Browns: 3 good and 3 bad things from the Week 13 win over the Titans

The Bad

The second half

Then they were cold, like slicing through frozen butter when it’s -72 below zero and all you have is a plastic spoon. Kevin Stefanski’s desire to get conservative nearly cost this team a victory. Plus, since when does the ground count when a fumble occurs? That’s just dumb. He’s a better coach than this, and whether it was because he didn’t want to run up the score or what have you, he needs to realize this isn’t college or high school. There can be no mercy.

The corners

Yikes. Talk about terrible play. The team was severely hampered by the loss of Denzel Ward, as the corners couldn’t contain anyone once Ryan Tannehill was given the green light to throw. The Titans put up 28 points in the second half alone, and most of it was thanks to the inability for the corners to actually make plays. The safeties played great, however, with Karl Joseph and Andrew Sendejo making plays all over the field, but corners have proven time and time again this season that they are not worth keeping heading into 2021. Besides Ward, obviously.

The linebackers

UGH, these linebackers are so bad. Kudos to Malcolm Smith who had a huge game, but besides one big stick from Mack Wilson, what else did he, B.J. Goodson, or Sione Takitaki do? Especially Goodson and Takitaki. Takitaki is constantly shallow in his coverage duties, allowing for quarterbacks to drop a ball three yards behind him almost constantly. Goodson is just falling backward when someone hits him and Wilson has not played any better with his knee brace off than he did with it on. It’s almost like someone was screaming like a mad-man for months, begging for GM Andrew Berry to make improvements. It’s like this was predicted…