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Since COVID-19 has delayed NFL schedules, let's have a little fun and try to predict how our 2020 schedule will shake out.

Week 1: @Jacksonville - 9/6 @ 1 PM
Week 2: vs. Cincinnati - 9/13 @ 1 PM
Week 3: vs. Philadelphia - 9/21 @ 8:30 PM ( Monday Night )
Week 4: @ Tennessee - 9/27 @ 1:00 PM
Week 5: vs. Indianapolis - 10/4 @ 1:00 PM
Week 6: @ New York Giants - 10/11 @ 8:30 PM ( Sunday Night )
Week 7: BYE
Week 8: vs. Baltimore - 10/25 @ 1:00 PM
Week 9: @ Pittsburgh - 11/1 @ 1:00 PM
Week 10: @ Dallas - 11/9 @ 8:30 PM ( Monday Night )
Week 11: Houston - 11/15 @ 1:00 PM
Week 12: Washington - 11/22 @ 1:00 PM
Week 13: @ Cincinnati - 11/29 @ 1:00 PM
Week 14: @ New York Jets - 12/6 @ 4:00 PM
Week 15: Pittsburgh - 12/10 @ 8:30 PM ( Thursday Night )
Week 16: Las Vegas - 12/20 @ 1:00 PM
Week 17: @ Baltimore - 12/27 @ 4:00 PM

1. Sunday, September 13 at Jacksonville (1:00 CBS)
2. Sunday, September 20 Las Vegas (1:00 CBS)
3. Sunday, September 27 at NY Giants (8:20 NBC)
4. Sunday, October 4 Baltimore (4:25 CBS)
5. Monday, October 12 Houston (8:15 ESPN)
6. Sunday, October 18 at Pittsburgh (1:00 CBS)
7. Bye
8. Sunday, November 1 at Dallas (4:25 CBS)
9. Sunday, November 8 Indianapolis (1:00 CBS)
10. Thursday, November 12 at Baltimore (8:20 FOX)
11. Sunday, November 22 Philadelphia (4:25 FOX)
12. Sunday, November 29 at Cincinnati (1:00 CBS)
13. Sunday, December 6 at Tennessee (1:00 CBS)
14. Sunday, December 13 Pittsburgh (4:25 CBS)
15. Sunday, December 20 Washington (1:00 CBS)
16. Sunday, December 27 at NY Jets (1:00 CBS)
17. Sunday, January 3 Cincinnati (1:00 CBS)

Isn’t there a chance the Jacksonville game is scheduled to play in London?

i thought I had read somewhere that Cleveland would not be one of the teams .. they had the list pared down to a few options (JAX is playing 2 straight games in London IIRC)

I hope the Browns get a chance to play on Thanksgiving this year since they are playing at Dallas. I think the last time the Browns played on Thanksgiving was over 30 years ago.

I remember it (I think-LOLetc).

This would be great to watch! Especially if:

Garrett is still with us, we are "in it," and we are lighting it up. That is all, y'all.

Play on.

week 1 : Sun, 09-06 at Tennessee
week 2 : Sun, 09-13 vs. Indianapolis
week 3 : Mon, 09-21 vs. Baltimore (mon night)
week 4 : Sun, 09-27 at New York Giants
week 5 : Sun, 10-04 at Cincinnati
week 6 : Sun, 10-11 vs. Houston
week 7 : Sun, 10-18 vs. Philadelphia (sun night)
week 8 : Sun, 10-25 BYE
week 9 : Sun, 11-01 at Pittsburgh
week 10 : Sun, 11-08 vs. Cincinnati
week 11 : Sun, 11-15 at Jacksonville
week 12 : Sun, 11-22 vs. Washington
week 13 : Thu, 11-26 at Dallas (thu night)
week 14 : Sun, 12-06 at New York Jets
week 15 : Sun, 12-13 vs. Las Vegas
week 16 : Sun, 12-20 vs. Pittsburgh
week 17 : Sun, 12-27 at Baltimore

We won’t be on thanksgiving ... FOX owns that game in Dallas this year

Dallas owns the Thanksgiving afternoon game, so that can’t be the date for our game ... and we can’t play there on Thanksgiving because it’s a FOX game

Doesn’t FOX show AFC road games all the time?

i can see Cleveland at Dallas for a SNF game. remember, there is now a 3rd Thanksgiving Night Football game on NBC, are they have been putting in as division rivals game. Cleveland at Pittsburgh possibly or Cleveland at Baltimore.

not for Thanksgiving ... it just alternates between CBS/FOX .. when FOX has Dallas it’s NFC vs NFC .. when CBS has Dallas it’s AFC vs NFC

The only exception was in 2015 when Carolina went to Dallas and it was on CBS, but that was in the CBA since Carolina’s owner wanted it in there IIRC

So does everyone think we will have a full season...

Yes. Probably with no fans at games to start.

There’s been a full NFL schedule being circulated on Twitter ... of course who knows of its validity, but it makes sense.

Teams will all play their 4 games against opposite conference teams first
Followed by 2 games against same conference games against like-record opponents
Followed by 3 divisional games
Followed by 4 games against different division, but same conference teams
Followed by 3 divisional games

Here’s what ours is according to the leak:

At Dallas
Washington
At NY Giants
Philadelphia
Las Vegas
At NY Jets
Baltimore
At Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Bye
At Jacksonville
Indianapolis
At Tennessee
Houston
Pittsburgh
At Baltimore
At Cincinnati


I don’t know how to post a picture or I’d post the entire grid schedule

Here it is

https://mobile.twitter.com/Snave59/status/1254613542654730243

Source: NFL to call off international games this year due to coronavirus
ESPN 8:51 AM ET

The NFL will call off its annual International Series games in London and Mexico City this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, a league source told ESPN's Vaughn McClure.

The league will inform teams of its decision either Monday or Tuesday to move those five games back to U.S. stadiums, the source told McClure.

A league source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Sunday that he doesn't "think any international games [are] coming this year."

The NFL will release its full 17-game regular-season schedule this week.

The league was set to hold four games in London and one in Mexico City this season.

The Jacksonville Jaguars were slated to play two home games in London's Wembley Stadium. Two other NFL games were to be played at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The NFL also was scheduled to play a game at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29131709/nfl-call-international-games-year-due-coronavirus

AFC South and AFC East both have 2 games each with their opponent coming off of a bye, and AFC West 1 - AFC North none - that's nice for us - but it makes me doubt it is real.

1. Sunday, 9/13 - Philadelphia (1:00 FOX)
2. Monday, 9/21 - at NY Giants (8:15 ESPN)
3. Sunday, 9/27 - at Dallas (4:25 CBS)
4. Sunday, 10/4 - Washington (1:00 FOX)
5. Thursday, 10/8 - at NY Jets (8:20 FOX)
6. Sunday, 10/18 - Las Vegas (1:00 CBS)
7. Sunday, 10/25 - at Baltimore (4:25 CBS)
8. Sunday, 11/1 - Cincinnati (1:00 CBS)
9. Bye
10. Sunday, 11/15 - at Pittsburgh (1:00 CBS)
11. Sunday, 11/22 - Indianapolis (1:00 CBS)
12. Sunday, 11/29 - at Jacksonville (1:00 CBS)
13. Sunday, 12/6 - Houston (4:25 CBS)
14. Sunday, 12/13 - at Tennessee (1:00 CBS)
15. Monday, 12/21 - Pittsburgh (8:15 ESPN)
16. Sunday, 12/27 - Baltimore (1:00 CBS)
17. Sunday, 1/3 - at Cincinnati (1:00 CBS)

Given the latest rumors about how the schedule is going to be in chunks, it might look something like this

I believe I read in our paper that the games in London and in Mexico were cancelled and moved back to the US by the NFL for this year. We can see something more official later I presume.

So I went through and simulated my schedule off of this site because I am bored out of my mind.

http://www.nflgamesim.com/default.asp



We started the season off strong before the bye week with a 5-1 record and then collapsed mid season to fall to 5-4.
Recovered to rebound to 7-4 and create hope only to finish the season with 5 straight losses.

7-9 with a 1-5 division record.

I’d say most would not be pleased with that result

I'm betting that we go 5-11 and lose 8 games by 6 points or less

that' probably happened 8 times in the last 20 years (losing 8 games by 6 points or less)

While it's been our MO in the past, I don't think we split with Cinci. They had a great draft, but they still have holes (assuming Burrow puts together a decent rookie season).

Balt and Pitt are who they are. They're winning at least 1 game vs us, each.

Jets blowing us out? Nah. I think we win that one. I think we lose one of the games against Titans and Colts.


This season, like many preceding it, has lots of ???. If we can build some early momentum, we could be more competitive in some of the tougher late-season games. We have the paper-talent, but any HC's maiden voyage is tough to predict. Also, we gotta see which Mayfield shows up week1 (and so on).

The Browns are going to run the football but hey, red alert, the Browns ran the football in 2019. The way the game is played today, the Browns have to pass too.

There's 3 items I will be watching for that I believe will determine whether the Browns are competitive or not.

1) 3-WR sets, who's going to step up and be the WR 3 that's enough of a threat that they warrant coverage opening it up underneath for Landry and Hooper while forcing the safety to play honest and not rotate toward OBJ. Who is that guy?

2) Red Zone offense: the Browns were 4th in the league at home in red zone offense TD's at 67.86%. They were 25th on the road @ 45.5%. Can we maintain that percentage at home and match it on the road? Critical area of improvement needed by the Browns.

3) 2-minute offense - let's not kid ourselves - one of the reasons that IND (w/Manning), GBP, NEP, and NOS almost always have winning records is they always seem to but some kind on points on the board in the last 2-minutes of the half or game. With the Browns weapons, can they be feared as is NOS, NEP, and GBP are when they get the ball in the last 2-minutes? Until the Browns are that type of team they are just an average team.

That said, I think the Browns lose 3 division games - @ BAL and at home against PIT and Bal.

Non Conference I think they go 3-1 winning @ NYG, WAS, PHI but losing on the road to DAL.

Conference games are a little hairy depending when they play. if they play Las Vegas early I think the Browns lose. If they play them late I think they win. The same can be said about TEN and HOU.

Since we don't know yet, I say they lose @ TEN and at home to HOU but beat Las Vegas at home. They win @NYJ and @ JAC. Finally I think they get upset by Indy with Rivers running a 2-minute drill at the end of the game to beat the Browns on a FG.

That puts the Browns at 9-7 and they miss the playoffs by a game (Indy loss). They finish an improved 5-3 on the road but go a disappointing 4-4 at home.

In 2021, the Browns have GBP, DET, CHI, MIN from the NFC and KCC, LVR, LAC and DEN from the AFC West on the schedule which should be the year the Browns return to the playoffs.

We will know in about a hour and 15 minutes.

it’s tomorrow I believe

You be correct. It is on Thursday. We will know is 24.5 hours....lol

haha at this point I dont even know what day it is

It's 1896. duh

This is not my prediction for our record, it's what an NFL sim gave me for our record this year based on 2019 rosters.

If these reports are true about us starting with non conference games, I like it. We may even have two primetime games in the first four weeks.

Week 1: Washington - @ 1:00 PM
Week 2: @ Dallas - @ 8:30 PM (Sunday Night)
Week 3: vs. Philadelphia - @ 1:00 PM
Week 4: @ New York Giants - @ 8:30 PM (Monday Night)

We will be favored against Washington and NYG. Underdogs vs. Philly and Dallas.

Would be great to win the first game of the season for once.

When was the last time that happened?

2004 against the Ravens.

Jeff Garcia was the QB. TD to Quincy Morgan and Garcia ran one in.

Andra Davis and Anthony Henry each picked off Kyle Boller.

Kenard Lang had 3 sacks, 2 TFL and 1 FF.

Kevin Benltey led the team with 10 tackles.

Phil Dawson booted 3 FGs.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200409120cle.htm

1. Sun 9/13 - Washington (1:00 FOX)
2. Sun 9/20 - at Dallas (1:00 CBS)
3. Sun 9/27 - Philadelphia (1:00 FOX)
4. Mon 10/5 - at NY Giants (8:15 ESPN)
5. Sun 10/11 - Las Vegas (1:00 CBS)
6. Sun 10/18 - at NY Jets (1:00 CBS)
7. Sun 10/25 - Baltimore (1:00 CBS)
8. Thurs 10/29 - at Pittsburgh (8:20 FOX)
9. Sun 11/8 - Cincinnati (1:00 CBS)
10. Sun 11/15 - Indianapolis (1:00 CBS)
11. Bye
12. Sun 11/29 - at Jacksonville (1:00 CBS)
13. Sun 12/6 - Houston (8:20 NBC)
14. Sun 12/13 - at Tennessee (1:00 CBS)
15. Sun 12/20 - at Baltimore (4:25 CBS)
16. Sun 12/26 - Pittsburgh (1:00 CBS)
17. Sun 1/3 - at Cincinnati (1:00 CBS)

Ugh... Balt and then to Pitt on a short week.

lol its just my guess based on the John Clayton interview yesterday

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