{"id":396981,"date":"2025-09-25T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/396981\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:10:15","slug":"browns-vs-lions-week-4-predictions-clevelands-defense-is-for-real-and-ready-for-another-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/396981\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns vs. Lions Week 4 predictions: Cleveland\u2019s defense is for real, and ready for another upset?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Browns turned heads last week with their win over the Green Bay Packers. Now, the Browns\u2019 defense is officially on the radar of everyone in the country: it\u2019s not a secret any more. That even led to one of the national members of the media below to call for an upset this Sunday. It can certainly happen \u2014 Cleveland has now proven that their defense alone can win them any game, so a win would not be a \u201cshock.\u201d However, the Browns\u2019 offense has basically done nothing over these past two games, which, coupled with the Lions\u2019 high regard, still has most people taking Detroit.<\/p>\n

Here is what the national media is saying about the Week 4 game between the Browns and Lions:<\/p>\n

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CBS Sports<\/a> (Pete Prisco) \u2013 Lions 23, Browns 17<\/p>\n

The Lions are riding high after blowing out the Ravens on Monday night. They were dominant on offense and the defense got after Lamar Jackson. On a short week playing this Browns defense won\u2019t be easy. Cleveland is the top-ranked defense in the league. That will be in play here as the Browns keep the game close.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports<\/a> (John Breech) \u2013 Browns 20, Lions 17<\/p>\n

The Browns have faced three very good offenses, but the defense hasn\u2019t blinked: They\u2019ve given up the fewest yards in the NFL, they have the third-most sacks and they\u2019re only surrendering 2.3 yards per rushing attempt, which is the best number in the league.\u00a0If you can get pressure on Jared Goff, the Lions are going to struggle and we saw that a Week 1 game where the Detroit got dominated by the Packers. If I trusted the Browns\u2019 offense (or their special teams) at all I would take Cleveland by DOUBLE DIGITS, but I don\u2019t, so I\u2019m going to say the Browns win for the second straight week on a last second field goal. With the Lions coming off a big win over the Ravens on Monday night, this feels like the perfect spot for a letdown.<\/p>\n

Sporting News<\/a> (Vinnie Iyer) \u2013 Lions 27, Browns 14<\/p>\n

The Lions play their best offense at home. The Browns play their best defense at home. Nothing needs to give here with Detroit rocking Cleveland with explosive pass plays and stopping the run.<\/p>\n

Sporting News<\/a> (Bill Bender) \u2013 Lions 27, Browns 14<\/p>\n

The Browns are riding high with a nasty defense that showed out against the Packers. The Lions<\/a> are a different story at home. Look for Dan Campbell to stay aggressive in the passing game with Jared Goff, who had five TD passes at home in Week 2. Detroit\u2019s defense will have to slow Quinshon Judkins, who had 18 carries for 94 yards in Week 3.<\/p>\n

Below are our Week 4 NFL staff picks:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Browns turned heads last week with their win over the Green Bay Packers. Now, the Browns\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,2908,146,7,345,1029,895,147,6,586,169,582,4378],"class_list":{"0":"post-396981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-green-bay-packers","16":"tag-jared-goff","17":"tag-lamar-jackson","18":"tag-lions","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-quinshon-judkins","21":"tag-ravens","22":"tag-the-browns","23":"tag-the-lions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115267464553824169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}