BEREA, Ohio -- When Myles Garrett and the entire defense met last week, it was a players-only deal. The goal: learn to make corrections without help.
“You’ve got to learn to correct yourself,” Garrett said on Friday after practice. “Coaches are not always going to be out there to babysit us or have us do stuff. We’ve got to be able to make the calls ourselves. When things go a little bit awry, we’ve got to be able to make the adjustment on the fly.”
Garrett said the meeting was spurred by a sense of urgency after two lackluster performances against the Chiefs and Texans.
“We have no time to be taking it slow. We’ve got to mesh right now, and no one’s going to wait for us,” he said. “I told the guys we need to get in, get our work in and get in here and get better. It doesn’t mean we have to stay there for 30 (minutes), 45, an hour. We get in for, what, 30 minutes after meetings, after workout, sit down and correct practice and go through calls as a defensive line, as a linebacker, DBs, everybody just working on their adjustments, so that you’re not surprised by anything when you get to the game.”
Players taking it on themselves to make corrections is an important step for the defense as a whole. It’s something linebackers coach Jason Tarver has noticed in rookie linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah. Tarver said the rookie made a mistake in practice on Friday and before his coach could correct it, he was already signaling over that he knew what he did wrong.
“He knew what he should have done,” Tarver said. “And when you’re conscious in the moment, that’s when that happens faster for anyone.”
Tarver spoke about staying in the process for players and how Owusu-Koramoah has gotten better at being patient in the beginning of plays. Beyond that, the ability to self-correct for a young player like Owusu-Koramoah and the defense as a whole is vital.
“(Coaches) can help you in the beginning (of a play) and we can help you in the end,” Tarver said, “and, in the middle, we just want to put you in the spot where you can go feel and play and that’s where he’s growing and we’re growing together as a defense and you see it happening at all positions.”
Donovan Peoples-Jones can work the edges
The second-year wide receiver showed off some of what former NFL player Nate Burleson likes to call “toe drag swag” on Sunday against the Bears. His ability to make tough sideline catches while keeping his feet inbounds is a skill he’s been honing for a while.
“That’s always a thought especially going into the boundary or the sideline,” Peoples-Jones said. “Just having that awareness to not only make the catch but get both feet down. Been practicing that my whole life.”
It’s something he’s worked on since high school, but he wasn’t content with simply satisfying the one foot down rule in high school and college.
“In the big leagues they always get two feet down so why not practice it early?” he said.
Peoples-Jones had his best game of the season on Sunday against the Bears, catching two passes for 39 yards. He has four catches on the season for 57 yards. He’s taking a measured approach while he waits for more opportunities to come his way.
“Just try and take it play by play,” he said. “Play by play and just do my job.”
Jadeveon Clowney got on the board
Lost in Garrett’s incredible 4.5-sack performance last week was Clowney getting his first sacks since the 2019 season. He had two against the Bears.
“He has been applying pressure pretty consistently in these first three games,” head coach Kevin Stefanski said. “He is a very long player. I thought he has done a nice job. He plays very hard. All of those guys, whether you are playing opposite Myles or next to Myles, you are assuming that Myles is going to get a ton of attention, and that has opened up some opportunities for those guys.”
Clowney is second on the Browns with 14 pressures this season, according to Pro Football Focus, and is tied for 15th in the league among edge rushers. Garrett is tied for fourth with 16 pressures.
Time is of the essence with Kirk Cousins
The Vikings quarterback is among the best in the league at getting rid of the ball quickly. PFF ranks him second in average time to throw at 2.40 while NFL’s Next Gen Stats ranks him seventh at 2.58 seconds.
“He gets the ball out of his hands,” Stefanski said. “He does a nice job of avoiding sacks.”
If Garrett and Clowney are going to keep up their sack party this week, they’ll have to get home quickly.
“It’s switching up my rushes, and I know he’s not going to step back as far, so I have to either change things on my alignment or my rush path or I’m just trying to throw different angles at him,” Garrett said, “so he doesn’t expect me to come back a little bit quicker.”
One area where the Browns could make hay is batting passes. Cousins has had three passes batted down this year, according to PFF, and had nine and 10 batted down in 2020 and 2019 respectively.
“We know that he’s trying to get it out quick,” Garrett said. “So we’ve been told and working on getting our hands up, jumping and batting down passes so we can get him on second-and-long, third-and-long.”
And, hey, if you’re batting passes, there’s always the chance you could get both hands on the ball for a pick -- or is that being too greedy?
“It’s never too greedy to think interception,” Garrett said.
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