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Cleveland Browns Face Toughest NFL Schedule in 2025
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7/1/2025
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Cleveland has the second hardest schedule entering 2025.
00:03
And the Browns, the RS, with that win total of five and a half,
00:08
technically have the worst win total on the FanDuel Sportsbook as we speak.
00:13
Five teams have a win total with a figure of five and a half.
00:17
Three teams have juice on the under.
00:19
Giants, Saints, and Browns in that order,
00:22
because Cleveland's juice to the under is minus 145.
00:27
The Browns are thought of thus as the worst team in the National Football League
00:32
entering 2025 with a very confusing and confounding quarterback room.
00:38
Donnie, what is the ceiling for Cleveland this season?
00:43
Here's the problem with it, right?
00:44
And this is where I might get to myself in a little bit of problem
00:46
when we get to the Giants.
00:47
It's like, okay, can I get 17 games started out of Russell Wilson,
00:51
regardless of what the record is?
00:53
They'll go over the win total,
00:54
because that means you're getting a decent quarterback play,
00:56
and the goal is to win football games.
00:58
But here's where you're running the problems.
00:59
We'll get to the Giants later.
01:00
Let me just start with the Cleveland Browns.
01:02
You see the numbers,
01:03
because if you go to the FanDuel Sportsbook right now,
01:05
you can bet to see who the starting quarterback is going to be week number one.
01:08
The favorite in line is Joe Flacco.
01:09
That could never be the case.
01:11
But understand this.
01:12
When you're a general manager, like the Haslam family, right?
01:14
What are they looking at?
01:15
Don't you embarrass me?
01:16
We need wins, and that's on you guys.
01:18
So the general manager goes like,
01:19
hey, let me sell you on this rookie quarterback
01:21
who we go three, two, three wins this year,
01:23
and we all get fired, but we find about the rookie quarterback.
01:26
Coaches don't want to do that.
01:28
General managers don't want to do that.
01:29
And let's say, hey, no contract, five years, build it right now.
01:32
Okay, we'll do it.
01:32
Stephans is a good coach.
01:34
But the fact that Joe Flacco, when you have Kenny Pickett,
01:36
who's not a great quarterback by any stretch,
01:38
but he is younger, with a chance to be your starting quarterback.
01:41
Same thing with the two rookies they drafted here.
01:43
They might not be ready on day number one, but here's the issue.
01:45
If Flacco is your quarterback day number one,
01:47
your future is nothing.
01:49
And let's just say Joe Flacco on a bad football team winds up at one and five
01:52
after their first six games.
01:54
If you say, you know what,
01:55
we're just going to ride out the entire season with Joe Flacco.
01:57
Hey, you see that five and a half number?
01:59
There is a legitimate chance we hang around that.
02:01
But you know what changes in NFL organizations?
02:03
When you're out of the playoff picture, what do you start to do?
02:06
Well, we really don't want to win football games,
02:08
and we want to find out about these young quarterbacks.
02:11
We're going to put them in situations that lets you see if they can succeed
02:14
or hope they just don't sink to the bottom.
02:16
That's where the issue comes in.
02:18
This could be, Ben, a four-win team heading into December saying,
02:21
white flag is up.
02:23
We're not trying to win anymore.
02:24
But if they're not and they're in, like, preservation mode,
02:27
which I think the Giants are,
02:28
that four wins could turn into six wins late if you're playing the appropriate guys.
02:32
But I think this season is a complete throwaway
02:34
because I do think Shadour Sanders and Dylan Gabriel, Ben,
02:38
will get starts this season on the Cleveland Browns.
02:40
And that's not good for a five-and-a-half total.
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