INDIANAPOLIS When the fourth fraction started Sunday afternoon at Lucas Oil Stadium, that Browns were holding for you to a two-point lead. On the actual sideline, a few Browns reminded each various other so it wasn't the time for you to be seated back.
The protection experienced performed nicely during the entire game, positioning the actual Peyton Manning-less Indianapolis Colts offense that will several discipline targets the other touchdown, but are available the fourth quarter , it absolutely was occasion to finish strong.
They remembered forced a new 17-13 fourth-quarter lead within the season-opening damage on the Cincinnati Bengals the previous week.
"Guys contributed the idea way up so it had been the same situation," returner/receiver Josh Cribbs said. "It happened to (Indianapolis this week) as it happened to us all (last week). But good clubs don t continue if you let terrible issues constantly happen."
Instead, it turned out a slip-up simply by frequent Colts receiver Reggie Wayne for the Colts primary closet with the next quarter that offered the Browns defense this crack that needed.
When Wayne slipped, Usama Young stepped looking at him along with picked away from quarterback Kerry Collins pass. Young made a comeback the actual ball twenty-eight yards, setting up a new Phil Dawson 20-yard field intention that cushioned the Browns lead to personal training points with 10:57 remaining while in the game.
"Sheldon (Brown), have good quality coverage," Young said. "The quarterback ended up being looking above at Reggie Wayne and he or she slipped proper in front of me. The ball form of ensnared myself by way of surprise, nevertheless I only tested out for making a perform mainly because this individual doesn capital t slide as well often."
With the particular momentum, the Browns proceeded to double way up your Colts 24-12. That utes whenever fresh protective conclusion Jabaal Sheard, who turned characteristics using veteran Jayme Mitchell to the game, sacked Collins.
"It appeared to be anything new for me, one thing I for no reason did before, but it surely previously worked out," explained Mitchell, which played on the right end.
With Mitchell and Sheard pressuring Collins about the sack, Sheard in that case removed and retrieved the particular ball, leading to yet another Dawson field goal that encouraged the actual Browns advantage to 27-12 using 2:59 remaining inside the game.
"It was merely excellent defense," Sheard said. "Our supplementary used that down, plus I made my D-line hit. They developed that stress in addition to I simply needed to hit him."
After Indianapolis have scored a new touchdown by using merely twenty-four mere seconds other inside the game, Cribbs cracked within another key play while he recovered your Colts onside stop in order to closure this victory.
Veteran linebacker D Qwell Jackson contributed the particular protection using tendencies tackles, including five solo.
"The (Colts) were able to push the actual golf ball a new bit," Jackson said. "But towards the end in the day, so long as an individual re capable of keep these right out the end zone, of which verts precisely what actually matters. We had the ability to generate a pair of turnovers late, and so I notion we initiated for the challenge. . We could eventually put the other day for you to bed."
Nose tackle Ahtyba Rubin placed the actual tone for your safety from the begin with not one but two discusses as well as a bedroom to the Colts initial a couple possessions from the game. Defensive fishing tackle Phil Taylor, the particular Browns first-round pick (21st overall) with April, manufactured five tackles (two solo) that has a go away batted affordable along at the line.
"We knew (Collins) has not been likely to run the actual the offense like Peyton (Manning) does, so we all believed we could rattle him or her right after most of us make him some times," Taylor said.
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