By Travers Cummings
Browns over Vikings (Sunday morning): If only the Browns had an offense to go along with their defense, I feel like they would have won a couple more games this season. I don’t know how much longer Joe Flacco is going to last as the starting QB (update, he’s been benched). With him under center, Cleveland has yet to reach 20 points in any contest and they definitely struggle to move the ball downfield. It might be time to give way to one of the rookies they drafted in Dillion Gabriel or Shedeur Sanders. Their defense just spends too much time on the field to be effective for four quarters. Having said that, Carson Wentz and the Vikings are coming to town and he is the exact type of QB that the Browns can feast on. Wentz was sacked six times by the Steelers, and their defense isn’t even as good as Cleveland’s is. Like I mentioned before, if the Browns plan on winning this, they have to get the offense going.
Chargers over Commanders (Sunday afternoon): Just when you thought the Chargers were going to break out into that upper echelon of teams, they laid an egg against the Giants, who were starting a rookie Quarterback. I guess the one good thing coming out of this is game is that Chargers rookie running back Omarion Hampton finally had a breakout performance, rushing for 128 yards and one touchdown. If he can keep that up, it should help alleviate some of the pressure on Justin Herbert and the passing game.
Commanders QB Jayden Daniels missed his second straight game last week against the Falcons but is expected to be back for this week 5 matchup. The bigger issue for Washington though, is there defense, having given up 58 points the last two weeks.
Jets over Cowboys Upset alert! (Sunday noon): The Cowboys unexpectedly found themselves in quite the shootout with the Green Bay Packers last week. Even after five quarters of football, it wasn’t enough to time to decide a win, and the very rarely seen tie game happened. I couldn’t believe how easily Dak Prescott picked apart the Packers defense, and that was without Cee Dee Lamb. Now they hit the road to play a wineless New York Jets. It really does take a special type of talent to be consistently bad every year like the Jets are. They can change coaches, change players, change quarterbacks, try to change to culture surrounding the team, but the more things change, the more they stay the same, and it’s looking like yet another failed season. On paper, the Jets should be better than their 0-4 record, and they should be able to move the ball well against the Cowboys defense, who is probably still exhausted from last week’s game.
Last week 1-2 (The Packers tied, but since I picked them to win, I’ll take that as a loss)
Season overall 9-3