Browns Game Recap: Kevin Stefanski gets exposed in embarrassing loss (3 Bad/3 Worst of Week 10)
By Chad Porto
The Worst
Not having Greedy Williams
It’s evident Greedy Williams is the best player in the Browns’ secondary. Is that a good thing? Who knows. It’s anyone’s guess but what isn’t is the fact that when Williams is hurt, the Browns secondary isn’t nearly as good as it is with him on. That’s an indictment against Ronnie Harrison and Denzel Ward for sure, but that’s simply the truth. The Browns still need to retool the secondary in the offseason.
Drops
It’s bad enough that Kevin Stefanski stunted drives with bad play-calling, but it’s even worse when Mayfield finds a Browns’ player open and all they do is drop the ball. This happened three times this week, at least, and two belong to David Njoku. Thankfully for Njoku, Stefanski was far more harmful with his play-calling than anything Njoku could’ve done to hurt this team but that still isn’t a good thing.
No blitzing
Joe Woods should lose his job after today. The Browns defense isn’t this bad but the over-reliance on the defensive ends to provide all of the pressure is exactly why the Patriots picked apart the secondary. The lack of pressure all day on a rookie is insulting and mind-boggling. We all saw what happened against Cinncicanti when the Browns blitzed and to all of a sudden not doing that against New England is baffling. It’s very possible that Woods’ is just executing Stefanski’s decisions but if that’s the case, then Stefanski has to be sat down and dealt with because this type of play is causing the team to lose.