Browns to play 3 times on Monday night

That schedule right now looks brutal. Of course, teams are so up and down that what looks like a tough matchup in April could be a cakewalk in November.

Still, it's possible that the 2008 Browns could be a much better team than last year, but win fewer games.

The good news is that the Steelers have an even more difficult schedule. 9-7 might win the division.

Tougher schedule than last year, just hope D.A. can hold up.

It is really a tough schedule! 5 Prime time games is great!! I beleive the NFL has taken note of the BROWNS and what they have done over the last two years, and the organization they have become, is why they want to show case the BROWNS so much.They have three monday night games, to one each for the teams that played in the superbowl. Going to be a great year BROWNS fan from TENN. GO BROWNS!!!!!!!

Yoinks! The NFL gave them a schedule alright!

"That would be in the rear, Bob"

If you want to count preseason that is six prime time games.

Okay, you heard it here first, ha. The Browns win their first 5 games ! There I said it. Go on to a 10-6 season. Then on to the superbowl !

The schedule is scary, but why not the Browns? Every team IS so up and down and some go through strings of poor weeks. I still believe we are going 5-1 in the division. If we can win 5 more games in the remaining 11 we will finish with 10 wins and probably a division crown. I was surprised at how many tough teams are going to be played at home, but thats to our advantage right?
LETS GET PUMPED UP! GO BROWNS!

fuzzy math wrote:

Okay, you heard it here first, ha. The Browns win their first 5 games ! There I said it. Go on to a 10-6 season. Then on to the superbowl !

Fuzzy math? How about warped reality.

Pit Bull Parade wrote:

The schedule is scary, but why not the Browns? Every team IS so up and down and some go through strings of poor weeks. I still believe we are going 5-1 in the division. If we can win 5 more games in the remaining 11 we will finish with 10 wins and probably a division crown. I was surprised at how many tough teams are going to be played at home, but thats to our advantage right?
LETS GET PUMPED UP! GO BROWNS!

the collapse after a fluke year and the resulting whining is just gonna be so much fun to read.

Nothing matters unless you win,
a national stage + a win = respect

Bring it on! Only wimp teams complain about getting a tough schedule and the Browns need to take it to the next level.

As an out-of-state Cleveland sports fan, Sunday, September 14 looks ideal: Indians at the Jake at 1 p.m.; Browns-Squealers at 8.

This is grest, someone upstairs must love the Browns now, the Pats and Giants only play on MNF once each, Browns get three games

Padgin wrote:

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the collapse after a fluke year and the resulting whining is just gonna be so much fun to read.

Blah blah blah....you bore me. cram it with walnuts if you aint got nothin' nice to say

DALLAS-PITTSBURGH- AT Baltimore- AT Cincinnati : OUCH!!!

SmarterThanYou wrote:

Nothing matters unless you win,
a national stage + a win = respect

Beating the Pittsburgh Steelers on a national stage = RESPECT

Don't know if you've heard, but the color that will be all the rage in the NFL this fall is brown. Cleveland Brown. It'll be everywhere. Just watch.

The long downtrodden but recently resurgent Browns have been deemed ready for their close-up by the league schedule makers, and that's why we should all prepare to see plenty of Derek Anderson and the rest of his high-scoring, play-making teammates.

If there's anything that jumps off the page with the release of the 2008 NFL regular-season schedule Tuesday, it's those five prime-time appearances that Cleveland will make this season.

The Browns getting so much exposure is the sure sign that the NFL feels Romeo Crennel's club -- which went 10-6 but missed the playoffs in 2007 -- is a young, exciting team on the rise that bears watching. So we will. Watch that is. Cleveland, which hasn't made a Monday Night Football appearance since December 2003, will make three this season: Week 6 at home against the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants, Week 11 at Buffalo and Week 15 at Philadelphia.

The Browns will make their prime-time debut in 2008 with a Week 2 Sunday night home game against AFC North rival Pittsburgh -- their first appearance on NBC's prime-time showcase -- and they'll help kick off the NFL Network's third season of live late-season games with a Week 10 visit from Denver.

Entering their 10th season since being brought back from NFL extinction as a 1999 franchise team, the Browns have all the components that the league loves to shine a spotlight on. A high-powered offense -- led by Anderson, the out-of-nowhere Pro Bowl quarterback of last season -- some positive buzz created by Cleveland's acquisition of linemen Shaun Rogers and Cory Williams, and receiver Donte' Stallworth, and a challenging schedule that will test the Browns' ability to take the next step in their development as an AFC contender.

Cleveland plays eight games against 2007 playoff teams, including five of its first seven opponents. Overall, the Browns play 10 games against teams that were at least .500 last season, and the only team on Cleveland's schedule that won fewer than seven games last season is Baltimore, which went 5-11 to finish last in the AFC North.

Besides all those primetime appearances, the Browns will play four more 4:05 or 4:15 p.m. games, the first of which is Week 1 at home against the defending NFC East champion Dallas Cowboys, who had the best record in their conference last season at 13-3. By comparison, Cleveland last year played 12 of its 16 games at 1 p.m. on Sunday, with only four late-afternoon time slots and no primetime games.

From virtual obscurity to a headline act. That's the quick trip the Browns have taken. Like many, I have Cleveland as the team to beat in its division this season, with its first trip to the playoffs since 2002 predicted.

Make no mistake, Brown is very in this year.

• Here are the 10 games I don't want to miss this season.....

from sports Ill.

Well we know who we are going to play as soon as the seasons finished with the rotating schedule and then playing teams that finished in the same spot in the other AFC divisions (Buffalo, Denver). The AFC south and NFC east are the two best divisions in football top to bottom though, but at least the other division teams have to play them too.

I think Pittsburgh will be down though a little, and Cinci is a mess right now, and who knows abot Baltimore.

What a bunch of delusional c*r*a*p.
The bushs (name after the moron-in-charge)
will be LUCKY to finish 6 - 10.

All the pieces are in place, contract extensions,
coming off an easy season.

(Used to call them the Clowns, realized it was to demeaning to real clowns.)

Diebldr wrote:

Don't know if you've heard, but the color that will be all the rage in the NFL this fall is brown. Cleveland Brown. It'll be everywhere. Just watch.
The long downtrodden but recently resurgent Browns have been deemed ready for their close-up by the league schedule makers, and that's why we should all prepare to see plenty of Derek Anderson and the rest of his high-scoring, play-making teammates.
If there's anything that jumps off the page with the release of the 2008 NFL regular-season schedule Tuesday, it's those five prime-time appearances that Cleveland will make this season.
The Browns getting so much exposure is the sure sign that the NFL feels Romeo Crennel's club -- which went 10-6 but missed the playoffs in 2007 -- is a young, exciting team on the rise that bears watching. So we will. Watch that is. Cleveland, which hasn't made a Monday Night Football appearance since December 2003, will make three this season: Week 6 at home against the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants, Week 11 at Buffalo and Week 15 at Philadelphia.
The Browns will make their prime-time debut in 2008 with a Week 2 Sunday night home game against AFC North rival Pittsburgh -- their first appearance on NBC's prime-time showcase -- and they'll help kick off the NFL Network's third season of live late-season games with a Week 10 visit from Denver.
Entering their 10th season since being brought back from NFL extinction as a 1999 franchise team, the Browns have all the components that the league loves to shine a spotlight on. A high-powered offense -- led by Anderson, the out-of-nowhere Pro Bowl quarterback of last season -- some positive buzz created by Cleveland's acquisition of linemen Shaun Rogers and Cory Williams, and receiver Donte' Stallworth, and a challenging schedule that will test the Browns' ability to take the next step in their development as an AFC contender.
Cleveland plays eight games against 2007 playoff teams, including five of its first seven opponents. Overall, the Browns play 10 games against teams that were at least .500 last season, and the only team on Cleveland's schedule that won fewer than seven games last season is Baltimore, which went 5-11 to finish last in the AFC North.
Besides all those primetime appearances, the Browns will play four more 4:05 or 4:15 p.m. games, the first of which is Week 1 at home against the defending NFC East champion Dallas Cowboys, who had the best record in their conference last season at 13-3. By comparison, Cleveland last year played 12 of its 16 games at 1 p.m. on Sunday, with only four late-afternoon time slots and no primetime games.
From virtual obscurity to a headline act. That's the quick trip the Browns have taken. Like many, I have Cleveland as the team to beat in its division this season, with its first trip to the playoffs since 2002 predicted.
Make no mistake, Brown is very in this year.
• Here are the 10 games I don't want to miss this season.....
from sports Ill.

Great post- you should consider being a sports writer.

Jopa-n wrote:

<quoted text>Great post- you should consider being a sports writer.

That was pretty good. We could use someone around here that knows more about sports than just LeBron Lebron LeBron all the time.