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Justin Herbert, Josh Allen, and Tom Brady, oh my! Browns’ schedule gets difficult from now on
ATLANTA — By way of the primary month of the season, the Cleveland Browns had one of many NFL’s softest schedules.
The fourth-softest, in keeping with ESPN’s Soccer Energy Index.
Going ahead, Cleveland will face one of many hardest remaining schedules within the league.
The second-toughest, in reality, in keeping with FPI — highlighted by a monster upcoming seven-game gauntlet that includes a sequence of playoff hopefuls and Tremendous Bowl contenders, which incorporates 5 of FPI’s prime eight ranked groups.
In falling to the Falcons on Sunday — preceded by a Week 2 collapse in opposition to the Jets — the Browns squandered a primary alternative to capitalize on a positive early schedule. Now, Cleveland must knock off among the league’s prime groups within the coming weeks to have any hope of hanging round within the rugged AFC playoff image.
“We simply gotta take it week-by-week,” mentioned operating again Kareem Hunt. “We all know we are able to play with the perfect of the perfect. We’re gonna discover a technique to bounce again and recover from this [loss].”
That gained’t be simple.
The Browns simply went 2-2 in opposition to the quarterback quartet of Baker Mayfield, Joe Flacco, Mitchell Trubisky and Marcus Mariota.
Mayfield is final within the league in QBR (15.3) by a substantial margin. Flacco is a 37-year-old backup. Trubisky was simply benched in favor of rookie Kenny Pickett. And Mariota accomplished solely seven passes in opposition to Cleveland, tied for the fifth-fewest in a win in Falcons historical past.
Subsequent Sunday (1 p.m. ET, CBS), the Browns tackle the Chargers and gifted passer Justin Herbert, who’s again to slinging the ball round regardless of struggling a fractured rib cartilage harm earlier this yr. Final season, Hebert handed for 398 yards and totaled 5 touchdowns in a come-from-behind win over Cleveland.
Two weeks after Hebert, the Browns face former MVP Lamar Jackson, then reigning AFC champion Joe Burrow, then MVP betting favourite Josh Allen, then, properly, the GOAT, Tom Brady.
Cleveland may additionally must defend Tua Tagovailoa, who was main the NFL in QBR earlier than struggling a daunting concussion in Thursday’s loss to Burrow and the Bengals; the Browns don’t journey to Miami till Nov. 13.
“Obtained to get again to the fundamentals,” mentioned linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, of a Browns protection that now ranks simply twenty eighth within the league in effectivity. “Obtained to get takeaways. … ensure that to concentrate on these issues that we centered on in camp.”
The silver lining for the Browns is that they continue to be tied for the lead within the AFC North, alongside the Bengals and Ravens.
However contemplating Baltimore’s two losses got here in opposition to Buffalo and Miami (and the Ravens led huge in each video games) Cleveland’s present first-place standing shouldn’t really feel too reassuring.
“Simply gotta play to your potential,” mentioned Browns wideout Amari Cooper. “That’s all you’ll be able to actually do.”
Suspended quarterback Deshaun Watson will probably be allowed to re-enter the Browns coaching facility subsequent Monday. However Watson, who violated the NFL’s private conduct coverage by partaking in sexual assault throughout therapeutic massage classes, gained’t be allowed to start practising once more till Nov. 14. He isn’t eligible to play till Week 13, when the Browns journey to the Houston Texans, both.
Can the Browns keep afloat till then? Or will the season be teetering?
It would already be teetering due to who the Browns have misplaced to thus far, and who they now must beat.
“Our plan is one week at a time,” mentioned quarterback Jacoby Brissett. “For us to take a look at the remaining schedule. … that’s simply not who we’re. And we gained’t do this. We’ve simply gotta study from this [loss] and prepare for subsequent week.”
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Five-star wide receiver Dakorien Moore committed to Oregon on Thursday night, as the hotly contested recruitment ended with Moore choosing the Longhorns.
Moore chose Oregon over Ohio State, Texas and LSU. He was originally committed to LSU, but backed off his pledge in May.
“After today, I am done with my recruitment,” Moore said on Instagram Live.
Ohio State had been interested in the Duncanville, Texas native for quite a while and hosted him on one of his four official visits back on the weekend of May 31. At 5-foot-11 and 182 pounds, Moore is the No. 3 overall player in the country and the No. 1 receiver. But the Buckeyes’ hope of landing the top receiver in a recruiting cycle for the second-straight season now appears to be over.
The Buckeyes have three commits in their wide receiver room for the 2025 class: Four-star Quincy Porter, four-star De’zie Jones and three-star Bodpegn Miller. The hope was that Moore would be the fourth in the class, but now, they’ll have to look elsewhere.
And, for whatever it’s worth, Ohio State’s chances of being the No. 1 recruiting class in the country has taken a slight hit. Alabama and LSU both have higher average player ratings (94.11, 93.73) compared to Ohio State (93.70). The Buckeyes still have the No. 1 class, but Alabama and Oregon are surging, and Georgia still only has 17 commits in the class compared to 22 for Ohio State.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – We’re learning more about the man police say fatally shot that Cleveland police officer on the city’s East side Thursday morning.
The suspect, 24-year-old Delawnte Hardy ― who also goes by “Tay” ― was arrested and charged with aggravated murder.
Available public records don’t reflect that Hardy has a criminal history, although police were serving him with a warrant at the time of the incident. Records do indicate he graduated high school in 2017 and attended some college, majoring in business.
Hardy doesn’t appear to be very active on social media. He does, however, claim to be an aspiring artist. On Instagram, he posted some violent drawings ― one showing himself as an emoji holding a gun.
Some of his video reels are hard to understand. One he posted on July 3rd of last year shows him smoking a cigar as he ranted.
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“The Lord told David to take off Goliath’s head, we about to take these ni***’s heads off,” Hardy said.
Police say the shooting happened in the 1500 Block of E. 80th St. around 1 a.m. in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. Officers were attempting to serve Hardy a warrant for felonious assault. When they arrived, they saw him leaving on this bicycle. They say they tried to stop him, but Hardy fired shots, fatally killing one of the officers.
Now investigators are working to piece things together and reconstruct what happened, but they’ll likely never understand the reason why.
Hardy is expected to be arraigned tomorrow. As for the warrant for felonious assault — we couldn’t find any records of that charge.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Police departments and officials from across Northeast Ohio expressed their condolences Thursday for a Cleveland police officer killed in the line of duty.
The 27-year-old officer was fatally shot in the 1500 block of E. 80th St. around 1 a.m. The officer’s name has not been released.
Cleveland Police Chief Dorothy Todd said a 24-year-old man is in custody. His name has also not been released.
According to Chief Todd, the officers were serving a warrant on the suspect, who was wanted for a felonious assault.
MAIN STORY: Cleveland police officer fatally shot in the city’s Hough neighborhood
Statement from Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb:
“I am heartbroken about the devastating loss of one of our Cleveland Division of Police officers today. Our entire city mourns the tragic loss of this dedicated public servant. We will fully support the investigation and ensure that the perpetrator is swiftly brought to justice to the fullest extent of the law. My deepest condolences go out to the family, friends, and colleagues of our fallen officer. Please pray for his family and the Cleveland Division of Police as we mourn this senseless loss.”
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