It seems no one knows what to make of the Browns’ offensive explosion against the Bengals last Sunday. Most people are apt to believe that it was an aberration born of good luck and a bad opposing defense. Few people are holding out hope that week one was the aberration and that the aberration was traded to Seattle, leaving in its place the true offense.
I am wavering between the two camps, but am leaning more towards the second. Considering I’m a fan of Cleveland sports this means I’m embracing optimism in a way that is frankly just unnatural.
Few people in the media are as optimistic as I am, which means that a) the Browns are still firmly an underdog team (a chip on the shoulder is always good) and b) the eventual regression back to the norm won’t feel like such a long fall. Thank goodness we have NFL experts to undermine our optimism and set expectation levels at their proper height. I mean, they’ve done so well this year with the Saints, Lions, Eagles, 49ers, Texans, Packers, and Redskins that it’s almost hard to believe that they aren’t paid more to spout their opinions on all matters NFL.
On to the Power Rankings.
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