Post-game Browns rant.

This is the first time in years that I've come away from a Browns win frustrated.  Usually when they win, I'm astonished and thankful that it happened, no matter what it looked like.  The Browns had no business losing this game, and then found themselves in a position where they had no business winning it.

• Peyton Hillis is a juggernaut.  He is the most entertaining, electrifying running back in the league.  Nobody does it like this in today's game.  Getting around the corner, catches passes, running people over, hurdling!  He's a beast. 

• Delhomme looked sharp for much of the first half, but the decision he made on the first drive to throw the ball under-hand directly at a defender rather than throw it out of bounds like quarterbacks are supposed when under that kind of pressure is indefensible and a precursor to what was to come later.

•  I did not like the play call on 3rd and 1 inside the 10 in the second quarter.  That play call in that situation set Evan Moore up for that fumble.  The Panthers were going to play up on the receivers and that quick pass set him up to get drilled.  Just run Hillis in that situation, as long as you...

• Use your fullback!  Vickers has proven over the last two seasons he is probably the best blocking fullback in the league.  But when the Browns went for it on 4th and 1 at the Carolina 25, he wasn't on the field.  You'd think with a single back deep in the backfield that maybe they were going to pitch it to the outside, but they didn't do that either.  Vickers is nearly as important part of the running game as Hillis is, and he's one of the best players on the team.  

• If Holmgren wanted to bring in McCoy to learn from Delhomme, it's probably working.  There is much that can be learned from what Delhomme has done here.  However, they could've saved the 7 million dollars we're giving him to teach McCoy what not to do as an NFL QB and just showed Colt the game film of Delhomme's 18 interceptions last season and his 6 turnovers in the playoff game against Arizona.  Or just kept Derek Anderson around.  

• Three weeks in a row all the Browns needed to do is make a tackle at the end of a game to win, and rather than making the tackle, they are trying to strip the ball and end up giving up a huge play that costs them the victory.  It didn't today, but a few more inches right on the field goal and it would have.  Mangini looked angry after the game... and I hope it's because of this foolish tackling instead of the officiating that he was upset about.  The officiating isn't the problem if the D does its job.

• It was good to hear Mangini refrain from committing to start Delhomme next week.  Hopefully this isn't another goofy ploy to gain some kind of advantage over Miami, but an earnest reassessment that ends in starting Wallace next week and a return to McCoy when he is healthy.  We'll see.