Shocking News: the QB Sent a massage to the fans for his coming back full….
The Cleveland Browns got destroyed by the Houston Texans yesterday as the worst fears of Browns fans came to life. How you cope with it is up to you, but the NFL calendar never stops it just resets.
Good morning, Cleveland Browns fans!
I admit I didn’t want to get up and do the Newswire this morning. The alarm rang at 5:30am, and I reset it to 6:30am. It rang at 6:30am and I stared at the ceiling for ten minutes, evaluating the advantages of the warm blankets vs. the disadvantages of the cold, snowy world outside before deciding that it had to be done.
I’m not sure what I expected to confront me when I finally opened my browser and started plowing through feeds, but my general sense is that the local media was just about as shell-shocked as the rest of us. There are game recaps, and sad stories of player interviews after the game, like those of Myles Garrett lamenting the loss and Joe Flacco saying goodbye, but no magic-bullet answers for what happened on Saturday afternoon.
The “Gee, we should be proud of what the Browns accomplished” retrospectives are still probably a day or two in the future, but the OBR team will begin focusing almost immediately on what will happen during the 2024 post-season as free agency and the draft will be upon us before we know it. We’ll look back on the 2023 season, but more with an eye to evaluating what the roster should look like next year.
But first, I suspect that my fellow OBR folks and our fanbase must overcome this sense of letdown, exhaustion and disappointment they undoubtedly feel this morning. We’ll get back to work, but I expect that it will take a few days for the enthusiasm to start building again.
Personally, my mind is filled with ideas about what to do this off-season. I was experimenting with an OBR VIP Discord server yesterday that I think has some potential – I may have finally figured out a way to use chat technology again and make it useful to our VIPs. I have some ideas about how to make this Newswire less time-consuming to produce. Some more ideas about changing the VIP forums to make them more useful. There are some more business ideas that I’ve been waiting to chase until after the season is done. I’m excited not only about the Browns’ future but the OBR’s future. I figure I have maybe ten years to punch this thing to the next level. I’ve got the best OBR team ever, and we’re going to make this site better and better. I’m ready to go.
But, for now, my arms feel inert, and there’s a cloud over my head that will take a day or two to dissipate. The money I had allocated to further playoff travel will now be spent to help get folks to the Senior Bowl, and we’ll try to scrape together quarters to get people to the Combine. The 2023 season collapsed. The 2024 season begins.
Let’s freaking go, but give me a day or two to mourn what could have been, first.
Have a good one! GO BROWNS!
Jake shares the OBR Post-Game show where he breaks down the Wild Card loss with Brad Ward and Pete Smith. They take you through first thoughts from watching the TV view of the game and where things went sideways overall. Plenty more reaction to come following the consumption of the All-22 film in the coming days.
