Frank Ryan’s Ghost

While it’s true that this is only one game and the disaster that happened Sunday may never happen the rest of the year, it was still a disturbing opening game. Hopefully, what we saw is not a glimpse of what we will see for the rest of the year. I don’t know what happened after the Browns’ first offensive series but their play all went down hill afterwards. Aside from the undisciplined play and stupid repetitive penalties, I was most disappointed by the performance of the offensive line. Mayfield was harassed on almost every pass play. For a team with a rising stars in Baker and Chubb and two bonafide supper star receivers in Jarvis and Odell, the offensive line has to play much better from here on out or the discontent will escalate.

You are right about the lack of discipline. This reflects poorly on the coaching staff. 18 penalties for 182 yards, the most since 1951?? WTH? I thought they were going to live up to the hype after the successful first series but thereafter it was a backwards slide to a dumpster fire. Baker was running for his life much like Tim Couch was, the last time there was such preseason hype about the Browns. It was a very disheartening day for this 70 year old Brown’s fan.