Watch: The Cleveland Browns schedule release video is….not great

How is the Cleveland Browns 2023 schedule release video?

The Cleveland Browns schedule release video can be summed up in three words; Not great, Bob. The new fad in the world of the NFL is to do kitschy schedule release videos to hype fans up. I blame the Los Angeles Chargers for starting this awful trend, but the Browns aren’t free from criticism.

They released one this year, and it’s not great, even if it’s among the more popular release videos. Listen, being in the Top 10 is usually a good thing, but not when that thing is an awful trend. Last year the Browns released a video where they just unveiled the teams they were going to play with some bad music and misspelled team names.

It was somehow worse than what we got this time around, but 2023 wasn’t good. Instead of getting some stock music with some purposefully misspelled team names, this year the Browns paid local journalist and broadcast Nathan Segura to provide commentary over an animated pro wrestling video, joined by WWE wrestler and Normandy High School alum, Mike “The Miz” Mizanin.

The video’s concept, a pro wrestling event wit Brownie the Elf playing the babyface, was a fine idea. It was just poorly executed. Every opponent was some juvenile dig at the team (Edgar Allen Poe-ser for the Ravens? Yikes), and every entrant did the same thing; got beaten up by Brownie and dumped out of the ring.

Now, the concept was fine, but the execution was not. Repeating the same gag for nearly four minutes is not exactly great. And while I’m no Pat McAfee fan, taking a dig at him seemed rather sad, considering the Browns aren’t the team to be dunking on anyone for anything right now.

I hope these scheduled release videos end soon

I’m no fan of these videos and they just seem silly and hokey. The release of the schedule should not be this big thing. The NFL is the only one that makes a spectacle out of it and it baffles me as to why fans care that much to know what team they’ll be playing a home game or an away game against.

Every game is going to be hard, regardless. The Browns have a chance to win or lose a game, regardless. So these videos are ultimately pointless.

I hope they don’t become a yearly tradition for every team, because honestly, there are only so many witty ways to say you’re facing the Bengals again.

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