As long as there is 00:01 on the clock, the Browns can always choke.
No Hail Mary tonight. Browns hang on and beat the Steelers!
Yeah! Move Steelers down, Ravens up.
YES! Victory for the Browns as I predicted. Subscribe to my newsletter for more prognostication and prestidigitation. It’s absolutely free and worth every penny. If you’re not satisfied, I’ll refund your subscription five (that’s right, 5) times over. NOTE: My predictions have been statistically back checked and found to be actually below chance.
The BROWNS now own the important head-to-head tiebreakers over the Steelers and Ravens (and the Jags 
). Now with a semi-competent but turnover prone QB, a smattering of effective running plays and a Myles Garrett led defense; I can see a definite middle of the pack ending to the season and no hope of riding themselves of Deshaun Watson before the heat death of the solar system.
GO BROWNIES!
Wow, Pickens is insane, fighting with a Browns player while the Hail Mary play was still going on. From the standard broadcast view it looked like the CB was pushing him all the way through the end zone and I was like “okay, I can see being pissed about that, though you should keep your mind on the play.”
But then I saw an end zone angle and Pickens was pulling the CB by his facemask through the end zone! So what the hell was he so mad about? 
Was the Browns player involved Grant Delpit?
No, it was Greg Newsome.
Pickens also had some highly complimentary words about the Browns after the game:
“The conditions played a huge, huge part in today’s game,” he told reporters. "I don’t really think the Cleveland Browns are a good team at all.
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The Giants have agreed to release Daniel Jones. At last, our long nightMara is over…
Think he’ll clear waivers? 
“We hold Daniel in high regard and have a great appreciation for him,” Mara said. “We wish him nothing but the best in the future.”
“But still, fuck off!”
Losing to a 2-8 division rival? Too bad, so sad.
So true! The Browns were lucky because they didn’t have to play in those same conditions the Steelers did. Oh wait!
When by your own words, you lose to a team that isn’t good, what does that make you?
That’s one of many things I like about the NFL. Even the ‘bad’ teams aren’t terrible (generally), and you can’t take a day off against anybody.
Compare that to college football, where there is a wide gap between the elite teams and the bottom feeders.
(Yes, I know it’s 32 teams versus 133 teams. And, yes, I do like to watch a good college football game.)
Yup. Only the best of the best can make it onto even the worst roster.
That and the efforts to enforce parity (which works to an extent) means there is very rarely a game that has a foregone conclusion in the NFL. (The only exception would be the weird anomaly where, say, every single quarterback on the roster gets injured… Yes, I’m looking at you San Francisco.)
Though this season whenever the Brown’s QB gets hurt they replace him with someone a little better. If they get 20 more injuries that might actually end up with someone good.
I still imagine he’ll get signed before December.
He’s not a great QB but he’d be a serviceable replacement for the league’s bottom dwellers and certainly among the best of the craptacular options that otherwise exist at the position.
That said, apparently he believed himself to be a top tier QB on a bad team, so I await with barely concealed schadenfreude for the lackluster contracts he’s going to have to swallow and his slowly dawning realization that maybe the other 31 teams in the league don’t see him the way he sees himself.
Backup QB seems about his correct level. But not at $40M a year.
I can’t remember… Does a team claiming him on the waiver wire assume his existing contract?
If they claim him on waivers, I believe so. If he clears waivers (i.e., no team puts in a claim during the waiver period, which is, I think, a couple of days), he then becomes a free agent, and can negotiate with any team – but that negotation would involve a new contract.
The Niners announced today (Friday) that both QB Brock Purdy and DE Nick Bosa will not play in Green Bay on Sunday. Purdy has a sore shoulder, and Bosa has an oblique/hip injury. Bosa has been nursing his injury for a couple of weeks, but Purdy’s situation apparently developed over the past day or so.
Brandon Allen will start at quarterback for the Niners.