I like — really, really, REALLY like — the work of Conor Orr, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who covers the NFL.

To me, he’s the best pro football writer out there. Even when I don’t agree with what he writes, I respect it — and him — greatly and have to admit that it is most likely true.

It’s even better when his subject is the Browns. It’s almost an out-of-body experience for me, in fact, because when I read his opinions, I think I am reading my own. They are that much aligned with one another.

And a prime example of this is a piece up on the magaxine’s website, sportsillustrated.com, right now, entitled, “2024 NFL Schedule: The 13 Most Interesting Games of the Season.”

As Orr states, “If you want a ‘best games,’ list, then just Google the primetime schedules. Here, we’re talking about games that can produce the kinds of games that transcend marketability. We’re going to think a little bigger and a little more creatively.”

The list is done chronologically, so the Dallas Cowboys’ nationally – televised visit to face the Browns Cleveland Browns stadium regular season opener on September 8, which is one of the games, is the first one out of the chute.

With the fact it is the first game, with nothing else in the season to alter it, the focus is a mini-preview of those two teams as we see them right now and, for all intents and purposes, all the way up until that 4:25 p.m. kickoff.

Most of what he writes on that game. is about the Browns, and what’s he is saying is, again, what I’ve been saying. And I don’t see it anywhere else. I sometimes question my views because I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness, but them I see Orr’s work and I feel so much better. It validates what I see and what I’m thinking.

Take a look at the piece, and perhaps also some of Orr’s other work, and see what you think.

Steve King