Baker Mayfield, the offensive line and the rest of the good and bad from the Ravens loss

The Bad

The offensive tackles

Jedrick Wills is not playing like a Top 10 NFL Pick and Blake Hance is as good as a guard as he is bad as a tackle. It’s been something I’ve been saying for weeks now and cannot be denied any longer; the Browns offensive line is bad. It does not matter if Joel Bitonio, J.C. Tretter, and Wyatt Teller win more times than anyone else at their positions. If there is just one weak chain in an otherwise great offensive line, the entire line is suspect. It has to work as a unit. It does not work with Wills and Hance. That’s the facts. They can’t handle five on four with those two at tackles, and the Browns getting stomped by the Ravens proved that.

The “skilled” positions are anything but

The Browns’ offense came into the season overrated because their offensive line played out of their minds in 2020.  They don’t have play-making wide receivers, as evidenced by Mayfield running around and throwing the ball away so many times. For more evidence, the at least four drops the receivers and tight ends caused. That doesn’t mean every pass Mayfield threw was perfect, but did you see any of the other games? Every quarterback misses passes. Mayfield made all the right throws when he needed to, but even he can’t make Kevin Stefanski put in Kareem Hunt on third down. So don’t blame Mayfield because Felton can’t hold onto a pass, or because after two years, Donovan Peoples-Jones still doesn’t know where to line up. That’s on coaching. It’s not on Mayfield that the team’s best receiver, Jarvis Landry, is slower than the tight ends. That’s on Andrew Berry. So yeah, 1st and 15? The Browns are screwed. They have no one to rely on on the outside and the offensive line can’t hold a block long enough for Mayfield to make his reeds.

This team is wrecked.

Kevin Stefanski and Andrew Berry

The team is coached by Kevin Stefanski and assembled by Andrew Berry. They’re both responsible for the mess that’s on the field. The offensive line has no depth, the wide receivers can’t get separation (as noted by Chris Collinsworth all night), and the team has no speed to take advantage of eight and nine men in the box. If the Browns just had two guys with good speed, Mayfield could’ve exploited the defense all night. That’s on Berry for not trading Odell Beckham in the offseason, last year, and replacing him with reliable talent. Nope, instead, he got rid of him mid-season. Brillant.