Displaced Cleveland Fan

This game should not have been close. No one thought it would be, hence the threat of a TV blackout. Surprisingly it was close. Yet the Browns still came up short.

The game started well. The Browns scored first when Brady Quinn hit Mohamed Massaquoi for an 11-yard touchdown pass. According to @OfficialBrowns, it was the team’s first opening-drive touchdown in 35 games. They fell behind 13-7 at halftime, completely lost control of the game in the third quarter, and despite 17 fourth quarter points, they could not come back.

The Browns are now 1-11. Keeping pace are Tampa Bay and St. Louis.
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Another week. Another loss. This time it was a 24-point beating at the hands of Chicago which lost by 35 the previous week against Cincinnati. The Browns are terrible. If not for a botched punt return by Buffalo, they would be 0-8 right now.

Coach Eric Mangini has stubbornly stuck with QB Derek Anderson, despite four straight awful starts. Coming into this game, Anderson had a league-worst QB rating of 40.6. His 10.5 rating today won’t help. Against the Bears he was 6 for 17 (35%) for 76 yards and 2 interceptions. What’s funny, in a sad sort of way, is that the Bears returned the 2 interceptions for a total of 56 yards - just 20 less than Anderson’s total on 6 completions to Browns receivers.
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I was out for a few hours this afternoon and this evening. I left right after this game started. When I got home and saw the score, I thought to myself, “it’s probably good that I wasn’t home following this game.”

Last week the Browns lost to the Vikings by 14 points. The Vikings are a good team on both sides of the ball. On the other side, you have the Broncos beating the Cincinnati Bengals last week on a fluke play in the final seconds. This game should have been close. It wasn’t.
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After a surprising 2007 season in which the Browns finished 10-6 and narrowly missed the playoffs, many were expecting the team to build off of that. Some were predicting that Cleveland would be a serious threat in the playoffs. Even Browns fans had reason to be (cautiously) optimistic.

But a combination of poor coaching, poor front office management, poor on-field performance, and injuries resulted in an abysmal 2008 season.
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