Are The Browns Good?
I think the Browns might be good! All that hype from 2019? Maybe all it needed to actually work was a competent coaching staff! Who knew?
The defense is certainly a bit suspect with the points they’ve given up and Chubb is hurt now, but that can’t shake the vibe that this isn’t our usual Browns. They’ve won 3 games against bad teams in fairly dominant fashion (outside a late push by the Cowboys). That’s what you are supposed to do as a good team. The offense is clicking on all cylinders. OBJ looks healthy for the first time in a long time. Landry is still good. Baker appears to be getting back to his rookie levels and the running game is just a steamroller that can’t be stopped. I love it. They are as fun as they were supposed to look last year.
And yet, maybe because the world is on fire and we’ve just given up on the Browns after so many let downs, they don’t seem to be getting a ton of attention. That’s pretty weird to me, because any positive Browns event is practically headline news. Peyton Hillis rode “not being shit on the BROWNS” all the way to a madden cover. Baker having a good rookie year got him multiple endorsements and tons of hype. Yet this season, they feel like a bit of an afterthought despite being 3-1. Maybe it’s that they got bamboozled in week 1 and have only beaten bad teams since, but this lack of hype seems notable to me.
While I am on record as stating that the Browns will never be good until they are, this is probably the best year I’ve seen them have a chance to prove that once and for all. The NFL playoffs now feature 7 teams per conference, so there’s more room to squeeze in, even with the Steelers and Ravens in the same division. Looking at the Browns schedule…it doesn’t look that hard for this team to grab at least another 6 wins. They still have to play 3 NFCE teams, the Jets, Jags, Bengals again and the Texans. If they can squeeze out some victories on middle of the road teams like the Titans, Colts, and Raiders, and steal a win from the Steelers or Ravens, this team is probably in. I look forward to seeing this Browns season. Kevin Stefanski…make me a believer.
Of course the Browns happen to be playing well during the worst year I can remember in my life so if they keep winning…invest in a bunker I guess.
For those of you who want a buttchin comic to honor his firing…patience will be rewarded
Thank you Dave. This was the best comment I could have asked for.
Close, but I have a beard.
This being the BROWNS we’re talking about, if they make the playoffs half the team will get Covid prior to the game…
This comic pairs nicely with the Chiefs Super Bowl win comic lol
Okay now i have to admit it. The browns are a good team and were tied with them in the north but they would be 4-0 with
TRACE MCSORLEY
Throw it on a dime
Like ya’ll ain’t even trying
Just a kid from Briar Woods
I’m wearing number nine
Coach Franklin down that Vandy
Flip to Happy Valley
Now I’m coming back and got the Natty on my mind
They can’t touch my deep ball
Every game I’m scoring
I’m your favorite Quarterback
They call me Trace McSorley
Rep that Blue and White
You know I do it for the glory
Baker won the Heisman, next up Trace McSorley
YESSIR!!! They call me Trace McSorley
They went from the meme of the AFC North, to the second best(??) in the AFC. They will make the playoffs. MARK MY WORDS.
I will always root for the Browns to win the Superbowl. They are my Little Engine That Could.
Watch this be the season that they actually do well be the season that the league shuts down due to covid.
They’re doing the right things, that’s for sure. But much like the Dallas aftermath, the story won’t be how well they’re playing as much as how bad their opponent plays.
Oh, I forgot that 7 teams per conference get in to the playoffs this year. As a general rule, I don’t like it. I’m ok with it for this year only though because of the circumstances… since covid is going to be causing teams to field less than their best (like Pats v Chiefs just two days ago… probably not the last example we’ll see either). I bet we could even see individual games or whole weeks canceled and not made up. Makes sense to add a little leeway and dilute the playoff field. First normal season (2021? 2022?) though, hard pass on this expanded format.
Next season on will have the 17-game travesty of a schedule
You were rewarded for waiting on the O’Brien comic with the news that it was orchestrated by a players’ revolt led by JJ Watt
UHHHHHH DAVE? You a time traveler
The Draw Play comic #1042
Because is he? We know he can be. We’ve seen good Nick Foles. But we’ve also seen plenty of mediocre to bad Nick Foles. Outside his first year as the Savior and his late season heroics on the Eagles, he’s been pretty much shit. Nothing special. Completely forgettable. I couldn’t tell you what he did on any of his other teams outside Philly. So is he better than Mitch? Probably, but not by much. Foles has experience but Mitch has more experience in the current system. This might genuinely end up being a QB competition that Foles loses (and then wins in week 3 when Matt Nagy has to try and save his job so he benches Bitch Mitch).
I mean, I’ll be more excited when the teams they’ve beaten have a combined win total greater than the Browns themselves. This week is going to be the real test. They’re playing a legitimately good team. If they win or just make a really good game of it, then it’ll be time to think of them as a good team.