Dawgs By Nature
‘Tis the season for what? Watching games that don’t count for anything any longer? Geez….is this 2025 season still going?
For Cleveland Browns fans, we are waiting on Santa to bring us a playoff-caliber roster that we can love and hold and laugh when it wets itself and show off to our friends.
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When your team loses double-digit games, it is difficult to watch. But when that happens again and again, you have to question everything.
Do we really need this aggravation? Wouldn’t it just be simpler to say, I am a Mike Vrabel fan, so my team this year is the New England Patriots?
We all want to be planning on how many playoff tickets to buy, and where the best seats are. Instead, we end up with the figgy pudding and a box of fruitcake. Make that a crate of the sticky, icky treat that nobody wants anyway.
And so, we bought season tickets and are stuck with them. Tried to sell them game by game, but few takers. And every message that does float through is such a low-ball offer that it is cheaper to just go to the game and hiss and boo.
At the final gun, the playoff-bound Buffalo Bills won 23-20 as Cleveland left points on the field.
So who played well for the Browns? Who didn’t?
Browns’ opening drive – Every play, every block, every catch and run, and every decision on this drive to start the game worked to perfection. RB Quinshon Judkins for three good runs followed by 11 yards to TE Harold Fannin. Then QB Shedeur Sanders hit WR Malachi Corley, who lateraled to Isaiah Bond for 21 yards. Seven-yard completion to WR Jerry Jeudy, then Judkins for three yards. Then Sanders found Fannin all alone in the right flats, who did the rest of the work to find the end zone and a 7-0 lead. Eight plays, 69 yards, 4:18 of clock, and one third-down conversion. Thing of beauty.
RB Raheim Sanders – On the Browns’ official depth chart, Sanders is listed as the fourth-string back. But after Quinshon Judkins went down with a leg injury, it was Sanders who was propelled into the starting role. And did he perform? In the third quarter, it was the “Raheim Sanders Show” as the back was the main engine to get the Browns down inside the five-yard line that eventually would give Cleveland its second touchdown. On a third-and-two with 8:23 left in the third, he broke three tackles to get into Buffalo territory. On a third-and-one, he gutted out three yards up the middle, and then busted out for nine yards behind blocks by TEs Blake Whiteheart and Brendan Bates to the four-yard line. Very next play, another three yards to set up the Harold Fannin score. Then all of a sudden, the offense quit using him. Finished with 11 carries for 42 yards with one reception for four...
