Monday, November 5, 2012

Who is to blame for the Ravens loss, Pt 2... PAT PAT PAT!

I'll have my positive notes of the game later, but I want to hear from Browns fans everywhere.. Who do you blame for yesterdays loss to the Ravens? There is no doubt in my mind, the man to blame, is the same one who can be blamed for alot of this teams problems, and thats Pat Shurmer. Allow me to list the reasons why...  1) Who allows their team to come out as unmotivated and unready to play against a 5-2 1st place rival team as we did yesterday (and do quite often under Shurmer)?... 2) He continues to mismanage the clock, timeouts and mishandle game situations. Case in point, the end of the 1st half. The Browns D made a great stop after yet another FG, and got the ball back, down 14-9 with 1:09 left. They only had 1 timeout to work with, because Pat wasted 2 in a 1 min span early in the 2nd quarter foolishly, btw. Then, Pat runs the ball for a yard on 1st down, apparently not trying to score, but run out the clock, because he allows the team to slowly set up and tick 30 secs off the clock, before someone tells Pat (maybe the booing in the stadium told him) that perhaps he should at least try to score. Then, because he mismanaged the drive and the clock, he never had to use the TO because he only had time to barely get in range for another FG, instead of taking a few shots from the 6 yd line where we ended up, Pat has to decide, either were running it out, or going for it, you cant change your mind, MID STREAM, or you get what we had here yesterday, and all too much in general... Then in the 2nd half, we got dose after dose of the famous 3rd and 7, lets run a 2yd pass, happened countless times again, and the Browns do this more than any team in football on a weekly basis... Penalties are a sign of bad team discipline and coaching, no excuse for back to back false starts to push a red zone offense back 10 yds, or how about the illegal formation that wiped the TD off the board... Also, when Weeden clearly was playing terribly, and he nearly throws the ball right to Ed Reed (whos that? You mean we should avoid him? Tomfoolery!), so what does Pat do next? Has him throw the ball again the next play, and of course he presses and throws a terrible pick with no one near him... (Weeden also missed a half dozen WIDE OPEN receivers throughout the game, too busy looking for the dump pass, which increases QB and offensive efficiency numbers for people who need all the stats they can get to keep jobs)... Then even after all of that, the Browns still were within a TD with 4 mins left and reached a deep in the wrong end of the field 4th down. Of course, after being criticized for not going for it on more favorable 4th down situations this year, Pat chose a terrible on to show us all look, ill go for it on 4th down, ON MY OWN END OF THE FIELD. Thanks Pat! Instead of letting your defense stop them and get the ball back with 2 mins to go (theres really no choice there), lets run a terrible 4th down play, turn over the automatic Raven FG and seal a 10 pt loss... This one was winnable, the fans who sat through this whole season, and froze through yesterdays game once again got the short end of the stick... Oh and the Browns overaggressive and ridiculously stupid security struck again at the end of the game, but ill talk much more about this later... Jimmy Haslam, fix your media relations dept, fix your overzealous rnat a cop security force who treat your paying customers like crap, and replace this moron of a head coach... Your team could actually be pretty good, if you just let them... Follow THE SPORTS FIX on Twitter @thesportsfixwhk, become a fan on Facebook, join the 12,000 plus at facebook.com.thesportsfix... and tune in LIVE every Sat night from 9p-12a on Newstalk 1420 WHK or streaming live on whkradio.com, tunein.com, i heart radio, or the HWK mobile app, and GET YOUR FIX!!!!

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