CLEVELAND, OHIO (WOIO) – You’d rather win ugly than lose pretty, and that’s precisely what the Browns did against the Steelers on Sunday. When Dustin Hopkins kicked a 34-yard field goal with two seconds left on the clock, it would have required an all-time Browns collapse to lose, so understandably, supporters did not exhale until the final two seconds had passed.
Give Kevin Stefanski and his coaches credit. They drew up a game plan for rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson and it worked juuuuuuust well enough. DTR completed only 24 of 43 throws for 165 yards, no touchdowns, one interception and a rating of 54.9. That is an average of 3.8 yards per attempt. How does that compare? Carolina currently has the lowest yards per attempt in the league- 5.5.
Clearly, this cannot continue, but it was good enough to beat a Steelers team lead by Kenny Pickett who also averaged 3.8 yards per attempt. What’s more pathetic is that Pickett was a first round draft pick, billed as the Steelers quarterback of the future! Thompson-Robinson is a sixth round rookie who made only his second start.
Let’s give DTR some credit. He performed much better than his last time out against Baltimore, and the Steelers defense, like the Ravens, is no day at the beach. The rookie did exactly what his coaches asked him to do. Complete easy throws and don’t lose the game for them. And some of those incompletions were not his fault (Njoku, wanna catch some of those?)
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