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Must See: Amari Cooper Ties Up The Game With a 51 Yard Touchdown

The Browns were trailing 17-10 with three minutes to go in their game against the Chicago Bears, until Joe Flacco uncorked a rope to Amari Cooper who did the rest
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Must See: Amari Cooper Ties Up The Game With a 51 Yard Touchdown
Must See: Amari Cooper Ties Up The Game With a 51 Yard Touchdown

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The Browns couldn't get anything going all day long against the Bears defense. The Bears' defensive line was dominating the Browns offensive line, their linebackers were playing incredibly and Joe Flacco threw three interceptions that directly led to 14 Bears points and took seven Browns points off the board.

It was a wild first three quarters and the Browns were dead in the water. Thankfully the game is 60 minutes long and the Browns had one final frame left. 

In that frame, Joe Flacco turned into his MVP form. We will cover his entire finishing quarter in another article but there is one throw that needs its own story. Trailing 17-10 with three minutes remaining and the ball on the Browns' 49-yard line, Flacco dropped back to pass.

His main target was Amari Cooper who started on Flacco's left and worked back across to his right.

The Bears were in a form of cover-two which meant that there was about a 3-yard window where Cooper would be open once he cleared the "mike linebacker." 

Cooper streaked across the field, cleared that backer and Flacco let it rip. The throw he made is as absurd as it gets. He put the ball in the only place that he could and it split the "2" on Amari's chest.

Cooper did the rest. He turned upfield, broke a tackle and the tight roped the sidelines for 30 yards and into the Dawg Pound endzone. 

Cleveland Browns Stadium erupted and the comeback was on.

The Browns had contributions from everywhere on the team but when they needed it, their stars were stars.

A performance for the ages for Cleveland as they are now nine-and-five with a 92 percent chance of making the playoffs.

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Anthony Moeglin
ANTHONY MOEGLIN

Anthony Moeglin is a northeast Ohio native, who most notably quarterbacked John Carroll University to the NCAA DIII National Semifinals in 2016 after beating the No. 1 team in the country twice in a 4-week stretch. He contributes written and video/podcast content for Browns Digest, as well as serving as the lead football analyst for BuckeyesNow on the FanNation network.

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