NFL Preseason: Buffalo Bills vs Cleveland Browns Odds & Free Pick

NFL Preseason Preview: Buffalo Bills vs Cleveland Browns

Written By David Hess (Follow me on Twitter @DavidHess311)

When: 8:00 PM ET, Thursday, August 20, 2015
Where: FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.
Televised: NFL Network

Odds:  The Cleveland Browns come in favored by 3, while the total has been set at 40.

The Buffalo Bills went 9-7 last year and they have hopes of bigger things this year as they have a new head coach in Rex Ryan, they have a pretty stout defense and have added some solid skill players on offense. LeSean McCoy is one of those added skill player, but he did hurt his hamstring in Practice and will most likely be held out of this game so that he is ready for the regular season opener vs the Colts. The Bills will be in the mix for a playoff berth this year, but they can't let what happened in their first preseason game happen too often or they will not make the playoffs. Buffalo had a lead late in the game, but just let a less than average Carolina offense march down the field and score a touchdown with less than a minute to play and then allowed the two point conversion to give the Panthers a 25-24 win. Buffalo will look for better results in this one.

There aren't really high expectations for the Brows this year as they will be looking to just hit the 8-8 mark. I really don't see that happening. they have no QB, very littles in the war of a ground attack and their WR corps is not that strong. Their defense is solid, but they just won't be able to score enough on a weekly basis to compete. The Browns showed that in their opening week 20-17 loss to Washington. The Redskins defense will not be strong this year and still the Browns could muster just 17 points and 170 yards in the game. The Browns were outgained by 198 yards in that game as well. It was not a god showing for hem at all. They will look for a better outing tonight.

I'm not sure that the Browns offense is capable of a much better showing that they had in week 1 vs the Skins, where they had just 45 yards on the ground and 145 yards through the air. Now that was vs a weaker defense than they will face in this one. The Bills looked solid on offense last week, so I really expect them to try and shore up their defense and this is a team that you don't have to try to hard against. This OU line is at 40 and I'm not sure why. Both teams do have solid defenses and only one team really has a shot at scoring. I will take the Under 40 in this game.  

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