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Hell of a win! Go Browns!!!

It’s never easy but it’s a great win!!!! Go Browns!!!!!

We won .... somehow.

Whew.

WOW I am exhausted. but happy

Imagine this team with 1/2 the penalties. They’re so young and mistake prone but they have just enough fire and lightening to win. Super happy for them the young guys. Exciting team

Great win! We will need extra game balls for the heroes. I will watch it before more eval. Great win. Gutty. Go, Browns!

The best comeback player has been Andre Szmyt. Wow has he been money.

So I come home and get out of my uniform and gear to find out my beloved Browns have won 3 straight with a team I wouldn't give a dime for a few weeks back. What a time to be alive. I don't care about tomorrow because tonight we have a winna on our hands. Kinda makes me forget the dysfunction and downright head scratching weirdness at work for a while.

Can't wait to see the recording.

Here's to you, bro! 🍺

Lets see

Verse- SHUT UP AND PLAY. For someone who doesnt have a sack you talk way to much. Gor penalized for it once to.

Which leads me to the next thing which is the penalties. This is absurd. I feel like im watching a fresdy kitchens or pat shurmer team. We are going to end up setting some of record for penalties. This team is so undisciplined. The fact that it keeps happening tells me that the coaches are not really trying to fix it either.

Imploded in the second half. Watson started looking like the bad Watson we have grown used to. He was money in the first half.

Still cant run the football well. I will give stefanski credit for one thing. He knew how create a great running game.

On defense i was Suprised we had as many sacks as we did . Pleasantly surprised.
Unfortunately we still cant stop the run well at all.

It was obviously good to get the win but i worry at what cost when it comes to injuries. Loseing Graham is a big loss. Lets hope he doesn't need surgery. Campbell also whent down and i havent seen anything about the severity of his injury yet.

Rocket sanders- the more i see of this kid the more i like him. He is not super fast or quick but he works so hard to almost always get positive yardage. He is a gamer for sure

GREAT win!

Watched it at a local bar, it was a blast, but you miss a bunch of the nuance.

Now I get to watch this epic win again!

Go Browns!

First, the Steelers aren't as good as projected, go figure!

Second, the Browns aren't as bad as projected, go figure!

Browns win and are now first in their division. Nice!

For three days and hopefully longer...BEER ME!

So, for 10 days, the strong negative posters, you know who you are...can thank the Browns for giving you a little time off!

Here we go, Brownies...here we GO...Woof...Woof! Cheers everyone!

Is there a reason Bo We had like 14 or 15nd doesn't get any playing time ? Any news on Graham injury ? I TRULY believe a two headed horse backfield like Qunkin and Sanders could work well ..... We had like 14 or 15 penalties ? yes...... The Browns are like 8-0 on Thursday night Football ..

OL played much better despite the penalties. Fano held up very nicely against hightower.

They’re winning despite the penalties. We have to remember how young this team is, youngest in the league. And the OL is brand spanking new. 2 rooks and 5 guys that have never played in a game together before game 1 of the regular season. So the penalties are annoying as hell but not unexpected. My Hope and expectation is they’ll settle down soon.

I love this teams energy. The rookies are freaking fun. Boston is a budding superstar. Fano is the real deal. You’ve got to admit, 2 drafts in a row Berry killed it. They’re messy but they’re fun.

Back of my head it’s start to nag… what are doing with DW? It’s only 4 games but every game he’s been better than the last. He lights up another 4 or 5 and we have to start having *that* conversation. Which is very weird. And even if he keeps going like this there’s a very good chance he wouldn’t stay anyway. I could absolutely see him testing the market.

We don’t have to worry about it right now but we will at mid season if he keeps it up. That’s a 5 weeks away. So weird.

Watched the game this morning at 5.50 - a great way to wake up!

Nice to grit out and grind out a win - normally in those situations it always felt like it would be the other team coming out on top. This feels like the culture and expectation is changing - and personally I'd credit that down to Monken and his energy and fire. Maybe Stefansi will be just what the Falcons or another team needs, calm and methodical and even keeled ... I think this young team needed, the team that had a long history of losing, needed fire and some passion. Maybe that's what Schwartz brought to the D the last couple of years that elevated that unit?

Yes - too many penalties. That's going to cost us at some point if they can't get those down significantly.

But first half we really looked good - gave up the long long drive and it could have all gone wrong. But we bounced back. Great play calling and scheming. Early the refs made 2 horrible (wrong) calls against the Browns and it felt like the fix was in or that we'd just see the same old, same old ... but thankfully after that they seemed to get it right.

Judkins was a little more like we've seen him pre-injury. Boston and Concepcion continuing to look legit - Jeudy making a couple of crucial plays. Fannin continuing his ascent. Some of Watson's throws in the 2nd half were a bit concerning - the play where he missed a wide open Fannin on the left might have been a game sealer - but it was 3 yards behind him. Then we saw some low and high throws ... but overall a good game.

Have not seen any news on Mason Graham -- that's a big loss. Defense was great in spells - and Rodgers, at 42, is so good at some things that its hard to expect to pin him down for an entire game. Their two enormous TE's are hard to deal with and then there's Metcalf who's old but still a unit.

Happy Friday everyone ... Feels good to be in first place and top of the division!!

Amen, brother!

Could you imagine watching a game at 5am and losing?

Wait, don't even think that, you'll jinx us.

Happy Victory Friday! 👊

Watson leads third straight winning drive, puts Browns atop North

Daniel Oyefusi
Oct 2, 2026, 02:45 AM ET

CLEVELAND -- For the third consecutive game, quarterback Deshaun Watson led a winning drive for the Cleveland Browns.

Four days after he threw for the winning score in Cleveland's Week 3 home win over the Carolina Panthers, Watson led the Browns on another late-game drive. This time, he put the Browns in range for Andre Szmyt's 56-yard field goal with 10 seconds left as Cleveland defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-24 on Thursday night.

Watson joined Brian Sipe as the second Browns quarterback since the 1970 merger to lead a winning drive in the fourth quarter or overtime of three straight games, according to ESPN Research.

"It was electric. It was amazing," Watson said. "From the time we came out pregame, it was super dope to be called out, hear the crowd and feel the energy. From start to finish, the crowd was in it, the energy of the stadium, we fed off them. To get a big victory against a divisional rival on primetime, this [is] what you dream about. This is what you work for. These are the things that you put that grind in during the summertime and training camp for nights like this. It was amazing."

The victory, Cleveland's third straight after a 24-point road loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 1, gave the Browns their first 3-1 start since 2021 and moved them into sole possession of the AFC North for the first time since Nov. 9, 2014.

Late turnarounds after slow starts defined Watson's previous two winning drives. But on Thursday night, Watson had one of his best first halves in a Browns uniform. Watson threw for 181 yards, his most in the first half of a game in Cleveland, as the offense scored touchdowns on three consecutive drives in the second quarter. The Browns led 21-10 at halftime, and their 21 points in the second quarter were their most in any quarter of a game since the 2020 wild-card round, also against the Steelers.

The offense stalled for much of the second half, though, and a pair of turnovers from Watson played a role in Pittsburgh being able to erase the deficit. He was stripped in the third quarter by edge rusher T.J. Watt on a rush attempt, and the Steelers recovered. Watson was also intercepted early in the fourth quarter on a pass that was tipped. Pittsburgh scored a touchdown after the giveaway but failed on the 2-point attempt, cutting the Browns' lead to 21-16 with 10:10 remaining.

The Steelers tied the score at 24-24 on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers to tight end Pat Freiermuth and a successful 2-point try on a 1-yard sneak by Rodgers after defensive end Jared Verse was flagged for being offsides.

Watson, though, quickly drove the Browns down the field with four straight completions. He was sacked for a 4-yard loss two plays before the winning kick, but he was already within Szmyt's range.

Safety Grant Delpit intercepted a desperation heave from Rodgers to preserve the victory.

"That was money," Watson said of Szmyt's kick. "I just knew, I knew it was money. He told me the landmark, which was like the 42-yard line. He was like, 'Man, you got me a little extra,' so he would just line it up and we see it all the time. He's just going to be money."

The Browns won their fifth consecutive home game against the Steelers and extended their winning streak to eight games, the longest active streak in the NFL. Cleveland has also won three straight games for the first time since Weeks 14-17 of the 2023 season.

"That was a complete, maybe disaster is a little bit strong, but that's a tough opening game in every phase, other than maybe kickoff return, maybe other than that. But the guys trusted the process," coach Todd Monken said. "We got stung a little bit, and our guys responded to that. And, man, that locker room is fun, right there celebrating those guys. Big, big, big divisional win."

More than a month after he was booed by home fans while struggling in the second half of a preseason game and later lashed out at fans, Watson has delivered his best stretch in Cleveland since arriving via trade in March 2022.

Through four games, Watson has completed 69.6% of his passes -- his best single-season mark with the Browns -- for 855 yards with six touchdowns and two interceptions.

"I was in the coach's office [before the game], and I was going over the call sheet with [Watson] again," Monken said. " And I said, 'Isn't this really cool? Like, you're going to be introduced last, isn't that really freaking cool?' It was only seven weeks earlier [that Watson was booed in the preseason], and, right, it's, 'Where are we going to go from here, right? ... Where are we going from here, where are you going, where are we going?' So cool."

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...ght-winning-drive-puts-browns-atop-north

I can only imagine watching at 5 a.m. and losing all too well.

I know we have new offensive weapons - but it's worth noting we've scored over 17 in the last 3 weeks... something that seemed to be problematic in so many games before.

Also I have seen reporters focus/say in on how Watson "nearly lost the game for the Browns" in the 4th because he turned the ball over twice ... Obviously I'm no Watson fan, but [1] The TJ Watt forced fumble was just a freak, brilliant play by a TJ Watt. Nothing about that was on Watson in my opinion [2] on the interception - I don't think it was a great decision to throw into what was effectively triple coverage ... BUT - just like many of Baker mayfields interceptions when we were behind or it was 3rd and long or something ... I really do not mind a long bomb deep into the opponent's half that gets turned over. I would rather see the attempt than to throw every pass 8 yards deep which is what we seemed to morph into at one point last 2 years. . . . In terms of the overall play calling, we took some deep shots, we ran some nice quick passes, Q and Sanders (and the 3rd RB) ran the ball a little better - it was a good mix and until the final drive that (I think) was all pass, pass, pass - the mix f run/pass seemed to help keep the D somewhat honest.