I honestly never thought I would be more upset with Jarvis Landry than Joe Woods after a Browns game, but here we are.
I was against playing Baker because of his injury and how poorly he had been playing, which I had been attributing to his injury. But I was wrong and that was the right call, he looks like he's at like 85 to 90% which is good enough, all things considered. I watched every snap of this game and there's just absolutely no way that Keenum could have done enough to win against that defense.
Baker did play well enough to win that game. It was entirely on the combination of the receivers just completely shitting themselves in crucial moments, our offensive coaching not being able to adjust to score points with the running game being shut down, and an embarrassing lack of discipline. The zebras weren't great and absolutely screwed us a few times by not calling penalties that they should have, like the late hit out of bounds on Baker, but they weren't terrible either by their standards. A lot of those penalties throughout the day were earned and the zebras are pretty much always going to miss calls in every game.
That RPO slant to Diontae Johnson at the end of the game was there all day because Woods was leaving the middle of the field wide open and doesn't understand what an adjustment is. If we had played an offense that wasn't a joke like the Steelers is with the husk of Big Ben at QB, we may have lost by 20 instead of 5. He wasn't the worst thing I saw today, and he wasn't the reason we lost, which is a nice change I guess, but Joe Woods is just not good at his job and I hope at the end of the season he gets a very in-depth performance review that he takes to heart and learns from for next year. I think he sucks, but I also know that he's young and can grow if he's self-aware, so I'm just hoping that he is. As much as I think he's been costing us games, I'm pulling for him to get his shit together rather than be fired.