The San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles are also potential landing spots for the former Heisman Trophy victor. The game ended with FirstEnergy Stadium almost empty as disgruntled Cleveland fans streamed toward exits long before time expired, an unwelcome sight for owner Jimmy Haslam and general manager Ray Farmer, whose roster moves have mostly backfired.
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So Hill said he had no plans to leap into the Dawg Pound if he scored a touchdown like he did last season. Sure, Mike Pettine is going back on his moral decision, thus making himself look like a fickle fool, but who cares? “10-2 gives us a chance to be 11-2”. The victor of the game, of course, was the Bengals.
Denver has already beaten New England, giving the Broncos the head-to-head tiebreaker. The Bengals then play at San Francisco, play a week later at Denver – against the current No. 2 seed – and end the regular season at home against Baltimore. They won’t need any help if they win out.
The development has to mean that someone walked over from the executive office into the coaching wing and said, “We’d like to see our first-round pick, please and thank you”, right? Those are all things that get factored into it, but we have to be very accurate in identifying what we are doing well and what we are not doing well. “There’s a lot riding on these last four weeks”.
At this point there is no winning for the 2-10 Cleveland Browns with their quarterback situation.
“This doesn’t happen all the time”, Jackson said. This decision did not have a uniform feel from the get-go. “That was one where we actually discussed before that we want to get Austin in there at some point. You can never forget that”.
Vultures are circling above Mike Pettine as his second season as coach of the Browns spirals downward in familiar fashion for a franchise that has had two winning seasons since returning to the National Football League in 1999. That excuse can’t be made again following this learning experience for him. All the guys that had to step into roles they weren’t familiar with or didn’t necessarily get the reps all week did a really good job, in my opinion.
Sunday’s interception moved Nelson past Tory James and into sixth place in Bengals history with 22.
Even part of Keenum’s injury could be placed on Fisher, as he willfully or unwillfully ignored an obvious head injury to his quarterback, and sent him back into the game without missing a play. The first step is clinching the division. It’s hard to fix something when you haven’t pinpointed it exactly, and the references you made to the defense before, how much of it is coaching?
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Notes: Lewis said DE Margus Hunt was active on Sunday because the Bengals needed his contributions on special teams. WR Terrelle Pryor, signed earlier in the week, was not active and WR Dwayne Bowe was a healthy scratch for the fifth time. Hartline was seen limping after the game with what was described as a deep thigh bruise that he managed to play through. I don’t know whether people want me to start flipping out on the sideline.
