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Week 12 NFL overreactions: The Browns will make the playoffs, and the Patriots have issues

Winning is nice, but if you're the Cleveland Browns you have to be happy a week went by without some sort of fiasco transpiring. The Browns beat the outmanned Miami Dolphins 41-24 on Sunday. No one got ejected. No one got suspended. No one was forced to change cleats at halftime or else the league wouldn't let them play. The head coach didn't take a penalty intentionally to make a field goal attempt harder.

It was, blissfully, a quiet, normal week for the Cleveland football club, and the team ended it 5-6 with five games to go -- still looking as if it has a shot at its first winning season since 2007.