Go Browns Ha Ha

Good teams find a way to win these games. You can give A's, B's. C's and D's all you want It's still a loss. My prediction. They will not win a single game in their division. The only game they MAY win is against Miami. That's if they show up for both halfs of the game. SAD! VERY SAD!!!

After reading the Sun account of what happened, there are still some things that don't add up. The initial on the field ruling was no good. Morelli went to the headset to find out that it wasn't reviewable and therefore did not use replay or consult with anyone in the booth who viewed the replay. After finding out that it was not reviewable, he just randomly decided that the back judge was more credible and changed the ruling? The back judge certainly wasn't that emphatic about it initially when the refs looked at each other and decided it was no good. If he believed the back judge to be correct, why didn't they initially decide that the kick was good, subject to a potential review to make sure (in which case they would've found out that it wasn't reviewable)? It just doesn't make sense that he would talk to the refs upstairs, find out it wasn't reviewable, and then magically reverse the decision afterwards despite having no evidence that it was clearly good.

The correct call was made, there's no doubt about that. However, that's somewhat beside the point in that the refs aren't allowed to circumvent established rules or procedures (in this case, not using replay on field goals) in order to correct their own mistakes. It may be necessary to change the rules on field goal review via instant replay, but that's not something that can be done in the middle of a game. My suspicion was that while Morelli may have been told that the play wasn't reviewable when he talked to the ref up in the booth, that ref, who had seen the replay, also indicated to him what happened and Morelli decided to work around their bad call by claiming that one of the refs saw that the kick was clearly good. One of the refs may have suspected that, but as I said he wasn't emphatic about it initially and they had first agreed that it wasn't good.

The kick was good, the refs did a bad job of making the correct call.Plays like that should be reviewable.

In the end though, it should never have come down to some fluke field goal. Maybe if the "Special" teams grew a brain and stopped kicking it to Cribbs or learned to tackle. Maybe if Lloyd was doing kick offs and was booting the ball out of the end zone. Maybe if the D made a play or two in the last 26 seconds. Maybe if Billick Ball did not reign supreme when it mattered most. Two straight passes on 2nd and 3rd and one with less then a minute to go? You have to try the run at least once.

So here we are at 4-6 with the toughest part of the schedule still to go.

One thing that I don't understand is why there is a flip for possession to start overtime. Did anyone doubt that Cleveland would win once they won the toss based on the huge emotional reversal that had just occurred?

Since overtime is sudden-death, why not have it be a continuance of the second-half? The Browns were able to pull off the miracle effort to tie the game as the clock expired. OK, so now they should kick off to the Ravens and keep going, only now it's the next score wins.

This is not the reason the Ravens lost, in fact there were a ton of reasons, but it seems like a game this tightly contested shouldn't be influenced by a coin flip...

We will not make the playoffs, so we may as well lose out and get a good position in the draft to get that franchise QB or solidify our secondary because the season is clearly out of reach. If anyone agrees, please let me know or give me feedback on what you think can be done to salvage this season.