I like this article by WFNY's Joe Gerberry. Joe explains why he thinks the Browns will win the rest of their games.
It's tough for even me to feel as confident as Joe is about beating the Panthers and Texans, but he does make a pretty good case, as he goes game-by-game.
I had to offer Joe's article up as a counterpoint to Stockholm Syndrome sufferers like Terry Pluto. (See last post: Terry finds the notion that this team can win four more games all but inconceivable).
Joe seems overly optimistic to me, but between the Terry and him, he's the more realistic one.
Many of you still need deprogramming:
-Slap- the Browns have a real quarterback AND a stud running back now. NOW -slap- snap out of it! Put the fkng quarterback jersey away that was then, this is now!
Here are the Pro Bowl calibre players on this team (gotta leave Baker out what with Brees/Goff/Mahomes/Ben/Rodgers etc):
Landry Bitonio Zeitler Chubb...Garrett Ward Schobert Randall. EIGHT of them -slap- not counting Baker Mayfield! How the fk many elite players do you think it takes!?!
Then there's the "potential" and "swiss army knife" guys like Duke, Callaway, Ratley, Perriman, Njoku, Ogunjobi, Avery, Peppers...
I even left out Jamie Collins!!!
Nick Chubb is already catching passes (two per game in the last two games). -Slap-slap- Freddie Kitchens isn't Todd Haley and Mayfield isn't Sam Darnold DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?!
Now...tell me why you think the Browns can't win four more games.
...No, that's mystical bullshit. They didn't build the new stadium on an Indian burial ground. Give me rational reasons.
That's bullshit too, because they've all stopped dropping passes since Williams and Kitchens took over, and two of them are rookies. Plus Higgins is back now, and Duke is being used as a receiver. You're a Memorex Moron, stuck on season-long stats and oblivious to current trends -slap-
I know, I get it: Twenty or something years of losing...you've been conditioned to expect failure, but that's your reptilian or "hind"-brain talking, Terry.
Mayfield and eight Pro Bowl talents (and Collins): THAT is reality NOW. NOW. Not next year.
Do you see it? Are you awake now? Good. Okay, I'm going to untie you...
The 2018 Browns aren't ready for the Chiefs or Rams yet, obviously. I never said that, G.
But they are probably the second-best team in the AFC North. NOW. And they can toe the line with the Texans, Panthers, and Broncos too.
Most of the real experts on NFL Radio get this now, even if Terry and co don't.
Everything circles back to Baker Mayfield:
He's the real deal.
I have a lot more respect for Andy Dalton than most Bengals fans have, but Mayfield is already better than the Red Rifle, and anybody in Baltimore.
He IS. NOW. Baker Mayfield isn't a project DO YOU U N D E R S T A N D?
He's not better than Big Ben yet.
Speaking of Terry Pluto, he obviously read my last post and wrote another good article in response.
Terry compares the AFC North quarterbacks (like I just did), and came to similar conclusions, except:
1: Terry thinks that Mayfield will be better than Andy Dalton, but (of course) isn't yet.
WRONG.
2: Terry seems to think that Big Ben will remain the best quarterback in the AFC North until he retires.
WRONG AGAIN:
See the Stockholm Syndrome here?
Okay, we gotta give Big Ben his props, sure. But Terry Pluto seems to think that Baker Mayfield can't match or exceed him anytime soon.
Why tf not, especially as Ben's skills inevitably diminish? The premise is irrational.
Stockholm Syndrome again.
A bunch of Browns' players weighed in on Hue Jackson (now back with the Bengals), and what damage his inside knowlege might do when his new team plays the Browns.
First, they all love him.
As for his value as an intelligence asset, it aint much. The Browns will have to change the "language" Baker Mayfield speaks, since the Bengals obviously have their "code book" now--but that's about it.
I love how the Browns players and Coaches are talking about this:
It's a Division game. They know us. We know them. We have to punch them in the mouth and beat them physically.
Music to my eyes.
Why tf is this Condi Rice stuff still getting regurgitated? The guys on NFL Radio thought it was funny at first, but are done laughing at it now.
See my recent post on Idiocracy.
...my work here is done okbye
This just in: USA Today gets it too! -slap-
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