Joe Flacco, Browns 会合，会う Jets with chance to clinch second プレーオフ 寝台／地位 since '02
NEW YORK JETS (6-9) at CLEVELAND (10-5)
Thursday, 8:15 p.m. EST, アマゾン Prime
OPENING LINE: Browns by 7, によれば FanDuel Sportsbook.
AGAINST THE SPREAD: Jets 5-9-1; Browns 10-5.
SERIES RECORD: Browns lead 15-14.
LAST MEETING: Jets （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Browns 31-30 on Sept. 18, 2022, in Cleveland.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco (15) 始める，決めるs 支援する to pass in the first half of an NFL football game against the Chicago 耐えるs in Cleveland, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/告訴する Ogrocki)
LAST WEEK: Jets （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 指揮官s 30-28; Browns （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Texans 36-22.
JETS OFFENSE: OVERALL (32), RUSH (28), PASS (31), SCORI NG (30).
JETS DEFENSE: OVERALL (3), RUSH (24), PASS (2), SCORING (14).
BROWNS OFFENSE: OVERALL (13), RUSH (11), PASS (20), SCORING (10).
BROWNS DEFENSE: OVERALL (1), RUSH (10), PASS (1), SCORING (12).
TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Jets minus-8; Browns minus-7.
JETS PLAYER TO WATCH: RB Breece Hall. He bounced 支援する from a rough nine-game stretch last week by becoming the first player in the 最高の Bowl 時代 with 190 or more yards from scrimmage, 12 歓迎会s and two TD runs in a 選び出す／独身 game. 広範囲にわたって 定評のある as the engine of the Jets' 罪／違反, Hall finished with 95 yards and two touchdowns and caught 12 passes for 96 yards against Washington.
BROWNS PLAYER TO WATCH: DE Myles Garrett. Without a 解雇（する） in five straight games, Garrett has the 国家の TV 行う／開催する／段階 to make his 事例／患者 for AP 防御の Player of the Year. His coaches and チーム仲間s have been 促進するing his 原因（となる）, and now it's Garrett's chance to 配達する a big 業績／成果. He has nine 解雇（する）s in five games against the Jets.
KEY MATCHUP: Jets CB Sauce Gardner vs. Browns WR Amari Cooper. One of the NFL's best cover corners will likely be 割り当てるd to Cooper, who 支配するd the Texans for 265 yards and two touchdowns on 11 catches last week. Jets CB D.J. Reed will also get a chance on Cooper, considered an エリート 大勝する 走者 and physical 的.
KEY INJURIES: Jets QB Zach Wilson remains sidelined by a concussion, so Trevor Siemian will start his second straight game. ... TE Jeremy Ruckert (concussion) is out. ... K Greg Zuerlein, who kicked the winning 54-yard FG against Washington, had tightness in his 権利 quadriceps and his availability for the game at Cleveland was uncertain. ... The Browns will be without K Dustin Hopkins (hamstring), who has been clutch and の中で the league's most 正確な kickers all season. Hopkins is 8 of 8 beyond 50 yards. ... Browns P Corey Bojorquez is also nursing a hamstring 傷害. He's Cleveland's 支えるもの／所有者. ... This week, 新人 QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson (hip) became the 12th Browns player to go on 負傷させるd reserve. Thompson-Robinson started three games.
SERIES NOTES: The Jets have won seven of the past nine matchups. ... New York 行う／開催する／段階d one of the biggest 復帰s in team history last season, 得点する／非難する／２０ing two touchdowns in the final 1:22 to stun the Browns 31-30 behind QB Joe Flacco, who has saved Cleveland's season. ... The Browns ended a 19-game losing streak with a 勝利，勝つ over the Jets in 2020 - also on a Thursday night.
STATS AND STUFF: The Jets are trying to 避ける a fourth straight 二塁打-digit loss season. New York has lost 10 or more in six of the past seven seasons. ... With the 勝利，勝つ against Washington, Siemian snapped a six-game skid for games in which he started. It was his first victory as a starter since Denver （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Indianapolis 25-13 in Week 15 of the 2017 season. ... The Jets 得点する／非難する／２０d 17 points in the first ４半期/4分の1 against Washington, their most in the 開始 15 minutes of a game since Week 10 of the 2014 season. ... Hall was the first Jets player to have 70 or more yards 急ぐing, 70 or more yards receiving and 多重の TDs from scrimmage in one game against Washington. His 9.0 yards per catch lead all running 支援するs in that 部類 since the start of last season. ... Jets WR Garrett Wilson has 88 catches, making him the third player in franchise history to have 連続した seasons with 80 or more. He´s the ninth player in NFL history to have 80 or more in each of his first two seasons. ... The Jets have used an NFL-high 12 starting 不快な／攻撃 line combinations, 含むing a different starting five in each of their past 11 games. ... New York is the league's most-penalized team with 111, 含むing 14 last week. ... LB Quincy Williams has a league-high 10 passes 弁護d. He´s also the only player with 100 or mo re 取り組むs, 10 or more 取り組むs for loss, 10 or more QB 圧力s and 10 or more passes 弁護d. ... The Jets have not 許すd 300 yards passing in 33 連続した games, the NFL´s longest active streak. ... With a 勝利，勝つ or tie, the Browns will clinch just their second プレーオフ 寝台／地位 since 2002. ... Flacco has passed for 1,307 yards and 10 TDs - both league highs - in four starts with Cleveland, which 調印するd him on Nov. 20. ... Flacco downplayed his chance to 直面する the Jets, who chose not to re-調印する him during the offseason or after Aaron Rodgers got 傷つける in the opener. ... WR Amari Cooper 支配するd the Texans for 265 yards receiving last week. Cooper also became the first player in team history with 連続した 1,000-yard seasons. ... 傷害s have been an 問題／発行する for the Browns all season and this week they're without Hopkins, who 負傷させるd the hamstring in his 工場／植物 脚 while chasing returner Dameon Pierce in Houston. ... The Browns 調印するd K Riley Patterson, recently 解放（する）d by Detroit. ... Cleveland's 弁護 is 許すing just 260.3 逮捕する yards per game, the fewest since the Jets (252.3) in 2009. ... The Browns are 7-1 at home. ... Browns coach Kevin Stefanski is 0-6 against the AFC East. ... The Browns were held to just 54 yards 急ぐing on 30 carries last week.
FANTASY TIP: With the Jets likely 焦点（を合わせる）d on stopping or at least slowing 負かす／撃墜する Cooper, Flacco may have to switch things up and make Browns WR Elijah Moore his 最初の／主要な 的. Moore knows New York's 第２位 井戸／弁護士席 after spending two seasons with the Jets. He only caught two passes for 19 yards a week ago.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco (15) passes during the first half of an NFL football game against the Houston Texans, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
New York Jets quarterback Trevor Siemian (14) passes against the Washington 指揮官s during the fourth ４半期/4分の1 of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
Cleveland Browns quarterback Joe Flacco (15) celebrates after throwing a touchdown pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the Houston Texans, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Cleveland Browns 防御の end Myles Garrett (95) celebrates after a 取り組む in the second half of an NFL football game against the Chicago 耐えるs in Cleveland, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/告訴する Ogrocki)
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Amari Cooper (2) celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
