What CST Thinks about the Browns and the NFL in 2019 (a day late)

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2019 NFL Season Outlook

Browns Record: 12-4
Season finish: First place in division, lose in AFC Championship
Super Bowl Prediction: Saints over Patriots

Baker, Myles, Odell, and this new era of Browns football does not disappoint, as the team builds on the giant strides in 2018 with an MVP season from Mayfield and defensive highlights all season long. The bandwagon gets so full it's nearly tipping over.

Browns Record: 9-7
Season finish: 2nd place in division, no playoffs
Super Bowl Prediction: Saints over Patriots

Browns Record: 10-6
Season finish: 1st in division, lose in AFC Wild Card
Super Bowl Prediction: Saints over Patriots

Insane fan expectations are met, sort of. These new Browns are not SuperBowl ready, but a playoff appearance is a good first step after years of misery.

Browns Record: 9-7
Season finish: Tied for 2nd place in division, lose in AFC Wild Card
Super Bowl Prediction: Cowboys over Stillers

We won't we be able to stop the fun, or the run, this season.

Browns Record: 7-9
Season finish: 3rd in AFC North, no playoffs
Super Bowl Prediction: Patriots over Saints

I want it just as bad as you do, but am not a believer...yet.

Browns Record: 10-6
Season finish: 1st in divison, loss in divisional round
Super Bowl Prediction: Patriots over Saints


It's happened. I've bought in. Check on me in December.

Browns Record: 16-0
Season finish: CHAMPIONS
Super Bowl Prediction: Browns over anybody that moooooves

Bookend playoff wins over the Patriots, 25 years apart. One with Belichick as our coach, the other against him.







SPECIAL GUEST PICK: 

Mike from New Jersey:

Browns Record: 10-6
Season Finish: Win the AFC North, lose a close game in first playoff game
Super Bowl Prediction: Saints over Patriots

What CST thinks about Browns-Titans Week One 2019

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Tenessee Titans at Cleveland Browns 

September 8, 2019

Browns 27, Titans 10

Baker Mayfield picks up where he left off, but the stars of the show aren't OBJ and Baker, it's the D-Line and Nick Chubb who impose their will on the Tennessee Titans.

Browns 21, Titans 17

Offense jumps out to a lead and the defense hangs on for the win.

Browns 16, Titans 13

A slow start has Cleveland fans lined up on the 480 bridge, but unlikely hero Austin Siebert gives the Browns a rare Opening Day win.

 

Browns win.

I'm drunk.

Browns 17, Titans 16

22 years ago, I pumped a handful of quarters into the jukebox at the Panini's on Tenth Avenue in Columbus. Titans HC Mike Vrabel unplugged said jukebox when he didn't like my song selection.

This afternoon, Jon Bon Jovi and I get our revenge.

No pick this week.

Browns 28, Titans 17

I once vowed to never pick the Browns on kickoff Sunday ever again, but the times are changin' and I've decided to practice the Power of Positivity.

Browns 63, Titans 4

Baker and the offense won't hit their stride for a few weeks.








Special Guest Pickers:




Mike from North Jersey:
Browns 24, Titans 7

The Cleveland home crowd, hype, and defense are just too much for the Titans to handle.






Nate from Chicago:
Browns 31, Titans 10

Big plays early on O and D. Mariota running for his life in the second half. Browns jump out early 14-0. They won't be rusty because of the Freddie Kitchens training camp intensity.

Jake from Chicago (President of the Chi-Town Dawg Pound):
Browns 35, Titans 17

Barleycorn on Clark is rocking, and so is all of Cleveland.

Don't boo Kyrie Irving, at least not tonight

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Kyrie Irving--perhaps the best pound-for-pound finisher in the NBA, the #1 pick that lived up to it, the signer-of-long-term-Cleveland-deals-before-it-was-cool, the name on the back of my kid's jersey, and most of all, the man who hit the biggest shot in Cavaliers NBA history--returns to Cleveland tonight.

Yes, he has his quirks. He may not believe in a spherical planet underneath his feet, he may not be interested in playing on a team certain to contend for the NBA Title again, he wants to be more famous than the best player on the planet. This summer his apparent dislike for LeBron James led to him asking for, and receiving, a trade, to the number one Eastern Conference threat, the Boston Celtics. And whoo, boy, Cavs fans don't know how to react when they tip off the season tonight.

Does he get the full Albert Belle/LeBron James White Sox/Heat treatment? I should hope not. I would hope that forever, Kyrie Irving is loved--or at least remembered fondly--by Cavs fans. Shoot, I'd buy him a drink if I saw him, from now until eternity because of 2016. But of course, there are fans who want to curse his name.

Please don't.

Please remember this. And say "Thanks, Kyrie."

And this.

And this.

And this.

And this.

Cheer appreciatively, then root your ass off against the Celtics. The trade they had to make to land Kyrie may have hurt their team as much as it helped them, and to be honest, may have done the same for the Cavs. Kyrie may be trying to drop little burns about a "real sports city", which makes no sense, but LeBron is also twisting the knife with his constant reference to Kyrie as "the kid."

If not for anything else, this should be an entertaining game. If LeBron is in, it will be fire. If LeBron misses the game because of his ankle, hey, the Cavs with DWade and DRose need to see what they can do.

What CST Thinks about Bengals-Browns today

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                                              Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns

October 1, 2017

Bengals 29, Browns 17

I thought the Browns defense would lead the team to a few victories this year. I thought Myles Garrett and Jamie Collins would help that happen.

No pick today.

Browns 21, Bengals 17

This is the time of the Browns season when I start thinking about what else I could be doing on Sundays. After last week's "Fool me once" pick, though,  I play the fool once more in believing the Browns can scratch out a victory against the winless Bengals. An 0-4 start against this portion of the schedule would truly crank up the draft talk, "Fire Hue!" calls, and other Browns-related tedium that returns every year to Berea like the swallows to Capistrano. Meanwhile, I'll turn my eyes to the two actual, factual championship-level teams we have in this town.

Bengals 38, Browns 6

The Juice is loose as of 12:01 this morning, Vegas time. Can he catch? Could he be any worse than our current WRs?

Bengals 31, Browns 24

The Browns shall not ruin my giddiness of getting D. Wade this week. He's not the addition he would've been five years ago, but a move that's being undersold by the pundits and local fans. Very ironic that C-Town is now home to two out of three most evil Big 3.

 

Browns 34, Bengals 7

I'm giving Brian a run for CST's Biggest Homer.

Bengals 31, Browns 24

Don't think the Browns have the talent to get it done today.

What CST Thinks About Browns-Colts today

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                                              Cleveland Browns at Indianapolis Colts

September 24, 2017

Colts 21, Browns 17

The Browns are favored on the road! Which means a letdown. The focus of this weeks' games, of course will be on how the players respond to the President's social media assault on them all weekend (and morning) long.

Colts 24, Browns 10

Offense has trouble all day. Not that the Colts defense is that good, it's just the Browns offense is that bad. It's going to be a long season. 

Browns 17, Colts 13

While our Glorious Grand Poobah word vomits about NFL TV ratings and conveniently ignores the right of peaceful protest, the Browns follow Vegas's lead and take the duke in their battle against the Luck-less Colts. This may be a heart-over-head pick, as this is just the type of letdown game the New Browns are known for. But I'm feeling frisky today, dammit.

Browns 12, Colts 11

Woke up in a world where Clevelanders are supporting Steph Curry, longtime conservative stalwart Jimmy Haslam denounced Trump's rhetoric, and the Browns are road favorites. 

Browns 7, Colts 0

Browns score first and Deshone Kizer holds onto the ball a record 54:30 to secure Cleveland's first victory.

 

Browns 20 Colts 10

This is a must-win for the fanbase to not jump ship. Lose today and one -or two-win season seems inevitable. Win today and look to continue the "get better every week" narrative.

No pick this week

I'm protesting this shit too.