STEELERS at BROWNS
8:20 p.m., Browns by 4 ½, 40 ½
HANK’S HONEYS: There are causes to select each groups. The Elf folks need to be devastated after the Jets debacle, however getting again on the market on a brief week ought to truly be useful. Extra importantly, the Browns might be down Myles Garrett (neck) after already shedding Jadeveon Clowney and Chase Winovich. That might ordinarily be devastating to a protection that had at all times relied on strain up entrance. Fortunately for them, the Mitch Trubisky-led Steelers have barely been puttering alongside.
Pittsburgh followers are already sounding these “bench him” calls for from his darkish days in Chicago. The strain has squarely been on the Steelers protection, which has remarkably held its personal with ball hawk Minkah Fitzpatrick again to his previous methods. Trubisky, nevertheless, has been very cautious with the soccer to date and with so many three-and-outs by the offense, the Steelers D has been on the sphere virtually 80 minutes in two video games.
They will’t be joyful concerning the brief week, particularly in opposition to a really bodily Cleveland offense. As for the whole, these groups normally play low-scoring video games. This one needs to be no totally different.
IF I WERE A BETTING MAN: Browns and the underneath.
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