In January of 2021 I was as excited about the Browns and their future as I had been in a long time. They won a playoff game against the Steelers, and had the Chiefs on the ropes and should have won that game to go the AFC Chip. Less than 2 years later all of that enthusiasm is gone. The front office decided it was apparently a good idea to trade for a QB that has not played since 2020, had 24 civil sexual assault suits pending against him, give up an insane amount of draft picks including 3 first rounders to acquire him, give him the largest fully guaranteed contract in NFL history, with a suspension of unknown length facing him which turned out to be 11 games. The backup plan is Jacoby Brissett to ride out the storm and keep them close to playoff contention. Those are just football considerations and do not take into account the massive PR hit. Impossible to believe that they thought this was a good idea.
New additions: QBs Watson and Brissett, WR Amari Cooper, K Cade York
Departures: QB Baker, OBJ, Jarvis Landry, TE Austin Hooper, C J.C. Tretter
Offensive outlook: The Browns will run the ball with the deepest RB room in the league. Chubb may be the best RB in the NFL, and Kareem Hunt is still very effective. They have some young guys who are good to. As always with the Browns QB is an issue, this one a little more self-inflicted than most for them. I think Brisset is going to make people cry over Baker being gone. The WR corp does not impress beyond Cooper. Njoku, theny knows who I mean, really has to make the leap. They gave him a big contract.
Defensive outlook: If Clowney is healthy and motivated their line should be good with Garrett and whoever they plug in at the tackles. The linebackers are weak. The secondary has a ton of talent. Denzel Ward has to stay healthy.
Special teams outlook: Their kicking game has sucked ever since Phil Dawson left. They drafted a rookie out of LSU that has been impressive in camp. They let the Scottish Hammer go as punter, and the new guy has to be better. Their return game has stunk for years. Less important on kickoffs than it used to be.
Schedule:
An easy start as the NFL may have been trying to help them out with a Watson suspension looming. I say they go 4-7 with Brissett or someone else at the helm before Watson returns.
Watson returns for the 12th game in Houston. Nice, NFL. They finish 3-3 with Watson starting for a 7-10 record. Awesome job guys. Bang the UNDER
Their offenseive line is really bad and Coach Mike Soundbite says that they will name the starting QB "at our leisure". The choices are rookie Kenny Pickett or Mitch Trubisky from Mentor, OH.
Tomlin has never had a losing season.
at Benglas- loss (0-1) vs Patriots - loss (0-2) at Cleveland - loss (0-3) vs Jets - win (1-3) at Bills - loss (1-4)
hot seat rumors start
vs Bucs - loss (1-5) at Dolphins - win (2-5) at Eagles - loss (2-6)
sound off with overhyped quote
vs Saints - win (3-6) vs Bengals - win (4-6) at Colts - loss (4-7) vs Falcons - win (5-7) vs Ravens - win (6-7) at Panthers - win (7-7) vs Raiders - loss (7-8) at Ravens - loss (7-9) vs Browns - win (8-9)
Arizona Cardinals 8.5 - FTT Atlanta Falcons 4.5 - JD Baltimore Ravens 10.5 - Durden Buffalo Bills 11.5 - ctz Carolina Panthers 6.5 - Flush Chicago Bears 6.5 - Untouchable Cincinnati Bengals 9.5 - Philly FUPA Cleveland Browns 8.5 - mj Dallas Cowboys 10.5 - dong Denver Broncos 10.5 - Flush Detroit Lions 6.5 - Dooze Green Bay Packers 10.5 - Complex Lit Houston Texans 4.5 - Firstborb Indianapolis Colts 9.5 - Bacon Jacksonville Jaguars 6.5 - Shamgod Kansas City Chiefs 10.5 - BSMB Los Angeles Chargers 10.5 - Yokel Los Angeles Rams 10.5 - IMS Las Vegas Raiders 8.5 - Gaylord Miami Dolphins 8.5 - Theny Minnesota Vikings 9.5 - Whats his name, that weirdo from Minn New England Patriots 8.5 - Wolf New Orleans Saints 8.5 - FTT New York Giants 7.5 - Prez New York Jets 5.5 - bjs Philadelphia Eagles 9.5 - 76 Pittsburgh Steelers 7.5 - N*gga Urn San Francisco 49ers 9.5 - Mario Speedwagon Seattle Seahawks 5.5 - Magnum Tampa Bay Buccaneers 11.5 - bosux Tennessee Titans 9.5 - kar Washington Commanders 7.5 - LDot
Should I be offended that there are 32 teams in the NFL and 32 registered members of this board, yet I was not assigned a team? Or should I not care? I think I’m going to not care.
Post by Greg'sKite_Defiant! on Sept 7, 2022 9:21:17 GMT -5
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Offense should be worse (OL issues, no Cooper), defense should be worse (lost Randy Gregory, Diggs isn't getting 13 picks again or whatever he had last year), division should be slightly better. Finished with 12 wins last year so can only afford to lose one more game. Don't like the odds.
Big Cat's week 2 power rankings. I'd slide KC down to SB contender but otherwise not much to argue with here. LOL at the Kirk Cousins group and well done on the QB Away group.