Watch Baltimore Ravens Vs. Cleveland Browns Live Online: Streaming Link, NFL Monday Night Football

Hardcore football fans can watch the Week 12 NFL Monday Night Football matchup live online as two of the worst teams of the 2015 season slug it out in the trenches mostly for pride but also to keep alive whatever faint playoff hopes remain for the two struggling franchises. Realistically, only the Ravens would have even a slim hope at qualifying for the postseason, but coming into the Monday Night game at 3-7, they likely need to win all of their remaining games to even have a shot.

Watch a preview of the Ravens-Browns Monday Night Football game with the CBS NFL Today crew in the video above.

To make life more difficult, the Ravens would have to pull off that six-game win streak without Joe Flacco, the quarterback who has started every Baltimore game for that last eight seasons, a streak of 137 games including the Ravens 2012 Super Bowl victory and 14 other postseason games.

Flacco’s season ended with a knee injury suffered in last week’s win over the St. Louis Rams.

On the Cleveland side, with a 2-8 season so far, Browns Coach Mike Pettine had finally committed to Johnny Manziel as the team’s starting quarterback. But no sooner had “Johnny Football” been awarded the job, he embarked on another episode of self-destruction. Manziel embarrassed the Browns and Pettine yet again when a video surfaced of Manziel partying in Austin, Texas, after the controversial 22-year-old out of Texas A&M had promised his coach he would stay under the radar.

As a consequence, Manziel not only lost his starting job before it began, but he was demoted by Pettine to third-string.

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The Monday Night Football quarterback matchup will now feature 36-year-old Josh McCown for the Browns against 34-year-old Ravens backup Matt Schaub, who has not taken a snap this year and has not started a game since 2013 when he was with the Houston Texans.

To find out how to watch the Baltimore Ravens vs. Cleveland Browns Week 12 NFL Monday Night Football game live online, see the streaming link at the bottom of this article. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio — 5:30 p.m Pacific Time.

Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh, who has led Baltimore to the playoffs in seven of his eight seasons there and has never posted a losing record with the team, rejected the idea that his highly disappointing team has anything to prove on Monday night.

“We just don’t think that way,” Harbaugh said Monday. “That’s not the perspective you take as a player or a coach. You want to go out there, and you want to play your best. It’s not so we can show something to somebody or prove something to somebody. Prove something to ourselves.”

The bigger prize may actually go to the loser of Monday Night’s game, especially if that loser in Cleveland, who will have the upper hand in the race for worst record in the NFL — and the Number One overall pick in the 2016 draft that comes with that dubious honor.

To watch the Week 12 NFL Monday Night Football game live online, the Baltimore Ravens vs. Cleveland Browns, use the stream provided by WatchESPN at this link. Note that due to NFL contractual requirements, the game will not be available via the WatchESPN app on smartphones. However, it will be streamed live not only on traditional computers, but also on set-top internet boxes sites Roku and Apple TV, as well as on tablets, such as the Apple iPad.

Fans who do not have credentials to log in to WatchESPN can watch the game via the Sling TV internet package at this link. The package, which includes a variety of channels — including ESPN — costs $20 per month and can be accessed on mobile devices with the Sling TV app as well as on computers and some set-top devices. Sling TV offers a seven-day free trial, so subscribers can choose whether or not to keep the service after they watch the Baltimore Ravens vs. Cleveland Browns game live online.

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