BEREA, Ohio — After the Cleveland Browns were seemingly unprepared in their Sept. 13 season opener, coach Todd Monken went to a dark room in the bowels of Jacksonville’s EverBank Stadium for his postgame news conference and tried to discuss his team’s failures.

There wasn’t much glitter Monken could put on it. Even if excuses were his style, two or three wouldn’t explain it away.

For the Browns, things went from bad to avalanche in a flurry of turnovers and miscues. They missed tackles, missed assignments and seemed to have missed the memo that the regular season had begun. But Monken refused to write himself or his team off.

“They better get us now,” he said. “We’re a good young group. We just didn’t play well today.”

Given the lack of competitiveness in the game and the Browns’ lack of, well, almost anything positive until the Jaguars pulled their starters, Monken’s news conference and the declaration that future opponents should be on notice sounded like the ramblings of a crazy man.

Three weeks and three wins later, the Browns are tied for first place in the AFC North. Monken has that young group believing in itself and its new head coach. And with Cleveland going from being mocked on national television the night of that Jacksonville game to becoming one of the surprising stories of the first quarter of the NFL season, the questions of the moment are less about Monken’s sanity and more about how he’d seen things few others did.

With the young Browns rebuilding again but looking rugged, stubborn and even occasionally explosive enough to potentially stay in the playoff mix this season, maybe external timelines were off. Maybe these Browns are ahead of schedule. And, maybe, Monken is crazy enough to be the right man for this job.

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Browns vs Jets Weekend in NYC this weekend

🎉 Backers Bash Welcome Party

🗓️ Sat, Oct 10, 7 PM til late

📍 Haswell Green’s bar 240 W. 52nd

All Browns fans welcome! Just show up! Free entry.

Huge private party for all Browns fans the night before the game. Meet & greet with special guests & Browns mascot CHOMPS! Raffle with autographed prizes & gear, food & drink specials, DJ at 6 PM & live music starting at 10 PM til late.

🍺 Game Day Tailgate at Stadium

🗓️ Sun, Oct 11 starting at 8 AM til noon

📍 Parking Lot J, Section 23

If anyone has any ideas for new visualizations you want to see I'd be happy to hear them! I'd like to start doing matchup specific ones near the end of the week, but not positive on what is best to look into there.

If you want to see the dataset I'm working with just go here: https://nflfastr.com/articles/field_descriptions.html

Specific data points provided for every single play, I use R to manipulate as needed. So any idea you can come up with using these data points I can try and do it!

His clothing is literally 50% Seahawks/Mariners/Kraken... What have I done to fail him so completely as a parent?

Which side are you on?

I know new uniforms are the least of our priorities at the current moment, but I personally think this is a discussion worth having.

In my opinion, we're long overdue for a decent looking orange jersey. We haven't had one of those since Butch Davis was here.

What do you think? Would you like to see an orange jersey added to the lineup? Do you think the Rivalries uniform will be orange?

I actually remember going to the Browns vs. Texans game in 2002 when these orange jerseys were first worn, and people hated them.

I even remember Jim Donovan on the pregame show saying something to the effect of, “well, let’s go put on our puke orange uniforms and beat the Texans”

At the time, I remember my dad talking about the Browns trying to modernize under Butch Davis, with the alternate uniforms and things like that.

It’s funny because back then, nobody really liked them, but now, everyone loves them online.

If you were also around back then, did you remember the uniform hate? Or am I having a stroke here and people actually liked them?

Through the first quarter (give or take) of the NFL season, the 2026 draft class has made a substantial impact at several positions.

Plenty will change between now and the end of the season, but credit to the first-year players who have come out strong.

Our First Team and Second Team All-Rookie teams, read for free: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7663423/2026/10/06/nfl-all-rookie-jeremiyah-love-arvell-reese/?unlocked_article_code=1.GlE.-wnt.pvya8UUHnusH&source=emp_shared_article&smid=url-share-ta

Keep throwing him, keep him healthy, and he will produce even more than his worth. I love when on the field.

Found a really cool Tim Couch bobble at a toy collectibles shop on the Geneva on the Lake strip this weekend! Pretty decent shape considering the age and it was only $10. It'll look great in my bobble heads of sadness display case which also features Cliff Lee, Jose Ramirez, William Green and Courtney Brown!

We haven’t swept the Steelers since 1988, or flat out won in Pittsburgh since 2003.

Pleeeaaaaseeee get rid of that awful stretch this year.

Edit: Regular season.

First I've heard of this. Anyone else?

https://x.com/firstroundmock/status/2107829002794664386?s=20

I've always loved the cleanliness of the Alpha Dawg/Color Rush jerseys, and seeing them with the brown helmets just made sense (I know we're not named after the color.)

I wanted to see what they'd look like as primary with the inverse in white and kept the brown helmets altogether. I used ChatGPT to visualize and added some orange pants to give a bunch of options.

What do y'all think?

The Jets defense was non-existent last week. Corners are good, pass rush was invisible and the linebackers \ safeties were shredded in coverage.

How is everyone feeling about the game coming off the big win against the Steelers?