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Folks, that was a football game, I think. The Green Bay Packers took a trip to Cleveland to face off against the Browns for their first road game of the season. After the last two games, fans have developed some hubris, to put it lightly, but why wouldn’t they? The team looked great against two of last year’s juggernauts, and now we’re talking about the 0-2 Cleveland Browns! So anyways, the Packers are now 2-1 after falling to the Browns, 13-10, and I don’t really want to talk about it. But I must. Let’s take a look at this week’s winners and losers.
Where do I even start? Don’t ask the offensive line, they don’t know either. Jordan Morgan had a particularly rough game today, with multiple false starts that pushed the Packers back when they really needed to make a play. One false start came on 3rd and 4, and the team was forced to settle for a FG. Another came on 3rd and 1, and the team ended that drive with a punt. Rasheed Walker also saw his fair share of penalties, including a brutal false start on the drive that ended with the Packers’ blocked FG attempt.
The entire line was also getting picked apart in pass protection, and the pocket fell apart on what seemed like every other play. Jordan Love was left vulnerable the entire game, took 5 sacks as a result, and I’m left thanking the football gods that he came out of this game in one piece. Absolutely atrocious play by the entire line today. They’re missing Zach Tom and Aaron Banks, very badly.
Jordan Love didn’t actually look too bad today, considering what he had to deal with from his offensive line. He maybe held onto the ball a bit too long, took an unnecessary sack when he could’ve just thrown it away. Normal things you can nitpick most QBs for. And then…
This is one of the worst decisions and throws I’ve ever seen Love make as a pro. I don’t know what he was thinking here—it was like he meant to throw it to this exact Browns player. This interception kickstarted the Browns comeback after an entire game of almost zero offensive output, and after the next 3 minutes of play, the Packers would fall to 2-1. Love finished the day 18 of 25 for 183 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT, and a rating of 89.2.
For the fifth straight game, Rashan Gary recorded a sack, finishing with 2 on the day. Both sacks came on 3rd downs, and led to Cleveland punts. Gary was bringing some heavy pressure that forced Cleveland QB Joe Flacco to get rid of the ball quickly, and it helped limit their offense to 3 points for most of the game. “Most of” is doing some heavy lifting here, I realize.
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