CLEVELAND BROWNS VS. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS INSTANT REACTION: Deshaun Watson plays well; CLE still loses
The Cleveland Browns need a win to keep their season afloat.
Week 4 takes them to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders.
Andy Dalton torched the Raiders defense last week, so can Deshaun Watson do the same? Amari Cooper, Jerry Jeudy and Elijah Moore would need to step up to help him do that.
Myles Garrett got a sack to end the first half but the Raiders and Browns were tied at 10 at the half.
The road can be a lonely place. The Browns, though, have found the road to be a safe haven so far.
It's a very small sample size — one game — to go off of, but Cleveland can point to its only road game so far at the Jacksonville Jaguars as also its only win. Now, the Browns will try to make it two road wins, and two wins on the season, when they head to the desert to face the Las Vegas Raiders.
Both of these teams come in with 1-2 record and are coming off of losses to teams which hadn't won a game before facing them. The Browns lost at home to the New York Giants and the Raiders lost to the Carolina Panthers.
How much of a road environment the Browns actually face against the Raiders remains to be seen. Since moving to Las Vegas in 2020, the Raiders have routinely seen the visiting team's fans overrun their sparkling new stadium.
Since the NFL schedule came out, a large number of Browns fans have had the game circled as a potential road trip. Now, both the team and their fans will see if they can avoid the experience of that losing feeling which has accompanied so many other trips to Las Vegas.
The rookie against one of the big free-agent signings of the offseason. Zak Zinter hasn't officially been announced as the replacement starter for the injured Wyatt Teller, but he stepped in for him against the Giants and faired well against their talented front. Now he's going from having to deal with Dexter Lawrence last week to likely having to occasionally face one of the better defensive ends in the game in Wilkins. Or, one of the best-paid defensive ends. Wilkins already owns four pressures on the season, including a sack. It was up the middle of the Browns' line where a lot of the New York pressure came from last week, so it stands to reason the Raiders will try that as well, especially against a rookie. Zinter's not winning all of his reps against Wilkins; he just can't get beat routinely in all of them.
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