The NFL schedule will be released on Wednesday. Ahead of the league-wide announcement, here's my wish for the Cleveland Browns this year.
When it comes to the Browns schedule release, the bye week being at a reasonable time is my one ask.is like the offseason’s Christmas morning, so please humor me while I do my best Mariah Carey impression .OK, so it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. And it’s a pretty boring ask actually. It would be the equivalent of Mariah singing about wanting to find a sensible pair of socks under the tree on Christmas morning.
I’m entering my fourth season of covering the Browns. In my previous three years, I’ve only seen this team get one true mid-season bye: 2022, when they were off in Week 9. But even then, they got shortchanged by a day -- their Week 8 game was Monday night against the Bengals, so they missed out on one extra off day compared to if they had just played on Sunday.In 2021, they had to wait until Week 13 for their week off.
Now, in 2021, the Browns likely would have limped to the finish line anyway given the status of Baker Mayfield’s shoulder -- But waiting until Week 13 for the break was brutal as it was clear they were physically beaten up and had no real time to regroup in the wake of an impactful injury to their starting quarterback that had ripple effects across the offense.
In 2023 with their early bye, it may have been an OK result for the Browns, who got the week off right as uncertainty about Deshaun Watson’s shoulder was beginning following a hard hit he took in Week 3 against the Tennessee Titans. But still, as the season wore on, and it was clear the Browns were going to the playoffs, a break that was a few weeks later would have been a prime opportunity to rest and regroup for the league’s No. 1 defense that was getting physically beat up, as well as a running back room that had to learn to play without Nick Chubb, an offensive line that went through five different starting tackles, and oh yeah, a QB room that ended up with five different starters throughout the course of the season.
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