4-3. I don’t care how you get there. I don’t care who you beat. I don’t care what the score was, you’re 4-3 and right in the thick of things in a very competitive AFC North. If you would have asked me back in August if I would be happy with a 4-3 record after 7 games, I would have said “Yes” so fast it would have made your freaking head spin. When was the last time the Browns were over .500 this far into the season? 2007? (That’s just a guess. I’m not looking it up. If someone wants to, be my guest). After 15 years of shitty football, it’s nice to have an actual, competent football team to cheer for. Can you imagine if the Browns would have blown this? With the most anticipated sporting season in Cleveland history starting Thursday, the Browns would have been an afterthought. Losing 2 games in a row to 2 winless opponents is no way to keep a fanbase satisfied. Am I happy with how the offense looked? No. Am I happy with how Brian Hoyer looked? Not happy but content. Do we need to be better on third down? Oh yes. Has the defense strung together three straight games where they’ve looked good as fuck? Absolutely. Now enough of me answering my own questions. Let’s look at the damn game tape.

The day started with the sexiest t-shirt known to man being released upon the helpless victims of the Muni Lot

TBDBITL kicked things off pregame

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God damn he looks majestic

The first half was gross. Here it is summed up in six seconds

This guy liked it though

Jordan Cameron got concussed. How dare they hurt a man so good looking

And The King showed up (In Browns gear!)

The second half was much better. Paul Kruger had a MAN’S GAME and finished with 3 sacks.

I’m fine with ending the Travis Benjamin experiment. Put him at receiver full time… Dare I say bring back Josh Cribbs? He couldn’t do a worse job.

Whitner and Dansby forced a fumble, Haden returned it 40 yards. Hello turning point

Which set up Hoyer + Hawkins = 6

The rookies played well on defense. Gilbert made a couple of nice plays and Kirksey was all over the place knocking dudes around like this

Kinda don’t understand why we’re not seeing more of this fella

Mingo sighting! Mingo sighting!

And that led to Ben Tate putting the game away

A couple quick thoughts:

• Any time the running game would like to come back, that’d be great.
• Hopefully Billy Winn is back next week to combat the John Hughes injury (if his injury is bad)
• Why are people bitching about the quarterback? 19-28 275 yards and a TD. Shut up. He played well.
• Need to be better on third down if we want to beat the Buccaneers.
• Mack, Cameron, Gordon. All Pro Bowlers, all didn’t contribute yesterday.
• Like I said before, “Memo to the AFC, do NOT let this team be 6-4 of 7-3 by the time #12 comes back.”
• Don’t look now but that’s three straight superb performances by the defense. Looks like Happy learned to putt.

#OnToTampaBay

PS- Hey guys…. 4 days.