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          Pryor: Saying Browns can win final 13 is 'just saying that I have belief in this team'

          Terrelle Pryor clarified his comments from earlier in the week, saying he was affirming his belief in his team's ability to win. Eric Espada/Getty Images
          • Pat McManamon, ESPN Staff WriterSep 29, 2016, 03:57 PM ET
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          BEREA, Ohio -- Terrelle Pryor wasn't really angry, but he does wish folks would take a chill pill.

          Pryor said Monday that he believed the Browns could win every one of their last 13 games.

          That prompted Steelers running back DeAngelo Williams to respond via Twitter this way:

          Williams may have been joking, but when it was presented to Pryor, he said that his words were taken out of context. He has a point.

          His entire comment Monday was: "We're so close to getting over that hump. Once we get over that hump I think we're going to have a lot of success, even this year. We got a chance to be real good and I don't doubt anything. I think we can win all the rest of our games. It depends on our mindset. It depends on how we look at it. It's going to be one week at a time. This week we go to Washington. It's going to be a battle like every Sunday. We've got to play smart ball, don't turn the ball over, take the ball away and try to come away with a win."

          That led to at least one headline that read: "Browns to win out?"

          Pryor said that wasn't his point. 
"I'm saying in my mind I don't see how we can't win every game," Pryor said Thursday.

          "I would expect whoever said it -- DeAngelo Williams is a running back? I would expect for them to think the same way, that you could win every game. That's just the expectation and the hope that I have. Every single play, that's how I play this game. To win.

          "He can be mad about comments about me saying ... believing in my teammates because I believe in my teammates. I have thick enough skin to put that out there that I believe we should be able to win games.

          "It's not saying that we're going to win every game. It's just saying that I have belief in this team, I have belief in this organization that we can get it done if we put everything together.

          "And that's what we need. We need some people [who are] going to go out there and put that stuff out so we can go and back it up. It's all about playing games and winning, and that's what we're going to try to do.

          "I think people read too far into it and said we're going to win every game. I didn't mean it like that. It'd be nice to."