Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers face Deshaun Watson and the Cleveland Browns on Thursday Night Football. (Image via Getty)
Rodgers threw for 292 yards and three touchdowns in Pittsburgh’s Week 3 win over the Cincinnati Bengals. The Steelers have not won in Cleveland since 2021, and their Thursday record against the Browns is even worse. 1 report from Ryan Pawloski. The Steelers have also gone 3-6-1 across their last 10 games in Cleveland. Cleveland owns an 11-2 record in Thursday Night Football games and has won nine straight Thursday contests. Pawloski reported that McCarthy has gone 17-8 in Thursday games during his coaching career. 1.
Pittsburgh has lost all four of its Thursday games against Cleveland, according to an Oct. His teams have also won each of their last six Thursday appearances. Browns Wire’s Andrew Harbaugh reported Verse’s comments on Oct.
That history creates a strange setup for a Pittsburgh team coming off one of its better offensive performances of the young season. The Browns know Rodgers’ quickest weapon might be the one that never appears in a box score: how fast he gets rid of the football. Browns defensive lineman Jared Verse addressed that problem before Thursday’s game.
On Thursday, he faces Deshaun Watson and a Cleveland Browns team carrying history firmly on its side.
“If he’s having release time of 1.2, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, couple of them were at 1.5, that’s who he is as a player.
You just got to keep rushing,” Verse said. So when you get those kind of releases, you can’t let it frustrate you as a D-line. That puts two quarterbacks with very different recent histories into the same divisional game.