Easy Sunday at the old yard as the Browns man handled the Arizona Cardinals with surprising ease for an actual NFL game.  For about every reason the Cardinals are as awful as a team can get in this league. They have zero talent, dumped their QB (Dobbs) and are waiting still on QB Kuyler Murray to come back to play so they can trade him, and are putting zero effort into winning games as the draft is clearly on their mind.  Total rebuild. They stuck out a 5th round rookie QB against our defense on the road, and it worked out about as well as when we did that same thing against the Ravens a month ago.  They are simply awful.

So the Browns beat up on them and I would expect nothing less especially at home.  Now that the JV team has left town, it's time to lace 'em up and play the big boys, and that's the Ravens on the road today.  Last week was a joke, this week is no joke.  The Ravens are playing about as well as anyone in the NFL right now and have a firm hold on our division. The Browns could do themselves a world of good by getting the upset but it will take an effort we have not seen yet.

Watson last week was adequate at best against the worst team imaginable. Today is a different story. A game this big is the sole reason the Browns signed him, and we must see the Watson we were promised.  He has not played a meaningful game here yet in 1.5 seasons, and now it's time.  Like many, I'm tired of all the excuses and team silence. Go out and win a big game and play well against a really good team - Period!  The time for excuses is over, if not now, when?  The Browns reportedly have paid Watson 90 million since March and that's not sitting well with fans in a town that lives close to the bone every month.  He will never be able to outrun his contract with Browns fans until he starts playing well on the regular and winning big games.  Fact, the Browns success thus far has zero to do with Watson, Stefanski or the offense and is squarely because of great defensive play.

There is no mystery on what the Browns as a team must do today to win. To me, beyond the blah blah cliche' stuff we all know, is for Stefanski and Watson to understand where we are, who is on the field across from us, and where we are in the season.  In the Ravens last two home games, they have absolutely disassembled two really good first place teams, Detroit and Seattle outscoring them 75-9!  If you add in the Browns game one to that, they have beaten 3 pretty darn good teams 103-12. But the first game with the Browns needs to be put aside.  The Browns started a rookie QB who was way over his head and we were destroyed at home.  Today's game is not for amateurs.

The law of averages say the Ravens are due to lose a game.  Maybe today?  Not many teams just roll through one great team after another, and not many start 8-2.

GO BROWNS !!