The NFL has decided that the Cleveland Browns are a crew most followers is not going to have curiosity in watching in the course of the 2025 season, and veteran defensive sort out Shelby Harris lately delivered a message to the league about that.
The Browns would not have a single prime-time recreation on their schedule heading into the upcoming season. They’ve a global recreation towards the Minnesota Vikings in London in Week 5, and there may be at all times an opportunity one in all their video games may very well be flexed into prime time.
For now, it seems as if the NFL shouldn’t be anticipating a lot enchancment from a Browns crew that went 3-14 final season. Harris was requested about that in an look on the “Honor the Land” podcast after the complete NFL schedule was launched on Wednesday. The 33-year-old insisted he isn’t letting it hassle him.
“I will say it like this, you understand, they will rely us out all they need to,” Harris stated, via Bobby Cownack of NFL.com. “It is as much as us to enter the season and begin whooping folks’s a–es. I get it. Final yr wasn’t the season that we anticipated, and now this yr they are going to say we did not get prime time due to the entire quarterback controversy. Who cares? Screw ’em.”
Deshaun Watson is anticipated to overlook the whole 2025 season after he suffered a setback throughout his restoration from a torn Achilles. That has left the Browns with an open competitors at quarterback between Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders.
Whereas the Sanders storyline is an intriguing one, there may be as a lot uncertainty as ever surrounding the Browns. The NFL clearly doesn’t need to gamble on giving Kevin Stefanski’s crew a prime-time slot given how issues went final season and the shortage of readability at an important place on the sector.
If the Browns are aggressive this season, most individuals can be stunned. Harris and his teammates can be sensible to make use of that skepticism as motivation.
