Joe Flacco dug them out.
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The Browns, well, they haven’t changed at all.
McCown stayed in Sunday’s loss to Baltimore despite getting hurt in the first quarter and taking several hard shots.
Defensive end Lawrence Guy got a hand on Patrick Murray’s kick and cornerback Tavon Young scooped up the bouncing ball and returned it for a rare, two-point defensive conversion.
“It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t great”, he said.
“Here we go. We’ll see what that statement was all about”, Jackson said.
“It’s a physical game and you always have to be ready”, he said. Not necessarily, but every single game in January and come February, where we hope to be, is going to be like that. So we’ve got to do more.
The Browns (0-2), meanwhile, are running out of quarterbacks.
As they await tests on quarterback Josh McCown’s battered left shoulder, the Browns are dealing with other major injuries.
The 37-year-old was filling in for Robert Griffin III, who broke a bone in his left shoulder in the season opener and will miss at least eight games – and maybe more. “My mindset is that everything will be all right and we will move ahead business as usual”. Griffin, though, couldn’t make it past Week 1 and now McCown’s injury has Cleveland in a hard predicament.
Flacco’s injury was the final blow to a 5-11 finish last season for the Ravens, who are accustomed to playing in the post-season.
STUNNING START: Nobody expected the Browns to do what they did in the first 15 minutes, which ended with them leading 20-2.
As the Browns built their lead, there was plenty of frustration on Baltimore’s sideline where wide receiver Steve Smith Sr. and linebacker C.J. Mosley threw their helmets and defensive co-ordinator Dean Pees huddled his players for a fiery lecture. “We’re doing the same thing on the bench”.
Flacco threw two touchdown passes to wide receiver Mike Wallace and Baltimore, sparked by returning a blocked extra point, rallied from 20 down and beat the Cleveland Browns 25-20 on Sunday.
Nassib, the high-motored lineman who led the nation in sacks a year ago at Penn State, got hurt in the third quarter and didn’t return.
“It was a good way to end it, on defense”, Mosley said. “That’s not the way you want to start”. Brooks also coached with Chicago, Cleveland and Miami. He was immobilized and taken to University Hospitals, where tests revealed the pulmonary contusion. Erving, who was taken from FirstEnergy Stadium in an ambulance, will likely miss several games.
With Erving out, John Greco will slide over from right guard to center. “Good call, that’s what I’m going to say”. We’ve got to fight harder, strain more, strain longer to keep him clean.
McCown’s injury leaves rookie quarterback Cody Kessler as the last man standing in the Browns’ quarterback room, and therefore their Week 3 starter. The former USC standout said he has a better grasp of Cleveland’s offence and will be ready if called upon.
The Browns have made bad decisions, no doubt.
“There were a lot of plays where the ball got off, may have been a completion or incompletion, and then he’s getting whacked”.
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Pryor felt he did nothing wrong. I have two little boys that are playing football now. “But if I get up and drop the ball, clearly I wasn’t trying to drop it on nobody”.
