However, McCown’s status for Week 9 remains unclear, which could clear the way for Johnny Manziel to make his second start of the year and third overall in his career.
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According to ESPN’s Adam Caplan, Manziel will be getting the starting nod as Josh McCown has yet to heal from a shoulder and rib injury.
“On the short week, we realized that Josh just wasn’t going to be able to get to the point where he could go”, Browns coach Mike Pettine said in a news release.
This stretch of warm, dry weather will be favorable for people to get a few yard work done to prepare their homes for the upcoming winter weather. Thursday meeting will be the second year in a row the Browns and Bengals will face off in Cincinnati on the first Thursday night in November.
The Browns will be motivated for sure against their state rival and I would have been more optimistic if McCown had been at the helm as they did prove themselves a competitive force against Denver a couple of starts ago when they took Peyton Manning and company to overtime.
Johnny Manziel is expected to start for the Cleveland Browns on Thursday.
The game also marked the return of Steelers’ superstar quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, but he was a little bit rusty, going 28-of-45 for 262 yards, one touchdown, three interceptions, and three sacks. He’s hoping to play on Thursday night in Cincinnati against the undefeated Bengals, but it might be time for the 36-year-old to take a deserved break.
McCown said he was in more pain than during the game and that his ribs – likely broken, but he and Pettine won’t say – won’t be healed until the offseason.
Manziel’s only start this season came in Week 2 with McCown sidelined by a concussion.
Manziel does have experience playing against the Bengals, but not on a short week.
As for his first-round picks, Farmer said players develop in different ways.
“I just think he has a really good understanding of what we’re doing, understands the plays, what’s designed for what”.
With such a definitive hold on the division as the season enters the halfway point, there’s already been talk of whether or not this pack of Bengals can roar into the postseason.
Ray Farmer has only been in Cleveland since 2013 and wasn’t named general manager until 2014, so it’s not entirely his fault, but the lack of talent on the team has plenty to do with poor drafting. I guarantee that if you ask a lot of these guys, that they would feel that they could beat that team.
I got so excited about Burfict’s early impact that now every time I type “Burfict” on my phone, it is autocorrected to caps lock. One man took it one step further.
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“We struggled and didn’t play very well”, said Lewis of last year’s loss to Cleveland.
