Brown's Gameplan?

[miamid45]

http://blogs.clevelandbrowns.com/category/caruccis-corner/-Vic Carrucci:Cleveland Browns website

Seems to think Cleveland will come out throwing against us.  I believe we need to throw many run blitzes in there and focus mainly upon Hillis.  Mc Coy hopefully is not nearly efficient as Brady and Schaub were.

[masterfins]

Interesting, the Browns' writer/blogger talks about Henne taking "...an absolute beating from the Patriots' and Texans' defenses."  Yet here all the Henne haters just say he sucks.

[Doc-phin]

My gameplan against any super young team like this would be to be ultra aggressive and get their heads spinning early.  Get up by 3 scores and pound the ball down their throat.  I would stretch their safeties every play; send any one of our receivers deep on every snap.  Have an intermediate and dump off to Bush.  Forget the tight ends and don't hand-off early.  Use the short pass/screens as a pseudo run play.  If you do run early, go with a delay.

On defense, I already said in another thread what I would do.  Again it would be very aggressive.  I would send more than one blitzer on damn near every snap with a linebacker or safety left to spy.  Go man coverage against their mediocre receivers and live with a few luck plays.  Gotta get McCoy freaking out and looking at the rush early.  Blitzes should be run stop first mentality, and try to get Hillis before he starts moving.

What do I think our actual game plan will actually be?  The same as it has been.  Send one blitzer about 50% of the time and pray our D-line can stop the run.  Man coverage will be used more in this game, but probably only on the outside and someone will get safety help a majority of the game.  If the safety is Jones, we will cross our fingers and pray they don't break a big one every time the throw to the non-Smith side.  On offense we will pound a combo of Bush and Thomas.  If it works we will stick with it a good bit.  If not we will find ourselves down in the score and start trying to force the ball into the intermediate with no guts to go deep. 

I wish I didn't know this team so well, but I think the fear of going 0-3 will revert Sparano to looking at the way he won on the road last year.  That is how we won last year.  The problem is that the conservative philosophy doesn't account for the few inevitable errors we will make.  It keeps a suck team like the Browns in the game and allows anything to happen in the end.  Stupid philosophy!  Stay aggressive and you win some and lose some, but a young team like they have will start to second guess themselves pretty quick after a few big pass interference calls or sacks.  Next thing you know the ball gets delivered to a bad spot or someone goofs while trying to "make a play".

[jtex316]

^ Doc-Phin, I think it's just too much of a pie-in-the-sky mentality. You say "Get up by 3 scores", as if the Dolphins have the chops to just pull that off and go up by 21 (3 scores) early enough in the game to then pound the ball down their throat.

If they do it, great, but when was the last time this happened for the Miami Dolphins?

[Doc-phin]

^ Doc-Phin, I think it's just too much of a pie-in-the-sky mentality. You say "Get up by 3 scores", as if the Dolphins have the chops to just pull that off and go up by 21 (3 scores) early enough in the game to then pound the ball down their throat.

If they do it, great, but when was the last time this happened for the Miami Dolphins?

When is the last time they tried?