"Very hard-fought game on both sides. They don't want anything to do with a moral victory. There will be no preseason football for the NFL in 2020. The NFL as a whole will be cancelling two preseason games due to the outbreak of Covid 19, per PFT. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. The Browns will battle three NFC North teams in the preseason. The chief concern over this has to do with injury. ... Last week, Stefanski vowed to have the Browns prepared, even if the preseason were shortened. NFL to Cancel Two Preseason Games. 6 seed. While this is directly tied to concerns over potential problems from Covid, the player’s union has repeatedly pushed the NFL to cut down the length of the preseason. Related Content news The Browns kick off their 2020 preseason on Aug. 15 in ... the league discussed refund plans in the event games are canceled. Monday night's game against the Ravens will be just the ninth time the Browns have been featured on Monday night since coming back to the league in 1999. The first was announced Monday afternoon as all NFL preseason games will be cancelled. The four preseason games featuring Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns generated an average rating of 20.5 last year on WEWS. You'll now receive the top Browns Wire stories each day directly in your inbox. In the event games are cancelled because of the pandemic, the Browns will refund or credit fans who bought tickets directly from the club. https://brownswire.usatoday.com/2020/07/01/report-nfl-cancels-half-of-2020-preseason-schedule/, Browns postgame injury update: Andrew Sendejo in concussion protocol, Greedy Williams offers an update on his shoulder injury, Instant reaction: Resilient Browns come up just short of the Ravens in 47-42 thriller, Myles Garrett leaves game vs. Ravens with an arm injury, Watch: Jarvis Landry completes another pass leading to a Nick Chubb TD run, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Browns, rest of NFL reportedly to have Weeks 1, 4 of preseason canceled. All four exhibition games will be wiped from the schedule. The NFL and NFLPA agreed to cancel the exhibition season on Tuesday after both sides concluded that the logistics and risks of exhibition games would not help advance the goal of starting the regular season on time. They lost the game, failing on their goal. With the preseason cancelled, the Ravens are scheduled to open the regular season Sept. 13 at M&T Bank Stadium against the Cleveland Browns. In a new proposal from the NFL to the NFLPA, the league has offered to do away with the preseason entirely in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what a complete lack of preseason games could mean for the Packers in 2020: Cancelled preseason has 'odds up against' Raiders young roster hopefuls. That plus the canceled preseason shows the two sides are really making progress. Earlier on Monday, the two sides also came to another important agreement: COVID-19 testing protocols. The Cleveland Browns will be losing week one and week four of their preseason schedule. Weeks 1 and 4 of the preseason will be canceled. For many fans, the move is a long time coming, since the games are meaningless and often dominated by players whose time in the NFL is brief, at best. Coach Stefanski and the Browns themselves don't care. These questions, like so many others during these times, do not have simple or clear answers. If the preseason were to be canceled, it would hurt the chances of undrafted free agents to make it in the NFL. They are 9-4 like the Browns, but Cleveland owns the head-to-head tiebreaker with Indianapolis. The Green Bay Packers were scheduled to play preseason games against the Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants and Kansas City Chiefs during the month of August. The reports indicate the league is trimming off the first and last weeks of the preseason schedule. If the preseason wasn’t cancelled, the Chicago Bears would have kicked off their game against the Cleveland Browns from Soldier Field today at … The Green Bay Packers are still currently scheduled to play preseason games against the Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants and Kansas City Chiefs, although a shortened two-game preseason schedule has been previously reported. The NFL has cancelled the Hall of Fame game that traditionally opens the preseason and is delaying the 2020 induction ceremonies for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Cleveland Browns will be losing week one and week four of their preseason schedule. Would the added risk of injury be worth the slightly lower risk of transmission? The Colts are still the No. Baltimore's victory was huge for the teams competing just below the Browns. In addition, the teams will travel the day before the games instead of heading in earlier. The Packers are scheduled to play the Minnesota Vikings in Week 1 on Sept. 13 at U.S. Bank Stadium. There is no news yet on if any regular season games will be cancelled, or if the season will be reduced in any other way. 2020 preseason has been cut in half, per source. Flash forward to the 2017 season where the Browns did go 4-0 in the preseason and finished winless in the regular season. — ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) July 1, 2020. And maybe they won’t have to anyway. Cleveland Browns Rumors: Odell Beckham Clears Up Patriots Rumors, Browns Rumors: David Njoku Asks For Trade, Cleveland Browns News: Odell Beckham Health Status. The 2020 season is the Cleveland Browns' 68th as a member of the National Football League, their 72nd overall, and their first under general manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski.The Browns improved on their 6–10 record from 2019 and clinched their first winning season since 2007.They will also attempt to end their franchise-record and league-high 17-year playoff drought. The idea of reducing crowd sizes has already gained traction, while some teams are considering cutting down hotel stays during road games: Some teams are thinking about flying to and from road contests on the day of the game, with no hotel stay https://t.co/dM04G2J10X, — ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) June 30, 2020. It went from four exhibition games down to two, and now those two preseason games are also gone. The NFL may be moving to cancel the entire preseason after the players union voted this week to raise the issue, reports say. 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