You can call Browns wide receiver Dwayne Bowe many things, but you can’t call him a pessimist.
Bowe spent the offseason talking about getting his career back on an upward trajectory after a couple of middling seasons with the Chiefs before moving on to give rave reviews to quarterback Josh McCown, who he said can be a top-five quarterback in the league this season. Bowe’s been out with a hamstring injury and McCown threw a pair of interceptions in two quarter of work against the Bills last week, which may have doused some expectations for Cleveland’s offense but did nothing to dissaude Bowe.
“I’m very, very confident,’' Bowe said, via Cleveland.com. “We have a talented core, our group. All it takes is time. We’ll let the doubters doubt. When we get on this field and work, we know what we’ve got as a team, the chemistry. When Week 1 comes around, we’re going to show a lot of doubters how a high-powered offense really moves.”
It’s not hard to find areas to dispute Bowe’s assertion that the Browns have an offense that’s ready to make detractors eat crow, not the least of which is the fact that their best chance of success would seem to come by grinding out yards on the ground with a three-headed backfield running behind the team’s strong offensive line. If that’s effective, the Browns can win games but it probably wouldn’t come with the kind of production we’d normally associate with a high-powered outfit.