Why Jake Browning Is in Another Fade Spot vs. Lions

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00:00Over the last couple of years, I thought Browning was actually a serviceable backup,

00:04but he's been kind of put into this ridiculous spot of you got no offensive line,

00:10you can't run the ball, and now you're going to ask him to drop back and throw.

00:13How many times, Tom?

00:14What are we going to get this week from Browning?

00:17I would hope that it's better than what we saw over the past two weeks.

00:20And like you said, over the past few years, I actually thought he was like at least halfway decent.

00:24Like you could actually go out there and put up some yards.

00:26You may not be in a spot to win games with him on a consistent basis,

00:30but he could give you 252, maybe he throws a pick or whatever.

00:33That's what I thought we were going to be getting from him.

00:35This year, I'm not really sure.

00:37So I like him under 33.5 passing attempts, and it really has to do more so about the Lions on the other side.

00:44They're going to be out in front, and also the Lions, they're running the ball at nearly 45% of the time.

00:51And with the running backs that I have with Gibbs and Montgomery, they're just going to be bleeding the clock.

00:54So as soon as they get up, you're going to need, what, 34 pass attempts from Browning to get over

00:59if they have a 60, 65 pass play percentage in that game, they're still going to be having 20-some-odd runs.

01:05You're expecting the offense to run nearly 60 plays, and they're going to be turning the ball into Browning's hands.

01:09I just don't see that happening.

01:10The Lions are eventually going to be up by 10 or 14 points, and they're going to bleed the clock out in this game.

01:16And it doesn't matter how bad Browning is.

01:17I just don't think he'll have the attempts.