00:00we've got thursday night football coming your way pretty good afc north battle i did not have
00:07on the bingo card that a two and one uh browns team here battling for the top spot in the
00:14afc
00:14north even in week four uh would be even remotely close to what is going on here but that's it
00:21a
00:21win here tonight all of a sudden you've got a brown sitting at three and one which makes this
00:27extremely interesting now it hasn't always been pretty uh but when you don't turn the ball over
00:33and you play good defense well good things have happened here for the browns and it feels like
00:40that's what coach munkin is is pretty much preaching here at this point listen guys we're not going to
00:47be a team that prolific that scores 40 point we're not detroit right we're not we're a team that needs
00:53to play great defense we need to control time but we need not to shoot ourselves in the foot
00:58uh and give ourselves a chance to win and so far so good uh you know with an opportunity i
01:05mean this
01:05is far from an easy steelers win would you would you agree with that craig yeah look i i think
01:13this
01:13is a tough matchup because you you really don't know what you got last week you're sort of seeing
01:19the browns at their highest you saw the steelers last week at their highest in terms of offensively
01:24and you know that's not going to be the steelers all season long uh pittsburgh just was in this
01:28money spot last week of somehow getting three and i mean think about the swing in the line here joe
01:34they were getting three and a half points at home against cincinnati and then the team that just won
01:40two in a row they're a favorite on the road it it's it just shows you the reaction in the
01:45nfl like
01:45this this to me does lean a little toward cleveland it does feel like it should be a pick them
01:51or maybe
01:51stealers uh minus one i i i think everyone's a little too high after seeing pittsburgh do what
01:57they did uh to cincinnati last week but the variables in this joe it's just it's just so
02:03difficult to call because of in particular you mentioned at the quarterback play like like how
02:08how could watson look so bad in week one like it's the end and then play so well in weeks
02:16two
02:16in week three like we were trying to justify maybe the browns just wanted to lose every game and and
02:20pay watson back for not playing all this time and now it seems like the coaching staff generally
02:25thought that watson would get better and the truth is he is he looks way better a couple of weeks
02:30than
02:30he has and and this comes with the cleveland not even running the ball that much and not even a
02:34lot
02:34wide receivers here's the truth the truth is joe is that both teams have great defenses uh wad is
02:41the best player on the field on defense cleveland has probably the best one of the best defenses in
02:46the afc it seems like they are in every game because of that this is going on two years and
02:51it seems like
02:51that they didn't even really miss anything with miles garrett being out so i even woke up today
02:56thinking okay 37 probably under and then i thought to myself you know what watson's playing well
03:01steelers starting to score some points maybe that's not even the way to go i i gotta tell you
03:06i'm just confused with this game the only thing that i like tonight is i i think pittsburgh for
03:12whatever reason forgot that their most valuable player on their offense is jalen warren all the
03:17games that they won last season were because jalen warren went off and then finally they went back
03:22to that against cincinnati and he crushed it and i think i don't know if he's going to crush it
03:27but i
03:27think they're going to go after that again tonight joe i think warren is going to get a lot of
03:31carries potentially get a lot of yards uh their backup quarter the backup running back right now
03:35of course is out so it's just him and there's no one else so that is the only prop that
03:41i like
03:41tonight i like everything on jalen warren to have a really big game for uh for pittsburgh in fact
03:47i really like the receiving yards over 25 and a half i think he's going to get a lot right
03:52out of
03:52the backfield too because cleveland's past defense has been like impenetrable you just can't throw on
03:58cleveland too so give me over on his receiving yards give me over last week we did it on cook
04:04or two weeks ago on the attempts give me over on the attempts also uh rushing attempts so over 25
04:10and a half receiving yards over on the attempts rushing yards i'm not so sure because it could be
04:13joe 22 carries 71 yards that's in the cards that's possible cleveland's defense is good
04:19but big big attempts tonight i think for warren on pittsburgh yeah they have to run the ball uh if
04:27they don't run the ball craig it's uh it's not gonna be uh fun they're gonna lose uh exactly
04:32correct yeah that's why and which is uh part of the reason why i took aaron rogers under 20 and
04:38a half
04:39completions here tonight uh if the weather comes out the wind continues to go up i think they are
04:45going to be all about owning time of possession and the uh the trenches and that's a big if though
04:53uh because we only saw it last week uh happen there for pittsburgh and we're gonna have to see it
04:59again
04:59here on the road short week i mean there is some familiarity obviously being within the same division
05:05but you know two new coaches now two new coaching staffs uh here so i'm gonna be very interested because
05:13this is a true test right short week now okay let's see what you've got obviously favors the
05:20home team here a little bit but it's amazing great because i haven't seen the line move a whole lot
05:25one
05:25way or the other it just feels like the total has been really more of the focus in the markets
05:32than the side here two and a half is the sharps are buying the two and a half if you
05:39get three they're
05:39buying it back down to two and a half
05:41you
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