SAY LESS, DO MORE, KHADAREL HODGE

By STEVE KING
Pure and simple, Browns wide receiver KhaDarel Hodge needs to keep his mouth shut.
Hodge said earlier this week, “I don’t look at the Titans like a super team. They can get beat like anybody else.”
That would be the Tennessee Titans, who host the Browns on Sunday in a key battle in the AFC.
These are the same Tennessee Titans who, like the Browns, are 8-3.
These are the same Tennessee Titans who lead the AFC South by a game over Indianapolis after pounding the Colts 45-26 last Sunday on the road.
These are the same Tennessee Titans, who, in 2019, clubbed the Browns 43-13 in the season opener — in Cleveland — and had the eventual Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs down 10-0 and 17-7 — again, on the road — in the AFC Championship Game before losing 35-24.
These are the same Tennessee Titans whose head coach is tough-guy former Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit High School and Ohio State standout Mike Vrabel, who certainly doesn’t want to lose to his hometown team and, as such, will have his club ready to play. He didn’t need anything more than the Browns’ record and three-game winning streak to get the Titans’ attention, but now he will have something extra with Hodge’s silly, ridiculous, unnecessary and inflammatory comment.
The Browns are five-point underdogs, as well they should be. In fact, I am surprised the spread is not more. They need to quit talking like they’ve done something when they haven’t, about a team that actually did something special last season and seems ready — and able — to possibly do it again this year.
I know these players today talk crazy stuff all the time — it’s part of the modern athlete — but why give the Titans bulletin board material?
Say less, do more, KhaDarel Hodge. And what you do so say, don’t let it be a swipe at your next opponent.