Welcome to week 6 Browns fans. Sunday the 1-4 Browns play their third consecutive road game as they travel to Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field to take on the 2-2 Philadelphia Eagles. Sunday’s game time is 12:00 noon CST and as usual the ChicagoLand Browns Backers/Northside Dawg Pound will be gathering at Burke’s Public House 5401 N. Broadway to cheer on the Browns as they seek to break their current 3 gamer losing streak. Friday the Browns announced 4 rotation players, safeties Grant Delpit and Ronnie Hickman and OT James Hudson and C Ethan Pocic are out with injuries. The Browns will be welcoming RT Jack Conklin back to the line-up which should help at right tackle where Dewand Jones has given up 3 sacks and 15 QB pressures while being flagged for 5 penalties. Cleveland is currently last in the NFL in pass protection, allowing sacks on 12.8% of their pass attempts. On offense, TE David Njoku has had a full week of practice which should help with the Browns league worse average of 4.9 yards per pass. The Eagles come into Sunday’s game off a bye week and there are no players listed as out on their injury report. The Eagles offense isn’t all that complicated, in that the Browns don’t have to guess who’s going to run the ball and who are the primary passing targets. In their 4 games the Eagles have run the ball 120 times with Eagles QB Jalen Hurts and RB Saqoon Barkley accounting for 115 of those rushing attempts. Barkley is averaging 6 yards per rush while Hurts averages 3.9 yards. Half of Hurts’ 90 pass completions have gone to WR DeVonta Smith 21 receptions and TE Dallas Goedert 24 receptions, Saquon Barkley also has 12 receptions while no other receiver has more than 7 receptions. Philadelphia will be welcoming back their primary deep threat A.J. Brown who was injured in week one. Overall Jalen Hurts is completing 68% of his passes averaging 7 yards per pass with 4 passing TD’s and 4 interceptions earning a 85.7 QB rating. He’s been sacked 13 times and fumbled 5 times. The Brown s defense will need to stay in their rush lanes while pressuring Hurts to keep him from escaping the pocket where his ability to throw on the run or rush for first downs presents the same problems the defense faced last week against Washington’s Jayden Daniels. When pressured Hurts completion percentage drops to 50% and his average yards per pass drops to just 3.6 yards. WR Devonta Smith has 1 TD while averaging 11.4 yards per reception and TE Dallas Goedert averages 12.5 yards per catch with no TD catches so far. The Eagles have a very good offensive line led by 5-time Pro Bowl RT Lane Johnson and 2-time Pro Bowl LG Landon Dickerson. The Eagles offense averages 21.5 points per game and they are 8th in total offense averaging 365.5 yards per game. They convert 40.7% of their third down attempts and they are 21st in red zone efficiency, scoring TD’s on 47% of their red zone possessions. The Eagles defense has had some problems this season, they are 27th in the NFL giving up 365.8 yards per game and 30th surrendering 6 yards per play. Their opponents are averaging 24 points per game. They have been especially vulnerable on the ground giving up 5 yards per rush. One of the mysteries of the Browns new offense scheme is their over reliance on the passing game, throwing the ball on almost 65% of their offensive snaps, 2nd most in the NFL while averaging a league low 4.9 yards per pass. RB Jerome Ford and Deshaun Watson both currently average 5.2 yards per rush while the offense averages 4.4 yards per rush compared to 4.9 yards per pass. The Eagles defense is averaging the third fewest sacks, getting to the QB on only 4.2% of passing attempts however they are very good at pressuring opposing QB up the middle with second year DT Jalen Carter who was second in Defensive Rookie of the Year voting last season. On the back end of their defense, they have 6-time Pro Bowl CB Darius Slay who’s given up 2 TD’s in 4 games and rookie CB Quinyon Mitchell. The game will also feature 2 of the NFL’s best punters in the Browns Corey Bojorques and the Eagles’ Brandon Mann both of whom are averaging 51.9 yards per punt. The Eagles kicker Jake Elloitt has made two career 61 yard field goals. See you Sunday GO BROWNS….GO GUARDIANS