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Drews post game actually just said he was told it was a miscalled rule and no runoff should’ve occurred. Lucky it was the first half of week 1 and not the end of a championship game ?

You can give yourself up I believe but in the moment, a smart defender would force the offense to know the rule and execute

Man- that still irks me. The play before whistled dead at 47 seconds and then at 26 as they are snapping the ball they blow the whistle and run off 10 seconds?!? That rule has to be looked at. Heaven forbid they run up to spike at the 20 yard line down 2 points and it’s like 9 seconds on the clock when the booth review comes in. Let the offense get fully set then end the game on the review instead of letting them kick, as a worst case scenario.

Its not even half way through the 3rd

It was 14-3 at the half. Only so fast and furious

That they were already snapping the ball results in a common sense outcome of spotting the ball and starting the clock.

Yea they snapped the ball at 26; while it’s the letter of the rule it certainly was at the expense of common sense there. Should just start the clock live when set if the team was already at the line when the replay initiates

Arent all scoring plays reviewed so he can’t?

Todays game from brown should surprise no one. It’s just a question of how often we see it. Beasley isn’t the same caliber player but hopefully cleans up the drops from today. He’s a good option but I think all offseason the board was too low on brown and too high on beasley, as a general tone.

He’s a decent, not great, receiver. Expectations should be lower for beasley and higher for brown going into the season. The differential won’t always be as wide as today.

They started hot but playing a bit sloppy with 4 personal fouls in the first quarter or so... didn’t see much for awhile and when I looked back it was out of hand.

Yup - wasn’t pretty but it counts the same... and in a road division game against a likely wild card competitor; it counts a lot

If you think 1 game warrants that, you likely got lambasting you deserved

Think he hits 200 yards?

I was just giving you a ribbing that your list was pretty obvious. Normally people don’t wait out the whole offseason to post an hour before kickoff that they are excited to see the 5 things every national writer would have on their cliche bills things to watch list. I was just expecting bolder things from you.

More of the same?!? I doubt you see this again in the next 5 if not 10 years 99% of players aren’t in demand enough and 99% of the ones that are simply want max money not all the drama to get to a specific team possibly browns very much the exception. Who’s the last one to do similar, Blount?

Really went out on a limb with our last 3 first rounders, 2 biggest free agent signings and our most controversial offseason move

Browns marched down the field aaaand the rookie botches the XP

Well most productive and best aren’t always the same. Sheer talent and pedigree it’s hard to top but will be volatile for sure and I don’t think the pats suddenly become run and gun on offense

Dude was traded mid September and didn’t finish the season and had 40 catches at 18.0 per catch. his career average is 17.4 and highest in the league I suspect walking into an offense hes familiar with will help with explosion as he will be working in a more complete playbook, more rhythm with Brady etc... as is he was on pace for a pretty darn good season despite being a mid season trade coming off a bad situation in Cleveland.

Im not sure we know whether Gordon will be impactful. He very well could return to form. He’s 28.

Its always been the case and is pretty darn rare to see happen Which im sure they’d gladly do if they had evidence of colluding. Seems odds are he knew they offered a first and would likely be interested given their past history.... anything more is very hard to prove I’d guess

It’s got immense potential but also could quickly turn among the worst. It’ll be an entertaining story line almost certainly

Which I pretty explicitly acknowledged. To say he lost the money is probably not ideal as for all we know he might make more under his new circumstances. He definitely shifted risk towards himself in exchange for more control though. The flip side is, he’s got tens of millions of dollars- if he for whatever reason hated Oakland and wanted to be in New England... there’s little in his life stopping him from saying “f it, let’s make it happen” its hard to relate to as a a bunch of guys that likely mostly need their jobs but I’m sure most of us have had the day dream before when walking out after a bad day at work.

He just got 60% of his pay for this year up front and can still earn the rest and then becomes an unrestricted free agent. if healthy and engaged he will have lost a good bit less than that