The Cleveland Browns left Pittsburgh Monday night with two major losses. The Browns lost Nick Chubb during the game before losing to the Steelers’ defense in the final minutes. The game felt like an eternity after Nick Chubb suffered a brutal knee injury.
The Browns were battling the Steelers and a plague of injuries. It became obvious in the demeanors of the offensive players that they were looking to survive Monday night. Sadly, they were not able to as Deshaun looked gun-shy, battered, and everything else besides looking like a quarter of a billion-dollar man. The offense looked disjointed with Amari Cooper and Jerome Ford occasionally breathing life into the body without organs.
The defense was able to keep on a brave face and remained steadfast despite the offense’s incompetence. A horrible miscommunication between Denzel Ward and Juan Thornhill allowed for a long George Pickens touchdown. While Ward was pointing at Thornhill to switch to Pickens, my early conclusion is that Ward should’ve locked onto George since the route broke nearly 10 yards downfield.
Unfortunately, miscommunications will occur early in the season. It helps when that’s the only touchdown given up by the defense. With Watson and the offense giving up the other two touchdowns. That buys them some leeway in this week’s studs and duds.