I'd expect a pretty vanilla game as the two teams are practicing against each other earlier in the week.
With that said, I would like to see Garrett Gilbert play well so he possibly become the clear QB2.
In preseason game #1 With evey Garret Gilbert pass I saw, almost exclusively, I thought, if that were the regular season that would have been intercepted:
if that were the regular season that one would have been intercepted:
if that one was in the regular season that would have been interceptd.
I don't like or want to watch the preseason, but I think they are fooling themselves if they think they have a clear number 2.
I think they are better off signing someone off the street like they had to once in Hue's first year iirc.
If all the worst days of Qb play from a Browns memory look like clear upgrades, \
A bad day for Kiser, a Bad day for DA, any day of Charlie Frye, if those look like clear upgrades to what you have at #2 QB, then you don't have anything at #2 Qb, and you'll have to live with that.
#2, and #4 preseason games are pretty unwatchable, well pretty much all of them are.
With all the offseason hype, I'm gettin a Real Bad Feeling about the win loss record, so at least they aren't losing Games yet.
what do they need,
They need to run the ball with toughness, toughness from the Tight Ends and O-line,
Stop acting like ODBJ is the gigantic upgrade, may be, but it only helps out so much
They don't have Crowell, Don't have Hyde, Don't have Duke, Don't have Hunt for 8 weeks, They have Chubb, and Hilliard ??
The Ravens won the division, still have an offense you didn't stop, Their young qb, though not as good as yours, still has potential young qb magic,
They have toughness in their tight ends and runningbacks, and single players, here and there on defense that can make big plays, and a young phenom at Wr to add to what they had,
Would anyone disagree with me if I said the team that runs the ball most effectively will be out in front early in the AFC North Standings?
The Steelers have Washington on the other side of Schuster, they still have Ben, still have a gameplan the Browns haven't beat in who knows how long,
The Bengals still have Mixon, and everybody except their coach still has experience,
The Browns don't have Perriman, No longer have Peppers, Now Callaways' out 4 weeks, they don't have Zeitler, don't have that experienced ex-Patriot linebacker,
Baker is the real deal, magical, but it only means so much, the NFl is full of great QB's, Greedy might be great, and they have Carrie and Mitchell coming back,
Who knows if Ward can play much at all with concussion concerns, We don't know how Whitehead and Pipkins are going to work out alongside of Randall,
I wish I felt the Browns had Tough, dominating guys at
linebacker(tight end) and the O-line,
Not finesse, lightweight O-linemen,
When the team goes 7-9, playing well, with all this offeseason hype, Are the owners going to overreact:
How long are they going to keep this team together,
How long CAN they keep this team together:
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe they'll win the Super Bowl this year because Baker is more unbelievable than I thought,
Maybe Chubb is better than I thought,
Maybe Hunt (And OBJ) "will" be someone they can count on, not someone who underperforms for a year until they figure out how their game translates to Clevelands' games.
I always have a sense that you Can't count on any veteran free agent or Big hyped name that comes to the Browns for the entire first year, until they show they actually want to play and had a full year to adjust to what the Browns do on gameday,
Because it just seems to have happened that way so many times.
Focus agains the Colts, Or anybody? simple
Pass Protection, 1. 2. Toughness in the tight ends and O-linemen, finding out a way to show you can run outside as well as run inside,
that you can mix up the looks of what your running plays are going to look like, so as to create mismatches of open space.
The defense needs to play solid and look like they know what they are doing out there, and remember this game doesn't matter.
Maybe have the coach bring everybody together and say, this game is about feeling out what the other team is trying to do, individual matchups and playing solid,
Let the other team win, but learn more doing so.
Preseason should just be done away with, seems it was better 25 years ago, when maybe only 1 of the games were televised, if any.
