Was at the game on Sunday. First off, Clevelanders, you go hard. Tailgating was fun, cops and everyone were super nice, the stadium was fairly easy to get into even though there were thousands and thousands of people there... My key takeaways from the game are
1. we need to diversify our offense. It is super predictable at the moment.
2. our defense has a lot of exploitable holes. Guys were getting burned left and right. They did buckle down in key moments, which bodes well for the future, but we gave up far too many easy runs and a lot of the guys can't tackle to save their lives.
3. The refs were awful... It seems as though every week, the refs just don't want to give this team calls. There were two almost definite intentional groundings by Flacco that weren't called and a bunch of super weak calls that took our yardage away. And that should have either been either a PI or some level of illegal contact.
4. Mayfield is great, but has a bit to go and needs some more consistent pass control (and blocking). Part of that is it felt like we were stuck behind out own 10 so often and we were unable to get much of a run out. But he had a good amount of passes which were almost picked off.
I'm glad we pulled that one out, but we also need a new kicker.