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BROWNS NAME ROBERT GRIFFIN III THE STARTER FOR WEEK ONE

Robert Griffin III will try to be the answer at QB for this season

CLEVELAND, OHIO -- For the second season in a row, Robert Griffin III is the man selected to lead the Browns out of the tunnel for the start of the 2017-18 season. The Browns first game is on the road in Detroit to face off against Matthew Stafford and the Lions.

"We really believe in Robert, he's done this before and we think that Cody [Kessler] needs some time for the game to slow down, he was fantastic but a bit jumpy in the preseason." Coach Jackson said on the subject

According to locker room sources, Jackson has also been clear that this job is not permanent, and that the three QBs should treat this as an audition. Now that RG3's won the job, we shall see if he can latch on as a starter anywhere else if he does well this season.



In an other minor bit of news, the Cleveland Browns chose to solve their secondary issues or at least make an attempt at it, by trading Sean Richardson, who requested a trade after being notified that he would not be starting this season barring injury, and a future 3rd round pick to the Minnesota Vikings for SS Micah Hyde, who was traded to the Vikings by the Packers who were tooling up for their eventual Super Bowl win.

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CLEVELAND BROWNS 2017-18 SEASON SCHEDULE


Week 1, Sun 4:15 PM @ Lions
Week 2, Sun 1:00 PM vs Packers
Week 3, Sun 4:05 PM vs Texans
Week 4, Sun 1:00 PM vs Dolphins
Week 5, Sun 1:00 PM @ Jaguars
Week 6, Sun 1:00 PM @ Colts
Week 7, Sun 4:05 PM @ Bears
Week 8, BYE WEEK BYE WEEK BYE WEEK
Week 9, Sun 1:00 PM vs Titans
Week 10, Sun 1:00 PM @ Steelers
Week 11, Sun 1:00 PM @ Ravens
Week 12, Sun 4:15 PM @ Chargers
Week 13, Sun 1:00 PM vs Ravens
Week 14, Sun 1:00 PM @ Bengals
Week 15, Sun 1:00 PM vs Steelers
Week 16, Sun 1:00 PM vs Vikings
Week 17, Sun 1:00 PM vs Bengals




CLEVELAND BROWNS OFFICIAL DEPTH CHART

Cleveland Browns Regular Season Official Depth Chart - 17-18
Regular Offense
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
WR	Terrelle Pryor(1)	Corey Coleman(3)	Rashard Nelson(5)
TE	Gary Barnidge	Ishaq Booth	Mychal Rivera
LT	Joe Thomas	Nate Garner
LG	Joel Bitonio	Shaun Drango
C	Scott Lichtensteiger	Cameron Erving
RG	John Greco	Alvin Bailey
RT	Sebastian Vollmer	Shaun Coleman
WR	Kenny Stills(2)	Willie Snead III (4th, injured)	Ricardo Louis(6)
QB	Robert Griffin III	Cody Kessler	Tom Savage	CJ Eldridge(injured)
FB	Craig Skaggs
HB	Duke Johnson Jr.	Dion Lewis	Darren McFadden
Base 3-4 Defense
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
LDE	Mario Williams	Antoine Gaither
NT	Danny Shelton	Phil Taylor	Courtney Upshaw
RDE	Emmanuel Ogbah	Jason Jones
LOLB	Shaqil Barrett	Nick Orchard
LILB	Jamie Collins Sr	DeMario Davis
RILB	Christian Kirksey	Carl Nassib
ROLB	DeMarcus Ware	Kenyon Davis
CB	Joe Haden	Adam Jones	Travis Howard
SS	Micah Hyde	Derrick Kindred
FS	Bennett Jackson	Marion Worrell
CB	Jamal Taylor	Brien Boddy-Calhoun
Special Teams
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
K	Garrett Wisnewski
P	Jared Pennington
H	Cody Kessler
PR	Ricardo Louis	Adam Jones
KR	Darren McFadden	Corey Coleman
LS	Joel Bitonio

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BROWNS LOSE FIRST GAME, DEFENSE TO BLAME?

Kenny Stills (#85) makes an amazing catch over Darius Slay(#23)


Bennett Jackson makes an redzone interception

CLEVELAND, OHIO --Sadly, the first game didn't go as we would hope here in Cleveland, as the Browns traveled to Detroit to face Matthew Stafford's Cardiac Kids aka the Detroit Lions. A big surprise of the game was that Robert Griffin III played very well in this game, only making one mistake in an early first quarter interception to Tahir Whitehead. Griffin had a completion rate of 60% and 2 touch downs with the one turnover. A big question in Cleveland now is that will RGIII return to form and finally be under some success? This would only continue to solidfy Hue Jackson as an offensive guru, also being credited with bringing Andy Dalton to new heights as the Bengals QB. Duke Johnson Jr. also had a decent game, showing that there is something to believe in at the HB position.


Gary Barnidge looks to be in a position to develop into RG3's security blanket as RG3 turned to him when the rest of his options weren't open, Barnidge continues his weird indian summer latter portion of his career after years of being Greg Olson's backup, Barnidge can be a great weapon for the next 2 or 3 years.

Cleveland Browns at Detroit Lions
Jan 1, 1 2 3 4 F CLE (0-1) 7 6 7 0 20 DET (1-0) 7 10 0 7 24 Top Performers PASS: Matthew Staffrod - DET - 17 of 28((60%) - 3 TDs 2 INTs 223 yards RUSH: Duke Johnson Jr. - CLE - 17 attempts, 93 yards, 5.5 yards per carry REC: Gary Barnidge - CLE - 7 catches, 53 yards, 2 TD catches	Team Stats Comparison CLE DET First Downs 17 10 3rd Down Efficiency 3 7 4th Down Efficiency 0 0 Total Yards 393 266 Passing Yards 196 194 Rushing Yards 125 57 Penalties-Penalty Yards 0 30 Turnovers 1 2 Time of Possession 19:28 16:32
Cleveland Browns PASSING C/A YDS TD INT Robert Griffin III 18-30(60%) 210 2 1 RUSHING ATT YDS AVG TD Duke Johnson Jr. 17 93 5.5 0 Robert Griffin III 2 17 8.5 0 Craig Skaggs 2 165 7.5 0 RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD Gary Barnidge 7 53 7.6 2 Terrelle Pryor Sr. 5 82 16.4 0 Kenny Stills 5 71 14.2 0 BLOCKING PANCAKE SACK Sebastian Vollmer 0 2 DEFENSE TACK SACK INT TD Jamar Taylor 4 0 1 0 Bennett Jackson 4 0 1 0 Christian Kirksey 3 1 0 0 Derrick Kindred 2 1 0 0 Shaqill Barrett 1 1 0 0 KICKING FG XP PTS LG Garrett Wisniewski 2-4 2-2 6 36 PUNTING TOT YDS AVG -20 Jared Pennington 1 34 34.0 0 Detroit Lions PASSING C/A YDS TD INT Matthew Stafford 17-28(60%) 223 3 2 RUSHING ATT YDS AVG TD Theo Riddick 13 60 4.6 0 RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD Marvin Jones Jr. 4 87 21.8 1 Golden Tate III 4 37 9.3 1 Eric Ebron 3 42 14.0 1 BLOCKING PANCAKE SACK Travis Swanson 0 1 DEFENSE TACK SACK INT TD Tahir Whitehead 7 0 1 0 Kerry Hyder Jr. 5 2 0 0 Jarvis Jones 8 1.0 0 0 Nevin Lawson 11 0 0 0 KICKING FG XP PTS LG Matt Prater 1-1 3-3 6 52 PUNTING TOT YDS AVG -20 Sam Martin 2 101 505.5 0