It has been a tumultuous offseason in Cleveland. The departure of Myles Garrett. A quarterback controversy. There was drama galore.<\/p>\n
Now, however, the time for drama off the field is over. It’s time for the Browns to start telling the story of 2026 on the field\u2014Sunday the team will take the field at EverBank Stadium to face a Jacksonville Jaguars team that went 13-4 and won the AFC South in 2025.<\/p>\n
It’s a game where the Browns are significant underdogs\u2014and a contest that could set the tone for the early portion of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n
We’re going to do some tone-setting of own here at Bleacher Report, tracking all the highlights and happenings from Sunday’s showdown. Or beatdown. Whatever.<\/p>\n
Trying to maintain some optimism\u2014at least until kickoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a tumultuous offseason in Cleveland. The departure of Myles Garrett. A quarterback controversy. There was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-398803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}