Credit the offensive line

By STEVE KING

It’s the 800-pound elephant in the room that only a scant few seem to have noticed.

One of those is D’Ernest Johnson. The Browns running back, who could run for mayor of any municipality in Northeast Ohio today and win, in a landslide, would, in fact, be the first to tell you that he noticed just how impressive , good, outstanding, stupendous, fantastic and whatever other word is your personal favorite, the team’s offensive line was in the 17-14 victory over Denver on Thursday Night Football at FirstEnergy Stadium. Johnson, who may still be running over, around and through Broncos, for all we know — he would be about to Sandusky by now; perhaps he’d like to take part in Cedar Point’s Hallowed Weekend since the team is off until Monday — got in behind that lube and rambled to a Nick
Chubb-, Kareem Hunt-like 146 yards and a touchdown in 22 carries.

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But guess what? Any back is only as good as his offensive line, so Johnson would not have done that without the efforts of those big uglies up front.

At one point early in the Fox telecast of the game, after Johnson burst through an opening that was big enough to accommodate the Terminal Tower, color analyst Troy Aikman, who knows a thing or two or three about football and rushing after playing with some fella by the name of Emmitt Smith, commented that the line opening was so gigundous that even he could have run for a big-gainer.

If a team has a good quarterback, then it has a good chance to be successful. And if it also has a good offensive line, then those chances soar metrorically.

It was through the efforts of D’Ernest Johnson.

And quarterback Case Keenum, getting his first start as a Brown.

And of course we must credit the OFFENSIVE LINE.

Let’s all keep that in mind, or at least mention it once in a while, as we go forward, for we need to give credit where credit is due.

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