Cleveland Browns

Browns can't get the snap right vs. Eagles (Video)

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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The Cleveland Browns did an atrocious job at snapping the football to starting quarterback Robert Griffin III as the ball soars over his head for a safety.

These might be two of the worst teams in football squaring off here in Week 1 when the Philadelphia Eagles host the Cleveland Browns at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday, September 11th.

Cleveland has been bad pretty much since returning to the NFL as an expansion team in 1999. Philadelphia crashed and burned in the final season of the Chip Kelly era in the City of Brotherly Love last fall.

The Browns just looked straight up horrible on this snap to new starting quarterback Robert Griffin III. Cleveland’s snap sails over Griffin’s head while in shotgun formation and crosses the back end line for an easy Eagles safety.

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— Andrew HammondAP (@ahammsportsgeek) September 11, 2016

Cleveland might be able to pass the football better with Griffin as the Browns’ new starting quarterback, but snapping the football wasn’t an issue for the last several years with reliable center Alex Mack in tote. Mack signed a multi-year deal in 2016 NFL free agency to reunite with former Browns offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan with the Atlanta Falcons.

It wasn’t even bad weather in Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon, yet the ball finds itself deep in the Browns end zone like the game was being played in a downpour or a Northeastern blizzard.

Teams like the Browns and the Eagles cannot afford to beat themselves up in these winnable games. Then again, this is the kind of thing that bad teams always seem to do. Griffin was once a star playmaker for the NFC East’s Washington Redskins, but now finds himself in the quagmire that is the Browns. If this isn’t his “Welcome to the Browns” moment, what will it end up being?