Week 1 · 2025–26 season

Browns

L 16-17 vs Bengals · Sep 7, 2025

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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.

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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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