CLEVELAND — 10:30 a.m.- Browns look to even record before bye week break
There is no time to rest in the National Football League, not at least for the Cleveland Browns before they head into their annual bye week break on October 20.
Standing in the way of the week off are quarterback Russell Wilson and a Seattle Seahawks team coming to FirstEnergy Stadium hungry to get a win and keep pace with the undefeated San Francisco 49ers in the NFC West Division.
“Another extremely good team this week,” Browns coach Freddie Kitchens said. “Seattle, they are 4-1. They have won a lot of close games. Extremely well coached. Offensively, everything goes through Russell (Wilson).
“He does a great job in the pocket and outside the pocket creating plays. They have a great running game. They are hard to run the ball against. They have great a defensive unit. They have Bobby Wagner, and he makes everything go and has been there a long time.”
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The Browns never got on track offensively and struggled to get drive-ending stops on defense, and that combined to add up to the 28-point loss to the 49ers in a game seen by the entire country on Monday Night Football.
The Browns surrendered 275 rushing yards to the 49ers (4-0, first in NFC West) and managed 180 yards of total offense on the way to their third loss of the 2019 regular season.
But after responding to the first two losses of the season with convincing victories, the Browns believe another solid week of practice will put them in position to even their record heading into the bye before taking on the New England Patriots in a road game on October 27.
“Our sense of urgency is at an all-time high right now,” quarterback Baker Mayfield said in his weekly press conference. “I think we have guys that are locked in. We realize exactly what we need to do. We are going to take this short week and see what we can do on Sunday.”
Running back Nick Chubb added, “We’ve done it before. After every loss, we came back harder, and that’s what I expect this team to do every time. Hopefully, we can stack some wins, but I know when we do face adversity, we bounce back harder.”
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