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Early weather report: 24 degrees, 34% chance of snow, 17 mph winds. Ugh…

Yes...unless we tie tonight.

The latest is that Waddle has made significant progress as of today. Also, Morse has an illness and is now questionable for Sunday. smh…

But will he be available all the way at pick #32?

Holy moly, I would have never expected to see an injury report like that this late in the season...

Lot of hot takes in this thread! 😝

Well, as long as we're being fair, just about everybody has been dropping passes this year, so it's hard to imagine him having great trust in anyone at this point.

On the very first 3rd down play against the Chargers, Josh missed a wide open Murray out of the backfield, instead trying to cram it into a blanketed receiver, incomplete, punt. Those dump off plays to wide open RBs are there, Josh just isn't seeing them or taking them, for whatever reason.

Nice work. I'd also be interested to include defensive holding calls in there as well, since the two penalties basically only differ on whether the ball was in the air at the time of contact.

...and it's mostly purple, suggesting the Ravens will win...

Such an incredibly sad story. What a great thing for us and our favorite football club to have had such a great, strong female figure as a public leader. With any luck, she'll become that again, but chances don't seem great.

If all Kincaid got were "easy" catches without much YAC that kept getting us first downs, I'd be pretty happy. Anything above that is gravy.

Been wondering this as well. Hard to believe that Cook has all but disappeared from the passing game, even for simple dump offs.

There is still a possible scenario where the Bills get in as #6 and the Chiefs are #3...

...Again...

Brady has always been coaching for his job. He's interim, its not like he's assured the spot for next year. He knows he has to produce every week. I can say with confidence that this is NOT exactly what McDermott wants. I'm sure he would like a run-heavy offense like we saw against Dallas, but not what we've seen the last couple of weeks. If he wants a run-heavy offense, it's to take the pressure off of Allen and allow him to use play action better and to be more productive with the receivers when he does throw. We're not seeing that, at least not yet. I can't imagine this is what McDermott wants...he wants this, but with a better, more opportunistic passing game.

@4merper4mer reels them in again!

Well, sorry to disappoint you with the thread, but I also disagree. It's not a matter of "over analyzing everything," it's doing what a lot of people are doing and trying to look relatively objectively at who are the hot teams going into the playoffs. I acknowledged right off that the Browns haven't beaten a murderer's row of competition, but they've still done so fairly convincingly. Hey, they didn't struggle with a down-and-out Jets team the way we struggled with the down-and-out Chargers (and their defense only allowed 10 points to the Jets in the first half). You can't argue with the fact that Flacco is experiencing a resurgence (and yes, you can argue that his turnovers are a problem, but he's throwing for a lot of yards and plenty of TDs) and you can't argue with how elite their defense is. It was just a simple question: are the Browns a team that other teams are not looking forwad to facing in the playoffs? I say yes, you say no. No need to insult a thread over that.

I just hope they don't screen pass us to death. That has always been a staple of the Pats**** offense, and we have always seemed to be especially susceptible to it.

Kudos to Beane for recognizing it and then going out and getting the right player.

Interesting...insurance policy for the playoffs, maybe?

The thinking for the last couple of weeks has been the Bills...but I wonder how many are now saying it's the Browns? Browns have most all the ingredients you might want: Super strong defense Excellent offensive line Savvy veteran QB experiencing a resurgence One of the top WRs in Cooper Very good running game They haven't faced a murderer's row of opponents lately, but they're thrashing people and really starting to peak at the right time. Of all the teams in the AFC right now, even compared with the Dolphins and Ravens, I think they are going to do some serious damage in the playoffs. Assuming they get their kicking game straightened out...