Injuries haunted the Browns all season long and it finally knocked them out on Saturday afternoon. The Browns lack of depth proved to be too much as the Texans beat the Browns 45-14 in the Wild Card Round of the NFL Playoffs.
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00:00 I feel like the injuries, you know, in some ways caught up to the Browns, like even when
00:04 James Hudson got hurt today, then all of a sudden you look out on the field and you are playing in
00:08 the playoffs and Leroy Watson and Jaron Christian are your two offensive tackles. Those are offensive
00:15 tackles five and six on your depth chart, neither of whom started the season with this team. Like
00:21 that's, that's a tough blow. And yet this team figured out ways all year long to just not make
00:26 excuses about what they didn't have and they figured out how to make what they did have work.
00:32 And yet on a day like today where the Browns carried it 20 times for 56 total yards of offense
00:37 on the ground, my initial thought just goes back to week two. And there were so many times in this
00:44 game where I'm like, God, if they could just hand it to Nick Chubb, how this might feel a little
00:48 different. You know, you can't really play that game with yourself, but I know everybody in,
00:54 you know, in this fan base was watching this game today going, man, if, even if it was just
00:59 Nick Chubb back, how this might've felt different. Well, and you think about it like from this game
01:05 specifically, like when it got to that track meet feel like it was like, Oh, we're going to be in
01:09 this thing. Like, this is going to be a back and forth, a bunch of points game. Like that's when
01:13 you hand it to Nick Chubb and you just slow the pace down and everything relaxes. You get a couple
01:17 first downs, grind it out, throw the ball to Mari. And it's like, Holy cow, you just missed
01:21 that. And you think about it, right? This is such a wild season and there's no reason for a number,
01:28 number of different reasons, but there's no reason why you're in the playoffs right now.
01:31 You turn the ball over a bunch, you got a bunch of dudes. Like imagine if it was Jedrick Wills
01:35 and Jack Conklin blocking Will Anderson and Jonathan Greener, you know, that's a different,
01:40 it's a different game. It's truly a different game. And you know, it's, it's disappointing
01:44 from that perspective, but while it's equally disappointing, it is equally impressive that
01:49 this team was where they were at. And, you know, it was, you kind of were waiting on it and we,
01:54 we saw the, we saw the dam start to crack a little bit these past couple of weeks and you were like,
01:58 able to hold it together. And then finally tonight it just blew up and it just wasn't enough
02:03 as this game kind of wore on. - Let's go to the conference.