Baker’s been the same QB in Tampa as he has been his entire career - super streaky, very inconsistent with high highs and low lows, and is generally bad against good teams.
There’s nothing wrong with Mayfield as a QB in the league. Hell, Mayfield will almost definitely have a long career as a spot starter and a guy to hold down the fort for a year or two - like Ryan Fitzpatrick. But a team’s ceiling is limited by his inconsistency because he absolutely will throw a team out of a game.
The Steelers are the 2000s Browns.
Stefanski is a better leader than he is an in-game coach. And that’s because he’s genuinely a great leader.
So much attention is drawn to Stefanski’s scheme and in-game calls, but more attention has to be drawn to how he has completely changed the culture in this franchise.
Gimme Browns / Lions. Absolutely biased, but one of these two fanbases deserves it.
Plus, it would be a fun game, I think.
They gotta start throwing mid-field. The box is just being swarmed
Just an overhaul of the entire thing - aesthetics, things to do, the food system, so on.
I’ve been going to road games exclusively over the past few years, and our stadium is so goddamn sterile and boring compared to other stadiums - both in terms of appearance and in terms of the game day experience.
I really wish that Cleveland fans could go to Atlanta, Dallas, LA, Minnesota and see what those games are like because it really does change your view on stuff.
Colt McCoy is washed - and it’s not like he had good physical variables to start with.
I mean, they did absolutely blow it. But Cleveland absolutely outplayed them most of the game too. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.
Really really impressive performance yesterday. And don’t get me wrong, its different to go against Highsmith and Watt but…he got the job done yesterday.
Really want Jones back for next week though.
All four AFC North teams will reach the playoffs
The big game of the day in the league’s best division was the Browns’ comeback victory over the first-place Ravens. It pulled Baltimore back closer to the rest of the AFC North field. The Ravens are still in first place at 7-3, but the Browns are a half-game behind at 6-3. So are the Steelers, who won again Sunday despite giving up more yards than they gained – something they’ve now done in all nine of their games. The Bengals lost a tough one to C.J. Stroud and the red-hot Texans, so they’re in last place and on the outside looking in at the moment – even at 5-4.
If the season ended right now, the Ravens, Browns and Steelers would all be playoff teams, while the 5-4 Bengals would lose the head-to-head tiebreaker for the final spot to the 5-4 Texans. (The Bills, who are 5-4, play on Monday night and could jump both Cincinnati and Houston with a win over Denver.)
Verdict: NOT AN OVERREACTION
I do not know how the Steelers are doing this, and I expect it to catch up with them at some point. But right now, all they have to do is go 4-4 the rest of the way for a good chance to get in. Cleveland’s defense is going to keep it in most games, and it just won a shootout on the road against a Baltimore team that had been looking unbeatable. And the Bengals were looking fantastic for more than a month, and they even had a late lead Sunday despite being banged-up and shorthanded on offense before Stroud led another winning drive against them.
ESPN’s Football Power Index currently projects all four teams with between 30% and 88% chances to make the playoffs. If Cincinnati can beat Baltimore on Thursday (big if, but far from impossible) and tighten things up even further in this division, the likelihood of the AFC North landing all four teams in the postseason will only go up.
Dude’s just irrelevant as hell now.