{"id":24124,"date":"2023-08-02T13:54:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=24124"},"modified":"2023-08-02T13:54:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T17:54:32","slug":"hall-of-fame-game-new-york-jets-vs-cleveland-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/nfl\/hall-of-fame-game-new-york-jets-vs-cleveland-browns\/","title":{"rendered":"HALL OF FAME GAME: NEW YORK JETS VS CLEVELAND BROWNS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BY ADAM GREENE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you are sitting down. Our long national nightmare, placated only by spring and summer football and no other sport, is finally over. Yes, the NFL is making its triumphant return to our pathetic lives, opening with the annual Hall of Fame preseason game at Tom Benson Stadium in Canton, Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, we will get to watch the scrub version of the New York Jets take on the scrub version of the Cleveland Browns. It just so happens that the scrub version of the Jets might look a lot like the actual, purposely fielded version of that team they put onto the field last year. What a difference a single offseason can make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK JETS VS CLEVELAND BROWNS (+2, O\/U: 34)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, Canton, Ohio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broadcast: NBC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kickoff: Thursday, Aug, 3, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK JETS (0-0)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s plenty of excitement surrounding the 2023 version of the New York Jets and rightly so. The arrival of Aaron Rodgers has changed this team\u2019s fortunes and nothing will exemplify that change more than seeing Zach Wilson take the field as New York\u2019s starting quarterback in this game. Because I can\u2019t see any way head coach Robert Saleh lets Rodgers take a single snap in the preseason. If you recall, Wilson himself got injured last preseason and missed the first few games of 2022. With Breece Hall coming off an injury and Garrett Wilson a little banged up, don\u2019t expect to see them either. So this will be Wilson handing off to Michael Carter in the first half and tossing off-target passes to Mecole Hardman, Jr. and Xavier Gibson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLEVELAND BROWNS (0-0)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last season the Browns had to play their starter, Deshaun Watson, in the preseason because he was due to sit out the first 11 regular season games. That\u2019s not the case this season and all of Cleveland\u2019s postseason hopes, and there are plenty, rest on Watson\u2019s super tight, ropey, and unrelaxed shoulders. As such, we should see Joshua Dobbs, the greatest future astronaut to ever throw a football, taking the first-half snaps, followed by Kellen Mond and rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson, who will cost Mond his job before the season kicks off. I\u2019d suspect that Nick Chubb, Amari Cooper, David Njoku, and Myles Garrett won\u2019t even dress. But, if you\u2019re at the game, you can probably still get an autograph. They\u2019ll have plenty of time to kill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE PICK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key to picking preseason games usually comes down to the quality of the backup quarterbacks and how mobile that guy is, considering he won\u2019t be playing behind the starting offensive line. Wilson is a mobile guy and has plenty of physical tools, but Dobbs is significantly smarter and, probably, just better. Wilson was a bad pick and a draft bust because of where he was selected. If he\u2019d been picked in the third or fourth, where he should have been, no one would have a bad word to say about the kid. Except maybe the adult children of all the cougars he beds regularly. I don\u2019t buy this spread and think Cleveland will win outright. Browns 20, Jets 13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow Adam Greene on Twitter <\/em>@TheFirstMan<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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