{"id":398016,"date":"2025-09-26T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/398016\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:05:13","slug":"lions-coach-dismissive-of-browns-defense-heading-into-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/398016\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions coach dismissive of Browns defense heading into Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cleveland Browns take on the Detroit Lions in Week 4 of the 2025 NFL season with some renewed excitement and hope after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-game-information\/104732\/browns-win-packers-3-things-lions-in-week-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knocking off the Green Bay Packers in Week 3<\/a>. The Lions hope the Browns can take care of business in Week 5, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/2025\/5\/13\/24429198\/browns-game-london-vikings-week-5-rumors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in London<\/a>, against Detroit\u2019s other NFC North rival, the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oh yeah, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/browns-community-discussion-rumors-news-draft-free-agency-games\/104850\/is-the-browns-defense-actually-the-best-in-the-nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Browns defense is one of the best in the NFL<\/a>, which could give them a chance in most games this season. After years of struggling to stop the run, Cleveland has faced three quality running backs in the first three weeks of the season and shut all three down:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, was it confidence or folly for Detroit\u2019s offensive coordinator to minimize the success that the Browns defense has had against running backs?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Lions run game looked very familiar in Week 1, with David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs combining for 44 yards on 20 carries against the same Packers team that Cleveland\u2019s Quinshon Judkins had 94 yards on 18 carries last week. Detroit did explode on the ground in Weeks 2 and 3, which gives Morton a lot of confidence in his group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Given the performance on each side, Lions rushing offense versus Browns rushing defense could decide who wins in Week 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Do you think Morton was just presenting confidence in his run game or was his statement a foolish shot at Cleveland\u2019s defense?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Share your thoughts in the comment section below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Browns take on the Detroit Lions in Week 4 of the 2025 NFL season with some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,52661,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-398016","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-cleveland-browns-game-information","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115269804860189681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398016","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=398016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}