Chubb finished with 130 yards rushing with Baker Mayfield throwing one touchdown with two interceptions.
Cleveland staggers to 6-5 with the win and faces Baltimore next Sunday night in yet another must-win affair,
Brownie Bits
1) The number one reason for this win comes down to Nick Chubb, who only finished with top-notch stats, it was Chubb that ground out the final first downs in the final three minutes to save a wobbling offense.
2) Nick Chubb is the only above-average skill position player on this offense.
Kareem Hunt is when he is available but outside of those two -That's it.
When your best skill receivers are rated as average, it's going to be a struggle in the passing game.
3) Keep in mind the Browns went down to the wire with a winless team with a QB making his first start, and a coach that kicks a field goal on fourth and one down six points and punts with under three minutes to go down three.
4) I did like the use of Jarvis Landry on his touchdown, which had Landry possibly throwing the ball and then tucking the ball down and running with it for the score.
Other than Nick Chubb, Jarvis Landry is the player that is likely to make a play on this offense, so anything that can get the ball in his hands is a good idea.
5) The defense played pretty well other than the 57-yard touchdown run by DeAndre Swift and although it was the Lions with Tim Boyle, credit is still due.
6) Chase McLaughlin has been solid most of the season but in bad weather for the first time, McLaughlin missed a field goal and had an extra point blocked.
One more home game like that and the questions will start again about the kicking game.
7) The offensive line had its struggles with penalties and three by usually solid Wyatt Teller. didn't help matters.
Teller committed one penalty after Nick Chubb converted a third and long early in the second half that essentially ended a promising drive.
8) Now, it's onto Baker Mayfield.
Mayfield is playing with several injuries and his proponents point to those injuries as a reason for his poor play.
Someone is pulling someone's leg as the team lists these injuries as questionable yet Mayfield is acting like he is playing on career-ending injuries.
The truth is somewhere in the middle, Mayfield is far from 100 percent but if he cannot play reasonably well with these injuries, then perhaps he shouldn't be out there.
9) Mayfield's two interceptions were both awful.
His first one to a wide-open Jarvis Landry for what would have been a huge gain was about five feet above a leaping Landry and ten yards down the field.
Just awful.
10) The second one could have lost the game, early in the fourth quarter when a terrible throw allowed Detroit to start deep in Cleveland territory and allowed the Lions to kick their field goal to cut the lead to three points.
Two terrible interceptions that could have cost the Browns the game.
11) Finally, a win is a win and 6-5 keeps them in the hunt with two games against Baltimore looming.
I don't think that the way this team is playing right now, particularly at quarterback, that I'm very optimistic for this week against Baltimore.
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