Gameday Newsletter: Week 4, Raiders
All the information you need to enjoy the Browns trip out to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders.
Welcome to another week of Cleveland Browns football and, as is the motto for years here: each new week brings a new opportunity. While the desired results haven’t hit expectations so far this year, all it takes is one week of clicking to get the vibes right and push the team in the right direction.
They travel out West to face the Raiders in a late kickoff today and, from everything I’ve gathered, it should be quite the Orange and Brown crowd on hand for this one. Browns fans always travel well but you give them the chance to go out to the Las Vegas strip for a good time, including their favorite football team, and you might have a crowd slanted for Cleveland rather than the home team.
The weather is nasty in Ohio but that’s nothing you have to worry about on this football Sunday and we start with the podcast you all passionately crave.
(PODCAST UPDATE: We’ve heard from Andrew this morning in Asheville and he’s safe.)
Now, some more good news to start your day!
Inside the weekly Gameday Newsletter you will get all the pieces of information paired with your Gameday Podcast to enhance your Sundays with this team.
Per the Sunday usual, I request that you sit back, pour your coffee, turn on the best pre-game Browns song known to man, and enjoy a fresh delivery of sizzling information from the BFB staff.
Well folks, this one is inside the temperature controlled climate of Allegiant Stadium so nothing to worry about here. I have to say, this would be a nice way to cover the topics if say…the Browns ever built their own dome.
The Browns and Raiders history started with the AFL/NFL merger in 1970 and it has been filled with each team rattling off prolonged runs of success against the other. The Raiders won 10 of the first 11 meetings between the historic franchises — including two playoff matchups (sorry, Red Right 88). Then the Browns got back into the mix with a streak of their own.
From 1987 to 2014, the Browns won 9 of 12 matchups and the Raiders were one of the few franchises the team handled well upon returning to the NFL in 1999. However, the Raiders have now won the last four meetings including matchups in 2015, 2018, 2020, and 2021.
The Raiders lead the all-time series 17-10.
The Film Notes section is once again simple. The Raiders yielded a whopping 319 passing yards and three touchdowns to veteran Andy Dalton but it wasn’t as if the Raiders’ secondary busted a bunch of coverages in order to make that happen.
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