Like our fearless leader and savior, Stefanski, I'm not much for moral victories.
At the end of the day, the Ravens are one of the best teams in the league and one of the toughest defenses. The Browns hung 42 on that defense and had their fair shot at winning. Definitely encouraging, but still...
They should have subbed out Felani for Moussa Dembele at about the 60min mark. Felani was worthless out there on defense, just got run past every time and couldn't control any midfield at all.
But, they at least squeaked away with the win.
They can probably get into the playoffs in the east with ~40 wins...and I think they can actually do that w/o Lebron.
Any hope of competing for a championship is obviously gone. The question is whether they want to be in that dreaded NBA middleground or not. I'd probably ride out the shitty...
It's funny how it shook out, but weird things happen. To be fair, Croatia can beat anyone (as evidenced by their handling of Argentina in the group stage) and the English team is also supremely talented though young.
Oh, I didn't know what you meant by "chump teams". I took germany and poland because they were the 2 biggest disappointments of the tournament.
If you want teams that had no business being there, just take all of CONCACAF minus mexico.