3 out-there ideas that could help the Browns on offense

Run a heavy backfield offense.

To be clear, I don’t mean a read-option offense. That would be lunacy. no, I’m talking more like a T Formation or Wishbone offense. Preferably the Wishbone offense. If the defense is going to stack the box, then make them earn their stops. Put Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt, D’Ernest Johnson, Andy Janovich, Johnny Stanton, or whoever you want in the backfield and make them earn those stops.

Out of a three-back set, you can do a lot of trick plays, fake handoffs, fake handoffs into a pitch, and so on. This will see, hopefully, the defense bite down too often on fakes, which should give the blockers time to get into their place and hopefully break out a big play or three.

Now, some will see this as an indictment against Baker Mayfield, as this is a hun-heavy idea and takes a lot of passing options out of the playbook but on the contrary. This is for Mayfield. The point of this offense is to take receivers out of the game completely. If they aren’t contributing regularly and reliably, why even bother?

Most of Mayfield’s big plays have been to Njoku anyway. Might as well make that the default.

Have Austin Hooper line up as a blocker, or as the fullback, and have Harrison Bryant and David Njoku flank the tackles. It’s a wild idea and one that may not work for 17 games, but all we need it to do is work for the rest of the season.

Surely that’s possible.