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ESPN’s Mike Greenberg loses it on the Browns: ‘This team needs to just shut up’

The Browns’ frustrating season keeps getting worse.

The Cleveland Browns were labeled one of the most exciting teams in the NFL before the regular season kicked off, and with an influx of offensive talent, many analysts were expecting the Browns to make a potential playoff run in 2019. Instead, the Cleveland offense is an absolute mess, Baker Mayfield has regressed tremendously, and new coach Freddie Kitchens may be on the verge of losing his job.

The Browns entered Week 15 with extremely slim playoff hopes, but Cleveland fell behind early in Arizona and allowed 38 points in a loss to the Cardinals to fall to 6-8 on the season. After the game, Browns running back Kareem Hunt told Cleveland.com that he felt some of his teammates weren’t giving “110 percent” on the field.

On Tuesday, an exasperated Mike Greenberg advised everyone in the Browns locker room to just shut up for the rest of the season.

“This guy’s been on the Browns for like eight minutes, and a team that started with watches, ‘what watch are we wearing?’ And then it went to this, and then it went to that, and now Kareem Hunt is saying ‘you know, I feel like some of the guys weren’t giving 100 [percent.’ This team needs to just shut up! I mean, stop talking for crying out loud. They need an edict in the locker room. The next person who says a word, the kangaroo court is going to fine them whatever the maximum possible is….. This team needs to shut up.”

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ESPN’s Mike Greenberg picks Michigan to beat Ohio State

Mike Greenberg of Get Up on ESPN made a bold prediction that Jim Harbaugh and Michigan will get it done Saturday.

We are starting to get the annual optimism about Michigan’s chances against Ohio State. It seems to be a yearly tradition just like turkey and stuffing this time of year. Many are starting to believe that Michigan is going to finally get it done against Ohio State by the time the game rolls around Thanksgiving weekend.

Here we go again.

Several media members are now zipping up their khakis and starting to make the trendy pick that Jim Harbaugh is finally going to get that Ohio State monkey off his back.

You can count ESPN’s Mike Greenberg among them apparently. When appearing on a segment to preview The Game, the ESPN personality as wheeled in to give his gut feeling on what’s going to happen in Ann Arbor Saturday.

“I just have a feeling,” said Greenberg. “Look at how these two teams are trending. Look at how Jim Harbaugh has this Michigan team playing since halftime in that game against Penn State. I have a feeling that this weekend is the weekend that Jim Harbaugh climbs Mount Columbus. Michigan is going to beat Ohio State in the Big House on Saturday.”

He then turned to Paul Finebaum to continue his prediction.

“And Finebaum, I’ll take it a step further,” said Greenberg. “Harbaugh rewrites his entire narrative if he knocks this Ohio State team out of the Playoff, which he might do — they might actually still make it with a loss to Michigan. But I’m telling you right now, I think he’s got a real good shot to me.”

If you’d like to watch the entire exchange for yourself, you can click on the below video link shared by @GetUpESPN.

So there you have it. Mike Greenberg of ESPN believes Michigan can seal the deal Saturday. Don’t be surprised if we see more and more of this as the game gets closer.