Jacoby Brissett on another late interception in loss to Chargers: ‘I know I’m better than that’

CLEVELAND, Ohio – If you happen to knew that Jacoby Brissett handed for extra yards Sunday than 2021 Professional Bowler Justin Herbert, you would possibly suppose the Browns had crushed the Chargers at FirstEnergy Stadium and climbed again above .500.

However that late-game interception reared its ugly head once more and helped value the Browns the sport within the Chargers’ come-from-behind 30-28 victory that dropped the Browns to 2-3.

All three of Brissett’s picks have come within the final three minutes with the sport on line, and needing solely a area aim to win or tie.

“We speak about this the entire time,” Brissett stated after the sport. “It’s simply dangerous selections late and late all through the play, and simply making good selections. That was a poor choice on my own. Sure, I noticed Amari (Cooper) coming. I do know I’m higher than that, and I simply made a foul choice.”

It was the third time within the Browns’ three losses this season that Brissett had an opportunity to tug out the victory late within the sport and threw an interception as an alternative.

Within the 31-30 loss to the Jets on Sept. 18, Brissett was picked off down the deep left aspect with 6 seconds left on a cross meant for Cooper — after the Browns had led by 13 till 1:22 left.

In final week’s 23-20 loss to the Falcons, Brissett, needing a area aim to tie, threw into triple protection down the left aspect for David Bell and had it picked off. On that one, he had D’Ernest Johnson large open over the center with sufficient house to get Cade York into place for a possible game-tying area aim.

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On Sunday, Brissett, trailing 30-28, marched the Browns to the Chargers’ 9 and was picked off ultimately zone by security Alohi Gilman a yard deep ultimately zone on third and seven.

The Browns obtained a second probability once they stopped L.A. on fourth and 1 to begin once more on the Chargers’ 45. However after two Brissett incompletions to Donovan Peoples-Jones, Cade York pushed the 54-yard area game-winning try large proper. It was his second wide-right try of the day on the closed finish of the stadium, the primary one a 45-yarder with 11 seconds left within the half.

However it wouldn’t have come all the way down to the rookie’s leg on a loopy lengthy kick had Brissett (21-of-34, 230 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT, 79.3 ranking) protected the ball.

“He didn’t see the (security) beneath there,” Browns coach Kevin Stefanski stated. “In the end, simply now we have to come back away with some factors there, whether or not it’s a area aim or a landing. We simply should be sure that we’re working on a excessive stage and giving these guys performs that they’ll have success. In that state of affairs, Jacoby will speak to you, and I do know what he’ll say. He simply can’t flip the ball over.”

Brissett, who huddled with backup quarterback Joshua Dobbs and Cooper for awhile within the locker room after the sport, acknowledged he thought-about operating for the primary down or finish there.

“Yeah, however like I stated, I noticed Amari at the back of the top zone,” he stated. “Yeah, it was in my thoughts, however yeah, a very poor choice.”

The picks — all three of them, actually — are uncharacteristic for Brissett, who’s identified for not turning the ball over.

“It sucks. It actually sucks,” he stated. “That’s a pivotal second within the sport. Clearly, the ball was in my palms for a purpose, and that was not the end result clearly that I used to be aspiring to occur. I’m simply higher than that. I actually am, and I do know that. I will likely be higher subsequent time.”

When Chargers coach Brandon Staley made the daring choice to go for it on fourth and 1 from his 46 with 1:14 left whereas clinging to the two-point lead, Brissett was feeling heady.

“We observe this example a bunch,” Brissett stated. “As soon as they went for it, I used to be like, ‘All proper, we’re going to cease them and go down and win.’ I knew we needed to get a pair extra yards. Want we may have gotten a pair extra clearly on a few these throws.”

Brissett threw incomplete to Anthony Schwartz on the left quick left aspect on first down, after which accomplished a 10-yarder to Cooper to the 35. Kareem Hunt was stopped for no acquire, after which Brissett threw the 2 incomplete passes to Peoples-Jones, one down the deep left aspect, and one to the quick proper.

The powerful half for Brissett to swallow is the very fact he was taking part in effectively a lot of the sport, and did, in reality, throw for extra yards than Justin Herbert — 230 to 228.

On the interception drive, he additionally scrambled 20 yards to the Chargers’ 23, slipping out of hassle for the large acquire. On the primary of Nick Chubb’s two speeding TDs, the 41-yarder on the opening drive, Brissett teed him up with a 9-yard tackle-breaking run. He additionally threw an 11-yard landing cross to Cooper to make it 14-0 on the second drive, and accomplished 61.7% of his passes.

“All of it makes it so powerful,” Brissett stated. “All of it will get overshadowed by one play. That simply exhibits you the margin of error on this league is so slim, and no matter no matter performs you make all through the sport is it all the time comes again to that one play.”

His confidence in York hasn’t waned regardless of the 2 missed area objectives, his first two of the season.

“Oh, hell no,” stated Brissett. “Hell no. Final belief in Cade and our area aim unit. We’ll exit and do the identical factor once more with the identical belief in him. [Stuff] occurs, and it’s greater than that play that I might say brought about the end result of this sport. I threw a decide within the crimson zone, and we’re about to go rating. It’s positively not on one individual. The belief remains to be in Cade.”

He doesn’t really feel compelled to guarantee York that they nonetheless imagine in him.

“No. He is aware of that,” he stated. “We despatched him on the market smiling. Why would we not think about him? Like I stated, stuff occurs on this league. We’ve got a protracted season forward of us. It’s on to subsequent week. He understands that. Why would I’m going trouble him?”

For the second time this season, followers have watched the Browns blow a double-digit lead at FirstEnergy Stadium, and have left booing.

“It’s powerful,” Brissett stated. “I felt like they stored us within the sport. A few miscommunications on their [the Chargers’] aspect, burning timeouts and stuff like that due to what our followers had been doing. It’s powerful after we depart this room and this stadium with out a win. It sucks. It’ll flip. It’ll flip.”

He believes that “as a result of I belief No. 1 myself and I belief the lads in that room and the coaches, and I do know what we’re working in direction of. It’s like a three-point shooter: As soon as one goes in, hopefully, they begin coming in bunches. It’s simply one by one. It’s going to flip.”

Defensive finish Myles Garrett is aware of that Brissett is best than that too.

“He’s proven such consciousness and playmaking capacity all all through this season,” Garrett stated. “He had one mistake, we obtained the ball again and we obtained in place to win however we didn’t. It’s simply the way it goes typically. We had been capable of do what we may to rectify that mistake, however we made errors on protection and so they corrected ours.

“So we’re not going to be holding him down as a result of he made one mistake. All of us individually made errors right here or there, and that’s a part of the sport, selecting one another up and ensuring that we’re able to go when the time comes.”

The Browns never-say-die perspective within the sport — together with the protection holding L.A. to 2-of-5 within the crimson zone and M.J. Emerson breaking apart that fourth and 1 cross to Mike Williams — has Brissett assured the Browns will bounce again for his or her go to subsequent week from the Patriots. New England shut out the Lions, 29-0, on Sunday with rookie Bailey Zappe at QB.

“It’s a no-quit mentality in that locker room,” he stated. “All the gamers in that locker room really feel the identical manner I really feel up right here proper now. When you could have that, that’s the mark of one thing. I do know that the fellows in that locker room are going to come back again and be able to work for subsequent week as a result of that’s all now we have.

“That is going to suck to all of us as a result of we perceive how… I’m positive all people after we are watching this movie goes to be like, ‘That play proper there for me. That play proper there for me.’ I feel that’s when guys are actually wanting within the mirror and being trustworthy with themselves.”

On Monday, Deshaun Watson will return to the Browns facility on a restricted foundation and sure present an emotional enhance to the staff.

“I hope so (laughter),” Brissett stated. “I don’t know. Will probably be good to see him.”

It’s going to additionally function a reminder that the Browns are taking part in their backup QB for the primary 11 video games and it received’t be excellent.

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