I am not ready to announce the end of my "Zen" moments as they relate to Cleveland sports because frankly, I have let my guard down many times before. I will say that the Browns might have finally turned some kind of a corner where the weirdness that can occur during an NFL contest actually benefits them and causes them to be on the winning end of games occasionally. So, for one day the Browns snapped me out of it. The whole emotional neutrality thing is just a defense mechanism against getting my heart stomped week in and week out. I would happily give it up some time down the line. It probably won't be this season though.
Other game notes:
- Two weeks in a row now the Browns game has been featured in HD! After being snubbed in all games previous to last week's, this is an improvement.
- The unhappiness of Brian Billick, Ray Lewis, and Bart Scott is a glorious thing. This trio of personalities might be the cockiest in all of the NFL. Seriously, Belichick is as cantankerous as Billick is cocky.
- Can't Matt Stover just retire already? He is STILL the last little link between the present day Ravens and the old Browns who were shuttled out of town by Art Modell.
- Kyle Boller is not the answer at QB for the Ravens.
- Derek Anderson looks like the answer when he is hot, but against the Ravens he was far from hot. I am not suggesting any changes for the Browns at QB anytime this season, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility that Brady Quinn could eventually UPGRADE the QB position.
- The Browns D still looked bad, but for the second week in a row they were able to get sacks. Now if they could do that, while also containing the QB and keeping him from running, that would be swell.
- Eric "Eazy E" Wright went down hurt with a knee injury. Brandon McDonald filled in and looked ok, but Wright will be missed if he is down for long.
- The Browns haven't lost two in a row yet this year. You have no idea how surprising that statistic is for me.
- The Ravens' season is all but over as their next three opponents are San Diego, New England and the Colts.
- The Browns' next three opponents are the Texans, Cardinals, and Jets.
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Article comments
1 - RJ
I turned on CBS just in time to see a replay of that incredibly bizarre field goal kick just moments after it happened. For some reason they wouldn't show the game live; instead viewers in my area got to watch Dan Marino, Boomer Esiason, and Bill Cowher in the studio give the play-by-play. (This is when I finally realized that Boomer is kind of a dork.)
I wonder how many tries it would take for Dawson to replicate that feat? A hundred? A thousand? Ten thousand? It was pretty surreal.
And then during a field goal attempt on the Sunday Night game, the football hit and bounced off of a camera attached to the goal post. Weird.