BROWNS WIN GOING AWAY, 41-20 And here you thought the Broncos game last week was ugly. The Broncos held a 17-7 lead midway through the third quarter when the roof caved in. Over the final 23 minutes, the Browns outscored Denver 34 to 3 to put up a 41-20 victory. The Browns scored 20 unanswered points after the Broncos took a 17-7 third quarter lead. The comeback was led by rookie QB Joe Flacco, who connected twice for touchdowns to rookie tight end John Carlson, and led the Browns to six more points off the foot of Neil Rackers on 37 and 21-yard field goals. But it was the final two Brown touchdowns that broke the Broncos back. After the Broncos had given up those 20 straight points to fall behind 27-17, they then went on a exceptional 82-yard drive that took 17 plays and nearly eight minutes off the clock, to put up three points and cut the Browns lead to 27-20 with 1:33 remaining in the contest. On the Broncos sideline, the thinking was clear, an onside kickoff and a touchdown would be just the ticket. And that's exactly what the Broncos got, but not in the way they anticipated. Mason Crosby's bouncing kick was scooped up by rookie wideout Malcolm Kelly, who caught the surprised Broncos by surprise by advancing the ball instead of just recovering it. Before the Broncos could react, Kelly had a 10-yard lead on everyone and scored the clinching TD easily, boosting the Browns to a 34-20 lead. When the Broncos got the ball back, they came out throwing - big mistake. Browns safety Nick Collins read Griese's eyes and jumped the route of rookie tight end Tom Santi and returned the pick 18 yards for yet another score. The two Browns scores in seventeen seconds turned a close 27-20 game into another disappointing rout of the Broncos. But until midway through the third quarter, the Broncos were playing well, and had taken a ten-point lead courtesy of Brian Griese's touchdown passes to Dwayne Bowe and Nate Washington, and a Mason Crosby 39-yard field goal. That was the good Brian Griese, who played the first half. But then the bad Brian showed up, and the bad Brian threw four interceptions in the final eighteen minutes, leading directly to 20 Browns points and helped to turn a 17-7 Broncos lead into a 41-20 loss. Notes: The Broncos have an eight game losing streak. Their last win came when they shut out the Vikings 13-0 last year in Minnesota. The Broncos had downed the Browns twice last year, 23-3, and 41-20. This game reverses exactly the game in Denver last year. Brian Griese now has thrown fifteen interceptions in six games. The next closest to that stat is David Garrard, who has thrown ten for the Steelers. Add in the two picks of Dante Culpepper in game one, and the Broncos lead the league by far. By contrast, the Bronco defenders have picked off one pass all year (by DT Chris Hoke, of all people), and the 17 to 1 ratio in picks alone goes a long way to explain the Broncos 0-6 start. The Broncos have surrendered 200 points already - the next closest team - Green Bay - has surrendered 'just' 149. The Broncos have allowed 86 points in their last two games alone. The 200 points in six games projects to 533 over the course of the season. By contrast, last year only three teams allowed more than 400 points, and the most surrendered was 473 by Arizona. The Broncos and Seattle are the only teams still without a win in 2009. The Broncos head home for two games, against 3-2 Philadelphia and the 1-5 Chargers, hoping to cobble together a mini-winning streak. The resurgent Browns (4-2 after a 2-14 season last year), get to face off against the undefeated (as of this writing) Colts in their third straight home game.