3 Good & 3 Bad: Miami Dolphins dunk on the Cleveland Browns

3 Bad

The Play Calling

Kevin Stefanski is bad at playcalling. It’s easy to have a top offense when all you do is hand it off to Nick Chubb, but what happens when you can’t do that? Well, you score 17 points against the Miami Dolphins and you eat up most of the clock while doing so. Stefanski didn’t trust Nick Chubb early and it cost him late. Not only that, but Stefanski again failed a fourth-down conversation and potentially left points on the board. Would that have changed the game? Probably not, but every point matters. Stefanski’s offense is designed to be a time-suck, and in games where a team gets out of a lead, that comes back to bite them in the rear.

The Interior Line Struggling

The defensive tackles need to be fired. All of them. Veteran pro all the way down to the rookies. There has not been one game where the defensive tackles have stepped up. We look at guys like Perrion Winfrey, Tommy Togiai, and Taven Bryan and we want to like these guys but they’re just so bad. Winfrey is such a problem with the coaches that they won’t even dress him is telling how wrecked this unit is.

Lack of pressure

Not a single Cleveland Browns player got to the quarterback in a meaningful way today. Sure, Sione Takitaki got to Tua Tagovailoa in the fourth after a botched snap, but that wasn’t really a play he made. The Browns’ lack of a pass rush isn’t new and while Myles Garrett gets hyped for his sack total, the fact is that the Browns have not had a steady and consistent pass rush since Garrett arrived. Garrett can provide some pressure, but this team just isn’t built well enough to put pressure on opposing quarterbacks. Especially when Garrett’s on the sidelines sucking wind.