Daily Dawg Tags: Cleveland Browns still looking for answers
By Dan Justik
The Daily Dawg Tags brings you all the Cleveland Browns news you need to know, including the Browns still looking for answers midway through the season.
After seven games of the 2019 season, the Cleveland Browns continue to refuse to get out of their own way and made their life more difficult against the Patriots, helping to cause them to fall to 2-5.
The Browns are now at a point in the season where they should be answering and fixing some of their biggest question marks. Instead, they are adding to the list and making more people wonder why they cannot iron out their issues.
Even though the Patriots played their own sloppy game on Sunday afternoon, the Cleveland Browns’ mistakes were too much to overcome. They were even too much to make it a close game for Cleveland despite New England giving them opportunities to make it a close game.
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Today’s featured article discusses that after their most recent loss, the Browns are left with more questions about themselves and why they cannot right the ship.
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Browns left with more questions than answers after latest loss – Judy Battista, NFL.com
"That the Browns did steady themselves, and closed the game to 17-10 is almost more damning than the errors. It indicates that the Browns do have the talent and the resiliency to be a formidable team. But it raises the eternal, existential question that will hover over the Browns until they finally summon an answer: why — why — do these things continue to happen?"
The most frustrating aspect of the Browns season so far is their inability to show any signs of growth. Despite all of the noticeable issues and the coaches and players hitting all of the talking points after games, they refuse to actually fix the problems they are talking about. The Browns are about to reach the midpoint of the season, and yet they still don’t have an identity and are making the same mistakes they made at the start of the season.
Week 8 instant reactions: Same old Patriots, same new Browns
The Cleveland Browns left many unsure of what they just watched following their performance against the Patriots. Elliot Kennel shared his thoughts and instant reactions from Cleveland’s 27-13 loss to New England.
"This is not suggesting there are some percolating issues in Cleveland. But if it just so happens that further down the road some problems pop up, these comments will certainly seem interesting in hindsight."
Following most of the losses this season, every Browns coach and player will say all of the right things about what needs to be fixed. But they are still not fixing the issues, and Cleveland may be hinting at even deeper problems in their post-game press conferences.
"“I don’t coach penalties,’’ Kitchens said. “I’m not answering questions about penalties. I’ve never once, in 20 years of coaching, coached somebody to take a penalty. Except in a situation, where it would help you clock-wise, clock management-wise. So, I don’t know, I don’t know.’’"
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Freddie Kitchens saying he does not coach penalties does not mean anything if the team continues to draw penalties. When penalties become a continued problem for a team, a head coach needs to find ways to help eliminate them from the game. Instead, Kitchens seems to refuse he has any responsibility in the team taking so many penalties.