Ravens' Unexpected Loss to Browns Highlights Week 8 Upsets

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00:00All right. So the Ravens D let things up a little bit yesterday, which was surprising

00:07against the Cleveland Browns. James Winston steps in, he throws for over 300 yards, hits

00:12Tillman with a touchdown late. Not as much Derrick Henry as we're used to seeing, but

00:18good teams, bad teams, Adam, it doesn't seem to matter. There's always that disappointing

00:21game on the schedule and this is probably Baltimore's.

00:26I would love to say that, except how many times have we said that about Baltimore this

00:31year? I recognize the Ravens are out to a five and three start and they're right in

00:34the thick of everything, but consider their schedule, right? I mean, in the beginning

00:39of the season, very nearly stole that game against the Chiefs. So fine. But then they

00:44give one up late against the Raiders who we know are not good. They allowed the Cowboys

00:49to come back from down double digits in the fourth quarter to only beat them by three

00:54points. Ultimately the bangles, that was a back and forth affair. Nothing easy about

00:59it. Kind of the same thing with the Buccaneers last time out. And so I don't know, it sort

01:04of, it feels like there's something that's a little bit fraudulent about the Ravens.

01:08I'm not sure that, that if, you know, if I was looking to place a futures bet right now

01:13on, on who's going to win the super bowl, those odds would have to be longer for me

01:18to really be attracted to the Ravens. Despite all the offensive weapons Lamar and what he's

01:24capable of doing, Derrick Henry is having an other worldly season. They've got, you

01:29know, great, you know, Zay flowers, you know, he bounced back in a big way this week. They

01:34they've got a lot of talent, obviously, but there's just something, and maybe it's the

01:37defense, but there's something about that team that I just can't trust in, in really

01:43big, important games. And I'm not saying that yesterday's game was a really big, important

01:47one, but as we like to say in the gambling space, it smelled, didn't it? Like there's

01:51a reason that everybody was on the Browns at plus nine, nine and a half earlier in the

01:58week, even as it came down closer to kickoff. Like I just kept, you know, I was pulling

02:02a Cam Stewart. I just kept reinvesting. I'm doubling down, doubling down on the Browns

02:07as we got closer to that game starting because you know, the, the Jameis Winston narrative

02:12and coming in, you knew that he was going to be exponentially better than Deshaun Watson,

02:17even with no Amari Cooper anymore, it was only a question of how much better now that

02:22I think the Browns were going to go out and win that game. I didn't, I figured it was

02:25going to look a lot like some of these really close, narrow, not cover the spread wins for

02:30Baltimore that we've seen so many times already. But am I shocked that Winston and the Browns

02:35went out and won? I'm not because it just sort of felt like one of those weird days

02:40where, and there was a lot of it in the NFL yesterday. I'm sure you've been talking about

02:44it all. So a lot of weird finishes, a lot of weird games across the league and, and

02:49this shaped up as being one of them going in. And so the fact that the Browns were just

02:54the latest dog to not only cover, but win outright is not surprising. I only wish that

02:59Jameis Winston didn't screw up the, you know, lose yourself Eminem lyrics after the game

03:03post game interview.