NFL Black Monday Thread

SoggyBottomBoy said
Agree that he was benched for tanking reasons. Don't agree that he'd beat the Bengals, maybe, MAYBE the Dolphins.

I just did a quick stat/metric/analytic check while talking to my buddy over Teams.....

Apparently, the Bengals were one of the worst teams against the run, one of the bottom 5 teams in terms of giving up passing TDs, and they had one of the lowest sack rates in the NFL. My buddy just told me that the Browns best game running the ball was against the Bengals but couldn't do nothing in the air and they always play Joe Burrow tough. Like I said, we were the only defense that he faced this season that wasn't a top 10 defense and he torched us; Taysom just happened to go nuts. Our pass defense and I believe our pressure rate is better than the Bengals.

St. Widge said
I have to give you credit for sticking with Winston no matter what.

It's less "sticking with him" and moreso talking about the situation. All that was said was Winston was benched so the Browns can tank and people took that and ran with it, not knowing that is exactly what happened. I said nothing about his play or even him. Just the fact that they were competitive playing top 5 defenses and they were coming up on weaker (and declining) defenses, which would have killed any move to get a top 5 pick. It is what it is.