00:01coming up at noon brian anderson former indians pitcher current rays analyst talking to us about
00:08game one tonight and beyond as the guardians and rays meet in the american league championship
00:13series joining us now on the wise heart right we make it right call kyle wright hotline
00:18gentleman who covers the browns for the chronicle telegram brownzone.com he joins us every monday
00:23at 11 o'clock and his story that's out right now at brownzone.com analysis win was there for the
00:30taking then came the meltdown would have been a fourth straight win and a four and one record
00:35instead streak ends they're three and two he's mr scott petrack hello scott amen what's going on guys
00:42how you doing oh we're all right the uh i couldn't agree with couldn't agree with the headline more
00:49and i couldn't agree with with the way you wrote your analysis this was a game you thought they
00:56should win they could win and you just felt bad about it the whole time yeah well you know they
01:03played poorly it was a sloppy game overall which you know happens in this league and we've seen plenty
01:09of times obviously with the browns but then when they get that touchdown to boston it's like okay
01:14maybe this is this team's dna is just make a couple of big plays in the fourth quarter cover
01:20all the sloppy play earlier because they haven't been great even during that three-game winning streak
01:26but you make the right plays at the right time especially against flawed teams like the jets
01:31and you keep that win streak going so when they made that play and then they get the
01:36the carson swessinger strip sack it's like okay this is how this is going to be the recipe
01:41and then it got away from them so i don't think they played great but the game was certainly in
01:47their hands to win it and then they didn't play well in those last whatever it was six minutes
01:52four and a half minutes i the concern about the offensive line came jumping out at me when i was
01:57watching the game yesterday just because the jets were like we are going to pressure you and we are
02:01going to pressure you on every play beat us and i just my fear is that okay how do you
02:07correct that
02:07when you go into the next go you know going to the next game because that definitely seemed to work
02:13it did i think obviously the line gave up sacks and you know i'm breaking it down right now and
02:20you know i think it was spread across the line where one was final which was a you know deshaun
02:26watson dropped the snap but then final got bull rushed into him um i know dewan jones gave up at
02:32least
02:33one when he came in for titus howard there's a stunt in the middle where quinch on junkins and
02:37austin barber kind of combined to give one up so they spread it around across the line but when a
02:42team is blitzing and pressuring as much as the jets did some of that's on the quarterback the
02:47quarterback's got to realize that and got it and the play caller and get the ball out of his hand
02:51and there has to be an answer for that kind of pressure because if they're bringing seven the line's
02:57not going to pick up seven right and the jets were doing disguises it was a good plan by the
03:02jets
03:02but it's not just all one-on-one matchups it's how do you counter when they bring this pressure and
03:10it's got to be whatever screams at work or getting the ball out of your hand or your quarterback's got
03:15to make a guy miss and one time they slid the line left and bailey comes untouched and unblocked
03:21and it felt like that was a design of the play but then watson takes a sec and can't escape
03:27or
03:27doesn't think he's coming or whatever it is so it's not just the line but the line certainly
03:32needs to be better in pass protection and run blocking because we have not seen
03:36this one game be what it needs to be scott petrack joining us from the chronicle telegram brownzone.com
03:43i i know both teams played in it sure look like one team handled the conditions a lot better than
03:49the other and i wonder you know was that because of whatever or did the browns just not play very
03:56well overall yeah i i think it's the latter jeff i think they didn't play well overall and then you
04:05can contribute or attribute the drops to the weather or the ball going through cory bork was his hands
04:12you know well it was wet well it was but he caught every other punt the jets guy caught every
04:17other punt
04:18um you know isaiah bond made catches but then he dropped a couple and so yes the weather could be
04:26a factor and is a factor in to a certain degree but i don't think it excuses any of those
04:32plays
04:33and those are huge plays in the game obviously um you know the two that jump out at you the
04:39ball
04:40going through bork was his hand you know i mean the snap was a tad high but it's kind of
04:43face high i mean
04:44goes right through his hands i don't put that way more on orcras and then bond in a backed up
04:49i think
04:49it's second and 19 second and 17 when they got a good play call and he's running open over the
04:54middle watson hits him he doesn't catch it and that's his second drop of the game and those are
05:00the plays that if you make either of those maybe you win the game and if you don't make if
05:04you don't
05:05make either of them then we're talking about how you lost the game when you only have 17 points to
05:10the
05:10just um i i know we're talking about it there was a play early on in the game that i
05:15thought changed
05:16the whole game too and that was you know making fitzpatrick's hit on casey concepcion which to me
05:22i'm like man i mean when the players are actually saying it's dirty i was surprised todd said he
05:27didn't think he was a dirty player i i just don't know how that play isn't isn't an ejection especially
05:32like later in the day i'm watching the niners play and you know drake greenlaw although it was an
05:36after the after the play play where he decided to headbutt a player without a helmet on which is
05:41another genius move but i i like to me i just i don't know how fitzpatrick's not tossed for that
05:48play especially when you lose a player i i mean i know we're on the other side of it and
05:52i don't
05:52know how i would feel if it was a browns player that hit another player but man he was completely
05:58defenceless on that play yeah it's an interesting case because obviously there's a ton of baggage
06:06with on top of it's patrick to nick chubb hit which if we recall at the time chubb and all
06:13his teammates said it wasn't a dirty hit so you know i i take them at their word if they
06:19thought
06:19the hit in pittsburgh however many years ago was dirty they would have said it it was nick chubb
06:24you know i think people would have been honest about it but they didn't think it was
06:27and then yesterday obviously dewan jones had some words with make it right after the hit and then
06:33talked to uh at least dan lobby cleveland.com after the game and said he told them it wasn't
06:37football and that wasn't a clean hit um i think it's tough i think it's all perspective if a browns
06:45player did that you'd be arguing not you and people be arguing that it's not a 15-yard penalty what
06:50do
06:50you how do you play safety in the nfl these days right so it's how you look at it i
06:54thought he launched
06:55and i thought certainly concepcion was defensive so i think it's definitely a 15-yard penalty i also
07:02think he tried to lead with the shoulder and it's really hard to do and your head gets there um
07:07we
07:08see it time and time again so i don't i didn't think it was a ejectionable offense i thought it
07:14was
07:14certainly a 15-yarder um and then i think there's different opinions on whether mick is dirty overall
07:22uh but he's been in the league a long time and outside of these couple of browns plays i don't
07:27know that i've heard um people give him that reputation scott petrack joining us from the
07:33chronicle telegram after the game todd munkin was asked about the running game and not getting it going
07:39and why and todd was honest he said well if i knew the answer to that we'd have it fixed
07:45can you help
07:46him is it is it the line is quinchon not back to being quinchon yet what do you think
07:55i do think it's a line there's not the push that you're looking for right it's not like the they're
08:01displacing the defensive line three yards and quinchons get all kind of room to operate so i think it
08:07starts there uh i feel like they've had the most success when they run counters and outside get away
08:14from the tackle box which is probably not a great sign for your line you know moving people and then
08:21i i think quinch well you know junk has left the the locker room yesterday in a walking boot so
08:27we'll
08:27have to see where his health is but i thought he was healthy coming off last year's surgery i thought
08:32he looked great in the offseason the coaches continue to say that so i don't think it was a health
08:36issue
08:37with judkins i i'm not sure he's seeing it like he needs to see it and that could be a
08:42rust thing it
08:43could be new system um he just doesn't feel as decisive as maybe he needs to be uh when he
08:50gets
08:51those you know when he gets the ball but again it doesn't help if there's not the room to operate
08:56so
08:57i think it's everything um but you know todd's clear that this offense cannot be anywhere close to where
09:03it needs to be if they can't run it better and during a bunch of second and long and third
09:07and long
09:08and that makes life tough on watson it makes life tough on the guys trying to protect watson i don't
09:13we've watched a lot of football all of us have and i just you know there are going to be
09:18games that
09:18they should win and they don't it happens to every team in the nfl i'm just kind of hoping yesterday
09:22was the day do you think it's more the norm or do you think that you know what i'm saying
09:27was that
09:27is that a game that a decent team should win they bounce back they're still a decent team
09:33or is that a team that that's we saw reality yesterday yeah i don't think it was reality like
09:39i don't think that's you know who the browns are i think when they play well and play well late
09:45then they can beat a lot of teams in this league and we'll see what kind of test baltimore is
09:49on
09:50sunday if lamar plays um it's gonna be a tougher test than the jets but this game the whole time
09:56felt to
09:57me like a game where the jets were desperate coming out three straight losses the browns are
10:03probably feeling themselves a little bit coming off three straight wins uh and then if you don't
10:07play well that happens right we talk about week to week league like this that jets game just set up
10:13to me like the browns are going to lose because the jets needed it more and then they go out
10:18and
10:19don't play particularly well so your best teams don't have as many of those games but the browns
10:23aren't a top five team in this league they're in the middle of the pack and those games happen so
10:28the key is bouncing back against the ravens and i think the browns baseline is higher than they
10:35played yesterday but it needs to be cleaner and they haven't played clean whether it's penalties
10:40whether it's mistakes um there's just been too much of those and they've been able to overcome
10:46during that three game winning streak with good play late and then when you make the mistakes late in
10:51the game we saw what we saw yesterday one play you know fried the defense at the end when braylon
10:57allen had that 22 yard touchdown run yeah but but yet another real good effort all the way around
11:03by the defense scott and this one came without mason graham and mike hall that was really pretty
11:08impressive it was and especially after the start right to just go down the field ronnie hickman
11:14misses a couple tackles um you know denzel gave up a completion to wilson and the jets scored
11:20and you're like okay there we go then they played yeah but they played really well after that they got
11:24pressure on you know they had two big turnovers right the quincy williams hit save points um when
11:31he caused the third of his forced fumbles you get the strip sack from swessinger uh i thought they
11:37might get gashed with allen um without those two d tackles in there but they held up pretty well
11:43throughout the game so i thought it was a good performance from the defense you know obviously you
11:48would wish they had one more stand there um that third down run by allen it was a good play
11:53call
11:53you know they catch verse coming way up the field you know it's third and long you're thinking it's a
11:58pass um a mile certain blitzes he's in the hole and can't make the tackle so it was a good
12:04play call
12:04they probably still could have brought him down you know and then the jets kick a field goal and take
12:08the lead there anyway but yeah i thought it was a good performance from the defense like you said
12:13especially given that you're missing two key pieces along that front now we'll see if they can bounce
12:18back against a baltimore team that's sitting on top of the division and one on the road without
12:23lamar jackson so if he's back good luck scott thank you very much and scott from brownzone.com the
12:30chronicle telegram you can go listen to his podcast as well go to brownzone.com and you'll see zone
12:35coverage scott's podcast right there thanks buddy hey thanks folks joining us on the wise heart right
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