Week 5 recap at Jets: Dropping down to earth
For the first time this season the Browns lived up (or down) to our new T-shirt slogan: We almost always almost win. No Browns game had ever ended 17-12 until yesterday’s wet and sloppy loss to the Jets. Let’s hope the brutal helmet-to-helmet hit on K.C. Concepcion turns out to be only the second-most devastating blow that Minkah Fitzpatrick has struck upon the Browns. (It was his 2023 hit that ended the elite phase of Nick Chubb’s career.) It was Fitzpatrick’s 14th career personal foul, and the second of that drive against Concepcion, whose absence was missed and whose return may take a few weeks. On the bright side, our veteran linebacker Quincy Williams, signed from the Jets this offseason, played like a man on a mission and forced three fumbles, the first time a Brown had done that in 45 years. A fourth-quarter go-ahead touchdown to Denzel Boston and Carson Schwesinger’s subsequent strip sack gave the Browns a two-point lead and the ball in Jets’ territory with 4:13 to go. Must we detail the disaster that followed? Suffice it to say that this game reinforced the notion that the Browns have plenty of growing up to do, and that the