After Sunday’s defeat against the New York Jets, which prevented the Cleveland Browns from holding playoff berths, quarterback Baker Mayfield said he “failed in the team” after making three fouls.
“Plain and simple, I have to hold the ball,” Mayfield said, circling Cleveland’s final two drives, allowing the Jets to win 23-16 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. “We had exactly that to win this game. And I didn’t perform well enough. Just.”
Due to the contact of a player who tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, the Browns had to play without their top four wide receivers. Instead, Cleveland had to rely on practice squads K-l-up Ja’marcus Bradley and Derrick Willis, along with Marvin Hallney, who were claimed to be pardoned earlier this month.
Without their regular receivers, including Jarvis Landry, and without starting linemen Jedrick Wills Jr. (ill) and Wyatt Taylor (ankle), Browse struggled aggressively all day.
As a result the stacked bucks were facing facs, ESPN. According to statistics and information research, Nick runs the back of Chubb and Cream Hunt before contact, and ends up with just a 39-yard run. Unable to establish a run or facilitate play-facil action, the Browns had to be dropped out of Mayfield instead, ending with a career-high 53-pass effort. ESPN According to statistics and data research, thirty of those passes went the most connected, tight end or back side by quarterback in the last 20 seasons.
Mayfield, however, refused to use that key absence as an excuse, especially on the receiver, and blamed it for the damage.
Mayfield said, “For not doing my job, for not playing at a higher level like me, for not letting these boys go and not finishing the game,” put it on me. “
Mayfield took only one question in his postgame video call, but he also spoke for about two minutes. Before leaving, he conceded that the Browns could still advance to the playoffs for the first time since 2002 and finally end the NFL’s longest postseason drought by beating Pittsburgh over the weekend.
“This is going to sting for a day or two, but we have the Steelers to win and get into it,” he said. “So, I’m going to roll with these punches. Back against the wall and we have to win to get in. You know what, this group fought today, but I didn’t do enough. I didn’t play enough. To win us. And. Just. “
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