Dawg Pound Daily staff picks: Week 10
Week 10 arrives tonight as the NFL season is in full swing!
Division races are becoming clearer each week as the good teams are separating themselves from the pack. The Carolina Panthers, New England Patriots and Cincinnati Bengals all remain unbeaten standing tall, at 8-0 and are well on their way to a playoff berth. Meanwhile the likes of the Detroit Lions, Tennessee Titans, San Diego Chargers and Dallas Cowboys sit at the bottom of their divisions and are looking forward to season’s end.
And then we have our beloved Cleveland Browns, sitting at 2-7 and in the midst of another awful season. A sight too familiar to Browns fans year in and year out it’s becoming … wait …
This is the staff picks section, right?
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Sorry, got off track, the picks section is neither the time nor place for that!
The Dawg Pound Daily staff was a combined 59-45 last week in their picking of the Week 9 match-ups. Overall for the season, the staff has turned in a combined record of 250-190. Not too shabby for a bunch of rogue Cleveland Browns reporters!
So without further ado, on to the Week 10 picks and our bold Browns prediction!
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55. Josh McCown! Landry Jones! The reason that NFL Sunday Ticket was invented! Steelers 31, Browns 10. (36-19). Previous: 1st. Thomas Moore. 1. team
team. 55. The Browns just aren’t good enough. Even against Landry Jones, the Browns stand zero chance against a competent team like the Steelers. Steelers 34, Browns 20. (33-22). Previous: 4th. Steven Kubitza. 2
Brandon Lambert. t-3. team. 55. Johnny Manziel probably starts again, and he’ll progress a bit. It won’t be enough. From my perspective the players on the Browns have given up on the season. The Steelers are without two of their three best players and it doesn’t matter one bit. I honestly don’t see the Browns winning again this season. Sadly, that’s probably best for the franchise at this point. There’s always next year. Steelers 20, Browns 17. (32-23). Previous: t-4th
55. This is set to be a real barn burner with it looking like Johnny Manziel vs. Landry Jones. If it were at home I’d be tempted to pick the Browns, but I think the Steelers edge them in a scrappy one. They don’t manage to stop DeAngelo Williams when they need to. Steelers 16, Browns 13. (32-23). Previous: t-2th. Murray Alexander. t-3. team
53. The Browns catch a break facing the Steelers with no Ben Roethlisberger or Le’veon Bell, so they have that going for them. Historically though, the Browns have been awful at ketchup field. Over the summer I took a trip to Pittsburgh and buried a Browns helmet on the Heinz Field grounds in an effort to break the bad luck in that god awful place. Look for the Browns to end their four-game skid courtesy of the buried helmet. Browns 20, Steelers 16. (31-24). Previous: t-2th. Giovanni Castelli. 5. team
6. team. 53. It’s about that time of the year where the Cleveland Browns fan base has given up on this season. This is also the time where the team decides to start winning meaningless games that only lower the draft position. It happens every year, and with no Big Ben for Pittsburgh, the defense steps up and the quarterback (whoever it may be) will put up enough points to earn a victory in this classic rivalry. Browns 23, Steelers 20. (30-25). Previous: t-6th. Matthew Stevenson
Roger Cohen. 7. team. 55. As much as head coach Mike Pettine should hand the reins over to Johnny Manziel for the rest of the season – and as big a mistake it remains not pulling Josh McCown against the Cardinals – the Browns have a better chance in Heinz Field with a <i>healthy </i>McCown since I don’t see this game slowing down enough for Johnny to hang in. Despite no likely Big Ben and the Steelers down to their third-string runners, I’m much more worried about the Browns defense. If wide receiver Antonio Brown could hang 284 yards catching passes against the Raiders, how much will he torch a banged up, insecure Joe Haden? Or worse, the tentative trio of Piere Desir, Tramon Williams and Justin Gilbert? Landry Jones connects on two bombs to Brown, the Browns chip in a short-field turnover touchdown and the McCown or Johnny-led Browns scratch out a couple of field goals and one garbage time touchdown. Steelers 24, Browns 13. (29-26). Previous: t-6th
8. team. 55. The Browns haven’t won at Heinz Field since 2003 and things won’t change <span class=. (27-28). Previous: 8th. Eric Szczepinski