Cleveland Browns Face Toughest NFL Schedule in 2025

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00:00Cleveland has the second hardest schedule entering 2025.

00:03And the Browns, the RS, with that win total of five and a half,

00:08technically have the worst win total on the FanDuel Sportsbook as we speak.

00:13Five teams have a win total with a figure of five and a half.

00:17Three teams have juice on the under.

00:19Giants, Saints, and Browns in that order,

00:22because Cleveland's juice to the under is minus 145.

00:27The Browns are thought of thus as the worst team in the National Football League

00:32entering 2025 with a very confusing and confounding quarterback room.

00:38Donnie, what is the ceiling for Cleveland this season?

00:43Here's the problem with it, right?

00:44And this is where I might get to myself in a little bit of problem

00:46when we get to the Giants.

00:47It's like, okay, can I get 17 games started out of Russell Wilson,

00:51regardless of what the record is?

00:53They'll go over the win total,

00:54because that means you're getting a decent quarterback play,

00:56and the goal is to win football games.

00:58But here's where you're running the problems.

00:59We'll get to the Giants later.

01:00Let me just start with the Cleveland Browns.

01:02You see the numbers,

01:03because if you go to the FanDuel Sportsbook right now,

01:05you can bet to see who the starting quarterback is going to be week number one.

01:08The favorite in line is Joe Flacco.

01:09That could never be the case.

01:11But understand this.

01:12When you're a general manager, like the Haslam family, right?

01:14What are they looking at?

01:15Don't you embarrass me?

01:16We need wins, and that's on you guys.

01:18So the general manager goes like,

01:19hey, let me sell you on this rookie quarterback

01:21who we go three, two, three wins this year,

01:23and we all get fired, but we find about the rookie quarterback.

01:26Coaches don't want to do that.

01:28General managers don't want to do that.

01:29And let's say, hey, no contract, five years, build it right now.

01:32Okay, we'll do it.

01:32Stephans is a good coach.

01:34But the fact that Joe Flacco, when you have Kenny Pickett,

01:36who's not a great quarterback by any stretch,

01:38but he is younger, with a chance to be your starting quarterback.

01:41Same thing with the two rookies they drafted here.

01:43They might not be ready on day number one, but here's the issue.

01:45If Flacco is your quarterback day number one,

01:47your future is nothing.

01:49And let's just say Joe Flacco on a bad football team winds up at one and five

01:52after their first six games.

01:54If you say, you know what,

01:55we're just going to ride out the entire season with Joe Flacco.

01:57Hey, you see that five and a half number?

01:59There is a legitimate chance we hang around that.

02:01But you know what changes in NFL organizations?

02:03When you're out of the playoff picture, what do you start to do?

02:06Well, we really don't want to win football games,

02:08and we want to find out about these young quarterbacks.

02:11We're going to put them in situations that lets you see if they can succeed

02:14or hope they just don't sink to the bottom.

02:16That's where the issue comes in.

02:18This could be, Ben, a four-win team heading into December saying,

02:21white flag is up.

02:23We're not trying to win anymore.

02:24But if they're not and they're in, like, preservation mode,

02:27which I think the Giants are,

02:28that four wins could turn into six wins late if you're playing the appropriate guys.

02:32But I think this season is a complete throwaway

02:34because I do think Shadour Sanders and Dylan Gabriel, Ben,

02:38will get starts this season on the Cleveland Browns.

02:40And that's not good for a five-and-a-half total.

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