"A frustrated Jamal Lewis ripped some of his Browns teammates after the 34-30 loss to Denver for quitting while they were ahead in the third quarter Thursday.

"This is the NFL, you can't call it quits until the game is over," the running back said. "But it looks to me like some people called it quits before that. Denver was down, but they didn't call it quits. They kept their heads up and they finished. We didn't do that two weeks in a row -- at home."

Without naming names, Lewis said: "Some people need to check their egos at the door and find some heart to come out here and play hard. This is a man's game. The way we went out there and played two weeks in a row, finishing the same kind of way, it's not there. I think there are some men around here that need to check their selves, straight up. That's it."

Lewis said it's as frustrated as he's been in nine NFL seasons.

"Honestly, I've never seen anything like it ever in my life as long as I've been playing," he said. "I'm not cut from this kind of cloth. I play physical football, and I come out here and give it my all. I give it my all all week. To come out and be up by whatever -- this is the NFL. You can't call it quits until the game is over."

Coach Romeo Crennel didn't think his players gave up.

"I think guys on the football field are trying to do what they're supposed to do," said Crennel. "They don't always do it at the level they need to get it done, but these guys are football players and I think they go out there and try to do their jobs."

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Crennel said not too much should be made of the fact that Braylon Edwards had only one catch for 15 yards with Brady Quinn at the helm.

Edwards also had a 15-yarder wiped out by an interference call against Kellen Winslow in the fourth quarter, and Quinn misfired on two passes to Edwards on a second-quarter drive that resulted in a field goal."