00:01Spicy, spicy analysis from our Browns beat reporter, Daryl Ryder.
00:07I'm sure people will take interest.
00:09Our social media team has been working around the clock to upload the clip.
00:15Have a good day, Daryl.
00:16Of him saying things about Browns dysfunction or more accurately,
00:23Chador Sanders dysfunction.
00:24So you guys can have fun with that online.
00:26Meanwhile, back here on planet Earth, we will be talking about Sunday's game.
00:31And real things like weather.
00:33Like weather.
00:34And how it could look.
00:35It's still a few days out.
00:36And it's going to tie into something else we're going to talk about this segment.
00:40Because, Anthony, you gave me a number on the phone while we were doing extensive prep work on the show
00:46that I think you didn't realize this was going to take hold in my brain.
00:51Because I'm always looking for easily digestible, easily consumable numbers.
00:57And sometimes we get bogged down in some very football analytic number.
01:04EPA per play.
01:05Success rate.
01:06CPO.
01:07Easy one.
01:08We just go crazy.
01:09You gave me an easy number about the Browns running game.
01:12And why I think it's pretty obvious that there's some issues with Judkins.
01:17Yeah, if you felt that you saw Dylan Sampson a lot on Sunday, a lot more than Quinshawn Judkins,
01:23it's because you did.
01:24When you look at the snap counts from this game, no math required on this one.
01:29No division required for this one.
01:31This is Quinshawn Judkins playing 25 snaps and Dylan Sampson playing 47 snaps.
01:36When you percent that out, Dylan Sampson was in the game for 64% of the game and Quinshawn 34%.
01:42Now, there is an asterisk or I guess a caveat to go with this.
01:46Dylan Sampson is very clearly, and I think really it's a good thing, when it's obvious
01:51passing situations, Dylan Sampson's in the game because I think that he provides a little
01:55bit of an element out of the backfield.
01:57And when that game got close there towards the end of the fourth quarter, they were passing
02:01it a lot.
02:01So there's a lot in that avenue.
02:03But, I mean, truthfully speaking, the Quinshawn Judkins experience has not been as positive
02:09as we would have wanted it to be.
02:12Um, there's a lot of factors for that, but, uh, but I think you're starting to see them
02:16sprinkle in Dylan Sampson a little bit here.
02:17I mean, Judkins, yards per carry, we are in Trent Richardson's zone.
02:21Yeah.
02:21And Trent, at least...
02:22And I don't love that.
02:23Yeah.
02:23Trent, at least, had all those touchdowns.
02:24I think he had double-digit touchdowns.
02:26His rookie...
02:27Now, again, we always have to put the caveat.
02:29It's not all on Judkins.
02:30Sure.
02:30But we know that.
02:32But he certainly is not somebody capable right now at this stage of his career making
02:36something out of nothing.
02:37Yeah.
02:38And he did have a big run, I think, in the fourth quarter, called back.
02:42Oh, and it would have won the game.
02:44It would have probably won the game.
02:45Won the game.
02:45Right?
02:46And instead, what?
02:46Was that the...
02:47It was a Zion Johnson hold, and it was the most phantom hold...
02:49Not a phantom hold.
02:50It was the most ticky-tack call you're going to see in that situation.
02:53And then, was that a few plays later, Shidor took the big sack, and then they punt the
02:59ball, and all of a sudden, they have the ball at midfield.
03:01So it's almost like a turnover.
03:02It was damn near a turnover, and they go from being able to run, basically run the clock out
03:07and expense all of New Orleans' timeouts.
03:11But also, to your point, when they punted it away, the Saints got the ball at 45, and
03:16so they're in go mode.
03:17If you get one first down, Corey Bohorkas can get all the way...
03:20...thinking two.
03:20So it has not all been on Judkins.
03:22I want to make that clear.
03:23But with that said, he's averaging 3.3 yards per carry.
03:29That's down from where it was last year.
03:32I think at times, and I remember the Baltimore game, it almost seemed like Baltimore,
03:37knew exactly what downs we were running on.
03:39100%.
03:40And even though we won that game, it was getting bottled up, so guys are getting blown up.
03:46But I kind of felt like he was somebody that was quick twitch enough, and that would able
03:51to be cut.
03:52Like, he'd able to cut and go.
03:55One cut, go.
03:57I've not seen that from him.
03:59We were so blessed for six years watching Nick Chubb in his prime, find holes, cut back,
04:04have a great instinct and a great feel for where the openings were.
04:09Quinchon does not have that.
04:10And it's, you know, it is a negative in some sense, but we were so spoiled that Nick was
04:15the best at it.
04:17I watch the game, and I can see cut back lanes.
04:19I'm just like, ah, go, cut.
04:21Just make the cut to the backside or whatever.
04:22I know, easy for us to see it.
04:23Easy for me to see it.
04:24I'm sitting on my couch at home, right?
04:26I'm not staring down a bunch of dudes.
04:29But there needs to be a, Anthony, there needs to be a philosophical change in the Browns
04:34run game.
04:35We go back a couple weeks, and everyone was kind of banging the drum of, like, they're
04:39not under center at all.
04:40They're the use it the least, and everyone's just saying, get under center, get under center,
04:44get under center.
04:46We did a really good breakdown of this over on Browns Film Breakdown that you should check
04:49out that it's like, hey, they should just ditch the under center stuff.
04:53Because any time, right now, they get under center, they can't drop back straight.
04:57Neither Deshaun nor Shador is good at it.
04:59They're one of the worst teams in the league throwing off play action, which that's the
05:02reason why you do it.
05:03Even if it's the threat of the run, they can't do it.
05:07They're not good at it, and they're the worst team in the league running out of the
05:12I formation, or excuse me, out of under center.
05:14So they're at a point now where you're now nine weeks in, you have enough of a data set
05:18where it's like, all right, we're at a point now where you hit the eject button.
05:22Because every time they're getting under center right now, it's just as bad as taking a penalty
05:26because it's a loss down.
05:27This is a bit of a revelation because all I heard early in the year was, get Watson out
05:31of there because they can only perform out of the shotgun.
05:34They need to be able to get under center so they can run the football.
05:36And you're telling me that they can't even do that.
05:38They're actually worse running the football under center.
05:41And the numbers say it, and more so is like, all right, if you struggle to run, that's fine.
05:46Right?
05:46That's okay as long as there's a threat of it.
05:50Because when a quarterback takes a snap and turns us back to the defense and it just shows
05:55the fear of the run, that'll get the linebackers to come up, safeties to come up.
05:59And the good teams, think the Bears, think the Lions, think Los Angeles runs the most out of this,
06:04the Rams do, where they then take advantage of it off the play action.
06:07The Browns are not doing that.
06:08Whether that's quarterback or receiver, whatever, I don't know.
06:11I don't have that answer.
06:12But all I do know is that they're struggling to do anything from under center.
06:16And it's to the point now where it's like, all right, screw trying it.
06:19We're past that.
06:20We need to win football games.
06:21And the best way to do that is to do it from the first.
06:22I also wonder if you remember that first Pittsburgh game when they were able to take
06:26some deep shots with Deshaun, there was like increased confidence.
06:31You know what they also did?
06:32They also had more zone read.
06:35It was.
06:36And you saw it.
06:37You saw it on tape.
06:38And they weren't really doing that the last game against Pittsburgh.
06:42They didn't really put anybody in conflict.
06:44And they didn't scare Pittsburgh with any of that action, especially when they had seven
06:48guys that were kind of all staring, knowing that they could come up and play.
06:54100%.
06:54You go back to that Pittsburgh game, 112 yards on 27 carries.
06:58And they were moving it until the Deshaun fumble at the 50-yard line where TJ Watt made
07:03a great play.
07:03And then it was like, oh, crap.
07:05Here come the Steelers.
07:06And they kind of got out of it.
07:07But they found some success in that game.
07:09And that was like the last time that they found a lot of run success there.
07:13All right.
07:13And I've seen the calls.
07:14Calls are coming in.
07:15We can't get to you guys right away because we got the terrific Nathan Zagura coming up
07:20five minutes from now.
07:22But hang tight.
07:22We'll get to this.
07:23What can they do to cure some of the ills of the running game?
07:27And the common theme of the day, the week, and maybe the rest of the year.
07:31How many more games does Deshaun Watson have left?
07:34It's a big one on Sunday.
07:36Well, we got a big interview coming up next with Nathan Zagura of the Browns Radio Network
07:39here on Sports Radio 92.3 The Fan.
