Winning on the road is hard in the NFL, the home team wins 56% of the time in the NFL. Fans and pundits are almost universally aligned in predicting a Browns win this week and that the Colts, because Gardner Minshew is at QB, are beatable.
Wrong. While I like Anthony Richardson, think he will be a goo QB and am sorry to see him out for the season, I also think facing a rookie QB would have been a bounty for the Browns defense. Minshew on the other hand, might be a journeyman, has been around the block enough to know when to take a risk and when to fold. Furthermore the Colts have a good run game and plenty of young, fast and talented defenders.
This is a trap game and I think the Browns are the prey. Deshaun Watson might well be back, but unless the Browns can run the ball and get a long overdue big game from their $15,000,000 Tight End, I see this game tilting to the Colts.
Watson is likely to be rusty yet again and Njoku rarely produces a Travis Kelce like output, in spite of his similar salary. I think Watson will be his old self at some point this season, but not after 3 weeks off and I think Njoku will eventually put up some numbers, maybe today but it won't be enough today.
The Brown BLog Predicts:
Colts 26
Browns 13
The BL are 2-3 this season prognosticating Browns games.
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