MNF AKA comedy night NFL style

I had no intention of blogging about the Browns vs. Bills game as my only rooting interest was for a Bills loss to further the Jets position in the AFC East. But this game was special.

The Jets coaching staff has been bugging me all season by playing scared to lose instead of to win. The Bills and Browns game tonight was such a comedy of coaching and player errors, it will be hard for me to ever bitch about the Jets again.

Memo to Browns defense: in football it’s legal to tackle the running back. Okay, the Broncos can’t stop the run either but they are tiny by NFL standards. The Browns’ front three are Corey Williams (6'4", 320lbs), Shaun Rogers (6'4”, 350lbs, although his mama must be weighing him, because he is at least 450), and Shaun Smith (6'2", 325lbs). None of these guys are small by horse stable standards. How the Bills, who have had one of the most anemic running games in all the NFL, were able to get well over 100 yards after initial contact is mindboggling.
Now for the fun stuff: idiotic play calling all game long by the Browns. Hey fat coach, Jamal Lewes can’t run anymore. LT’s mom can outrun him in her Chunky soup commercials. How many 1 yard plows do you need to see!
The Bills have no clue how to run screens. It’s almost comical. No faking the defense, just look at the RB all the way. And since the Browns can’t tackle anyway, the screens worked out okay.
Let’s get to late in the game, which by the middle of the forth quarter had already solidified itself as one of the worst coached games in professional team sports history. Then the fun starts. Cleveland kicks a go ahead field goal with 1:43 left in the game. Playing petrified of getting beat on a kickoff return, (another was returned for a touchdown earlier in the game by the Bills) Browns coach (for the next six games anyway) Romeo Cornell, in spite of being up by less than one field goal, elects to pooch kick with a gale force wind at his back, virtually assuring the Bills no worse than their own 40 yard line as a starting position. With 1:39 left and the ball on the Buffalo 44 (35 yards from a sure loss), the Browns then play prevent defense, which is intended to exchange approximately a yard per second of game time. You do the math. You can’t make this up! Yes, real NFL nationally televised football. And it gets worse.
Naturally, Buffalo gets a T. Edwards pass deep up the middle of the wide open prevent defense to R.Royal to the CLE 34 for 22 yards. Close to field goal range but kicking into a 20-30 MPH wind, the Bills totally brain lock and start running the ball to position for a field goal. The Browns, not to be outdone, and refusing to look a gift horse in the mouth, start calling timeouts to preserve the clock should the Bills score (like if the Bills do get a first down, the Browns think they have 50 more timeouts?) Instead of using the Browns’ timeout to rethink running the ball into all eleven waiting Brown defenders, the Bills run the ball up the middle twice more, with the Browns complying and calling timeouts again after both plays. Again instead of rethinking what they were about to do, the Bills attempt a 47-yard field goal into gale force winds to try to win the game.

Rumors have it the league is investigating how Herm Edwards ended up coaching both these moronic teams in the last two minutes of the game. Surprise: the field goal just missed wide right by ten yards or so and short by twenty yards or so. The kick was so far off half the fans were heading to the exits before the kick landed!

This is only a tiny sample of the complete and utter nonsense this football game was.

These guys have jobs in the NFL? Are you kidding me? Someone please collect all copies of this tape and burn them! Many NFL teams give IQ test to prospective draft choices. I think it's about time NFL teams did the same for the head and ass-ist-ant coaches!