Pressure is on the Browns to win in Week 2
After Week 1’s disaster the Cleveland Browns are under a ton of pressure to defeat the New York Jets on Monday Night Football.
Yes, this sounds ridiculous especially considering the latest developments with Sam Darnold and various other Jets. That being said the pressure is on the Cleveland Browns to win in Week 2.
Sam Darnold is out for the Jets, Le’Veon Bell may not play, Quinnen Williams is dealing with an ankle injury and C.J. Mosley did not practice. New York looks like they will be down some important players on Monday. In theory this takes pressure off the Browns to win. The problem is, the exact opposite is true. Now there is more pressure to win than before.
The extra pressure is due to the fact that on paper the Browns should beat down the Jets. Cleveland was a better team before the injury updates and the talent gap is even larger now.
The fact of the matter is that the Browns cannot lose to an injury depleted Jets team. Considering the letdown that Week 1 was, they cannot drop to 0-2 against a team they have no business losing to. An argument can be made that they had no business losing to the Titans last week, but that no longer matters. The game is over and there is nothing that can be done about it.
A win on Monday does a few things.
- First off it revitalizes the team and gets them back in a winning mindset.
- Secondly it will take pressure off the team and the coaching staff.
- Finally it will allow some of the stink of Week 1’s performance to dissipate just a bit.
It feels like the Browns overlooked their opponent in Week 1 and got punched right in the mouth. What the Browns cannot do is overlook an opponent for a second straight week just because they will be missing some key players. If they do that they could be staring 0-2 right in the face and the talk from irrelevant individuals will only get louder.
