NFL Preseason Preview: Cleveland Browns Vs. Philadelphia Eagles
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00:00 Eagles Browns Thursday night football here. Standalone game as the Philadelphia Eagles
00:09 at home are three and a half point favorite against the Cleveland Browns. This is gonna
00:13 be the Browns third preseason game. The Eagles were able to grab the cover but did fail in
00:20 their attempt to snap that Baltimore Ravens preseason win streak here and all of this
00:26 positions Philly as this three and a half point favorite. No Jalen Hurts of course expected
00:33 in this game. I believe Deshaun Watson also Donnie likely not going to be playing here
00:39 for Cleveland either. When you see the spread of course our mind always goes to the quarterback
00:44 position here. Are you surprised at all to see the number on Philly? Three and a half
00:52 it sounds about I actually would have thought it would be maybe two and a half or three
00:55 the reason I say that here is this is a little bit different context Kevin when we're coming
00:59 into the preseason season first games most teams aren't practicing really against each
01:03 other. The reason I bring this up is the Philadelphia Eagles and the Cleveland Browns are going
01:06 hard ones versus ones Tuesday and Wednesday which then you say well hold on it's a game
01:12 Thursday exactly you are going to probably get third stringers at best for the majority
01:17 of this game so it is a little bit eye-raising there that it's a three and a half because
01:21 again Cleveland's gonna be playing their third stringers as well but they actually have one
01:25 quarterback to get the start tonight and Dorian Thompson Robinson he's performed well and
01:29 when I look at preseason games for things that I like give me a young mobile quarterback
01:33 that if the play does break down which it does a lot when you're dealing with backup
01:37 players or players that won't be NFL players throughout the next couple weeks that's what
01:40 I look forward to but I am surprised here and if I'm just looking at the line itself
01:45 it's a coin flip game you take the three and a half figured it's probably going to be tightly
01:48 contested because a they just played each other be superstars won't be out on the field
01:52 and see it's going to be ultra vanilla Kevin.
01:55 But also when you look at the quarterback so Marcus Mariota is the best quarterback by
01:59 far than anybody is going to send out there but how long would you expect Mariota to play
02:03 tonight DRS two series in the game against Baltimore for him he's not going to be beat
02:10 out by Tanner McKee or Ian book for that second job like he is absolutely dead set in that
02:17 spot where so Philly will have the advantage in look home field advantage is still priced
02:22 into these football games it is Philly will have the advantage for however long Mariota
02:26 plays and then DTR Kellen Mond and Joshua Dobbs are all three of them better than Tanner
02:33 McKee and Ian book wouldn't you agree?
02:37 Yeah and I'm and I'm not even so sure because I thought I was again I didn't read up exactly
02:41 on who's in who's out but also thought that might have mentioned like like Dobbs might
02:43 not play so just be like DTR and Kellen Mond and the reason again we said like well why
02:48 would they play in the preseason Marcus Mariota what are the Eagles getting out of playing
02:51 Marcus Mariota yeah you want to get him some snaps and familiar with the offense but the
02:54 key to Marcus Mariota is being healthy in case Jalen Hurts is not for a week or two
02:59 so him running around for his life for an entire half and also keep in mind it's not
03:02 as if Mariota is going to be in there with Lane Johnson and Jordan Milata at tackle and
03:07 Kelsey out there you're not going to put a quarterback in harm's way that's why you play
03:10 the third and fourth stringers with the third and fourth stringers oh no Ian book took a
03:15 shot oh well happens here it's football you're not going to do that with Marcus Mariota so
03:19 I expect this game to be pretty sloppy looking at both ends of it right you probably would
03:22 take the points here for me at least with the Browns and I actually would take the under
03:26 tonight in this game because again these two teams played each other played hard a lot
03:32 of starters out they're just looking to get out of town at this point I can't see 50 points
03:36 on the board but if this one's going to go over Kevin we're talking about what real close
03:41 razor thin like final drive of the game type stuff.
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