Getting Close To Browns Game

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For those saying the Browns improved, remember that defensively they brought in Zadarius Smith and a couple of depth pieces while losing Clowney. Arguably their pass rush improved a bit because Smith is better than Clowney at this stage in their careers. So they are better but to me not as much as some think.

Also we improved more than some think. Not just OBJr at LT and Jonah to RT which improves the line a good bit but also we got a big injection of speed on both sides of the ball. Irv Smith is a playmaker when healthy and I expect us to rotate Chase Brown and our rookie WRs in on some plays - we should see them being far more able to punish teams for being in a 2 high shell. Defensively we did lose Bates and Bell but we also picked up a bunch of speed in the secondary and Murphy even at this point improves the rotation.

So while I expect us to be a bit rusty and maybe not completely in sync I do like our chances.