Week 14: Cleveland Browns @ Buffalo Bills

• Fab4Runner

  

  Go Phil D! Go Browns!
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Awesome Dawson, Phil to Thrill. Thank god we dont have Derek Anderception starting at QB this yr, and Ben Watson playing at TE. I still get pissed thinking about he sure fire TD drop by Robert Royal last season.
• Art Modell

  

  Breaking News Flash:
  
  Reggie Hodges has just won the AFC special teams player of the week. Hopefully that brightens your day Cleveland fans. I'll wait and give my prediction on this game on Friday.
• like_that

  

  Art Modell;592496 wrote:Breaking News Flash:
  
  Reggie Hodges has just won the AFC special teams player of the week. Hopefully that brightens your day Cleveland fans. I'll wait and give my prediction on this game on Friday.

  
  WE CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR YOUR PREDICTION!
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Art Modell;592496 wrote:Breaking News Flash:
  
  Reggie Hodges has just won the AFC special teams player of the week. Hopefully that brightens your day Cleveland fans. I'll wait and give my prediction on this game on Friday.

  
  
• Art Modell

  

  A serious question for Cleveland fans:
  This there is no chance of the playoffs do you hope the Browns win out or lose the rest of the games to improve your draft pick?
• Commander of Awesome

  

  I'm sure it will be a FAIL.
• zach24oz

  If healthy, do you think McCoy will get a chance to start the last 3 games? or At least against the Ravens and Steelers? I would like to see what he can do against Baltimore...the last time these 2 teams faced each other is when Hillis broke out...Maybe with a more mobile QB and better passer the Browns could steal away a win in their last 2 games...
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Grossi on the PD podcast thinks he is two games away from being healthy.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Weather could be very interesting for this game. Looking like a blizzard, which IMO sets up VERY nicely for the Browns and Peyton Hillis.
• Art Modell

  

  Just read where this game is blacked out in Buffalo. I'll bet it wasn't blacked out 2 weeks ago. Just saying.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  lol at the writer's name, I thought at first it was Lundberg from Office Space.
  
  Cleveland Browns' Ben Watson is a special tight end, not a specialist
  Published: Thursday, December 09, 2010, 9:18 PM Updated: Thursday, December 09, 2010, 11:14 PM
  Bill Lubinger, The Plain Dealer
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  View full sizeJohn Kuntz / The Plain DealerBrowns tight end Ben Watson has 50 receptions this season.
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  Share 31 Comments BEREA, Ohio — With few exceptions, the modern-day NFL tight end is a specialist. He blocks. Or he catches. Or he's a decoy.
  
  For the Browns this season, Ben Watson has done all of the above. Except for maybe the decoy thing.
  
  How unlikely is it that a tight end leads the team in receptions, and his name isn't Newsome or even Winslow.
  
  "It feels great," Watson said this week, "definitely feels great to have your number called and be a part of the offense."
  
  The 6-3, 255-pound Watson, who turns 30 on Dec. 18 and has started all 12 games for the Browns, is coming off his best game as a pro, with 10 catches for 100 yards and the Browns' only touchdown in last week's 13-10 victory at Miami.
  
  His only other 100-yard game came against the Browns in 2007.
  
  The former Georgia standout was a first-round draft pick -- 32nd overall -- by Bill Belichick's New England Patriots in 2004. That was the year the Browns chose another tight end, Kellen Winslow, sixth overall.
  
  "I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period," Watson said. "I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started."
  
  But Watson's rookie season was a bust. A torn knee ligament forced him to miss all but one game of the Patriots' Super Bowl season. He was shelved with just two catches for 16 yards.
  
  The Browns signed the unrestricted free agent in March to what ESPN reported at the time was a three-year, $12 million contract, with $6.35 million of that guaranteed.
  
  They were pretty sure what they might be getting for their money. Watson had spent the previous six seasons in New England, where Browns coach Eric Mangini and offensive coordinator Brian Daboll got a good sense of what the guy could do.
  
  So when Watson was signed, Browns General Manager Tom Heckert said he considered him the top free-agent tight end available, not just for his hands but his blocking, too.
  
  And he has played like it.
  
  With 50 catches, Watson is tied for first among AFC tight ends -- and tied for fifth among all tight ends. Such production puts him on par with San Diego scoring machine and converted Kent State basketballer Antonio Gates and Winslow, now with Tampa Bay.
  
  With the Browns this season, Watson has evolved into more than a passer's third option just because the wideouts are covered.
  
  "He's extremely fast and, obviously, catches the ball very well, but he's very, very intelligent, extremely intelligent," said Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme. "We move him around a good bit, and he has a very good sense of coverages. That's very impressive about him."
  
  Watson is third in team scoring with three touchdowns and second in receptions, behind only running back Peyton Hillis. He also leads the Browns with 574 receiving yards.
  
  There's no reason to expect anything different from Watson in Buffalo Sunday. Maybe especially because it's Buffalo.
  
  He has been kind of a Bills-killer, with 23 catches and four touchdowns in seven games in his career.
  
  Watson has already set a career high with the 50 catches. His previous best was 49 with the Patriots in 2006. He also snared the longest pass of his career this season, a 44-yarder from Seneca Wallace in the loss to Kansas City.
  
  But it's also his ability to move bodies without the ball that leaves teammates impressed.
  
  "Sometimes it's hard to try to find a tight end who can block and also can catch and do everything," Wallace said. "He's one of those guys. When you find those, they're a rare bunch."
  
  "He's the total package," said total package Josh Cribbs.
  
  Even more noteworthy is that Watson has compiled solid numbers this season despite the Browns' injury-ridden quarterback carousel. With the Patriots, it was quarterback Tom Brady at the command, period.
  
  "I've never been on a team that's gone through this many quarterbacks," Watson said. "It's definitely unique, I think, in that way. I think it's a tribute to the coaching staff and to the guys that are playing offense, and to the quarterbacks."
  
  His numbers rival past Pro Bowlers Gates and Winslow. And he's just a handful of catches short of Atlanta's Tony Gonzalez, a future Hall of Fame tight end. Then thoughts of making the Pro Bowl himself this season must be creeping in, right?
  
  "Nah," said Watson, who said he was flattered the subject even comes up. "We've got four games to play. We just want to win. All those things kinda come after."
  
  http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2010/12/cleveland_browns_ben_watson_is.html
• Commander of Awesome

  

  This game was awesome. DA in an oven mit, lolz.
  [video]http://www.nfl.com/videos/cleveland-browns/09000d5d8052c3c3/NFL-GameDay-Bills-vs-Browns-highlights[/video]
• Art Modell

  

  Bills-20
  Clowns-16
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Capone;595204 wrote:Bills-20
  Browns-16

  
  Fixed the spelling mistake for you.
• Non

  

  Bills 17
  Browns 16
  
  Bills played terrible last week after several competitive games. I think they'll come out surprisingly tough at home this week.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Colt McCoy participated in limited practice today, could be the 3rd QB on sunday. I hope this is setting him up to be our starter next week.
• DaBrowns41

  Go4alOngbOmB;591197 wrote:They played us at home 2 seasons back. I know, I was there, it was snowing like nuts there. Cleveland won like 9-6 or something crazy like that. It took forever to get home! LOL! It was a fun game to be at, mainly because my seats were under the awning in the upper deck, so the people 3 rows in front of us were covered in snow, and we were completely dry!
  
  I don't see this as a pushover game at all, but the Bill shave one of the WORST run defenses in the NFL (if not the worst) so I see a LARGE dose of Hillis all game long. We will just have to limit their big play receiver Steve Johnson. (AKA lets hope Eric Wright is still hurt) The Bills are no pushover, especially at home...but if Hillis can get in a groove with his downhill style of running, and there is some snow on the ground, we might see a HUGE game out of him!

  
  Yeah, that was when the "highlights" of the game were the punts. There was a ton of snow, and we ended up winning 6-0 if I recall correctly.
  
  As for this week, I picked the Browns to lose. I will be rooting for them, but as long as Jake Delhomme is taking snaps, I cannot see surefire victories.
  
  But fantasy owners, make sure you're starting Hillis. He could have a huge day.
• DaBrowns41

  Commander of Awesome;595359 wrote:Colt McCoy participated in limited practice today, could be the 3rd QB on sunday. I hope this is setting him up to be our starter next week.

  
  Doubtful. Considering the paycheck that Delhomme is getting, and the last two games of the season being against very tough defensive opponents, the coaching staff will probably protect him. We're not going to make the playoffs, so there's no reason to rush somebody back into playing.
  
  We saw the last of McCoy for 2010, unless Delhomme AND Seneca both go down.... again.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  DaBrowns41;595468 wrote:Doubtful. Considering the paycheck that Delhomme is getting, and the last two games of the season being against very tough defensive opponents, the coaching staff will probably protect him. We're not going to make the playoffs, so there's no reason to rush somebody back into playing.
  
  We saw the last of McCoy for 2010, unless Delhomme AND Seneca both go down.... again.

  
  We have the Matador -John St. Clair out there at RT, its very possible they both get hurt again.
• DaBrowns41

  Commander of Awesome;595494 wrote:We have the Matador -John St. Clair out there at RT, its very possible they both get hurt again.

  
  Ugh. Don't remind me.
• Sykotyk

  

  Commander of Awesome;595065 wrote:This game was awesome. DA in an oven mit, lolz.
  [video]http://www.nfl.com/videos/cleveland-browns/09000d5d8052c3c3/NFL-GameDay-Bills-vs-Browns-highlights[/video]

  
  I was at that game in the 500 level on the southside stands. I'm still cold from that game.
  
  Amazing game, though.
• Go4alOngbOmB

  

  The coldest part of that Bills game wasn't in the stands....GOD BLESS IT if you had to pee and walk down the upper deck openings to the concessions. Sweet Jesus, it was blowing through those things off the lake at negative 50! That's the only time I got cold the whole game is when I needed to recycle beers! I also got separated from my group on the way out of the stadium, which is not a big deal, but I ended up coming out at the Northwest gate and thinking, Ill just walk around the stadium lake side to get to the car parked in the Upper open Courthouse parking lot.
  
  BAD IDEA, I wish I would have had an iPod and the swan lake soundtrack blaring, I was watching people eat it left and right on the ice because of the wind! The wind with the lake mist froze that entire walkway over in about 3 inches of ice. I'm between 5'10 and 6 foot depending on what Circle K I'm leaving, and a solid 250, and at one point in time the wind blew so hard off the lake, I hunkered down and it blew me 10 feet the OPPOSITE DIRECTION on the ice. It was an INSANE game! Loved every second of it, one of the reasons I love being a Browns fan! A GREAT memory!
• wes_mantooth

  

  Bought this coolass shirt courtesy of BR1986FB
  
  http://www.smackapparel.com/WebModules/ShoppingCart/ProductImageView.aspx?productId=459
• BRF

  

  I'll take the Browns by 1 to move to 6-7.