The season doesn’t necessarily ride on this game, but if the Browns lose to the Steelers like they did the Cowboys last week, it will be hard to stay excited about the season. Cleveland needs to show some form of life. They need to look more like a team that has playoff hopes and less like the St. Louis Rams. It’s going to be a tough game. The defense is more banged up than Carl Parvano. Mike Adams and Nick Sorensen are our starting safeties for God sake. You can’t have a good defense if Nick Sorensen is starting for you. That means the defensive line will have to get to Roethlisberger. They put less pressure on Tony Romo last week than on a home less guy picking out his outfit for the day. But the real key, besides not dropping passes and remembering the snap count, Braylon, will be stopping the run. Combine the Browns run defense with Willie Parker’s performance last week and things don’t look good. However, I’m going with karma. It’s Sunday night football. The last time the Browns beat the Steelers was on Sunday night football. (The Browns wore orange pants in that game. Maybe the should do the same this game. But while I’m thinking of uniforms, why did the Browns wear their white road uni’s last week? Was it to force Dallas to wear their blue which the almost never wear? Stupid move. If you are the Browns, you wear your brown jerseys whenever you can. Just not brown pants.) The football Gods have to be bored with watching Pittsburgh whip up on Cleveland twice a year, every year. This is the time it changes. The Browns will be fired up (or should be but if Romeo is giving them the pep talk I wouldn’t be surprised if the team stormed out of the locker, all fired up, but instead of taking the field, they ran to Panini’s and all ordered the pastromi sandwich). They (should) know this game means everything to us fans. A win, and the season will look more promising than any other season we can remember. A loss, and let’s start looking for those top college players. Because it’s going to be hard to go into Cincinnati and Baltimore, as bad as those teams are, and win both games. Heading into the bye week 1-3 or 0-4 and DA is traded to New England. The return of Josh Cribbs (look, that’s a pun) will be huge. Huge enough to get the win, I think.
In other games… (last week I only went 7-8 so what do I know)
New England over NY Jets – Favre makes start 256 (or something like that) in a row. Matt Cassel makes start number one. And out plays him. (Of course I’m not really picking with my head. I met Cassel and like I’ve said before, his incredible hot sister.)
Tennessee over Cincy – Long live Kerry Collins.
Carolina over Chicago – I just can’t pick a team led by Kyle Orton, unless it’s a drinking team.
Jacksonville over Buffalo - I think Buffalo players are so happy to play road games and get out of Buffalo, that they really don’t care about the game.
Green Bay over Detroit – If Aaron Rodgers can play that well against the Vikings defense, imagine how great he’ll do against a high school team.
Indy over Minnesota – An 0-2 start for Minnesota, 2-0 for Green Bay, makes it hard to win a division that way. Indy hasn’t be 0-2 since 1998.
Kansas City over Oakland – really, who cares?
New Orleans over Washington – Marues Colston is out but for the Redskins to have a chance, they need Drew Brees, Reggie Bush, Duece McAllister, David Patton, Devery Henderson, Terrance Copper and the entire offensive line to have some sort of illness and miss the game.
NY Giants over St. Louis – I hate seeing the Giants win.
Seattle over San Francisco – Could be the ugliest, lowest scoring game in the history of the NFL.
Miami over Arizona – My sleeper pick needs this win more than Jessica Simpson needs to stop being talked about on ESPN.
Houston over Baltimore – Baltimore was lucky enough to start the season against the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility to get a win. They only play them one more time this year.
Philly over Dallas – based soley on the fantasy value need having McNabb, Westbrook and Jackson.
*** FYI *** Monday may not be a post day since I’ll be at the Browns game late and then will be busy at work. Sorry to disappoint you but don’t let this news ruin your weekend. Enjoy the games and go Browns.
I agree with most of your picks. The on that stands out is Miami. This is the 2nd week you have picked them. Is it because you picked them as your sleeper and you have to stand by them? I just don’t see them being very good this year. New England vs NYJ is going to be a good game. The Jets hate the Pats and this is their best chance they have to win against them in a long time.
The Browns are going to have to bring their A game for all 4 quarters, unlike last year when we were blasting them at halftime and Pitt came back to win cause Romeo went into his tortoise shell and tried to play conservatively in the 2nd half. Here is a thought to ponder… why do teams ever go conservative? I understand if there are 5 minutes left in a game, but sometimes a teams best defense is their offense. And sometimes your best offense is throwing the ball. Why go against everything that works for you cause you don’t want to risk turning the ball over? Your goal should be to move the chains the best possible way you can.
Yeah they wear the all white uniforms a lot at home, not a big fan. I loved the orange pants/white shirt combo. They need to bring those back.
HUGE game though. I took Monday off work so I could focus all my attention and beer drinking on the Browns. Cribbs being back will be a big help. The Browns have to win the field position battle and force Pittsburgh to go the full length of the field. Because with the Browns D a short field=guaranteed points for the Inbred (Apparantly that’s what a lot of Browns fans call the Steelers. I was unaware of this untill I stumbled on to a Browns message board. I think it’s hilarious).
Romeo has the boys fired up on Sunday with fellow lard ass John Madden in the house. Al Michaels saying “Do you believe in miracles” as Nick Sorensen grabs his second INT of the night to seal the victory will sound great. Browns 24-20.
Ohio State and USC on Saturday, Browns and Steelers on Sunday. What a great weekend this will be.
Oh, by the way, OSU 28 USC 27. Go Bucks and Go Browns!
Your opening may go down in history as the longest paragraph ever. The Redskins defense isn’t nearly as good as it was last year, but the Saints that you list, half of them suck. I could cover Devery Henderson, Patten, and Copper and my cover skills are very suspect. I’m not sure why we’re favored, but I think we get the job done. Thank God I’ll get to watch this game–oh wait–Fox feels that the Rams/Giants game is a big ratings grabber in Columbus.
You forgot one more prediction:
LIFE over W – I can’t wait for your 3 consecutive posts replying to this line.
Going back to yesterday.. W in the NFl there is no such thing as talent always winning. every player is fucking unbelievable talent wise that is why they are in the NFL. Any NFL tea mcna beat any other team on a given day. NFL games are all about preparation and coaching. As for BSU and OU I would agrue that Boise was more talented than the overrated Sooners of 2006. My prediction USC 38 OSU 17, but if BEanie (Wells that is) plays USC 35 OSU 20. Go Browns! IS Nick Sorensen realted to Matt Sorensen? And W your comments suck I havent been able to read through an entire one in about 3 weeks due to me wanting to shoot myself 3 sentences in but instead shooting a different co worker each day in a different body part. Today it will be Don in his mandible.
I love the orange pants and white jerseys for the Brownies as well. I always change my uniforms in Madden 09 to either that or the brown pants and white tops. One game I think the Browns should go super ugly and wear brown pants and orange bottoms, or vice versa. Have they done that? Brown on brown or orange on orange would also be hideous but awesome to see. They’d look like a bunch of safety cones out there diverting “traffic” into the endzone.
Graig, Graig, Graig… you are such the instigator. Which means you are like me, and theres only room for one me in my life.
Lol Scott… I get going sometimes and I just can’t stop. At least thats what your mom told me last night…. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Lets leave the moms out of this one but thanks for sharing with all of us what uniforms you use in Madden . we are now all dumber for listening to that. BUSKET BOYS 6 INNINGS we are sweet!!!
With some hardcore fundamentals practice, we could have won that game. Also, our bats went to sleep after our explosive 1st Inning.
All these comments are getting long and hard to read. But I did enjoy the Madden uniform breakdown. And picturing Scott shooting Don in the mandible.
I think normally the Browns only wear white at home early in the year if it’s hot to force the visiting team to wear dark in the heat. I only thought it seemed to matter once and it was against the Ravens.
See Scott… someone appreciated the Madden reference!!
I am hoping that his Madden comment was sarcasm. No one appreciated your MAdden uni update. GFB I agree the comments suck – its all W’s fault I used to enjoy reading this site.
LOL… I’ll take the blame, and I will also keep the comments to a minimum. I don’t read the long ones either. You guys just got me going yesterday, and I am hard to stop once that happens.
W, you are close to being banned, and being cut from the softball team. You do know Scott’s mom is my mom right? And explain this, how do the Browns were brown pants and orange bottoms at the same time? Is that kind of like just igroning a game OSU played b/c they played bad?
You guys have the same mother? Well in my figure of speech I only ment Scott’s mom.
And I’m color blind. So if their pants are brown or orange, they look the same color. Don’t ask me how I know the difference since I am color blind.
And if I am cut from the softball team, who else on the team is going to set their ego aside and strike out looking… in softball.