Many words were said at the podium and inside the Browns locker room after Sunday’s 23-10 loss to the Bengals.
These were the most important.
“It doesn’t matter what I said (at halftime). It was not enough to get us over the hump to win. I think I say a lot all the time every half time. Our guys have responded in the last few weeks in the second half. We have gotten better that way. What we have to do is start games faster.” -- Browns coach Hue Jackson
“When you don’t play a game for three months and come back, you can be a little bit rusty.