Browns should replace Stefanski, not Mayfield

[Auggie]

There's buzz in Cleveland that Mayfield may have played his last game for the Browns.

This would be a mistake.

Mayfield proved his chops last year and overachieved on a team with some glaring weaknesses.

This year the team was ravaged by injuries (the biggest of which were to Mayfield and his starting right tackle), bad locker room blood caused by the Beckham incident, COVID suspensions, dubious play-calling, and some really stupid player penalties.

All fall on the shoulders on Stefanski.

Mayfield should have gone on IR and been replaced by back-up Case Keenum. Beckham could have been handled before he and his dad threw tantrums that polarized the team. Off-field COVID masking and distancing protocols should have been better encouraged and enforced (over 20 players were out of the game with Las Vegas, including Stefanski, who had his second COVID infection in less than one year). And the O.C. should have called the plays. Not Stefanski.

It starts on the field with the head coach. If you watched the Monday night debacle between Cleveland and Pittsburgh you saw it all.