“Merry Christmas!” Your Browns/Packers Footballing Open Thread

I hope the day is going well for all of you! However you choose to spend the day, I wish you contentment. I’d like to spend a quiet one myself but the wife’s extended family is rather large and there’s no getting out of the get-together this evening. And really, this is the first gathering we’ve had since last year so I gotta go. I’m a wee bit antsy about 15+ of us in close contact but I’ve had three shots (one of them undocumented) and been boosted and you have to trust the science so into the breach we go.

To The Game!

Cleveland/Green Bay:

-Both Mayfield and Landry have been lifted from the Covid list so Browns fans may feel that the passing game is in good shape for today. Outside observers that have seen the qb’s wonky play may think differently.

-The Packers rush D is ranked as a top ten unit but has given up 137 and 143 yards the last two weeks. I can see The Chubbster being used as a battering ram today, piling up the yards, slowing down the game, keeping Rodgers off the field-pencil that fella in for 25+ carries.

-The Bad-The Browns are in last place in the AFC North.

-The Good-They’re one game out of first place. As it stands right now they have a 16% chance of getting into the playoffs. A loss here would drop them to 9% and bear in mind they have Cincy and Pitt left on the sked.

-Thankfully their kicker McLaughlin has been tossed on the Covid heap. He’s missed 6 of his last 12 and will be replaced by Chris Naggar.

-Rodgers has been cruising of late with a 70% completion rate, an 8.9 YPA and 13TD’s and 0 interceptions.

-Davante needs a mere 4 catches to get to 100 once again so, maybe by the end of the first quarter?

Give me those sweet, sweet comments.