The Browns are 0-9 headed into their Thursday night game at Baltimore, but Browns wide receiver Terrelle Pryor is still holding out hope that his team will turn things around and make the postseason.
Really.
In an interview with the Browns Radio Network that aired around 75 minutes before kickoff of Thursday night’s game, Pryor said he knows the odds are against the Browns making the playoffs this year but says it’s “exciting” that the Browns still have a chance to win seven straight and potentially finish atop the AFC North division.
“We just have to keep fighting,” he said. “At the end of the day, I still look at it like we have a chance to make the playoffs. It’s gonna start this week. I mean if we lose [in Baltimore, the chances] probably dwindle down. But you never know.
“If we can some way...if something just clicks with us and we can win seven in a row, you never know what can happen. That’s the exciting part and maybe something we can aim for.”
Pryor is right that the Browns are mathematically alive in the AFC North race. The Ravens are 4-4 and in first place after last week’s win over the Steelers, who are also 4-4 and have lost three straight. The Bengals are 3-4-1. The Browns still have four division games left and, as Pryor said, could still potentially make things interesting.
They usually do.
Pryor is having an outstanding individual season, and this optimism about his team isn’t new. In late September, he said the Browns were “getting close” and were capable of winning the rest of their games. Six losses since he made those comments haven’t changed his outlook.
