Week 2: The Browns played the Titans. The Titans are another team that I had pegged in my bottom three teams in the league. They start a rookie QB which usually doesn’t fare well for your first year. They have no RB as evidenced by even trading for Terrance West.
Finally their defense is among the bottom in the NFL with a ton of holes and we played them with a couple of their star players missing. The outcome was a win in which we almost blew a three touchdown lead because we got overly conservative. 1-1
Week 3: The Browns played the Raiders. The Browns get a chance to host a west coast team which usually hard with the time change on the away team. The Raiders, like the Titans, are a young team all around with a young QB and a pretty bad defense. Once again, the hopes of a Browns victory deflated, like a Patriots football, with a Josh McCown interception late in the game. 1-2
Week 4: The Browns played the Chargers. The Chargers are actually a tough but beatable opponent. However, the football gods decided to look down on the Browns this week and troll them.
The Chargers went without their whole left side of the offensive line, almost had to start a TE at RT, played with a banged up secondary missing their top two corners, and lost two WRs during the game leaving them to finish with only two. For any team that would mean an almost certain victory.
Instead, the Browns could only muster two sacks and allowed four to a team that had one sack coming in. The kicker, the Browns lost on an offsides penalty that let the Chargers re-kick instead of going into overtime. 1-3
Week 5: The Browns will play at the Ravens. The Ravens were a pick for some people to win the Super Bowl this year, and instead sit tied with the Browns for third in the division at 1-3. They traded away Haloti Ngata in the offseason, lost their best defensive player, Terrell Suggs, to an Achilles injury in week two, and have had their secondary torched by Andy Dalton and Derek Carr.
On offense, Justin Forsett has looked like a bust, their best WR Steve Smith is battling broken ribs, and their top draft pick has yet to see the field due to a knee injury. Once again the Browns get a tough but beatable opponent this week due to injuries.
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