Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Zach Jackson and Friends podcast. I'm Zach Jackson solo for now.

Later, I'll be joined by my friend and colleague Dan Duggan, who covers the Giants.

We'll do what we do late in the week, which is talk about the other team and look forward to Sunday's games.

So I want to run through a bunch of things, Browns, a few things college football, NFL in general, and just kind of set to stage for Sunday.

So we had our post game podcast Sunday night.

And then this is Thursday morning as we're recording.

So going forward, this is going to kind of be the plan.

I had a third one tentatively lined up and the guest had to reschedule.

So some weeks still be two, some weeks still be three.

But I just wanted to thank you guys for listening.

Really getting it uploaded on crappy hotel internet at midnight Sunday and then getting

home from Jacksonville to see how many of you had listened was really cool.

So appreciate that.

I know the overall vibe on everything is different after week one.

And so it's a reminder of the week-to-week nature.

You know, I thought the game was a reminder that the Browns can be pretty good, right?

Because they were certainly far from perfect, but they were the better team for almost that whole game. It was the kind of response you wanted in general. It was the kind of response from

the offense that you needed, you know, some improvements, not perfect, but, you know,

ugliness in 100 penalty yards and overall sloppiness and only one touchdown.

But you win the game, you ultimately put it away.

And we've always known that especially early in the season, this team was going to hang

the head on the defense being good.

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