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  1. Derrick Henry to the Ravens This division just doesn't let up
  2. @AdamSchefter Former Bills RB Nyheim Hines is signing a one-year deal worth up to $3.5 million with the Browns, per sources.
  3. $4m a year sounds spot on for a position that Berry doesn’t usually put much resources into.
  4. A one year deal for $3.2m
  5. So the return flights from London and Stubhub ticket prices are achievable...... Anyone know which areas to stay in and avoid staying in Houston?
  6. Despite what rabid Browns fans say, this might be Kevin Stefanski’s finest season There was a time a few years ago when a certain Cleveland coach couldn’t do much of anything right to appease a rabid fan base. The Cavaliers staggered through a 15-20 stretch from December to March during what became LeBron James’ final season here as restless fans insisted coach Tyronn Lue was the problem and needed to be ousted immediately if not sooner. In my previous life as an NBA beat writer, I spent thousands of words in columns and on radio and television appearances insisting Lue not only wasn’t the problem, he was the one holding it all together. The Cavs eventually tucked in their shirts and put their shoes on the correct feet long enough to make a fourth consecutive run to the NBA Finals. Five years later, here we are again. Different sport, same rabid fan base. I’m not predicting a Super Bowl run for the Browns, but given all that has gone wrong this year, this might be coach Kevin Stefanski’s finest season as head coach. He lost his starting right tackle in the opener, franchise pillar Nick Chubb in Week 2 and franchise quarterback Deshaun Watson in Week 3. And the Browns are 4-3. Watson has looked broken and ineffective for much of his time in Cleveland. After his disastrous first quarter at Indianapolis, it’s anyone’s guess at this point when he’ll return to the field, or which version we’ll see when he’s healthy. Yet Stefanski and one of the top defenses in the NFL have dragged the Browns to a 4-3 record and the thick of the AFC playoff race despite horrific quarterback play for most of the season. The Browns are 31st in offensive total pass EPA. That means they’re one of three teams, along with the New York Jets and Chicago Bears, that essentially lose points every time the quarterback drops back to pass. They’re 4-3. Browns quarterbacks are dead last in the NFL in completion percentage and 29th in yards per attempt. They lead the league in turnovers, including seven in the fourth quarter. They’re 4-3. Sunday was perhaps Stefanski’s finest football hour for the first 58 minutes. After coaxing the best out of Baker Mayfield and Brissett in previous seasons, he had a vile of snake oil and a few magic beans left for P.J. Walker. Following victories over the 49ers and Colts, a practice squad quarterback was two minutes away from his third consecutive win in a Browns jersey. It was a magical combination of illusion and sleight of hand Sunday in Seattle. He nearly had the lady sawed in half when he hit an artery. Or as my colleague Zac Jackson said on our postgame podcast, Stefanski was painting his Mona Lisa until a kid spilled his pudding on it. The pudding, in this case, was Seahawks safety Jamal Adams’ helmet on third-and-3. Stefanski is 30-27 in his fourth season here. He has used eight quarterbacks to get through 57 games, a telling if not a bit misleading figure since Nick Mullens and Dorian Thompson-Robinson each started only once. Nevertheless, twice now Stefanski thought he had a franchise quarterback and twice he has been fooled. He arrived here expecting a long partnership with Mayfield, a quarterback drafted first overall. When that unraveled, the franchise spent $230 million and three first-round picks to acquire Watson. There is still time for Watson to fix this, but to this point, the trade has been a disaster. Stefanski has never enjoyed much stability at the most important position. Mayfield was terrific over the second half of the 2020 season. Everything else has been severed brake lines and broken seat belts. Yet he continues to have this team ready to play and he consistently puts the Browns in position to win late nearly every week. The players may not love every play call either, but they fight hard and play for him. Did you hate watching Walker’s pass bounce off Adams’ helmet and into the arms of Seattle’s Julian Love on third-and-3? Here are the numbers you’ll love. Since Stefanski arrived in Cleveland in 2020, NFL teams convert 58 percent of the time when they run on third-and-3. They convert 49 percent of the time when they throw. (The Browns, incidentally, convert 57 percent of the time when they throw on third-and-3 even after that interception.) Stefanski has made plenty of calls that have made me cringe over the years — bringing Jacoby Brissett off the bench to throw deep on fourth-and-1 at Cincinnati last year immediately comes to mind. Every coach has them. He’s an aggressive play caller, for better or worse. He calls the game to win the game, not avoid losing it. The Browns threw on third-and-3 just a few plays before the pass that was intercepted, but nobody said a word because the Seahawks were flagged and the Browns were awarded a first down. Stefanski put the game in the defense’s hands against the 49ers and quarterback Brock Purdy sprinted the offense into field goal range. The Browns escaped only after the kick sailed wide. Needing a stop Sunday following the turnover, the defense instead allowed Seattle to average nearly 9 yards a play to score the game-winning touchdown with little resistance. I was ambivalent over the third-and-3 call. I see both sides. What I don’t understand is the incessant insistence the coach be fired after every loss. Here are the records of the coaches who were fired last year: 11-27 (Carolina’s Matt Rhule), 4-11 (Denver’s Nathaniel Hackett), 28-37-1 (Arizona’s Kliff Kingsbury), 3-13-1 (Houston’s Love Smith), 40-33-1 (Indianapolis’ Frank Reich). Stefanski is 30-27. The only coach fired with a winning record last year was Reich. If you want to join the company of resident NFL lunatic Jim Irsay, who fired Reich and replaced him with a television analyst whose only head-coaching experience was in high school, that’s a party I’m not attending. Two lousy minutes turned Stefanski’s masterpiece into mud. Throw away the canvas. Keep the painter and his brushes.
  7. INDIANAPOLIS — Two hours after the Browns stole a stunning 39-38 win on the road over the Indianapolis Colts, a handful of stadium workers assembled a bed at midfield of Lucas Oil Stadium. I have no idea why there was a bed on the Colts’ logo, but it was certainly appropriate for this wild afternoon. Browns coaches and executives might need to lie down for a minute. Even the wins are messy right now. The Browns are 4-2 and running near the front of the pack in a tightly bunched AFC playoff race. They’re getting some questionable officiating calls to finally go their way and they’re figuring out how to win games that for years they always managed to lose. And yet it’s a five-alarm fire right now at quarterback. Flames are bursting through the roof and bed sheets are hanging out the windows. Deshaun Watson is either hurt and therefore terrible or just terrible and also hurt. A franchise that backstroked through the bloody waters of a messy shoulder injury to its starting quarterback two years ago is putting on its snorkel and flippers again. Watson was yanked late in the first quarter Sunday after four series. He took a nasty hit on his right shoulder and he hit his head on the turf, but he cleared concussion protocol and he wasn’t pulled for injury. He was essentially benched. “I felt like I wanted to protect him,” Browns coach Kevin Stefanski said. “I did not want to see him get hit. He was hit hard.” Stefanski can spin this however he wants, but he benched his $230 million quarterback with good reason. Watson was awful and completely ineffective: 1-of-5 for 5 yards and an interception. He should’ve thrown a second pick but had the call overturned on replay because the ball hit the turf. After missing a month with a bruised rotator cuff, Watson clearly wasn’t fit to play an NFL game. He made terrible decisions with the ball and had no accuracy or velocity. I’m trying not to break the glass and pull all of the alarms on Watson’s atrocious play to this point because there is a legitimate injury to his throwing shoulder and, more importantly, it won’t do any good. This is a marriage no divorce attorney will touch. The dead cap hit on Watson means he is the Browns’ quarterback for better or worse through at least 2026. There is no getting out of this. Watson has played one excellent game in 10 chances in a Browns uniform, yet the team can do nothing but cling to the memory of Tennessee Watson and pray at the altar he’ll be like he was against the Titans when he’s healthy. Exactly when will that be? Stefanski said Watson will start next week at Seattle, but Watson said he wasn’t sure. How can the Browns count on him right now? Stefanski sounded more confident than the quarterback in terms of where he’s at and if he’ll be ready to play. “I’m praying that it wasn’t anything worse,” Watson said. “That’s all I can do right now is just continue to send prayers up and see what happens tomorrow.” In an AFC race that is this tightly contested, every win matters. The Browns have beaten the 49ers and Colts in consecutive weeks with snake oil and circus mirrors. It’s a huge credit to this defense and Myles Garrett, who was jumping over other humans Sunday and played the game of his life with two strip sacks, but the Browns won’t keep this up without better quarterback play. It’s untenable. That’s why it’s time to call Washington and ask for Jacoby Brissett back. I can’t believe I just typed that, but it’s actually the best path out of a terrible predicament. Brissett knows Stefanski’s offense better than anyone available and only left town because of money. The Commanders were able to give him $8 million, far more than the Browns could spend for a backup quarterback given the strain Watson is putting on the Browns’ cap sheet in the years ahead. Reacquiring Brissett now would only cost the Browns the prorated portion of his $3 million base salary — roughly $2 million. They signed Josh Dobbs for a little less than that to be the backup before they were fooled into thinking Dorian Thompson-Robinson was ready to be the No. 2. Trading for Brissett now would cost them close to what they originally were going to pay Dobbs, and they could likely get him for something close to the fifth-round pick they received from Arizona for Dobbs in August. Washington has to agree to all of this, of course, and maybe it wants Brissett to continue mentoring Sam Howell. But the Commanders lost again Sunday to fall to 3-4 and are no better than the third-best team in their division. It’s at least tempting for them. Nobody will confuse Brissett with an elite NFL starting quarterback, but Watson’s lingering shoulder issue has become ambiguous enough that it could derail the entire season. Trading Dobbs was a mistake. That’s clear now. But the Browns can rectify it for basically the same price, both in currency and trade assets — and Brissett is better than both what they have currently and what Dobbs could’ve offered in the same role. It makes too much sense not to do. Brissett could land in Cleveland on Tuesday and be ready to start Sunday if necessary. P.J. Walker, bless his heart, went 0-for-5 on the game-winning drive last week and was 3-for-8 on the winning drive against the Colts, including a four-seam fastball into David Njoku’s face mask on a short shovel pass at the goal line. He previously missed badly on a fourth-down pitch to Jerome Ford in the third quarter that could’ve been a touchdown and instead was a turnover on downs. That’s 3-for-13 passing in the game’s most critical moments. He has performed admirably the last two weeks and was thrust into another difficult position Sunday after a few practice reps this week, but there’s a reason the Bears cut him despite owing him guaranteed money this year. He’s not a quarterback who can take the Browns to the playoffs if this shoulder injury to Watson continues to linger. Brissett might not be, either, but he’s better than the other backups on the roster and he’s at least a veteran who can keep the Browns above sea level for the next few weeks if they need him. Watson is not helping this team right now and, given what we saw Sunday, it’s irresponsible to believe he’ll be ready to play a full game next week. The Browns have a championship-level defense and a practice squad quarterback. Brissett at least buys the Browns more time, however long it takes, to get Watson ready to play. And if he’s still throwing it into the ground and to the other team when his shoulder is healthy? We’re not there yet. But grab the ax and hose. Just in case.
  8. Minshew isn’t great under pressure https://x.com/Clevta/status/1714959962558902280?s=20
  9. Leeds is one of the very few I haven’t done! Leeds at home was always a lively one around the ground. Met CT a few times abroad over years not seen her at home games and that name TP definitely rings a bell The Victoria is one of the few remaining pubs still going, Tottenham is a very bad place compared to the 90s when pubs filled the length of the high road
  10. I used ticketmaster when I last flew over (just checked it was 2015 man that’s gone fast 😩) and the prices were not much different to what they originally sold for from the browns. But as I say, a lot longer ago than I thought! I assume you’ll be hitting up the Great Lakes Brewery !
  11. @WilliamsonNFL · 1m The #Steelers scored 26 points without snapping the ball inside the #Browns' 30-yard line.
  12. Nothing wrong with the defense. If the offense could give them a proper rest during games they’d be even better.
  13. I’m at the stage there’s no way even with rust that DW can be this bad The coaching staff on offense are not putting him in the best position to succeed
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