NFL did the Browns no favors but the Front Office could have played their get out of jail card for free.No wonder they're still paying off 6 QBs no longer on the roster
When the 2025 NFL schedule came out in May, the Cleveland Browns should have filed a protest and asked the league to redo Week 6, because the Browns have been hit with a brutal scheduling quirk that only one other team in NFL history has ever had to face. The NFL has allowed teams to request whether they want the bye after playing abroad. (The Steelers were on a bye in Week 6 following their international game in Ireland in Week 5.)
The Browns will be going into Week 6 coming off an international game in London, and they'll be facing a Steelers team coming off a bye week. It's a setup the NFL tries to avoid, which is why this is only the second time this has ever happened.
Although the Browns are only the second team to play in Europe and face a team coming off a bye, there are two other instances where a team played an international game in North America and then had to play a team coming off a bye the following week. Unfortunately for the Browns, those teams went 0-2. If you throw in Miami's loss, that means no team has ever won a game in the situation that Cleveland will find itself in Sunday against Pittsburgh.
