With the NFL schedule release comes reactions.

Some may rue their bye-week placement or a gauntlet that awaits them during the season's stretch run. Others, like Panthers head coach Dave Canales, cherish a return to prime time as a potential springboard for growth.

For Browns defensive lineman Shelby Harris, it's Cleveland's lack of a prime-time game that caught his attention, Bobby Kownack of NFL.com reports.

"I'll say it like this, you know, they can count us out all they want to," Harris said this week on Honor the Land. "It's up to us to go into the season and start whooping people's asses. I get it. Last year wasn't the season that we expected, and now this year they're going to say we didn't get prime time because of all of the quarterback controversy. Who cares? Screw 'em."

The Browns, who went 3-14 last season, are indeed absent a prime-time matchup heading into the 2025 season. They do travel to London for an international game against the Vikings in Week 5.

But there's storylines aplenty to follow in Cleveland both outside and pertaining to the quarterback room Harris mentioned. With incumbent starter Deshaun Watson possibly missing the entire season due to re-rupturing his Achilles, a four-way competition is set between returning hero Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and two rookies -- Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders. However that plays out will attract eyeballs, no matter when the Browns play each week.

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