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According to the ESPN playoff machine if we win next week we are in as the seventh seed.

Cokts have to lose and so do dolphins and titans must beat the packers tonight

How convienent the Steelers wake up when the Brown lose, because it provides maximum interest in week 17 games. (ooooh week 17 ooooh )

No.
Just... No.


We had our shot, we blew it.
We are done, this season is over. On to The Draft.

For us to make it we have to win or the Colts have to lose to Jacksonville.

If all the teams in contention win we are in.

At worst the 7th seed if we win next week.

I think i heard that somewhere.

Yes - we’ve get take on the Steelers and if we win then play them in the first round in the playoffs.

Can’t ask for much more - I am pumped for next Sunday, hopefully we get flexed into Sunday night?

All teams had to navigate COVID jets loss sucks but if I am going to be a cry baby the Las Vegas loss was the one I didn’t like.

Go Browns

Whoops no Sunday night game next week

Go Browns.

But if the Bills beat the Patriots on Monday night then they wont be playing thier starters against the dolphins...so my question is...will the Steelers be playing thier starters? Even if they beat us they are still stuck with the third seed correct? Now if the Bill's lose to the Patriots does that change anything? Would the Steelers then play thier starters? I'm asking you throw long because you have done all the research.

The Raiders game was Brownsed and pist me off!

Of course this could all be mute point if all the receivers "all of a sudden" test positive. Not to mention it looks like we will be without wills. This is the same scenario that happened with myles. He was sick,but had negative tests, then all of a sudden....boom positive. So even if we beat the Steelers I think it's safe to say that the chances of wills being out for the Steelers game and the wild card game is 75%

Interesting that MIA plays BUF this week .. and would in Round 1

Same with us and PIT

So basically there is no way the Steelers sit thier starters because if the Bill's win even one more game than the Steelers have to beat us to bump the bills out of the 2nd seed and into the 3rd

The scenario I want is for the the Bill's to lose to the Pat's but then beat the dolphins. If we by so.w miracle beat the Steelers that means we play buffalo. Now if the Bill's beat the Pat's but lose to dolphins and we beat Pitt then we still have to play Pitt first round. I would much rather play the Bill's. With all that being said it appears the Steelers are back and I dont like pur chances against them especially if all of a sudden all our receivers test positive along with wills which is what I think will happen

The difference in the 2 and 3 seed only matters for home field advantage if they both win the wild card round games. And even then it is only one game.

The only team that gets the bye week this year is the Chiefs.

The "smart" play is for BOTH Buffalo and Pitt to rest their guys for the playoff push.

Especially with how hobbled Roethlisberger has looked this season.

Having the Steelers beat us again and knock us out of the playoffs would be such a miserable to have this GOOD year end

True, but if we get swept by both Pitt and Baltimore we weren't ready anyway.

Next week we get to .500 in our own dang division or we look to the off season to improve.

Simple.

Scenarios for Browns to get in playoffs

1.Browns win

2.Browns lose and Colts lose to Jags

3.Browns lose
Colts win
Ravens win vs Cincy
Titans lose to Green Bay
Titans lose to Texans
Miami beats Bills

So does Miami mean nothing?

Sorry, I forgot to add it. Fixed now.

While it is a shame the Browns didn't make the playoffs, they had one heck of a good season. With a new HC, new systems on both sides of the ball, losing their #1 WR to injury, losing Chubb for a chunk of the season, and having no preseason and a shortened camp... with all of those things stacked up against them they still won 10 games and are no longer the pushovers they once were.

Losing virtually out entire WR room to Covid this week killed our chance. Bad luck... but that is always the case with this team. Everything has to line up perfectly or the bad luck demon strikes us down. I am very hopeful that next year if we draft some really good players, we will finally break through and get into the postseason.

My hope for next week is, that we knock tiny out and send him off into retirement while killing any chance the squealers have in the playoffs. I know there isn't much chance of that but it sure would be sweet to retire him early and end the Steelers playoff hopes.

Umm, we’re currently the 7th seed. We’re in as of right now.

If we beat Steelers are we automatically in. No matter what else happens?

Correct.

all we have to do is win

Should Cleveland beat Pittsburgh in its regular-season finale at FirstEnergy Stadium next week, the Browns would clinch one of the AFC's three Wild Card spots, ending the NFL's longest active postseason drought (17 years). It's as simple as that: win and Cleveland is in.

Meanwhile, should the Browns tie the Steelers, they would need one of the following outcomes to take place in order to clinch a playoff spot:

Colts lose or tie to Jacksonville Jaguars
Titans lose to the Green Bay Packers (Week 16) and Houston Texans (Week 17)
Baltimore Ravens lose to Cincinnati Bengals
Miami Dolphins loss to the Buffalo Bills
Titans earn at one loss and one tie in final two games, Ravens beat Bengals, Dolphins beat Bills


Even if Cleveland were to lose to the Steelers on Sunday, that alone wouldn't eliminate the Browns from postseason play. They could still qualify for the postseason with one of the following scenarios:

Colts lose to Jaguars
Titans lose to the Green Bay Packers (Week 16) and Houston Texans (Week 17), Dolphins win or tie vs. Bills, Ravens win or tie vs. Bengals

Cleveland couldn't beat Pitt lost year with a QB named the Duck.

I think it's remote that Cleveland beats Pittsburgh. They need to learn not to crap the bed every time they have a golden opportunity to do something, like today.

I don't think the Browns are making the playoffs. There will be a lot of fans who think this season will be a success anyway. I just am not wired to think like that. I don't take a lot of joy in moral victories. The team squandered a golden opportunity to overcome what many people feel is a huge black cloud hanging over the team, and they just added to it.

It kinda felt like we started the game today really hesitant and gunshy. Maybe it was just all the new personnel, but still

The issue was Baker predetermined that he would not trust those receivers and refused to look in their direction at the beginning of the game. He was forcing balls to the TEs and the offense never got into a rhythm. He should have just let the game come to him and throw to the open guy. They gave the Jets enough momentum and confidence, and ultimately Baker couldn't deliver when it mattered most.

I am also not a big fan of Hooper, and Baker kept trying to force him the ball. Part of the not getting in rhythm thing.

I'm sure what I have to say will get critiqued and will anger some which I am not trying to do but here goes. Again today our Browns, whom we all love, broke our hearts. There were at least a few reasons why and many opinions and that's fine. We all want to see them win a Super Bowl of course. All week we are going to discuss the Pittsburgh game and who needs to come back and what we have to do etc. Next Sunday will come, we will all sit down and watch the game( probably the rest of the country too) and you know what? they'll lose in some crazy bazaar way or maybe just get blown out and break our hearts again. There will be the usual posts on this board just like what we have going on now except it will go on longer because there is no game the following week. I expected this today after I heard the news late yesterday afternoon. I should have known better not to get my hopes up when we started to make the 2nd half comeback only to fall short and frustrate me again. I will watch the game next week because I love my Browns, tell myself not to get my hopes up no matter what, expect the worse and then be hurt and frustrated again next Sunday night. It's what it's like to be a Cleveland Browns fan and I don't know if another NFL fan knows exactly what that means. Lord help us.

They'll lose next week because they are losers.

Until they are not.

Short, sweet and to the point: and probably true.

I’ll agree about Hooper ... he just seems “off” so far. And he seems way heftier than I remembered