Your Cleveland Browns lost in especially embarrassing fashion yesterday against the Titans. The 31-13 final score is bad enough, but the team looked even worse than that. They gave up long plays, turned the ball over, failed to convert short-yardage 3rd downs, suffered from less than inspiring quarterback play, and continued to look like the only way they can score points on offense is if the defense forgot to take the field.
On top of all that, there’s the brewing saga with Peyton Hillis.
Last week, Hillis missed the game against the Dolphins because of strep throat. He’d run a fever, he said, and lost about 10 pounds. Prior to yesterday’s game, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that anonymous teammates wondered if Hillis sat out not because of illness but because he’s unhappy with his contract negotiations. Previously, Hillis had said, “If they wanted to extend me, they’d extend me,” when asked about progress on the talks.
As Cleveland’s resident sports talking heads noted this morning, whether or not Hillis was actually too sick to play isn’t the issue here. When you have a split in the locker room, when you have guys whispering quietly to reporters that they don’t have Hillis’ back, that’s the issue. Distraction, with a capital D.
This article appears in Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2011.
Wel if I rem. correctly, Hillis was one of our leading receivers last year and also ran for over a 1100 yards! So if you get so far down you go to your playmakers, how many balls did Hardesty drop yesterday…. What a crock of crap!!!! PUT HILLIS BACK IN THE DAMN GAME!!!! Fix your coverage, and teach players how to tackle. A 97 yard interception return, really!!!
I hate the media. If they were able to play the game, then they would. My wife and I both like Hillis, and I think this story is crap. Any other player, I would maybe have my doubts, but of all the athletes, I feel he should be given the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. I dislike the media causing controversy.
To all the football “experts” out there: start out coaching pee wee football, then work your way up to high school football, then progress to college football and then earn your crack at the pros. Otherwise, you don’t know jack. You may “think” you know all the facts about the players and their abilities in certain situations, but in reality you don’t. Until you prove to have the abilities and are hired to coach and/or make the tough decisions, leave it to the pros.
Well I gues we gotta get another coach..Damn.. this time lets get a PRO!!!!!!!!!
Can we wait until the end of the season before we call for Shurmur’s head? New Coach, New Season, New Offense… We need time.