![]() When heavy rains fell just before kickoff of Eagles-Browns on Sunday afternoon, it was not hard to interpret the omen. Watson's disgusting misdeeds may lie well beyond Walkthrough's jurisdiction, but supporting him and rooting for him through his remorselessness is a football crime, deserving of a football reckoning. Joel Bitonio's "Cleveland against the world" comments did not help, either. I was willing to compartmentalize the sinner from the team and its fans-remember, the Saints, Panthers, and Falcons really wanted to be the Browns a few months ago-right up until Friday's consequences are for losers and repentance is for snowflakes press conferences by Scuzzwatson and his boss/enabler Jimmy Haslam. Make no mistake: if biblical plagues strike the Browns, Walkthrough will microwave a bag of popcorn and root for the locusts and toads. This is the organization that turned Freddie Kitchens into Robespierre a few years ago, but perhaps now they have found their zen by closing ranks around an utter scuzzwad. Yeah, that totally sounds like a thing the Browns can do. Maybe the Browns successfully tuned out the "noise" (that's coachspeak for "an outraged nation begging for justice") and built a foolproof plan for going 6-5 or something under Brissett. Baker Mayfield's ghost haunting the roster until July? Disruptive. Joint practices with the Eagles suddenly turning into Senate judiciary meetings on Friday? Disruptive. Losing your starting center in the preseason opener because Deshaun Watson had to be floated onto the field like a trial balloon? Disruptive. Watching a six-game suspension become an 11-game suspension? Disruptive. Installing an offense for a Pro Bowl quarterback while knowing a journeyman will also need something he can execute for multiple games? Disruptive. Distractions may not be real, but disruptions are, and the Browns dealt with a bunch of them. Still, the Browns did not go about their summer like a normal football team. The Browns offense was largely scrambling and silliness, their interior defense was soft serve, but Walkthrough isn't gonna pretend that the Browns played like they lacked the bandwidth after a tumultuous offseason to remember how to huddle or buckle their helmets properly. ![]() Third-stringer Josh Dobbs started in backups-on-backups action, lest the Browns give opponents any Jacoby Brissett film to study. The Browns didn't look all that spectacular, either. Indeed, the Browns did not look all that distracted when they lost 21-20 to the Philadelphia Eagles on a soggy afternoon yesterday. Football."ĭistractions, of course, may not really be a thing. Players should have so many other things on their minds that they drive past the stadium on Sunday mornings, pull into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame parking lot, scratch their heads, ask themselves "What am I supposed to be doing right now?" then suddenly remember, "Oh yeah. If "distractions" are truly a thing, the 2022 Browns should have all the focus of a seventh-grader's research paper. ![]() ![]() NFL Preseason Week 2 - Playing football for the Cleveland Browns in 2022 may be like trying to itemize tax deductions during a volcanic eruption. ![]()
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