1pm slate, three units, no cute stuff. Jaguars -9.5. Patriots -6.5. Chiefs -3. If you are taking Cleveland today you are not betting, you are donating, and I say that with love to my Cleveland guys.

#Browns inactives at #Jaguars, what Nick Mansour said Friday about the heat plan, and the three rookies making their first NFL start on the road: --->

101 on the field at 9am. Bus two just got in #Browns

Hotel breakfast sausage is absolutely the most underrated food in America and I will not be taking questions about it this morning because I have four hours of games to get ready for

Duval. 13-4 last year. Number one run defense. A quarterback who was throwing it as well as anybody alive in December. Nine and a half points against a team that shipped out two starters in the last fortnight, and I still cannot make myself feel good about any of it, because I am from here #DUUUVAL

pretty sure im the only person in my entire dorm who knows the browns play today

Sunday QB watch list for me! 1) Can Sanders get the ball out on time when the 1st read isn't there? That's the whole ballgame for a young QB! 2) Does the protection let us find out? 3) Do they ask him to do anything he hasn't done on tape? Ppl want to see arm talent, I want to see the 2nd read!

EARLY WINDOW LOOKS: Falcons at Steelers is the game nobody will talk about tomorrow. Ward makes his Pittsburgh debut. Also Cleveland is at Jacksonville, and CBS has it on 8 percent of the country.

who are the browns playing

CLE 7 — JAX 0 · Q1 6:44 · Harold Fannin Jr. 14 yd pass from Shedeur Sanders (Andres Szmyt kick) · 8 plays, 71 yards, 4:12

we scored. on the road. in the first quarter. in twenty six years i have not once typed that sentence in that order

Atlanta is up two scores on us at home so I have already turned it over to the Jacksonville game to watch the Browns lose, which is normally very reliable, and they are winning. So that is where we are at 1:30 in the afternoon.

Fannin has three targets and three catches. Hopkins has not been thrown to #Browns

CLE 7 — JAX 7 · Q2 11:58 · Bhayshul Tuten 3 yd run (Cam Little kick) · 11 plays, 80 yards, 5:49

there it is. normal service. sorry for doubting #DUUUVAL

browns about to browns

CLE 14 — JAX 7 · Q2 4:31 · Harold Fannin Jr. 1 yd run (Andres Szmyt kick) · 6 plays, 55 yards, 2:38

CLE 21 — JAX 7 · Q2 0:22 · Quinshon Judkins 4 yd run (Andres Szmyt kick) · 9 plays, 68 yards, 2:01

everybody turn on CBS right now. not in a minute. right now

I am watching my #Chargers get their heads kicked in and I have now switched to the Cleveland game because eight different people texted me the same thing... Twenty one to seven... In Jacksonville... With a Rookie Center...

Concepcion has run seven routes and been open on all seven

cleveland is 6 for 7 on third down. six for seven. i went and looked it up twice because i assumed the graphic was broken

i do not watch football and my group chat has gone from 0 messages in eleven days to 90 messages in nine minutes so something has happened

Sanders 13/15 at the half
On time
On schedule
2nd read twice

HALF. HALF. IT IS HALFTIME. EVERYBODY CALM DOWN

CLE 28 — JAX 7 · Q3 6:03 · Quinshon Judkins 30 yd run (Andres Szmyt kick) · 2 plays, 85 yards, 0:38

the headset did not survive the 55-yarder

#Browns

BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns have placed a headset on injured reserve. The team announced the move Sunday afternoon and said the headset will be eligible to return after four games. Mansour said the decision was difficult and that he had been wearing that headset since the second week of August because a different one made a clicking noise nobody else could hear.

the man ran forty yards up the sideline with no headset on and both hands in the air and nobody stopped him. that is somebody's job. somebody on that staff has a job description that includes stopping him

backwards

This is a man who did not have a headset for one snap and then had a backwards headset for the next one and called a 30-yard touchdown in between. How is this medically possible.

the headset thing is funny but the actual play is a rookie receiver they traded up fourteen spots for beating press coverage on third and two and everyone in that stadium knowing what was coming

THE NFL HAS FINED NICK MANSOUR $50,000 FOR THE HEADSET INCIDENT AND SUSPENDED HIS SIDELINE ACCESS FOR WEEK 2. THEY WILL NOT LET THIS MAN SUCCEED. THEY NEVER WANTED HIM IN THE LEAGUE. SCREENSHOT THIS

The cord not the headset #Browns

there are 42,507 seats in this building this season and i would put the number still in them at about eleven thousand with nine minutes left in the third quarter. i have been coming here since i was six. this is the earliest i have ever seen it go

travis hunter just went 66 on darnell savage and got him turned around at the stem doing it and it is going to get buried under a 28 point win. that is a real problem cleveland has and it does not go away because they are winning

CLE 35 — JAX 7 · Q4 8:22 · Harold Fannin Jr. 9 yd pass from Shedeur Sanders (Andres Szmyt kick) · 7 plays, 61 yards, 3:44

third touchdown of the afternoon and he gave the ball to the nearest zebra and jogged straight to the bench. no look, no nothing. the CBS guy said his name three times like he was checking it was the same person

jared verse has been standing eleven yards from the jacksonville bench having a conversation with all of them for most of this quarter and the officials have stopped pretending to notice

cleveland went for it twice on fourth down and got nothing both times and one of them was a spot the booth spent ninety seconds arguing about. in a 28 point game that is a footnote. in tampa it is the game

Tyson Campbell picks it off in the end zone to end it. Jacksonville's afternoon: 218 yards, ten first downs, two turnovers, and a home crowd that left in the third quarter of the opener.

Browns 35, Jaguars 7. Cleveland closed at 9.5 points on the road and won by four touchdowns in the first game under head coach and general manager Nick Mansour.

Cleveland's afternoon in Jacksonville:
434 total yards
8.3 yards per play
8/11 on third down
4 red-zone TDs on 6 trips
0 turnovers
2 penalties
1 punt

The #Browns win 35-7 in Jacksonville to open the Nick Mansour era. QB Shedeur Sanders completed 20 of his 24 throws for 275 yards, two scores and no interceptions. Cleveland punted once.

Shedeur Sanders today: 83.3 completion percentage, 142.2 passer rating. Both lead the NFL after Week 1. He threw 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in 2025, and his QBR that year ranked fifth-worst of the 696 qualifying seasons on record.

Browns +9.5 was 71% of the money against 34% of the tickets by kickoff, and normally that is where I tell you the sharps were right. The sharps were right. Total closed 40.5 and went over on a 42-point afternoon that contained one punt.

somebody in this comment section had jaguars-money line-alt spread-first td scorer and needed jacksonville to cover a number they never got within eleven points of. tell me. i want to read it out loud

🚨 CLEVELAND 35, JACKSONVILLE 7 · The Browns were 3-14 last season. They fired their head coach and their general manager in January and replaced both with one person, a film analyst from YouTube. They traded two starters in the last two weeks. They won their opener by four touchdowns on the road.

We've got to execute better.

they was talking all week. all week. i heard every bit of it

#Browns 35, #Jaguars 7: How Cleveland won its opener by four touchdowns on the road, what Shedeur Sanders did on third down, and the two fourth-down calls Nick Mansour took on himself before he was asked: --->

What the #Browns third-down day says about Travis Switzer's first game calling an NFL offense, and why Nick Mansour named him four times in eleven minutes:

ICYMI: How #Browns Nick Mansour explained the two fourth downs, the one he will not discuss, and who ended up with the game ball somebody put in his hands in the tunnel: --->

This is a Jacksonville story. They were 13-4 with a schedule that fell apart under them, the market had them at 8.5 wins in May, they lost Etienne and Lloyd in the spring, and today they were flat in their own opener in the heat. Cleveland was the other team on the field.

I refuse to say our defence quit, because I do not believe it did. I think we got the ball twice in the third quarter and both drives lasted four plays and the offense put them back out there in 101 degrees until there was nothing left. That happens and it is nobody's character.

I played eight years and I have friends who have been position coaches for two decades and are still position coaches. Today does not make me angry at that kid. It makes me angry at the twenty nine other buildings that keep telling my friends they are not ready.

i have now learned that the coach is 28, that he was on youtube, that he cut a quarterback and said something about him at a press conference, that he traded two good players to teams in his own division two weeks ago, and that he lost his headset. i have learned all of this since two o'clock this afternoon. this is the best sport

TO GOD BE THE GLORY. That's all. I ain't saying nothing else tonight, I'm just a proud daddy sitting in a chair watching a TV like the rest of y'all.

20 of 24. 275. two touchdowns. no picks. top of the entire league in completion percentage, top of it in passer rating. and the timeline's response is to explain to me what average depth of target is, which is a thing they learned in April 2025 and have not stopped saying since

he was sacked four times and three of them were on him. he held it, he drifted, he took a grounding. that is what was wrong with him last year and it was still there today in a game he won by 28. you are allowed to say a quarterback played well and still has the same problem

the funniest part of tonight is watching people who have spent two years saying he can't process a defense do a full standing broad jump to average depth of target inside of four hours

YES, SIR! I have been telling you since May that Shedeur Sanders is a rhythm-and-timing quarterback who will look like a Pro Bowler in a clean pocket and like a rookie the second it moves. Today was the cleanest pocket he will see all year, against a defense that quit, and he was very good in it. THAT IS ALL TODAY WAS. Ask me again in Tampa. Just makes you wonder.

Tomorrow morning on my SiriusXM show I'm addressing what was said about me on that panel Friday. And make no mistake…..,I am not letting it go. Some of y'all have been waiting a long time for me to be quiet. Keep waiting!

The man who stood at a podium in January and used the actual word about a quarterback his own team was paying, and cost his own team an amount of money I have read four times and still cannot make sense of, went into Jacksonville today and won by 28 points. I do not follow this sport and I have thought about that press conference more than about anything else this year.

I have watched four football games in my life and three of them were the Super Bowl and I have now watched twenty two minutes of Cleveland Browns highlights on my phone in a parking garage. #Browns

Quick one before the coaches copy: Jacksonville played single-high on 61% of Cleveland's snaps and Cleveland threw at the middle of the field eleven times. Every explosive came from the same look. Someone will fix that by Tampa and it will not be Cleveland's problem to fix.

fannin three touchdowns on four catches and forty eight yards is the single most annoying stat line in fantasy football and i want everyone who started him to know i had him on my bench

Concepcion agenda

i simmed this game friday and got jacksonville 27-13 so i want to formally announce that i am retiring from prediction content and moving into the reaction space where nobody can check anything

my dad texted me at 4:11 to say the browns won by 28 and then at 4:12 to say he is not getting his hopes up and then at 9:50 to ask if i had seen the headset video. he has seen the headset video

From @GMFB: What the #Browns did in Jacksonville, why the #Steelers are already answering questions about the Denzel Ward trade after a 30-3 loss at home, and the #Giants at 0-1 with Jerry Jeudy in the huddle.

Spoke to three people who were in that stadium yesterday. Same word from all of them, unprompted -- organized. Nobody said young. Nobody said gimmick. Organized, w/ a rookie center, in 101 degrees, on the road, in the opener. That is a hard thing to be. Whatever you make of the rest of it.

Went through the offensive tape this morning. The thing that is going to get underrated is that Cleveland ran nine different personnel groupings and Jacksonville never got a substitution advantage once, in a road opener, in that heat, with a center who was in Tuscaloosa in December. That is an operations achievement before it is a football one.

Browns-Jaguars film notes

Concepcion is not a gadget. He ran a full route tree from three alignments and won at the release on the 55 against press with outside leverage - that is a real receiver thing, not a scheme thing.

Iheanachor vs Hines-Allen was the quietest thing on the tape and the most impressive. Nine true pass sets, no pressures allowed that I charted.

Interior is a problem. Johnson got moved twice in the run game and beaten once in protection.

Hard to know how much of this survives a good front.

Delpit playing the big slot in that overhang role is the version of him people were arguing about in 2021 and nobody ever built for. Put him near the line of scrimmage, let him come downhill, and stop asking him to carry a deep third

3 things I loved from Sanders yesterday & none of them are the completion %! 1) He threw 5 balls to the 2nd read on time. FIVE! That was the entire question! 2) He took what the coverage gave & didn't try to prove anything! 3) On the 55 he held the middle safety with his eyes for a full beat before he came off it. That is a TAUGHT thing, & somebody taught it to him this summer!

Went back through it
Better than I expected
Pocket is still the ?
3 of the 4 sacks he owns

I had the Cleveland #Browns 29th in my Deep Dive Rankings and I said on that video that the Offense would struggle to reach seventeen points against a Top 10 Defense... They put up 35 on one... I was working off a Roster that had two different Starters on it when I recorded, which is on me for recording early and not on any of you who called it out. Thank you to everybody who did. That doesn't move them out of the twenties for me though.

I have absolutely never seen a rookie center run to the second level like Parker Brailsford did on the Judkins 30 and I do not want anybody reading that as me saying he can anchor, because he cannot yet, I am saying that on that one play he is the second guy there and he is not supposed to be

Browns Week 1 video goes up tomorrow, it is absolutely the longest Week 1 one I have made, and most of it is about two guys on the offensive line, which I am aware is not what anybody wants the day after a 28 point win

Steelers fans, calmly. We lost to Atlanta by 27 and Denzel Ward was the one part of that afternoon that did the job we paid him to do. The rest of that roster is what we did not pay for and that is a separate conversation that we are going to have all year.

i want to be normal about the fact that pittsburgh lost 30 to 3 at home with our corner on their team while we won by 28 with their two first round picks in a drawer but i have decided not to be

AFC NORTH STANDINGS
1. Cleveland 1-0
1. Cincinnati 1-0
3. Baltimore 0-1
4. Pittsburgh 0-1 (owes Cleveland its 2027 and 2028 first-round picks)

long season

🚨 Jerry Jeudy posts two words the day after his former team wins by 28 with the receivers they drafted instead of him.

Bo Nix in Denver's 21-20 loss to Kansas City: 466 passing yards, 3 touchdowns, 4 interceptions.

Week 1 leaders in passer rating
1. Shedeur Sanders, Cleveland

Week 1 leaders in completion percentage
1. Shedeur Sanders, Cleveland

Week 1 leaders in interceptions thrown
1. Bo Nix, Denver

christian gonzalez had three interceptions yesterday and it is the fourth biggest story of the weekend behind a coach losing a headset, a quarterback throwing four picks for 466 yards, and whatever new orleans did to detroit

Thirty one years. Two Combines a year, every regional, every pro day, sleeping in a Fairfield Inn in Ruston Louisiana on a Tuesday in March. I have interviewed for four jobs I did not get and I am not bitter about any of them. But I would like somebody to explain to me, in football terms, without saying the word disruptor, what happened yesterday. Because I watched it and I do not have it yet.

ONE AND OH. Say it with me. Four touchdown road win. Three touchdown tight end. A rookie receiver with 119. And a head coach who wanted it more than they did. Tampa is next and we are coming. #Browns #DawgPound #Cleveland #NFL

the standings post is funnier than the actual joke and i will not be taking that back

Mansour tomorrow at 12:05, not 11. Switzer and Rutenberg Thursday #Browns

#Browns Nick Mansour on the headset, on why he was forty yards up the sideline in the first place, and on the equipment staffer who put it back on him the wrong way around: --->

one game is one game, and the people saying it to calm you down and the people saying it to shut you up have been using the exact same five words since about four o'clock yesterday

One game is one game. Said it before kickoff. Saying it now.

A restaurant that gives you one napkin has made a decision about you

My sister asked me tonight whether I was going to start watching again and I told her I would think about it.

back on the roof at 6 tomorrow and i have watched the headset thing maybe forty times. thats the whole post. goodnight