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It sounds familiar to last season, but I'm fairly certain that it's going to be difficult to use the X hater playbook for T-mac.

Honestly we should probably be looking better than "OK." Is anyone feeling all giddy with excitement after that performance? Our ones faced their twos (and threes) essentially. We faced the Browns fourth string rookie QB, no Jerry Jeudy, David Njoku or Cedric Tillman (presumably their top three receiving options), they didn't have an RB anyone can name, and still we kind of struggled. I know that we had DB and Jaycee on ice as well, and X got ejected (but some suggest he's not good anyway), but it's not like we were facing their ones. I'm thinking that we'll win less this morning, not more, but "it was a preseason game" and this time of year I guess that hope springs eternal. If anyone wants to clown---last time I heard, Vegas had the Panthers at 6.5 wins, over-under---by all means take the over.

True, but let's be real: the two best players on defense weren't even out there, but the run defense (at least in the first quarter) was better than we saw all of last season, albeit against relative nobodies. As for the other quarters, we knew that depth was a concern, so it shouldn't be totally surprising that we got rolled up. I thought that Dalton would be way more effective.

Some are making a lot of noise about Legette lising his spot to Coker based upon being ejected last evening. I'll believe that when I see it. Legette didn't lose a thing but his temper.

I am not buying how McMillan's game was bad. Hell, the drop (not drops) wasn't even that egregious, it was a lack of timing between Tet and Bryce. It's a teaching moment during preseason. Viewed from another perspective, McMillan has 43 yards on five targets (and nearly a few more and a TD). It's not the perfect performance, but it's hardly bad in my opinion.

Well, I will say that I don't see how anyone can really feel good about the team's performance tonight. Of course I said there was literally nothing that they can do to get me excited during preseason. But there are things they can do to make me less excited. Shake my head.

Nah, they've really been icing him out. The only reason he is even getting this opportunity is because Pickett and Gabriel are banged up. The Browns suck for that. I even hate that he went there. But wouldn't it be something if he's the one that stabilizes the position (honestly since Brian Sipe, but maybe Bernie Kosar)?

No. That was X from a positional standpoint. Even on the big drop, he was in double coverage.

Well, I want to see what lame excuse the Browns use for freezing out Shedeur now. They look like the idiots that they have been.

I mean, not really. He's really never been the focus of defenses, but he did have two or three notable games, especially against the Cowboys. It's a different animal when you are the main focus of a defense.

XL was for all practical purposes our WR1. That's going to bring different personnel and pressures your way. All I'm saying is that it's still too early to make that type of determination.

I mean, you could be right, but you're claiming this when he's playing against twos and threes in against a squad that didn't have the best defense last year anyway. It would mean more if he was torching a highly touted first rate pass defense and even playing top-rated corners.

I'm thinking that we'll be OK if we can stay relatively healthy. If Jaycee goes down, we will have big issues.

Holding, and holding

Kinda sketchy in the secondary. ICorey Thornton has made some flash plays though.

They are different, but kick returning isn't as easy as it looks. Sure you may have guys that can do it, but not everyone does it well, and certainly not well enough to start in the NFL. Look at Shedeur shredding our defense in the red zone.

I can understand that, but let's be cautious making judgments based upon one screwed up play.

Damn, it would be nice to extend a few drives.

Well, when your own guy basically interferes with you, it's really not a surprise if it looks clumsy. Just saying.

But he had more kick returns.

Punts. I'm not saying he can't do the job, but he hasn't looked more natural than Etienne.

On, you mean the Horn dropping balls in practice?

Did you not see him get interfered with by his own guy? WTF?