Thursday Night Football prediction Ravens cruise Browns fall to 0-10

Wiki Article

The (4-4) host the (0-9) on "Thursday Night Football" in a rematch of Week 2. The Ravens won that game 25-20, and there's little reason to think the Browns have much of a chance now, eight weeks -- and seven lo ses -- later. But as you might have heard, stranger things can happen. Huge underdogs Jim Kelly Jersey can overcome overwhelming odds and conventional wisdom, and by the dawn's early light, everyone's mind has been sufficiently blown. So, yes, we're telling you . Of course, there's also a chance that the Browns lose their remaining seven games and finish 0-16. Remember days before the start of the season, when NFL Network analyst and former Ravens coach Brian Billick suggested the Browns ?Billick quickly walked back the comment, though he rightly maintained that the Browns had a difficult schedule, one that wasn't helped by " ." So here we are two months later, and the Browns are facing the very real po sibility of not winning a single game. Vegas has them as 10-point underdogs against the Ravens, and then they face the , , , , and again. So that first victory will be hard to come by. It's to the point where first-year coach Hue Jackson has to publicly defend one of his players who promised the team would muster at least one victory this season."I support him 100 percent,'' Jackson said of linebacker (via ). "Somehow, someway, we are going to find a way not to be 0-16. That's not where we want to be. We don't want to be 0-9 right Tommy Sweeney Jersey now to be very honest with you. We're going to fight our tails off, and it starts on Thursday night against the Ravens again."Our guys come in here every week with the mindset of 'Look, we are going to go back out here, we are going to do it again, we are going to give you everything we have and we are going to go try and change this.' That is what they have been doing." To Jackson's credit, he has remained upbeat through some pretty depre sing football, even by Cleveland standards."I do believe there are a lot of good things that are going on here," he said. "It just hasn't shown up in the win ledger. That's unfortunate because that's why all of us do what we do. It's about wins and lo ses.''When the wins will come remains the big mystery. The hope is that owner Jimmy Haslam, who hasn't shown much patience in the past with losing, or the men responsible for it, is going to have to give Jackson and the new stats-based front office time to stock the roster with players that can help turn things around. It doesn't help that the Browns pa sed on both and , two rookie quarterbacks that started the season for their respective teams, and look to be franchise-level talents. Meanwhile, the Ravens started the season with three straight wins (against three suspect opponents, the , Browns and ), and then dropped four straight (against the , , and ) before the Steelers, as they have been wont to do in recent years, came to Baltimore bearing gifts. This time, in the form of a penalty-laden, mistake-filled, gift-wrapped win to move the Ravens to 4-4 and in a tie for the AFC North lead.But how good is this Ravens team, really?Or perhaps, the better question to ask is this: How good does this Ravens team to be? They have one of the league's best defenses, according Taron Johnson Jersey to ' metrics, but are also burdened by one of its worse offenses. It's so bad that , Super Bowl XLVII MVP, is the ahead of only . That inconsistency and ineptitude was on full display against the Steelers when he finished 18 of 30 for 241 yards, including plenty of off-target attempts. The worst: an off-balance middle-of-the-field throw that was intercepted. But we know how good Flacco can be, and in his defense, he suffered a torn ACL last November. It's fair to a sume that he's still working his way back from that, and isn't yet the player he once was. Of course, the Ravens are 23-25 since that Super Bowl win, and Flacco was injured for only six of those games. But as Bill Parcells famously once said, you are what your record says you are. And for Baltimore, that's 4-4, which is good enough for the top spot in the division. And 5-4 seems perfectly reasonable after Thursday night's game, too.CBSSports.com's Pete Prisco's pickThe Ravens are in first place in the AFC North because of defense. It should be on full display here against a Browns team that has i sues. The Ravens will also get the offense going. This will be ugly.Prisco's final score: Ravens 29, Browns 13Our predictionThe Browns have had succe s against the Ravens in recent seasons but this might be one of the worst Browns' teams since they returned to Cleveland in Tim Settle Jersey 1999. Even with a punchle s Ravens offense, it's hard to see how the Browns finally break through for their first win of the season. Our final score: Ravens 21, Browns 9
https://emilianothuh20875.mappywiki.com/176194/49ers_end_colin_kaepernick_jersey_clearance_after_chip_kelly_hiring
Click here Click here Click here

Report this wiki page