Cleveland Browns: Lets Temper Our Enthusiasm

Johnny Manziel led the Browns to a victory on Sunday. You have to take it one week at a time and not give a crap about records.

“Kilgore was a positive out of the game”, Tomsula said.

“He made good decisions”.

Talk about running a reverse.

If the opinions of Pettine and Barnidge ring true, the Browns might have something in Manziel.

First of all, it’s hard to view San Francisco as a significant challenge for anyone with Cleveland, including Manziel.

But there’s evidence Manziel has learned from his mistakes.

But Manziel is coming off maybe the best game of his career, as are the Browns, having dominated the 49ers on Sunday. That means Martin, who started the team’s first 13 games at center, will be auditioning for the role of left guard next year. However, at 2-10, the Browns reinstated Manziel into the starting lineup in an effort to see what skills he possesses and what others have been improved.

Quotable: “I know he’ll come up here and he’ll say that nothing’s different, but he’s playing his tail off. He’ll be humble with it, but I can’t say enough about what he’s doing right now”.

“I don’t think I’ll ever forget this one, ” he said. “He is going to see it and he is going to learn from it and get better”. You don’t know if you have a guy you can depend on.

While the weather may be cooling off across many parts of the country as fall gets set to transition to winter, the Seattle Seahawks are as hot as can be. “It’s a tribute to our leadership”, Pettine said. Instead, it appeared that the 49ers actually forgot they had a football game to play yesterday. So, that tells us that he obviously got hit pretty good, but it’s not broke when they say contusion so we’re good there. When they see him frustrated after throwing a boneheaded interception and get after himself a little bit, there’s some respect there because they see how competitive he is. “I thought it was a solid performance”, Pettine said. “We’re going to miss his leadership”.

NOTES: With his future being feverishly debated by outsiders, Pettine said his only focus is on the next three games and that “however it falls out, it falls out.”… Cleveland had one big loss Sunday, as receiver Brian Hartline suffered a broken collarbone that will sideline him for the season. But because there are just three games remaining in the season, there is no reason to rush Boone back into action. He returned to practice last week. He might become more involved in the offense with Hartline out for the season. The nine sacks also tied for the second-most in a game in Browns history. RB Kendall Gaskins sustained a concussion and is in the league’s concussion protocol…. I think we have done good as a team not allowing any type of distractions, no matter whether it is anybody or anything that distracts us from anything. “It’s upsetting that my year has ended this way”. Their previous season high came in Week 2 when they compiled 116 rushing yards in a 28-14 win over the Tennessee Titans.

Why? Because the Browns are now the holders of the #1 pick in the draft with the worst record in football.

Haden added that specialists expect a full recovery. And that would put him in position to go into the offseason and the 2016 season as the Browns’ starting quarterback.

Haden has been named to the Pro Bowl the past two years.

Brooks, 31, is the longest-tenured player on the defense; Staley, 31, is the longest-tenured on the roster.

-Wide receiver Terrelle Pryor played against the 49ers but was not targeted.

“I think Joe is as frustrated as anybody else”, Pettine said.

Haden played 15 games in each of the past two seasons.