Browns vs. Ravens --Friday, September 29, 2006

well...

Was supposed to be on the browns blog Sunday 9/24/06
1530

I was hunkering down preparing for the worst. My boys go against their/my arch rival, the Crabcake-town Shit Birds. The Shit Birds have not allowed a touchdown all season, had a shut out in the first game of the season, and were the number one ranked defense coming into the week. Our offense, well, let's say maybe they should be talking to their doctor about impotency. Our Defense, while I've thought was OK, is tired, like an old man with emphysema rolling a rock up a hill.

1600

The round of shots had settled in and my air of good feeling of watching the Shitsburg Stealers get their ass handed to them by the Bungles, made me a bit hopeful, yet still. Out offense has been performing like Bart and Kyle* trapped in the quicksand with a $400 dollar hand cart. Out defense has had to get Gatorade air dropped during TV timeouts, they've been on the field so much. Knowing the Shit birds had Heir McNair at the helm worried me more than the last six years of Baltimore QB's.

Well, I have to say I enjoyed the game with the trepidation of a man who thought he was dying of cancer and his doctor had told him he had no tumor, but…don't make any long term plans. And of course this was played out as it turned out, I had no tumor but the Shit town luck wagon was about to knock me on my ass.

The things I took away from this were VERY positive. We looked like a fucking NFL team, albeit not a very good one. But also better than some, come on Raiders! Then we're against the damnable Panthers. Then we get a bye week. By the 22nd when we get home against Denver, we should either a) look like a decent NFL team starting to gel, that gives Phil Savage the headaches of trying to keep the core team together. Or, perhaps we'll be b) a giant orange and brown pile of crap waiting on the draft/free agency period, Crennel under fire, probably offering Carthon as his sacrificial lamb, while trying to talk Grantham into staying and not becoming a head coach elsewhere.

It does take time for an O-Line to gel, and we have three new linemen. It takes a new type of defense time this is the first year we're running a 3-4 with personnel familiar with it. Willie McGinst MUST play on this defense. He lights a fire on the defense that is otherwise non-existent

WE MAY BE OK, THIS SEASON; BUT JUST OK. Mind you, we're not going to do shit this year, at tops, third in the division. But there were some signs of life that were completely non-existent before. Hell, even the players looked like they thought they could win. Shit fires man, that's over half the battle; selling this philosophy to the players.

Fuck the Raiders….and Go Browns!