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Well, thanks for making me feel not quite as old again then! 😄 Yeah, I guess you're right. I was just young enough to think the Dawg Pound was "always a thing" since I was only 5 years old when it started. I lived in Mentor at the time and we used to watch the Browns training camp at Lakeland, but that was in the late 1980s. We definitely identified as a tough team, but when you're a kid you probably think those guys on offense are more well known than they actually are. No matter how good our defense was, though, this will always be my childhood memory of the Browns. Anyway, back to 2020. Sure, there are things we can improve upon, but we also have the best record after 7 games since Vinny Testaverde was the QB. I'm going to just enjoy that today.

Just curious, but how old are you? I grew up watching Kosar, Byner, Mack, Slaughter, Newsome, Brennan, Langhorne, Metcalf, etc. Sure, we had guys like Matthews, Michael Dean Perry, Minnifield, and Dixon, but it's not like we were known only for having a good defense back then. (This is also the days when it was the AFC Central, and Tennessee was the Houston Oilers...and now I feel old...but at least I can kick arse in Tecmo Super Bowl! 😛 )

I don't have anything to add here over what's already been said, but I just wanted to mention (since somebody claimed our offense is scoring 38 PPG) that the Browns have scored 200 points in 7 games, which is 28.6 PPG, and one of those TDs was scored by our defense. (I'm not disagreeing that our defense needs to improve, just wanted to correct the misstated statistic.)

Yes, this would be a perfect way to get him the ball more and keep the D spread out a bit to open more running lanes. Glenville used to run this to perfection in their heyday, back when their games with Ignatius were epic battles.

BTW, @YABO713, is this the other angle you were referring to? If so, yes, Hooper absolutely looks more open here than the other angle. (This was taken a half second or so earlier than my screen cap, too, so I'm guessing Hooper slowed up as the ball was released and he saw it wasn't coming his way, making it look like he was less open in the later image.)

Oh yeah, for sure on Hooper likely getting the first down as he falls forward with his size advantage ("break a tackle" wasn't what I should have said)...just saying he isn't a sure thing to get 10-12 yards unless he's more open than it seems from my screen cap (where it looks like they're stride for stride.) Ahh, yeah, now re-watching I see what you mean about Minkah...either way, Baker should see both defenders converging on the same spot and instantly look elsewhere for what's left open.

Hooper is pretty tightly covered. Even if Baker is able to get him the ball, he has to break a tackle just to get the first down. Also, do you mean Sutton is out of position? Baker had two better options here, IMO. OBJ is open if he gets rid of it right as I took this screen cap, especially if Baker sees that Sutton stayed with Bryant and left an opening behind him. An even better option, as Dan mentioned yesterday, is escaping through the weak side B gap where he has a lot of daylight to run free with a single corner out there being blocked by Landry. Of course, Baker was chased down from behind by a lineman on the previous play and took a pretty good hit, so you have to wonder if that had an effect on his decision making. Now I'm not nor ever was a QB, but I did play many years of basketball, and these split second decisions should become second nature. The same thing happens in basketball, you see a defender get a little out of position and lean the wrong way, and you know you have someone behind him, you throw it there instantly.

Can't disagree with any of that. I hope we don't have to watch Sendejo much longer. And yes, Baker seems to panic as soon as the pocket starts to collapse. He escapes too early often times, and the one time he did step up he overthrew OBJ (I believe?) badly (actually, overthrows have been a consistent problem for him this entire season.) Another time he scrambled up the middle for about 3 yards on 2nd and 8 or so, he had his TE wide open coming across the middle about 5-10 yards right in front of him. He needs to keep his eyes downfield a bit longer. (And yes, I know I'm being the literal definition of a Monday morning QB here. 😄 ) EDIT: In fairness to Baker, I went back and watched that 2nd down play, which was actually the play right before the pick six, and realized Hooper was not in fact open as I originally had thought and he probably made the right choice scrambling there. Also, we miss Chubb more than anyone would admit after last week. D'Ernest Johnson + Dontrell Hilliard < Nick Chubb by a long shot. Not sure it would have made that much of a difference yesterday, but if we're going to keep running the ball effectively this season, we sorely need him back. Our O-line was getting manhandled. On every 4th and short run, they were getting pushed into the backfield a yard or two. Can't wait for Teller to come back, but also think the Steelers D up front this year is just too much for us to handle. Probably too much for most of the NFL to handle, actually.

I rewatched a couple plays where I thought Watt may have been offside, and it seemed he really did just time it PERFECTLY. Completely Baker's fault, especially when it happens more than just once or twice with no offside penalties.

Awesome! Thank you very much! ?

It may be better than mobile support of other forums, but mobile web is never as good as a native app. Tapatalk was faster and more pleasant to use. As a user who was forced to switch from SMF with Tapatalk to Invision with mobile web, I can't compare SMF mobile web to Invision mobile web (and I have no doubt you're right in that comparison), but SMF with Tapatalk was better than Invision with mobile web. Also, is this not the plugin? https://www.tapatalk.com/download_IPBoard

Any chance of Tapatalk support coming back? I know I ask this here and there, but my mobile usage of this site went from "a lot" to "almost none" since Tapatalk support was removed. The mobile web experience just isn't very good.

Yeah, this is my point. The complaints about Heinen's could be made anywhere. Why should they pivot downtown and try to be an Aldi just because? If there was demand for an Aldi type store downtown, then an Aldi should move in. It's not Heinen's responsibility to fill that gap if they're doing alright as is. I'd rather have a Heinen's being a Heinen's downtown than no Heinen's at all. You're also ignoring the "extras" you pay for, such as a nice, well-kept store that is always well stocked, a place that invests in their store even after it was damaged, a place that will spend the money to rehab a beautiful old rotunda and provide things like a great food court and a wine tasting area, and a place that believes downtown residents deserve a nice grocery store. If you need to save $1 on bagged lettuce (ignoring any quality differences, perceived or real) and these things aren't worth that extra money to someone, then by all means, they're free to head over to Steelyard Aldi until Aldi can be convinced to put a store downtown.

Exactly what I thought. You're comparing Heinen's to Aldi. If you want Aldi prices (and "quality") downtown, then hope for an Aldi downtown. Would it be better if there were no Heinen's downtown and Steelyard Aldi was your only choice?

Also, was it Organic? Non-mass produced or local? There's many factors which can affect the price. This feels like complaining about the price of a Heck's burger because McDonald's is cheaper.

I saw that the light rail cars are 90,000 pounds and the heavy rail ones are 82,500 pounds. Why is it that the light rail cars feel like they have more bounce and sway than the heavy rail cars, which feel more like riding a full size passenger train?

Agreed, I didn't even think unifying with heavy rail was on the table.

Heavy rail is a much nicer ride, but if this unification is what keeps the system afloat then they need to do it.

Carnegie >> Chester IMO, even for getting to the northern half of downtown Also, will the Opportunity Corridor alleviate some of this traffic on Chester?

Yet you had nothing to say about Trump cancelling Goodyear. #notaseriousperson

Also a possibility, the story may have been exaggerated or incorrect or warped through the game of telephone.

Zaytoon is still open, right?

Northeast Ohio is the only part of the state that had more people say they thought DeWine lifted restrictions too fast than not quickly enough. We still need to create the state of Erie.

Sittoo's is owned by the Aladdin's owners. https://m.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2019/03/27/now-open-sittoos-the-fast-casual-version-of-aladdins-in-playhouse-square