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takeaways from the Browns 2019 scheduleKen Blaze-USA TODAY SportsThe Cleveland
Browns are now truly America’s Team. That was evident Wednesday night when the
NFL released its full 2019 schedule, one that will highlight a Browns team that
is expected to challenge for a playoff position this fall.Here are four
takeaways from the schedule.The NFL is buying early on the BrownsCleveland has
only played in primetime 11 times in the past 10 seasons, but that number will
increase dramatically this year. The NFL has the Browns playing four primetime
games — including three times in the first five weeks of the season. That is a
smart play by the league. If the Browns do as well as expected, the league still
has opportunities to flex the Browns into another primetime slot in the final
weeks of the season. If Cleveland struggles for some reason, the networks won’t
be stuck with a bad matchup come November and December.Things get challenging
starting Week 3The first two weeks of the season are not the most daunting — the
Tennessee Titans at home and the New York Jets on the road — but things get a
bit rougher fairly quickly after that. Starting in Week 3, the Browns have a
five-game stretch that will see them play at home agains the Los Angeles
Rams
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Jersey , travel to Baltimore to play the Ravens and to San Francisco to
play the 49ers, return home for the Seattle Seahawks and then hit the road again
for a game against the New England Patriots.The one bright spot is that the bye
week falls between the games against Seattle and New England, which will give
the Browns a chance to catch their breath a bit. Home is where it needs to
happenCleveland will have three consecutive home games in November, starting
with the Buffalo Bills on November 10. Four days later they will host the
Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night — which should be all kinds of fun — and
then the Miami Dolphins on November 24. Take care of business against the Bills
and Dolphins, two teams the Browns are clearly better than, and signal their
intentions with a win against the Steelers, and the Browns will set themselves
up nicely for the season’s final stretch.The North will be won lateThe Browns
will have five of their six AFC North Division games take place over the final
seven weeks of the season. After hosting the Steelers on November
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Rush Jersey , Cleveland travels to Pittsburgh for the rematch on December
1. Both games against the Cincinnati Bengals occur in December (home on December
8 and the season finale in Cincinnati on December 29), and a home game against
the Ravens on December 22. If the Browns can keep it together through the first
nine games of the season, the opportunity to claim their first division title in
30 years will be there for the taking. Terrelle Pryor’s career has not turned
out the way he expected since leaving the Cleveland Browns in free agency.Now
the 29-year-old wide receiver wishes he could turn back time.Pryor was a guest
on The ThomaHawk show — hosted by former Browns players Joe Thomas and Andrew
Hawkins — on Friday and said that “super agents” Drew and Jason Rosenhaus gave
him bad advice when he hit free agency following the 2016 season.Pryor was
coming off the only good season of his NFL career as he had 77 receptions for
1,007 yards and four touchdowns. (Although he needed 140 targets to hit that
mark, making his catch rate of 55 percent pretty sub-par.)The Browns, who were
the only team in the league to take a chance on Pryor after he washed out as a
quarterback, offered Pryor a four-year contract worth $32 million. But Pryor let
his agents convince him that teams would be lining up for his
services
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so he walked away from the Browns.The market for Pryor never materialized,
leading him to sign a one-year deal with the Washington Redskins for $8 million.
He only spent one year with the Redskins, catching 20 passes in nine games and
dealing with an ankle injury, before moving on.Pryor spent last season with the
New York Jets (14 receptions in six games) and the Buffalo Bills (two receptions
in two games), but was ultimately released by both teams amid continued injury
problems.He is now making the rounds trying to find a team willing to take a
shot on him. On Friday, he told a Houston radio station that he believes the
Pittsburgh Steelers should gamble on him, according to TribLive.com:It is
unclear what experience that Pryor would bring to the
Steelers
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appear to be at the bottom of the list.It is unlikely that the Browns would have
any interest in bringing Pryor back to the team as a free agent, given that just
about everyone from the 2016 coaching staff is no longer with the team.
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