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Well they are likely done practicing now, besides walkthroughs and tape. So hopefully nobody falls out of their chair or anything during a film session.

In his most recent or second most recent presser he said “as a professional I aspire to reach the highest level of my career” or something when asked about HC interest. Whatever the exact quote was, it was basically a “yes I’m interested in being a HC again” But it seems like he hasn’t been as hot of a candidate as some of the other DCs out there - haven’t seen him in any of the interview request news.

They want Vrabel Also nobody has asked to interview Schwartz afaik, maybe not that hot of a commodity. Ravens and Cowboys DC seem to be hot defensive candidates though.

End of an era, it’s still possible belichik won’t be the patriots coach next season too - I gotta think they are thinking pretty hard about Vrabel - maybe wanting to test the trade market though.

There’s a lot of teams mad at themselves for not going after Flacco. They’ll be even madder if he does something crazy like starts winning playoff games. The Vikings are probably the most striking example of a playoff caliber team that needed a Flacco. Instead, they got a Dobbs Cleveland fans should just enjoy the ride, it’s my favorite season since 99’ who cares about the QB next year. If Flacco does somehow manage to make the Super Bowl, then who cares if the browns make Watson the highest paid QB2 of all time next year - and if they don’t retain Flacco, it’s not like Watson is bad (he’s just hated as a person). I don’t think the Steelers go after any free agent QBs, it seems like it’s against their philosophy or something.

Watsons contract leaves him as a brown regardless, they can’t afford to pull a broncos. I think we should just enjoy the ride, worry about the QBs when we’re in the offseason.

Thornhill returned to practice today, I'd expect him to go. I'm sure they'll still rotate in Hickman & Bell in some of their 3-safety looks, both of those guys have been excellent fill-ins.

In other news, Driskel is the new backup QB, over Walker Walker - nice guy who tries hard, but it's hard to see him ever getting a snap in the NFL again.

Well hopefully the curse only affects Mike Ford and not the rest of the team then. He's pretty ass anyway, compared to the rest of the corners.

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I really like our chances if we score more points than the Texans

Stefanski in his presser said that Hopkins is unlikely to kick this week, big sad. Said Delpit has a chance to come off IR

Add Mike Vrabel to the list, the most surprising so far probably: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39272784/sources-titans-fire-coach-mike-vrabel-6-seasons Not sure I get it, I think the titans were just a victim of aging stars that aren't really stars anymore - they need to enter rebuild mode, guess they want a new coach to lead the way through that. Pederson is so insanely stubborn with Press Taylor for some reason, maybe they have a secret relationship or something. That's his biggest problem as a coach...living and dying by a terrible offensive playcaller for no apparent reason.

Not that quiet, I think it's a popular talking point throughout the media. But yea, Joey is going to keep slinging it. If a guy is 1-on-1, he's throwing it there. Throwing in between 3 defenders through about a human sized window - no problem. He could get unlucky on them, and well one unlucky game is all it'll take to go home. But honestly I think it's the kind of backup QB play we need to have a chance - since at least it gives us a chance, we wouldn't go anywhere if we had DTR throwing 2 yards to the flat every play - like how we beat Pittsburgh. So living and dying by the sword is ok IMO - fun to watch and probably what we need to have a chance against some of these teams without Watson. Hopefully he takes January Joe 2012 form where he through like 11 touchdowns and 0 ints in the postseason though, that would be good for everyone's heart

Man what a great time that game was, it couldn’t get any better - hype from the first second to the last.

If I bet it’s usually like $5-10 on games I don’t have any horse in so it gives me a reason to be more interested. But still, the browns line seems crazy low to me (how in the world are the dolphins 18-1 but the browns 30-1) The rams are also an NFC dark horse at 40-1, the NFC path to the Super Bowl is a bit easier than the AFC side

I don’t expect a blow out like last time for sure. I think it has the potential to be an incredibly fun game to watch, it will just be a lot more fun if we come out on top - which I expect us to, as long as we don’t have a turnover problem this game.

I think it’s classless in this case, but some teams just knee it to end a half when the clock is almost out, a fake there would be more interesting. But then the defense might start ramming full speed when you try to down it in the future.

I think they wanted to see if they could find a better backup than Walker - probably liked some of Driskel’s tape, if Flacco goes down then Walker is a death sentence to our postseason.

I had to place a small bet, hedged on AFC champ too just in case we made it and lost. The Vegas guys are probably smarter than me, but I think our odds should be much closer to the Bills or Chiefs than it is.

Up 41-17 with 1:13 left the saints lined up in victory formation, and then handed it off to score another touchdown. While funny, the falcons HC was absolutely pissed after the game. Its a controversial play so figured its worth a thread to get people’s take on it.

Kinda surprised it didn’t get the primetime slot over the bucs…rookie of the year vs Flacco browns - seems like a better prime time than inept bucs and collapsing eagles. im good with being first though, if we lose I won’t waste time following any of the other games.

I saw somewhere stroud struggles against man to man mostly, seems strange for a rookie where I’d expect the opposite. Their receivers are pretty injured and I’d expect Stroud will see more man to man than he has in any game against the browns - since that’s just what Schwartz does

Not browns Texans related but wtf is Josh Allen doing, man is a dumb turnover machine. He was staring at an easy 2 yard first down throw, decided to roll out and chuck a prayer to the endzone right to Miami