Cleveland Browns Need to Clean-up Mistakes
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Cleveland Browns fans are still buzzing over the final play of a 27-21 loss to Arizona yesterday. Many felt that Kellen Winslow Jr.’s leaping catch just outside of the endzone (which was an amazing catch by the way) should have been called a force-out when he collided with AZ DBs Antrel Rolle and Oliver Celestin, thus counting the score and tying the game. Even NBC Sports’ Cris Collinsworth said he felt the Browns were robbed of the victory when officials ruled Jr. out-of-bounds. I beg to differ. I hate the force-out rule, anyway. It turns reality into a judgment call and there’s no place for it in the NFL. I hope the league give serious consideration to removing it in the upcoming offseason. Kellen didn’t come down in-bounds, therefore it’s not a touchdown. Case closed. But you will see occasions where an official says the receiver would have come down in-bounds had he not been pushed out while airborne. The fact remains, he didn’t come down in-bounds, so he’s out-of-bounds. Period. It’s really something simple made difficult.
This play is not the reason the Browns lost the game, though. Head coach Romeo Crennel knows it and he said so during his Monday presser:
“I think this team has some resiliency. They have shown they can bounce back. They’ve shown they will fight to the end, just like they did in the game Sunday down there on the goal line. These guys will fight. We just have to get them to be more consistent and not give yards away, give plays away like we did yesterday. We just didn’t play smart football.”
The Browns gave it away, alright. They turned the ball over four times and were penalized 10 times for 77 yards, including a delay-of-game for kicking the ball, a horse collar tackle, an unnecessary roughness on a hit out-of-bounds and a head-butt that cost them 15 yards on the final drive. This is not playoff caliber football and if the Browns want to make it to the postseason, they’ll need to clean-up a lot of the errors that cost them a win at Arizona yesterday.
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