recorded three sacks of Charlie Whitehurst, who threw for all of 97 yards and averaged 3.2 yards per attempt.

“If the offense scores 100 points, we want it to be 100 to zero,” safety T.J. Ward said in published reports. “Every time we go out there we’re looking for a shutout. Defensively, we want people to fear us and know it’s going to be tough against Cleveland. You’re not going to get no easy points. We’re one of a kind.”

On offense, certainly didn’t light up the scoreboard, but the offense did just enough, especially when it counted the most.

After the Seahawks’ fourth three-and-out forced them to punt, the Browns took over leading 6-3 with 9:54 left in the fourth quarter. Quarterback Colt McCoy led a 14-play, 65-yard drive that took 6:49 off the clock.

The drive ended, unfortunately, with a blocked Phil Dawson field goal – the second of the day as guard Jason Pinkston had no answer for how to block Seattle’s Red Bryant – but the offense finally managed to take over the game when it needed to.

The drive featured Montario Hardesty, who gained 30 of his game-high 95 yards. Coming into the game, the Seahawks had not allowed a single runner to gain more than 70 yards this season.

Running back Chris Ogbonnaya, signed earlier in the week, contributed a team-high five catches for 43 yards as he showed some nice hands coming out of the backfield – no drops!

The Browns totaled 298 yards of offense, converted 12-0f-24 third downs and held the ball for a ridiculous 42:56. They only thing they couldn’t do was put the ball in the end zone.

The offense was hampered, however, by not having starting running back Peyton Hillis, who was inactive because of his balky hamstring. The Browns also lost starting wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi and starting tight end Ben Watson to head injuries, as well as starting right guard Shawn Lauvao with a leg injury.

With a team that is already struggling on offense, having four starters out doesn’t make it any easier.

In the end, they found a way to win, which is something new this year. How many times over the past few years have we seen the Browns do the opposite and find a way to lose? (Think Jacksonville and Buffalo last year, Detroit in 2009, just to name a few).

And six games into his tenure as head coach, Shurmur will wake up Monday morning with a .500 record, something that former coaches Eric Mangini and Romeo Crennel were never able to say.

As pretty as the defense was on the day, that’s how ugly the offense was. But the Browns got it done and, after not winning for almost a month, coming out of the game with a victory is a nice reward for a team that definitely needed it.

(Photo by The Associated Press)

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