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Cleveland quarterback Baker Mayfield got off to a warm start and stayed that way overnight, giving the Browns a 20-3 victory over the Giants. Sunday Night Football .l.
Mayfield passed for two touchdowns in the first half and kept Cleveland’s offense on the field to control the ball and the clock. He finished 27-of-32 for 297 yards with two touchdowns.
Browse finished the game with 392 total yards, averaging 6.2 yards per game and recording 24 first downs. They finished third at 9-of-13, winning most of the Occupy War time from 34:03 to 25:57. Cleveland had a pair of 95-yard touchdown drives – one finished in the second quarter and the other in the fourth. This is the first time a team has received a 95-yard TD drive in the same game this season, according to an NBC broadcast.
Rashard Higgins was Cleveland’s leading receiver with 76 yards on four catches. Jarvis Landry had seven catches for 61 yards.
It was a tough sledding for Nick Chubb, but he had 15 carry and a one-yard touchdown of 50 yards.
Starting backback quarterback Colt McCoy for the injured Daniel Jones, the Giants started the game with a failed fake field goal and did not touchdown in 60 minutes. The head coach himself was aggressive to move from Judge Cleveland’s six-yard line to fourth-and-2, but Wayne Gelmann took advantage of a one-yard run.
New York earned just three points from three red-zone assets.
McCoy finished 16-of-28, passing through 194 yards. Alfred Morris was New York’s leading runner, getting 39 yards on seven carry.
The Browns improved 10-4 with GN, maintaining their position as the current No. 5 seed in the AFC playoff race. This is only the second time Brown has won 10 times since joining the league in 1999.
The football team will miss the chance to tie Washington to the top of the New York division after losing to the Seahawks on Sunday. But at 5-9 p.m., the Giants are still alive in the NFCest.
