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Browns vs. Jets: How to watch, listen, stream the Week 16 game

The Cleveland Browns will attempt to solidify the team’s first playoff berth since 2002 with a visit to New York to face the Jets.

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The Cleveland Browns will attempt to solidify the team’s first playoff berth since 2002 with a visit to New York to face the Jets. One week after beating the Giants in the same stadium, Kevin Stefanski’s Browns go for the New York sweep.

The Browns have beaten the Jets two years in a row, first on a Thursday night and then last season on Monday night in Week 2. Prior to 2018, the Jets won the previous five meetings.

Fun fact: the Browns have beaten the Jets in both seasons where the team has made the postseason since 1990. They beat New York in both 1994 (27-7) and 2002 (24-21).

Cleveland Browns (10-4) at New York Jets (1-13)

When: Sunday, Dec. 27th

  • Time: 1 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: CBS

 

If you live in the green areas on the above map (courtesy 506 sports), the Browns and Jets will be on your local CBS affiliate. Kevin Harlan and Trent Green will be in the broadcast booth.

Live streaming

Radio

The Browns flagship stations in Cleveland are 92.3 The Fan, 98.5 WNCX, and 850 AM WKNR.

The full list of Browns radio affiliates around Ohio and the midwest includes over 25 stations. Check the local availability here via the Browns official site. 

On SiriusXM NFL Radio, the Browns home feed will be broadcast on Channel 225 and streaming on Channel 807.

Odds

The Browns are favored over the Jets, though the line has swung back in New York’s direction since six Browns players were placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Saturday, including the top four wide receivers. The game is off the board at many books, though BetMGM is still showing a line of Browns -6.5 as of Saturday evening.

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Expert picks see the Browns as a big lock over the Jets

Nearly every national expert picked the Browns to beat the Jets

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It wasn’t quite unanimous, but the overwhelming majority of the NFL prognosticators chose the Cleveland Browns to beat the New York Jets. A full 97 percent of the predictions tracked by NFL Pick Watch chose the Browns to win for the second week in a row in MetLife Stadium.

The picks do deserve something of an asterisk; all were made before the Browns lost six players, including the top four wide receivers, to COVID-19 protocols.

All eight game forecasters at ESPN picked the Browns. It was more mixed at CBS, but the games there are picked against the spread and the Jets were given 9.5 points to work with. Cleveland was the “lock of the week” from The Sporting News.

Report: Browns could be without several WRs for Week 16 vs. Jets

Jarvis Landry is among those deemed a close contact to a positive test for COVID-19

The Cleveland Browns could be terribly shorthanded on pass catchers when they face the New York Jets on Sunday. Reports from ESPN’s Adam Schefter and others indicate that the team’s top three wide receivers are all high-risk/close-contact exposures to COVID-19 and could be ruled out for the trip to New York.

Schefter mentions Jarvis Landry, Rashard Higgins and Donovan Peoples-Jones as those who could be missing. The team is awaiting judgment from the NFL on how to proceed with the receiving corps possibly depleted.

The Browns already delayed their plane trip to New York due to some late COVID-19 developments. Linebacker B.J. Goodson was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list earlier on Saturday, but that might not be the only Browns player missing for Sunday.

 

Update–the Browns will also be without WR KhaDarel Hodge and LB Jacob Phillips, per Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com:

Browns place B.J. Goodson on the reserve/ COVID-19 list, activate Jedrick Wills

Goodson is the team’s leading tackler

The Cleveland Browns will get a big boost on their offensive line tomorrow while also losing a key starter on defense.

The Browns have placed starting linebacker B.J. Goodson on the reserve/COVID-19 list, according to a report from NFL Network. Earlier today, the team announced the facility was closed and the team’s flight to New York was delayed for contact tracing following the positive test.

Although the defense will lose Goodson, the Browns get back starting left tackle Jedrick Wills Jr., who was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Thursday morning.

Goodson has started all 14 games for the Browns this season and accounted for a career-high 91 tackles. The defensive signal-caller has also accounted for a pair of interceptions and two tackles for loss.

Wills has started every game at left tackle during his rookie season campaign.

In an additional move, the Browns elevated center Javon Patterson from the practice squad as a COVID-19 replacement. Patterson is a second-year player out of Ole Miss and was signed to the practice squad on Nov. 10.

The Browns are set to kick-off tomorrow against the Jets at MetLife Stadium at 1 p.m.

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Browns have player test positive for COVID-19, flight to New York delayed

The positive test is less than 24 hours before scheduled kickoff in New York

The travel plans for the Cleveland Browns have taken an unexpected delay with the news that a Browns player tested positive for COVID-19. Because of the late occurrence of the testing, the Browns delayed their team flight to New York for Sunday’s game with the Jets.

The Browns closed the team facility in Berea after the positive test. At this point it is unknown which player tested positive for COVID-19. The team added left tackle Jedrick Wills to the reserve/COVID-19 list during the week but he was deemed to only be a close contact to someone who tested positive.

There is no immediate indication that Sunday’s game will be delayed or possibly moved. The Browns did release an official statement:

Jets final injury report for Week 16 vs. Browns

No Jets players are ruled out due to injury

The final injury report for the New York Jets for the Week 16 matchup with the Cleveland Browns is nearly a blank slate. No Jets players are ruled out, and only two New York players carry any kind of injury status into Sunday’s game.

Cornerback Javelin Guidry is listed as doubtful with a knee injury. Guidry, an undrafted rookie from Utah, has been the Jets’ primary slot corner in the last three weeks. His status there highlights how many key players are on injured reserve already and therefore don’t appear on the weekly injury report.

The only other player with an injury designation is wide receiver Vyncint Smith, who has not played on offense since Week 8.

Running back Frank Gore will play. Defensive tackle Quinnen Williams, the Jets’ top pass rusher, was placed on injured reserve this week and is out for the season.

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Final Browns injury report for Week 16: Wyatt Teller out. Malcolm Smith questionable

The Browns are relatively healthy headed to New York

The final Cleveland Browns injury report for the Week 16 trip to New York to face the 1-13 Jets ruled out just one player.

Following Friday’s practice session, the Browns released the final injury update of the week and designations for Sunday’s game. Right guard Wyatt Teller is the only player ruled out. His ankle injury is expected to also keep him out in Week 17, though that is unofficial at this point.

Linebacker Malcolm Smith is the only other player with any injury designation. He is questionable with a hamstring injury. Smith was a limited participant all week after playing in last Sunday’s win over the Giants.

Right tackle Jack Conklin and center JC Tretter were both limited all week in practice but carry no injury designation into the matchup with the Jets.

Playing the Jets offers the Browns defense a chance to shine

The Jets rank last in the NFL in several offensive categories

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When the Cleveland Browns take on the New York Jets on Sunday, the oft-maligned Browns defense gets a chance to show what it can do. Playing the Jets gives the Browns a break from the high-powered offenses. New York’s offense is not good, to be polite.

The Jets rank last in the NFL, 32nd out of 32, in several offensive categories. Among them:

  • Total yards – 3,796, almost 400 fewer than the next-worst (Giants)
  • Yards per play – 4.6
  • Points per game – 14.6
  • Rushing TDs – 8 (tied with Houston and Chicago)
  • Net passing yards – 2,355
  • First downs per game – 16.4
  • Offensive snaps per game – 58.4
  • Red zone TD percentage – 41.2
  • Time of possession – 27:13 per game

The Jets did score 23 points last week in their shocking win over the Rams, but their defense created one score with a fantastic INT by CB Bryce Hall and another came after ex-Browns safety JT Hassell blocked a Rams punt.

Maybe it has something to do with MetLife Stadium. Last week’s Browns foe, the New York Giants, ranks 31st in a few metrics too. Cleveland held the Giants to just two field goals in the 20-6 win.  It’s a nice chance for the defense to gain some confidence and help even out the team’s poor overall point differential.

Odds watch: Browns are big favorites vs. the Jets in Week 16

The Browns are favored by more than a TD on the road

Heading to New York for the second week in a row, the Cleveland Browns are once again road favorites in MetLife Stadium. After pounding the Giants as 4.5-point favorites in Week 15, the Browns are even bigger favorites to beat the other denizens, the Jets, in Week 16.

Cleveland opens as an 8.5-point favorite over the Jets at BetMGM. The line carries true across other sportsbooks. The over/under figure is 46.5 for the game.

New York is 1-13 but secured that one win in Los Angeles on Sunday, stunning the NFC West-leading (at the time) Rams. The Jets have finished within one score in four of their last seven games but lost the other three by an average of 24 points.

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NFL Network re-airing Baker Mayfield’s debut Thursday at 3 p.m.

Browns vs. Jets in 2018 was the launch of the Baker Mayfield experience

If you’re a Browns fan stuck inside with little to do on Thursday afternoon, the NFL Network is delivering a nice break for you. The network is going to re-air the Cleveland Browns vs. New York Jets game from Week 3 of the 2018 season.

Browns fans know that game as the Baker Mayfield debut game.

Mayfield entered the game when starting QB Tyrod Taylor suffered an injury. Down 14-0 just before halftime, Mayfield artfully rallied the Browns to a 21-17 victory. Mayfield came in off the bench and completed 17 of his 23 pass attempts, setting up RB Carlos Hyde for two separate 1-yard TD plunges.

The game will air at 3 p.m. ET. It’s also available on-demand via the NFL Game Pass app, which is free through May.