The Los Angeles Rams lost to the Cleveland Browns by a score of 19-17 in each team’s final preseason game of the year. The Browns started some of their best players including expected starting quarterback for Week 1, Joe Flacco. The Rams went ahead with Dresser Winn as they let Matthew Stafford, Jimmy Garoppolo and Stetson Bennett relax.
The Browns have as much talent as any NFL team and that showed on Saturday as they took a lead against the Rams, retook the lead in the closing moments. Their defense
gave Winn and L.A.’s offense real challenges as the Rams struggled to move the ball most of the day, whereas the Browns scores at important times including a touchdown right before halftime.
The Rams played their backups against starters and the backups held up by keeping the game within reach, but they weren’t able to do enough to get the Rams to 3-0 on the preseason.
Instead, the Rams will go 2-1, the Browns will go 3-0, and none of that will matter after Labor Day when the real official games begin, and we start accounting for real records with games that really matter.
In this contest, one team was trying to figure out where they are going, while the other team knows where they are headed.
I’ll let you figure out which team is which.
Thanks for hanging out with Turf Show Times during this latest preseason, and we hope to see you in a few weeks against the Houston Texans!
