The Browns defense couldn’t tackle, and the secondary couldn’t have covered Vance Johnson and Ricky Nattiel last night. Jay Cutler had so much time in the pocket, in addition to throwing for 447 yards, and we’re not sure if you saw this, but he wrote up trash-talk material for Ryan Leaf (some pithy “your mom” stuff, it looked like), and gave himself diabetes shots.

[Aside: If you watched the NFL Network's postgame, Brandon Marshall said that after he scored the game-winner, he had a Black Panther white/black glove celebration ready. Brandon Stokley wisely nipped it in the bud. The way criminally underrated Josh Cribbs was running kicks back, it might have ended up saving the Broncos.]

Kellen Winslow went from first-half hero (two TDs) to second-half goat (costly pass interference penalty that killed a drive, costly fumble, and letting a fourth-down pass sail through his hands) faster than you can say “staph infection.”

As for the Browns, they’re f’d. Back-to-back devastating loses – at home, no less – in which they led by 13 in the second half will not bode well for the team’s confidence. Romeo’s got to be in deep trouble, and not just because Cleveland is 3-6: There’s only one more gimmie on the schedule, and that’s Cincinnati. Road games include Buffalo, Tennessee, Philly and Pitt, all of whom have winning records and are in the playoff hunt. Tough to imagine Romeo returning unless he can magically get these guys back to .500.

Looking to next year, do the Browns take an aggressive pass-rusher, or go with a lockdown corner? We can’t imagine they’d take a RB, not with Harrison and Lewis looking like a nice combo. So maybe the local kid, Malcom Jenkins at Ohio State?

The Broncos, who are down to their 19th string RB, may use this comeback as a springboard to the playoffs: Up next is Atlanta, Oakand, the Jets and Chiefs, four winnable games. If Champ Bailey returns and the D-line figures out a way to stop the run, then maybe there’s a chance they hold off the Chargers’ rally, which begins this weekend against KC.