Talk about a brutal flashback, Cleveland. It was exactly 11 months ago, Week 10 of the 2025 season, when the Browns special teams absolutely imploded against the New York Jets, leading directly to a 27-20 loss. That nightmare game saw an early 7-0 Cleveland lead get completely erased in roughly 34 seconds, maybe even less than that.
That 2025 Jets Game? A Special Teams Horror Show
If you needed a reminder of just how bad it was, buckle up. Kene Nwangwu took a kickoff 99 yards to the house for a touchdown, a gut punch that barely registered before Isaiah Williams decided to one-up him, returning a punt 74 yards for another score. Just like that, the Jets had flipped a 7-point deficit into a 7-point lead in less than a minute of game time. Special teams bore a heaping helping of responsibility for that loss, no doubt about it. You can’t give up two return touchdowns like that and expect to win. It’s just a killer, a soul-crushing way to lose momentum.
Malachi Corley Wants Nothing To Do With The Blame
Fast forward to this week, and the memory of that game is clearly still fresh, especially for those who were there. Wide receiver and special teamer Malachi Corley was on the Browns’ roster for that Jets game. Ask him if he was on either the kickoff or punt coverage in that infamous matchup, and his answer is instant, and his face tells the rest of the story. “No, I wasn’t,” Corley quickly stated this week. The look on his face as he said it sent a clear, unspoken message: “don’t you pin that evil on me.” It shows you just how deeply ingrained that performance is, even almost a year later.
That 2025 Jets game stands as a stark reminder of how quickly a lead can vanish when special teams struggle. The sting of those 34 seconds clearly lingers, and you can bet the Browns are working overtime to ensure a repeat performance doesn’t happen anytime soon.
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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