Final season, greater than a dozen Browns’ starters suffered accidents in the course of the yr and compelled the crew to play with out its finest lineup for almost all of the 2023 marketing campaign.

In maybe an overreaction to maintain gamers wholesome, Cleveland’s teaching workers opted to play this season’s starters little or no or in no way throughout this yr’s preseason video games.

Whereas the well being half might have been addressed, the crew’s capability to work as a cohesive unit was not – a minimum of within the first sport of the season.

Analyst Jimmy Watkins believes the Browns’ ineptitude on offense is guilty on Cleveland’s mismanagement of its roster in the course of the preseason.

In an article for Cleveland.com, he famous that the Browns appeared like a crew that had not practiced collectively sufficient within the 33-17 loss to Dallas on Sunday.

“As a result of (Cleveland) followers deserved to really feel offended, depart early and curse loudly at how unprepared their favourite crew appeared on Sunday,” Watkins wrote, including, “And that’s being good.”

A lot of his focus centered round how ill-prepared quarterback Deshaun Watson appeared within the new-look offense, typically showing to be out of sync together with his huge receivers – particularly newcomer Jerry Jeudy.

Whereas Watson accomplished a landing cross to Jeudy, the quarterback-receiver duo related on solely three of the eight occasions Jeudy was the goal.

Watkins mentioned Watson appeared like a quarterback who might have used some reps throughout a preseason sport to expertise the movement of the offense first-hand earlier than the sport towards Dallas.

“We don’t know the way a lot it might’ve helped or harm to thrust (Deshaun Watson) into the preseason hearth, however it doesn’t appear like it helped him in any respect to look at from the sidelines,” Watkins wrote.

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