Defense has been bad all season

By STEVE KING
Because offense is what the fans and mekia members watch, and like, and because it’s a heckuva lot more entertaining than defense, it’s always the common reason given for why a team loses, or wins.
Yes, football, all the way down to the high school level, is an offensive game now through and through, and so a team has no chance to win if it can’t score points.
With all that having been said, though, defenses, while not really being expected to stop opposing offenses, must be able to at least slow them down, get in their way and make a few plays.The Browns defense has done none of that, and now, at the halfway point of the season, people are finally realizing this.
Not here. If you’ve been reading this website, from the start of the season, you know that we’ve been all over the fact that the Browns have not stopped anyone all year with any consistency.
The biggest problem, or so it was thought, was in the back end of the defense. And while those guys aren’t setting the world on fire, the real issue is the front six in the 4-2-5 theme, especially the line.
The Las Vegas Raiders ran all over the Browns all day in their 16-6 win on Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium, So did the Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals twice and so on and so forth.
To be sure, end Myles Garrett, when healthy, is all-world, but the other guys linemen have been horrible, at best.
The offense is going to be fine when it gets its three injured starters back in guard Wyatt Teller, running back Nick Chubb and tight end Austin Hooper.
The defense doesn’t have those issues yet it gets worse every week.
For the Browns to get to where they want to go, they have to be a team and play complementary football. The Browns can’t keep having to outscore teams every week to win. The defense needs to do its job, too, but it never shows up for work.
That it is some kind of revelation now means some other people haven’t been showing up for work, either.