Breaking Down The Browns Early Miscues vs Ravens
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00:00 Hey Browns fans still reacting to the Browns incredible 33 31 win over the Baltimore Ravens
00:14 today at M&T Bank Stadium. I'm sure Browns fans back in Cleveland still very much riding
00:19 high after watching that game despite the sweaty palms experience that I'm sure many
00:24 of you went through so excited to be back we got another one for you here and I think
00:30 on this one Anthony I want to sort of just hone in on the fact that the Browns tried
00:34 to give this game away man multiple multiple times I have a list I won't rattle off yet
00:40 but I have a list of like all the moments where momentum sort of swung back in their
00:44 favor and then they did something stupid whether it was a penalty or a turnover or whatever
00:47 that's weighted back towards the Ravens but yeah what did you make of just the fact that
00:51 this felt for a while like one of those classic Browns just stub your toe games and then they're
00:57 kind of able to eke it out at the end there and do something right flip the script on
01:01 this franchise is maybe a good way to put it well that's what it kind of feels like
01:05 right it feels like the new Browns where hey they'll still do some of that dumb stuff that
01:09 we've that we're so used to in the past but they can overcome it and you saw a lot of
01:14 it today like you know you'll get you'll get into some of the details of it but like just
01:18 from a normal fan perspective watching the game it just was like two steps forward seven
01:24 steps back like you just stop the Ravens on third and goal and actually the more even
01:29 throws a pick but there's a holding or you know anything everything that was going wrong
01:34 was going wrong in like critical critical situations yeah it's amazing that this team
01:39 was able to overcome a lot of those miscues uh to come out with a victory well and it
01:43 started on the second play of the game right like Deshaun throws the interception maybe
01:47 not totally his fault could have thrown a higher ball there but really just uh Kyle
01:52 Hamilton making an incredible play to intercept it and take it back for the touchdown um but
01:57 that was obviously I think a big one where you're already playing behind the eight ball
02:00 right but then some of the other critical moments that I wrote down here so with six
02:04 minutes to go in the first Ravens had a third and six defense stops them and then there's
02:09 an illegal contact penalty by Ward gives him an automatic first down two plays later Baltimore
02:14 scores the touchdown uh then you had 948 to go in the second quarter Cleveland has first
02:20 and 10 of the Baltimore 13 a holding moves them back out of the red zone they end up
02:25 settling for a field goal there 220 to go in the third quarter Browns have cut it to 24 17
02:31 defense forces a stop and we know what happens after that crochet muffs the punt 14 minutes
02:38 to go in the fourth third and long for Baltimore at the Browns 11 incomplete Greg Newsome called
02:45 for a holding that's the one you referenced there 12 21 to go in the game Lamar Jackson
02:51 intercepted in the end zone there's the JOK holding on that one is this is all part of
02:55 the same sequence obviously at this point and then you had 816 to go the Newsome pick six
03:01 Hopkins misses the PAT it was just it was a comedy of errors and mistakes and and I think
03:06 that's why the vibe around this game really did feel like they're just gonna it's over like it
03:12 didn't seem like a game the Browns are ever going to win when they had that many mistakes and they
03:17 found a way and I do think you bring up a good point like the new Browns is kind of what you
03:22 called it I think that's almost a good way to frame it because this was a win that old Browns
03:26 team certainly would not have won when you list off all those moments and there was others but
03:31 all those moments of mistakes and things that went wrong old Browns lose this game by you know two
03:36 three scores like yeah that was the that was the most amazing part about it is man like the the
03:41 sequence the biggest sequence is after the fake punt or after the the fumbled punt right because
03:46 we have some momentum right you're now down 24 17 you just go on that big long drive right your
03:51 offense feels good defense comes out does what they need to do force a punt all right perfect
03:55 James Prochet was great last week former Raven don't know if there's anything involved he was
04:00 praised but Bubba Ventrell was praising him on Wednesday I was like oh this is a great story
04:04 feel good story and then he must the point right through his hands and then it's like all right
04:08 sudden change the defense comes back on the field Spence how many times do you see that in any
04:12 football high school college peewee turnover leads immediately to six points like very next play boom
04:18 touchdown well the Browns defense holds right they hold them and then just two plays or it's like
04:24 the Greg Newsome one man I mean there's holdings in the league and then there's whatever that was
04:29 like it was just it was just defense and it was just hey he was covering Odell Beckham and like
04:33 shots to Odell for getting his touchdown and I was like which it would have went better obviously
04:37 in Cleveland but love watching Odell play it's like holy cow Greg did not hold like just didn't
04:41 hold him but they called it right news or I think J okays that one was a hold for sure like it was
04:47 that was one where you're like all right and I'll say this too for the number of penalties the Browns
04:51 drew today that might this is when I left off the list but the Mike Ford right before he made the
04:57 interception he pushes Lamar out of bounds on a hard hit like two plays before and I was shocked
05:04 that the flag didn't come out he was still in bound so it was kind of within the line of demarcation
05:08 of like okay he was still not out of bounds yet so it wasn't a late hit but that close of a call
05:15 quarterback along the sideline I was kind of like you got lucky on that one and he made up he not he
05:21 didn't make up for it because it wasn't a flag but he made it count because two plays later he gets
05:25 the interception was like okay you're not gonna fly but I'm gonna make another play and make you
05:29 forget all about that I almost made that mistake and it worked out but still like that was another
05:34 one that was like very close call I'll say this you talk about new bronze versus old bronze there's
05:39 been a lot of calls in games that have gone to I know today there was a lot against them yeah
05:42 there's been a lot of calls that have gone against the Browns in recent games so I don't want to hear
05:46 Browns fans complaining about the rest for a little while because they've had a lot go in their favor
05:50 recently we've definitely had a lot go go our way and then I also want to real quickly go back to
05:55 that sequence with Mike Ford another another huge blunder by the Browns where they get the ball all
06:00 you need is points right you get past the 50 all you needed was like four or five yards to get into
06:05 Dustin Hopkins range and they go incomplete incomplete incomplete then they walk everybody
06:08 out for 60 yard or he pulls them back and then you're just trying to hail Mary like you end up
06:12 winning the game but there's so much to look back on and that's the NFL right like there's so it's
06:16 the margin of error is this big in a normal NFL game when you're playing the NFL's best team it's
06:21 this big and the Browns get away with one even with all the weird decision too when you think
06:26 about it because he was going to try the 60 yard it probably wasn't good I mean that's that's that
06:30 would have been a career long for for Dustin Hopkins and he I think talks about after the
06:33 game like yeah probably wasn't going to make it or it was going to be a long shot anyway
06:36 but I also just think like you bring PJ Walker and Cole because Deshaun obviously didn't take
06:41 that last snap to try to he went to the end zone I was like you're better off at least just kicking
06:46 the field goal and seeing if it goes you know what I mean that's at least how I felt about it
06:49 um but I mean I don't know that wasn't a huge deal in the end but it was you're right that it was a
06:54 wasted opportunity after you got the interception he did add though that they had their their their
06:59 kicker turner back underneath the goal post and he saw that and he was like ah if he misses it short
07:03 we don't want our all of our that's right that's right think back to Alabama Auburn right you don't
07:09 want to you don't want that to happen that is a backbreaker if that goes that way so anyway that
07:13 was so many mistakes that the Browns were able to overcome yeah I think the bigger thing in that
07:19 sequence was just that you you missed the opportunity to because you like you said the
07:22 sequence of plays in completion in completion in completion sets you up with the 60 yarder and then
07:27 you kind of had to rethink how the way you were doing it there but yeah I I'm with you on that
07:30 yeah like I think the theme of this one and the theme of this game as a whole really was
07:35 this feels like a different Browns team from past ones that in an instant like this where they're
07:41 getting flagged left and right they're making mistakes they're shooting themselves in the foot
07:44 they muffle punt whatever it might be old Browns teams don't eat that one out this Browns team does
07:49 it was a resilient win it was a statement win and we're looking forward to talking more about it
07:53 with you uh on the Browns Digest YouTube channel and of course at BrownsDigest.com keep it locked