It’s just three weeks into the regular season, and the Browns have already come to a fork in the road as they get set to face the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Will they resemble the team they were in the opener two weeks ago, when they gave the Pittsburgh Steelers all they could handle before losing 21-18?

Or will they morph into the club they were last Sunday when they embarrassed themselves thoroughly, doing basically nothing right in falling 24-10 to the Baltimore Ravens?

That remains to be seen.

But this much we know: the Browns in the opener appeared to be a team that was starting to turn the corner a bit after 2016’s nightmarish 1-15 finish, while the more recent version appeared to be a re-do of last season. Those two teams – those two versions — are at the opposite ends of the spectrum from one another.

To be sure, Pittsburgh is one of the best teams in football, and Baltimore is making a case to be considered right there, too. So the Browns have had as challenging of an early-season schedule as anyone. That doesn’t excuse their 0-2 start, but it’s the reason for it.

The Browns can take heart in the fact that the Colts are not Baltimore or Pittsburgh in any way, shape or form. Peyton Manning is long gone, and Andrew Luck isn’t around, either, right now as he continues to be plagued by right shoulder problems. His replacements, Scott Tolzien and Jacoby Brissett, aren’t going to make anyone forget about Luck, Pittsburgh’s Ben Roethlisberger or Baltimore’s Joe Flacco.

But if the Browns don’t play any better than they did a week ago, then Tolzien and/or Brissett could both end up looking like John Unitas. The Browns are certainly not good enough to take anyone for granted, especially considering that they’ll be without two of their top players, one on either side of the ball in wide receiver Corey Coleman (broken foot) and linebacker Jamie Collins (concussion protocol).

As is the case every week with the Browns, their chances rest with rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer. Just as with the team itself, Kizer was impressive against the Steelers and disappointing against the Ravens. The Cleveland defense is good enough to hold up its end of the bargain, but Kizer and the offense have to get off to a much better start, something they have not done in either game, and make plays when they need to be made down the stretch, which they did not do at Baltimore.

So again, which Browns team will show up?

And one last thing: this is the first of three swinnable games for the Browns. In the following two weeks, they will host the Cincinnati Bengals and New York Jets, who, like the Colts, are 0-2. If the Browns are ever going to get jump-started this season, it will most likely have to happen during this stretch.