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  • Let's take one game at a time and see how it plays out..

    If we beat the jets, looking ahead who knows what happens, but it adds excitement

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  • WRREBELW WRREBEL

    Let's take one game at a time and see how it plays out..

    If we beat the jets, looking ahead who knows what happens, but it adds excitement

    @wrrebel said:

    Let's take one game at a time and see how it plays out..

    If we beat the jets, looking ahead who knows what happens, but it adds excitement

    The way the schedules pan out, we could EASILY see three teams coming from out division. Don't count us out, yet.

  • My son Jack and I agreed that we'd wait until the Browns beat the Jets to go to 4-5 to even muse about it. The Chargers just went to 4-5 and everybody says their one of the serious contenders.

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  • ATENEARSA ATENEARS

    We really needed Cincy to win last night for much of any chance. They suck and I can't believe they opened MNF by starting flat at Home on National TV in a do or die situation.

    @atenears said:

    We really needed Cincy to win last night for much of any chance. They suck and I can't believe they opened MNF by starting flat at Home on National TV in a do or die situation.

    i think at 11-5 we'd make it. Don't worry about what Pittsburgh does.

  • I'm not worrying about the damn playoffs.

    Can we please take one game at a time and just focus on the opposing team at hand, and just winning football games. Not smart to look ahead like that. It's a one game season for me at least. And I'm sure the coaches aren't even thinking playoffs at this point.

  • C Carolina Brownie

    I'm not worrying about the damn playoffs.

    Can we please take one game at a time and just focus on the opposing team at hand, and just winning football games. Not smart to look ahead like that. It's a one game season for me at least. And I'm sure the coaches aren't even thinking playoffs at this point.

    @carolina-brownie said:

    I'm not worrying about the damn playoffs.

    Can we please take one game at a time and just focus on the opposing team at hand, and just winning football games. Not smart to look ahead like that. It's a one game season for me at least. And I'm sure the coaches aren't even thinking playoffs at this point.

    well its the players job to look at one game at a time. We as fans don't have the added pressure of playing the actual game while focusing on making the playoffs, so we can talk about it all we want.

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  • ATENEARSA ATENEARS

    We really needed Cincy to win last night for much of any chance. They suck and I can't believe they opened MNF by starting flat at Home on National TV in a do or die situation.

    @atenears said:

    We really needed Cincy to win last night for much of any chance. They suck and I can't believe they opened MNF by starting flat at Home on National TV in a do or die situation.

    Agreed! I was just shocked by how bad Cinci started off last night. Although I never liked the clown, it was inspiring watching T.O. put that team emotionally on his back last night. I've never seen a team feed off of someone's energy like Cinci did last night. They had that 4th and 5 converted but Harrison put one hell of a lick on Jordan Shipley and dislodged the ball...disappointing because I too was thinking "If Cinci wins, we still have an outside shot of making the playoffs."

    "The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things " - mike huckabee
  • SojuS Soju

    @carolina-brownie said:

    I'm not worrying about the damn playoffs.

    Can we please take one game at a time and just focus on the opposing team at hand, and just winning football games. Not smart to look ahead like that. It's a one game season for me at least. And I'm sure the coaches aren't even thinking playoffs at this point.

    well its the players job to look at one game at a time. We as fans don't have the added pressure of playing the actual game while focusing on making the playoffs, so we can talk about it all we want.

    @soju said:

    well its the players job to look at one game at a time. We as fans don't have the added pressure of playing the actual game while focusing on making the playoffs, so we can talk about it all we want.

    Good point. I understand that, I just don't want to praise about how good we are. Let's try to win more than 4 games in a row (last season), and I think we can if we keep this momentum. GO BROWNS!

  • I hope this isn't the case but in typical cleveland sports fashion we will miss the playoffs because of the first two games! Even if we finish 9-7 we will lose the tie breaker somehow and we will look back at those games and say "what if?".

  • At this stage I'm not so much concerned about making the playoffs as I am seeing continuous improvement week-to-week. Eliminating turnovers and bone-headed drive killing penalties. We can see this team coming together right before our eyes and right now I just want to sit back and enjoy it. Go Browns!

  • If we weren't in the AFC North i'd say it was likely. The only way we will go to the playoffs is if we win out.

    Predicted Records:2010: 8-82011: 8-82012: 9-72013: 5-112014: 6-10

  • The reason we brought up the Jets game and a possible 4-5 record: We then play a string of 5 teams we really should beat.

    Wouldn't it be cool to be 9-5 with the Ravens and Steelers coming to Cleveland?

  • S shepwrite

    The reason we brought up the Jets game and a possible 4-5 record: We then play a string of 5 teams we really should beat.

    Wouldn't it be cool to be 9-5 with the Ravens and Steelers coming to Cleveland?

    @shepwrite said:

    The reason we brought up the Jets game and a possible 4-5 record: We then play a string of 5 teams we really should beat.

    Wouldn't it be cool to be 9-5 with the Ravens and Steelers coming to Cleveland?

    of course.. but it would be cooler if we played Dallas and Carolina in Cleveland the last 2 weeks 😆

  • S shepwrite

    My son Jack and I agreed that we'd wait until the Browns beat the Jets to go to 4-5 to even muse about it. The Chargers just went to 4-5 and everybody says their one of the serious contenders.

    Shepwrite wrote:

    @shepwrite said:

    My son Jack and I agreed that we'd wait until the Browns beat the Jets to go to 4-5 to even muse about it. The Chargers just went to 4-5 and everybody says their one of the serious contenders.

    The chargers are contenders because of their division. No team in the West has more than 5 wins, so with a healthy dose of divisional play, it'll be easy for them to overcome the 1.5 games they currently trail.

  • I'll say this: If the Browns get to 6-5... any team at 6-5 is in the playoff hunt in almost any year.

    And if we get to 9-5 with the Ravens and Steelers coming to our house, those games will be HUGE. They'll matter.

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  • Also... playoff teams are facing off against each other while we're in our "easy" stretch of five games. Hell, Baltimore plays AT Atlanta day after tomorrow. We're looking to move past teams like the three contenders in the AFC West, too. Ideally, three playoff teams come from the AFC Central, with us at 10-6 being the third.

    Hey, a guy can dream.

  • S shepwrite

    I'll say this: If the Browns get to 6-5... any team at 6-5 is in the playoff hunt in almost any year.

    And if we get to 9-5 with the Ravens and Steelers coming to our house, those games will be HUGE. They'll matter.

    @shepwrite said:

    I'll say this: If the Browns get to 6-5... any team at 6-5 is in the playoff hunt in almost any year.

    And if we get to 9-5 with the Ravens and Steelers coming to our house, those games will be HUGE. They'll matter.

    If we win the Jets game. I do not see us losing during during the Carolina, Jacksonville, Miami, Buffalo stretch.

  • i'm just hoping that the week 17 game means something. i have tickets and would LOVE for it to get bumped into the SNF primetime slot.

  • Jack and I are meeting my recently widowed sister, her two sons, and one of their wives in Miami for that game... staying at the Hollywood Beach Marriott. I'm hoping for three straight wins to be 6-5 going into that game.

  • Doerschuck (maybe my favorite Browns beat writer) says two more wins and everybody will be talking playoffs:

    Asking around the locker room, the Browns don’t want to waste a chance to climb into playoff contention, now that they’re beating playoff teams. The math is a bit daunting.There are two wild-card spots available, and at this point, the non-division leaders with better records than Cleveland’s 3-5 are:Patriots (6-2), Dolphins (4-4), Steelers (5-2), Colts (5-3), Jags (4-4), Texans (4-4), Raiders (5-4) and Chargers (4-5).

    That makes the Jets game a must-win. If it is a win, though the Browns will be 4-5 …

    • The Colts (Peyton Manning has to fade sometime) would be 5-4 if they fall to Cincinnati.

    • The Dolphins would be 4-5 if they fall to Tennessee.

    • Either the Texans or Jags will be 4-5 after they play each other.

    • The Raiders have a bye, then face a string of tough games starting with Pittsburgh, which could drop them to 5-5.

    Check out everybody else’s record in two weeks. If Cleveland wins the next two Sunday’s, everyone will be talking playoffs.

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