The Cleveland Browns are the NFL’s top Over wager in the early stages of the season, taking a 6-0 Over/Under record into St. Louis to face the Rams Sunday afternoon.
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Former Georgia star Todd Gurley scored the first two touchdowns of his National Football League career Sunday, leading St. Louis past Cleveland.
McCown was replaced late in the fourth quarter with the Browns trailing by multiple touchdowns. Tate suffered an injury and proved to be a problem in the running backs room, so he was ultimately released and West and Crowell experienced success as a rookie tandem until Alex Mack suffered a season ending injury.
-RB Tre Mason, the team’s starter for the first four games, was deactivated Sunday. Cleveland Browns rank at 3 for 323.7 road passing yards where as St. Louis Rams rank at 9 for allowing 208.0 passing yards at home.
McCown was downcast because of the injury, but also because of the way the Browns played.
“We just made way too many mistakes on offense to expect to be good against a good defense like that”, Thomas said.
Gurley secured his side’s victory in the fourth quarter as he collected a pitch from Nick Foles and found space over the right side of the line to raid into the endzone for the 16-yard score. The Browns, after nearly stealing a win against the undefeated Denver Broncos last week, were the definition of pathetic in their 24-6 dud in St. Louis.
“If Josh goes out, I’ll be able to step in and try to make something happen”, he said.
Instead, the Browns fell to 2-4 only to make that 2-5 after a visually disturbing loss to the Rams. On his first carry of the third quarter, Gurley galloped 48 yards to the Cleveland 22-yard line to place the Rams in field goal range, though Zuerlein missed the 35-yarder. Cleveland was penalized 11 times for 97 yards, including four times on a single second half drive.
The highlight of the first half, as it has been all season long, is this dominant Rams defense.
“It’s not all me”, he said. That’s it. They’ve been outscored 40-6 in those four games after one quarter.
St. Louis is 2-3 on the year and 2-3 against the spread, while Cleveland is 2-4 straight up but a profitable 4-2 at the betting window. Duke Johnson led in rushing with 38 yards in nine carries.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the National Football League has closed registration for Tuesday night’s scheduled public hearing on the matter at St. Louis’ Peabody Opera House.
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If only the run defense could play as well on first and second down. The result of the play was a concussion that sidelined Josh for two games, offering Manziel the opportunity to play. He had 305 yards on 49 carries in his past two games, though he has yet to get in the end zone. “You’re gaining a few momentum and all of a sudden it’s coming back and not only is it coming back, but it’s coming back 10 yards even further behind”, Turbin said. The former Heisman Trophy victor was questioned by Avon, Ohio, police last week after Manziel got into an argument with his girlfriend, Colleen Crowley.
