CARSON, California -- The Browns defense bent and bent and bent on Sunday afternoon. It was a simultaneously heroic and disappointing effort.
"Bent too far is a way you could categorize it," cornerback Jason McCourty said. "Didn't play well enough to win."
This was a day when Drew Kaser, the pride of Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, didn't punt for Los Angeles until there was 10:03 left in the game. Yet, somehow, the Browns were only trailing by nine at that point, pinned back at their own 4-yard line, a position they would rally from until Joey Bosa's strip sack all the way on the other side of the field torpedoed an otherwise promising drive.