Browns vs. Ravens: Game time, live stream, TV coverage

Against a truly great defense that’s less important but overall against the Ravens, they’re much more vulnerable than in years past. The Ravens D/ST will be a mid-tier option in Week 5. The defense also has never been able to fluster Flacco, who is 13-1 against the Browns.

Cleveland’s offense hasn’t been the problem.

McCown has played two solid games in a row. “We’re a pretty confident group, like to play loose”. Here is how I feel the game will play out.

“It is about decision making, timing and accuracy”, offensive coordinator John DeFilippo said.

The Chargers sent out their base defense to counter that personnel grouping. Johnson has an obvious speed advantage in this matchup and burned the coverage for a touchdown. These players are the key to improving the Browns run defense. Brian Hartline is banged up, Barnidge should come back down to earth and the Ravens defense isn’t the San Diego Chargers. A third-round pick in 2014, Rodgers came from the same collegiate program as the quarterback who shares his surname, only he played under a couple of different coaching staffs at Cal and spent his final year there spread out wide in Sonny Dykes’ “Bear Raid” system. However, he engineered five response drives that ended in points after the Browns either tied the game or took a lead. But backups Lorenzo Taliaferro and Javorius Allen have seven between them.

Wide receiver Steve Smith (back), linebacker Albert McClellan (abdomen) and linebacker Daryl Smith (non-injury related) did not practice with the Ravens.

Right out of the pages of odd but True, Browns 36-year-old quarterback Josh McCown is about to play in Baltimore for the first time in his career.

Williams threw his support behind O’Neil, who’s had to deal with injuries to several starters. Last week in San Diego, they had an even better chance to return to.500. Pressuring Flacco is important and goes without saying. Which means the Browns would have had an opportunity to win the game in overtime.

“They’ve obviously had a lot of success the last couple years, I think that gives you confidence in those situations”, he said. Talent, especially at quarterback, does more to foster faith than anything but consistently posting victories. Shelton has played well against one blocker, and there’s no doubt the Ravens have seen that.

“That’s going to be pivotal this week, finding ways to get the guy on the ground No. 1 and then, just doing your job and that’s something that Coach (Jim) O’Neil’s done a good job of kind of harping home with us, just sticking to the basics, doing your job and being assignment sound”. “When he gets doubled, he has a tendency sometimes to get his pads up”. We’ve let these guys get out ahead of us a little bit.

His unit ranks last in the league in yards allowed, has given up big plays by the truckload and crumbled in crunch time. But I think DeFilippo is getting more creative and unpredictable. “He plays with such a physical style”.

McCown was knocked out with a concussion in Week 1 against the Jets and that left Johnny Manziel to start in Week 2. When he arrived in Cleveland via a waiver claim, Turbin talked about how that winning background would help in his transition to a new locker room. Since Flacco and Harbaugh became Ravens, Baltimore is 13-1 against the Browns, including 7-0 at M&T Bank Stadium.

Joe: The Browns must get more production from Randy Starks and Desmond Bryant.

It won’t be another offensive outburst for McCown and the Browns after lighting up the stat sheet over the last two weeks. “The person with the best view was the line judge who made the call on the field”. The end results haven’t been good, but the Browns have been competitive. “We’re in man, we’re in zone, they’re passing the ball, they’re running the ball”. If not, how far down will the Browns sink in 2015?