BL Predicts: Week 8 - Browns vs Bucs

Last week, Donte Whitner's game changing tackle forced a turnover and stopped an Oakland drive.   Entire season's can hinge on plays like that and we have to tip our hat to Whitner because he truly earned his pay and then some last week.   Oakland, in spite of their winless record, is a team with excellent talent, they just haven't put it together yet.

This week however, the Browns play a team that has holes everywhere.   Tampa run a 4-3 defense which is ideally suited to stopping zone blocking run offenses but the Bucs also don't have the same talent level as Oakland and Jacksonville.   I see the Browns being able to run the ball against Tampa.

For Cleveland more than any team in the NFL, our run game opens up the pass game.

The Brown Log see the last easy win of the season for the home team.

BL Predicts

Browns        27

Tampa Bay  13

The BL, for the first time in this blogs history, are below .500 for the season, with a 3-4 record predicting the winner of Browns games.   It simply gets a bit harder to foresee the winner when the Browns don't lose 80% of their games.