Week 1 · 2025–26 season
Browns
L 16-17 vs Bengals · Sep 7, 2025
Misery Index · Despair
Browns fans blaming Szmyt's missed kicks, the football gods, and their own decision to keep watching.
The emotional rollercoaster
Fan misery across the game window. Up is worse.
What happened
A.Szmyt's wide-right 36-yarder at the 2:25 mark would have flipped the game, and instead J.Flacco threw the D.Turner pick on the very next possession to seal it — the second tipped interception of the day after J.Battle's in the third. Two missed kicks, two deflected picks, one point short. The offense moved the ball; the margins betrayed it, which is the oldest Cleveland story there is.
What fans said
“Classic Browns. We were the better team but left 4 points out there because of a shitty kicking performance and gave up two highlight diving INTs off tips. We are cursed.”
u/BooMasterChoo▲ 301despair
“If you don’t like that, you don’t like Browns football!”
u/the_unbecoming_taco▲ 123joy
“We are so cursed. It's almost supernatural how we manage to lose. Any random D1 kicker could have won it for us.”
u/gryffon5147▲ 121despair
“Kickers out here making 55+ FGs and ours can't even make an extra point”
u/ElSleepychameleon▲ 113frustration
“Fire smyzt into the fucking sun.”
u/THEChapDaddy20▲ 101rage
“Sampson and Fannin played like 1 or 2nd round picks. Got some real starters in those two.”
u/gryffon5147▲ 70pride
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