The Browns play two primetime games this season and both are in the first half of the season.
What the NFL did think about was the Browns vs. the Texans — the team that traded Watson to Cleveland amid his legal issues — and keeping it out of Week 1.
“And I’m just not sure that would’ve been the right place for it. That’s maybe not the right, you know, game that we want all eyes on, attention on, taking attention away from some of these other big tentpoles in Week 1. So other than maybe really just thinking about where that actual Cleveland at Houston game fell, there really wasn’t a lot of attention paid because, honestly, none of us knows what’s going to happen.
If Watson is suspended for six games — an arbitrary number at this point — he’ll undoubtedly appeal and try to get it reduced. If he misses the first four games, the Browns, who went 8-9 last season and missed the playoffs, could still win all or most of them with backup Jacoby Brissett. The last time they started 4-0 was 1979.
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