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Cleveland went to Raymond James Stadium as underdogs again and won by forty. Tampa Bay scored twice in the first eight minutes and then never reached the red zone again, went nought-for-eleven on third down and threw four interceptions. The Browns scored seven red-zone touchdowns on eight trips and went four-for-four on fourth down while running the football twenty-nine times for eighty-four yards, which is to say they could not run it at all. They are 2–0 by a combined sixty-eight points and lead the National Football League in scoring at 44.5 a game. Six of the eight national power rankings still have them 30th or worse, one has them 19th, and men who spent thirty years earning jobs like this one have begun saying on the record what they think of it.
Enter Week 2 →The Browns went to Jacksonville nine-and-a-half point underdogs against a team that won thirteen games last season, scored on five of their first eight possessions, punted once, and won by twenty-eight. Shedeur Sanders finished twenty of twenty-four for two hundred and seventy-five with two touchdowns and no interceptions and leads the league in two categories. Harold Fannin Jr. scored three times. The head coach lost his headset in the second quarter and wore it backwards for the next snap. Not one power ranking in the country moved Cleveland a place, all eight of them still have the team thirty-second, and every one of them gave Jacksonville as the reason.
Enter Week 1 →Shedeur Sanders is the starter, and Mansour said so on a Tuesday in a room that had been waiting since January for him to say something else. Denzel Ward went to Pittsburgh for first-round picks in 2027 and 2028, and the press conference for it was mostly Mansour talking about who Ward is. Jerry Jeudy went to the Giants for a third. DeAndre Hopkins signed. The 53 is set, Maliek Collins and Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah are hurt, and Jacksonville is favored by nine and a half on Sunday because almost nobody watching this thinks it works.
Enter Week 0B →An old-money Ohio shipping family bought the Browns in November, fired the coach and the general manager on the same January morning, ran a full search with a real firm and real candidates — and then gave both jobs to a 28-year-old who had never coached or played. He released Deshaun Watson the next day, said out loud why, and left $117.6 million in dead money on the 2026 cap. What followed: the Brook Park move cancelled, both lines rebuilt inside six weeks, a tackle taken ninth against every public board, a receiver traded up for at ten, and Myles Garrett to the Rams on June 1. Camp is open in Berea with three quarterbacks and no starter named.
Enter Week 0 →Week 0 covers the offseason — the sale, the search, the hire, the release, free agency, the draft and the trade. Week 0B runs from the end of camp to kickoff. Week 1 and Week 2 are the football, and two road blowouts of playoff teams have not changed a single mind — they have only made the explaining harder.